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After reviewing http://schema.org/Residence and the Specialisation under it, it seems that the wording is very west oriented. Especially in the sense of representing Condo buildings? and as an extreme example of "Village"

I am unsure if using ApartmentComplex to represent Condo is the correct approach, since the term Apartment is almost exclusively used for rental property in the west. By classifying a Condo building as ApartmentComplex would set bias towards rental queries as opposed to sale queries.

Using the term Residence to describe a Condo or Village's is acceptable? What is the benefit of describing using the specialised terms?

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  • I always thought the origins of condominiums to be apartments you can own. I'm not sure ApartmentComplex is incorrect but I understand why you feel that way.
    – Rob
    Commented Mar 19, 2015 at 12:13
  • hi guys, i appreciate the answers. i need to do some research before accepting an answer. thanks again i +1 both of you already :)
    – DevZer0
    Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 14:15

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The benefit of using specific is supposed to be the additional field attributed to them.

For a Condo, it might be 'safer' to use Residence or Place vs ApartmentComplex unless you specifically need an attribute that appears in ApartmentComplex and not in it's parents i.e. Place.

Place should cover most locations and since these two specific items in your example merely extend Place, they are in fact unnecessary. The only property that is entrenched in these item types is the containedIn field (which takes a Place), but neither have Residence nor ApartmentComplexspecific attributes.

Having super specific type is honestly one of the most short sighted and foolish things about schema.org. For your case, all three items are essentially the same as Place.

A good rule of thumb is to read the description of the schema item type and sees if it represents your item. If it accurately describes your thing, then use that. If not, defer to it's parent (et all, until you get to thing)

I assume The place where a person lives. describes your item well, therefore Residence is fine.

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  • thanks for your excellent explanation. However in the context of promoting PlacesToLive rent or sale. Does having Residence plays an important role over Place ? or did you mean to say all 3 things same as Residence ?
    – DevZer0
    Commented Mar 19, 2015 at 9:48
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As far as I understand it, an ApartmentComplex does not represent a single apartment/condo, but the whole building consisting of several apartments/condos.

(In the same sense, GatedResidenceCommunity is for the whole community, not a single residence inside of that community.)

So if you want to represent a single apartment/condo, you should use Residence.

You could use other vocabularies (in addition) to specify more detailed types, e.g. Condominium from the Product Types Ontology.

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  • hi thanks for the input and mentioning about Product Types Ontology
    – DevZer0
    Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 14:14
  • hi @unor can you provide some reference that Product Type Ontology is supported and recognised by Google?
    – DevZer0
    Commented Apr 22, 2015 at 3:19
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    @DevZer0: I don’t know if, or to which extent, Google Search makes use of the classes from the Product Types Ontology. -- (On developers.google.com/structured-data Google references only the vocabularies Schema.org and Data-Vocabulary.org, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they don’t make some use of other vocabularies, too.)
    – unor
    Commented Apr 22, 2015 at 11:45

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