A linked house is a type of home whereby the homes above ground appear to be detached, but they share a common wall in the basement or foundation.

In Malaysia, This type of house is also known as terrace house. Linked house is a row of houses of similar fontage width and length. The houses are attached and share a common party wall

Party wall

Party wall is a dividing partition between two adjoining buildings that is shared by the tenants of each residence or business. The wall is sometimes constructed over the center of the property line dividing two terraced flats or row houses so that one half of the wall is on each property...

. The number of units and length of each row is controlled by the Uniform Building Bylaw standards which is about 200 ft or about 8-12 units in a row. These linkhouses were traditionally built by the Chinese community in the 1900s in various part of Malacca and Penang.

This style was popular in the 1970s and 1980s in the Greater Toronto Area

Greater Toronto Area

The Greater Toronto Area is the largest metropolitan area in Canada, with a 2006 census population of 5.5 million. The Greater Toronto Area is usually defined as the central city of Toronto, along with four regional municipalities surrounding it: Durham, Halton, Peel, and York...

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