British property developers and estate agents often market new buildings as townhouses, following the North American usage of the term, to aggrandise modest dwellings and to avoid the negative connotation of cheap terraced housing built in the Victorian era to accommodate workers, see Terraced houses in the United Kingdom.
Britiske bygherre og ejendomsmæglere markedsfører ofte nye bygninger som townhouses, som følge af den nordamerikanske brug af begrebet for at forskønne beskedne boliger og for at undgå den negative konnotation af billige rækkehus bygget i den Victorianske æra til at rumme arbejdere.