A housing estate is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country.
A housing estate in West Kensington, with many rows of similar terraced flats.
A housing estate in Camden Town, London, with two blocks of flats visible
A modern housing estate in Gdańsk, Poland
Petržalka in Bratislava, Slovakia
Subdivisions are the act of dividing land into pieces that are easier to sell or otherwise develop, usually via a plat. The former single piece as a whole is then known as a subdivision. Subdivisions may be simple, involving only a single seller and buyer, or complex, involving large tracts of land divided into many smaller parcels. If it is used for housing it is typically known as a housing subdivision or housing development, although some developers tend to call these areas communities.
A subdivision in Markham, Ontario
The entrance to a subdivision in Sugar Land, Texas
An upper middle class housing estate on the southern side of Swords, Dublin, Ireland. High-end tract developments tend to be smaller in size and more varied in typology
Entrance to a subdivision in Baliwag, Bulacan, Philippines