Русско-англо-русский юридический словарь

"A housing cooperative, or co-op, is a legal entity, usually a cooperative or a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings ( it is one type of housing tenure.")

A building should be regarded as residential building when more than half of the floor area is used for dwelling purposes. Other buildings should be regarded as non-residential. (OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms)

Mr. Boshirov had listed as an address a 25-story residential building on Bolshaya Naberezhnaya, a quiet street in a bedroom district of northwest Moscow. (The New York Times)