The department said it believed the owner lived in the ground-floor apartment of the same house.

"There has to be a price draw for a ground-floor apartment," she said.

We can get a ground-floor apartment and set up there.

The agents also say that more people are choosing to live in ground-floor apartments.

But ground-floor apartments are still held out as a possible exception, at least by people who have not lived off a lobby.

The ground-floor apartment has a private garden at the rear.

A woman was screaming from a window of the ground-floor apartment.

She has owned her ground-floor apartment with a backyard for 12 years.

She bought a sprawling Victorian house and moved her 54-year-old mother into the ground-floor apartment.

They now rent out the ground-floor apartment for $1,200 a month.