Separately, blokes taking time to find flat (9)
I believe the answer is:
apartment
'flat' is the definition.
(I know that flat can be written as apartment)
'separately blokes taking time' is the wordplay.
'separately' becomes 'apart' (I've seen this before).
'blokes' becomes 'men' (bloke can informally mean a man).
'taking' says to put letters next to each other.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'apart'+'men'+'t'='APARTMENT'
'to find' is the link.
(Other definitions for apartment that I've seen before include "property" , "19 across" , "pad" , "Penthouse" , "Set of rooms or American flat" .)