It is very important to understand real estate jargon before you do any investment in real estate. I am starting few blog series in order to make you familiar about these words.

In today’s blog I will take definition of different kind of area, Most of time we assume what this mean but it’s really easy to get confused around this.

Carpet Area – The actual area you can use. The area on which ‘you can put a carpet’ in entire house, it includes everything bedroom, kitchen, hall, bathrooms, balcony. It is fairly easy to calculate carpet area for any rectangle room, just measure width and length and multiply them, Let’s take an example, if your master bedroom is of 15 * 13 ,carpet area of this room will be 195 square feet. if it’s not rectangle , divide them in different rectangular part and calculate carpet are of separate section and add them altogether. You can simply download my carpet area calculator excel file and use it.

Builtup Area - This is the area of the apartment that includes the area covered by the walls so it is net area of a flat, including space covered by the wall . Sometimes balcony is considered in Built Up area not in carpet area. As a general rule built up area is around 8% to 10% more than carpet area.

Super built up Area – Super built up Area is most commonly known as Salable area,  Most of time builder deals on this area, so don’t assume that you will get same space within your house which is described by your builder. So it consist built up area + markup for common spaces like lifts and stairs etc. Super built up area is a unique money making concept by builders in apartment complexes.

Covered Area – In general,  Covered area is the actual area under the roof. It is not so widely used.

If you are aware about these term, you can easily calculate carpet area/ built-up area. Please  be sure about which type of area is mentioned before doing any investment. Let us know your real life experience around these words in comments.  Shout in comments if you have been cheating by manipulating words in any proposal to you.

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