definition of carpet area, built up area, super built up area
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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Dear sir, Thanks for sharing this information.
At the time of initial talk and giving token money to builder (when Building was under construction) he said I will get 77% of Area as Carpet Area that means 33% max would be loaded. But at the time of Registration I shocked to see that am only getting less than 50% Carpet area.
Now the Registration is done.
Can you plz suggest me what to do in this scenario.
Thanks & Regards,
Sanjeev
Dear sir, Thanks for sharing this information.
At the time of initial talk and giving token money to builder (when Building was under construction) he said I will get 77% of Area as Carpet Area that means 33% max would be loaded. But at the time of Registration I shocked to see that am only getting less than 50% Carpet area.
Now the Registration is done.
Can you plz suggest me what to do in this scenario.
Thanks & Regards,
Sanjeev
You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and hardly found any specific details on other sites, but then great to be here, seriously, thanks…
- Josh
You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and hardly found any specific details on other sites, but then great to be here, seriously, thanks…
- Josh
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File a complaint with the consumer redressal forum.or consumer court.
when ever i come across the terms carpet area,covered area,built-up area,super built up area. i will always have one question.Does the builder should include the car parking in the super built-up area or can charge separately.Is it cheaper to buy seperately or included in super built-up area.
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i am about to buy home which has 546 sq carpet area, 91 sq floor bed area,and 283 sq terrace area
please let me know what will be it’s total built up area of the flat?
how much load is considered presently in construction.
and how terrace is considered in calculating the actual value of the flat?
thanx for the info.
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This is a great article.I like this one.This provide the information that carpet area is the actual usable area which the user gets to use.I am very impressed to this content.Thanks to share this blog with us.Keep it up.
Hi i am going to purchase a flat in vizag.The contractor is charging for 1256 sq ft for the market price but the carpet area he is offering is nearly about 750-760 sq ft that comes to 40% , with modern ammenities like lifts,generator backup,swimming pool,gym,etc. So it is advisable to invest in that