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Villa Bungalows Apartments

Posted by on June 17, 2010 No comments
A typical side-gabled bungalow in Louisville's...
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Most of time builders use fancy words in order to make consumer confusing while defining property type.

These are all marketing strategy and end user get fascinated. In this blog, I would like to explain different kind of residential house or residential properties.

Bungalows : This is separate house, traditionally only one story, but can be extended. You will be surprise to know that this is Indian/Hindi word meaning houses in Bengal.

Villa: It was originally used for luxurious country house of a well-to-do person but now a days know more than marketing term used for bungalows. spa villa is most hyped marketing term used by hotels.

Apartments/Flat : It is self contained housing unit which is part of building. This kind of building most often known as apartment buildings. Some people think that they is difference between apartment and flat, Yes in dictionary but in practical life there is no difference. “apartment” is more commonly used in the US and the term “flat” seems to be more commonly used in India.

Complex: This is combination of shops and residential houses. Most commonly ground floor is occupied with small shops to full-fill basic need of entire building.

Please let us know if there are other confusing word.

Definition Of Carpet Area , Built Up Area , Super Built Up Area

Posted by on May 16, 2010 25 comments

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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