Bangalore Home Buyers Confuse With Built-up Area

Bangalore Home Buyers Confuse With Built-up Area

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, September 25, 2014   |    5 Comments


Bangalore : Buying a home is always nerve-wracking task. Many buyers often bombarded with confusions and with terms and terminologies of real estate. Knowing all the terms used by the developers before buying home helps in reduces the confusions.  The term area is one of the indefinite terms in the real estate industry.

Many unscrupulous property builders in Bangalore utilize this ambiguity as a helve. They can easily confuse home buyers between the terms like built-up area, super built-up are and carpet area. So every home buyer should have a better understanding about area.

Carpet area: Carpet area is the actual usable area enclosed within the walls of an apartment, house or office space, actual area to lay out the carpet. This area does not include the wall thickness. Usually, in large housing communities with common amenities, the carpet area can be too small as just two-third of the built up area. The carpet area of a rectangular room can be calculated by multiplying the height and width of a room.

Built-up area: Built up area includes carpet area and the area occupied by the walls, lobbies, balcony etc. when purchasing an apartment, home buyers will pay for built-up area, but occupy only the carpet area.

Super Built-up area: Super built up area add built up area and proportionate area of common areas such as stair cases, lobby, elevator, shaft and the corridor outside the apartment. Few communities may even include terrace, pump room, electrical room, Swimming pool, and club house and security room as well.

In fact, Bangalore home buyers gets irritate because of the developers charge buyers on the basis of super built up area which includes all these common areas. Suppose if the price is quoted as 1,000 sq ft then the carpet area will be around 650 sq ft to 750 sq ft.  Moreover, basement is not added to the common area, developers will charge separately as parking slots. The home buyer can’t even determine whether the common area payment is reasonable or not. In Bangalore, usually residential developers use 14-25 percent of the built-up area as common area.

What home buyers must be aware of:

  • In older building communities, the apartments will have a higher percentage of carpet area than compared to new construction. Ex: In case of older building if the quote is 1,000 sq ft, then the carpet area could be around 800 sq ft where the new constructed apartment gets 650-750 sq ft as a carpet area.
  • When comparing the quotes don’t compare carpet area to super built-up area, compare carpet area to carpet area.
  •  If the variation between the built-up area and super built-up area is equal or more than 30 percent, buyers can question developers, as the normal is 15 percent.

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