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COMMON TERMS: Carpet Area refers to the total usable area within the four walls of an apartment or a commercial space. In brochures and other marketing material and legal documents relating to residential buildings and commercial complexes, we frequently come across usages such as Carpet Area, Plinth Area and Super Built-up Area. Let us fully find out what they stand for. The term `Carpet Area' refers to the total usable area within the four walls of an apartment or a commercial space, as the case may be. In other words, it refers to the area for which a carpet can be laid if required by the owners. The term `Plinth Area' refers to the entire carpet area along with the thickness of the external walls of the apartment. It obviously includes the thickness of the internal walls and the columns, if any, lying within the four walls of an apartment. The commercial space is not taken into account in calculating the plinth area. The term `Super Built-up Area' refers to the plinth area of an apartment or a commercial unit as added by the balconies and other common areas like corridors, staircase, lift room, motor room, security room, meeting hall, gymnasium and an area reserved for indoor games. What is sold and how? Generally, the area that is sold to a prospective purchaser, be it a residential apartment building or a commercial building, is the super built-up area. The prospective purchaser not only purchases the plinth area along with the balconies but also purchases a proportionate share in all the common areas as mentioned above. While selling a residential apartment or a commercial space, the super built- up area is always sold along with the proportionate undivided share, right, title and interest in the land on which the residential apartment building or commercial building has been constructed. The undivided share of land pertaining to a residential apartment or a commercial space is generally arrived at by the formula i.e., the super built-up area of the apartment/ commercial space as divided by the total super built-up area in the building which in turn is multiplied by the total land area. For e.g., if the land area is say 5,000 sq. ft, the total super built-up area is 10,000 sq. ft and the super built-up area of the apartment concerned is 2, 000 sq. ft, the undivided share of land pertaining to the apartment will be 2000 divided by 10,000 sq. ft x 5000 sq. ft which is equal to 1000 sq. ft.

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