What Is Carpet Area Under RERA?
What you need to know
- Includes: floor area within your unit's own walls, including internal partitions
- Excludes: external wall thickness, service shafts, exclusive balcony/verandah, exclusive open terrace
- Different from 'super built-up area' or 'saleable area', which older or non-RERA marketing sometimes still uses to inflate the quoted size
- Your Agreement for Sale and the RERA project listing must both state the carpet area in sq.ft or sq.m
Who this applies to: buyers, NRIs, agents
Official / primary source: indiacode.nic.in (government source)
The law behind it
Definition of 'Carpet Area' Under RERA
RERA legally defines carpet area as the actual usable floor area inside your flat's walls. This is the only area a builder can legally price and advertise a flat by, ending the old practice of quoting confusing 'super built-up area' figures.
Section 2(k), Act No. 16 of 2016 · in force · source
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