Glossary
Super Built-Up Area
Super built-up area is your flat’s built-up area plus a share of common spaces such as lobbies, lifts and stairs. It is always bigger than carpet area.
In plain words
There are three area figures you will meet. Carpet area is what you use inside your walls. Built-up area adds the thickness of your walls and usually your balcony. Super built-up area goes further and adds your share of the building’s common spaces: corridors, lift lobbies, staircases and sometimes the clubhouse. It is also called “saleable area”.
Why it matters to you
Super built-up area is not defined in RERA, so each builder can work it out a little differently. That is why RERA requires agreements to state the carpet area. Super built-up is still useful: it tells you roughly how much common space your price helps pay for, and maintenance is often billed on it.
An illustrative example: if a flat is 1,250 sq ft super built-up and 900 sq ft carpet, then 350 sq ft of the quoted figure is walls, balcony and common share. That gap is called loading. The figure on its own is not good or bad; a building with a large lobby and wide corridors will have more of it. What matters is knowing it before you compare two homes.
What to check
- Ask for all three figures in writing: carpet, built-up and super built-up.
- Ask what common areas are counted in the super built-up figure.
- Check whether maintenance is billed on carpet or super built-up area.
- Compare flats on carpet area and price per carpet sq ft, not super built-up.
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FAQ
Super Built-Up Area: common questions
Is super built-up area the same as saleable area?
Usually, yes. Both terms mean built-up area plus a share of common areas. The exact method varies, so ask the builder to explain theirs.
Can a builder still sell on super built-up area?
For RERA-registered projects, the agreement must state the price against carpet area. A brochure may still mention super built-up for reference.
Do I own the common areas included in super built-up?
You own an undivided share of the common areas with other owners. You do not own a specific piece of the corridor.
Is a bigger super built-up area better?
Not by itself. Compare carpet areas first; then look at what common spaces you are getting for the difference.
Want someone to walk you through it?
Ask the Reeva team about this, or anything else on your first-home paperwork. We will call back, with no pressure to buy.