Calculation of property living area.

[Bugsy]

Can someone explain how the square metreage of a dwelling is calculated when a property is put up for sale. i.e. is it just the surface area of the 'footprint' of the property or, as makes more sense to me, the total surface area of each habitable room within the property.

 

thank you.

[phylisbide]

Hi

It is the square metreage of each of the habitable rooms. Normally the bathrooms are not included in this calculation - although builders include all internal room measurements.

[Bugsy]

Thanks for that Phylsbide.

[Beryl]

I didn't think the halls or landings were included either.

[Sunday Driver]

Nowadays, house are classified by type, eg T1, T2, T3.  The classification is based on the number of principal rooms (excluding "common" rooms such as kitchen, bathroom, corridors, etc).

 

[Bugsy]

Isn't that used principally for new properties SD ?

I've seen a lot of ads that state the living area in square metres i.e. 90 sqmtrs, 120 sqmtrs etc and I have no idea how it's actually calculated. That said previous posts seem to make sense so I'll measure up all our rooms to achieve a total.

Thanks to all who contributed.

[Evianers]

Our house is a chalet: ergo, where the roof line comes down to less than 1.8 meters, this is also not included in the total space. This means that we have loads of loft space available for storage.