Saleable area is the figure a price is quoted against, while RERA carpet area is the usable space inside your walls, and at Prestige Parklane the two sit roughly 40 per cent apart. A 1 BHK of 567 sq ft saleable carries 323 sq ft of carpet, and a 3 BHK of 1,445 sq ft carries 884 sq ft, with balcony and utility areas listed separately again.
Under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, carpet area is net usable floor space inside an apartment's walls. It excludes the external walls, shafts, balcony and open terrace. It is the only measure the Act recognises for selling a home, which is why every registered project files it.
Saleable area is a commercial figure, built from the carpet area plus a share of the walls, corridors, lobbies, lifts, staircases and amenities. It is not defined in law, but it is what most price sheets in Bengaluru are quoted against, including this project's.
| Configuration | Saleable area | RERA carpet | Carpet as a share of saleable |
| 1 BHK Classic | 567 – 571 sq ft | 322 – 323 sq ft | About 57 per cent |
| 1 BHK Large | 812 sq ft | 447 sq ft | About 55 per cent |
| 2 BHK Optima | 828 – 880 sq ft | 483 – 484 sq ft | 55 to 58 per cent |
| 2 BHK Ultima | 1,087 – 1,103 sq ft | 638 – 646 sq ft | About 59 per cent |
| 3 BHK Aspire | 1,445 – 1,469 sq ft | 883 – 896 sq ft | 60 to 61 per cent |
| 3 BHK Premia | 1,597 – 1,662 sq ft | 994 – 1,025 sq ft | About 62 per cent |
| 3 BHK Ultima | 1,757 – 1,801 sq ft | 1,041 – 1,078 sq ft | About 60 per cent |
Larger homes carry a higher share of carpet, which is normal, because the common areas are spread across more floor space. The 3 BHK Premia is the most efficient line in the project on this measure.
Each unit plan prints a third number alongside carpet area, covering the balcony and utility space. These are listed separately under RERA rather than folded into carpet area, and they add usable room that the carpet figure alone understates.
Read together, carpet plus balcony and utility comes to roughly 64 to 67 per cent of the saleable area across the project.
Use saleable area when you compare prices, because that is the basis of the rate, and this project's launch sheets work out to ₹9,122 to ₹11,404 per sq ft on saleable. Use carpet area when you compare space, because that is what you will furnish and live in.
The trap is mixing them. A project quoting a lower rate on a larger saleable area can deliver less carpet than one with a higher headline rate, so run both numbers before deciding which is better value.
Divide the total price by the RERA carpet area to get a true rate per usable square foot. On a ₹56 lakh 1 BHK with 323 sq ft of carpet, that works out to about ₹17,300 per sq ft of carpet, against ₹9,877 on saleable.
Neither number is wrong, and both are useful. What matters is that you apply the same method to every project on your shortlist.
Before the Act, buyers routinely paid for loading factors they could not verify, and the definition of super built-up area varied between developers. The Act fixed one definition and required it on the register, so the figure is now auditable.
At Prestige Parklane, every unit's carpet area is filed under registration PRM/KA/RERA/1251/309/PR/150926/008941. Read it on rera.karnataka.gov.in rather than taking a brochure's word for it.
Carpet area is the usable space inside your walls as defined by RERA, while saleable area adds a share of walls, lobbies, lifts and amenities and is used for pricing.
322 to 323 sq ft against a saleable area of 567 to 571 sq ft, plus 40 to 42 sq ft of balcony and utility.
The 3 BHK Premia, where carpet area is about 62 per cent of saleable, compared with roughly 57 per cent on the 1 BHK.
No. RERA excludes balconies and utility areas from carpet area, and the unit plans list them as a separate figure.
Saleable area. The launch sheets work out to ₹9,122 to ₹11,404 per sq ft of saleable area.
On the Karnataka RERA portal under registration PRM/KA/RERA/1251/309/PR/150926/008941, where every unit type is filed.
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