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Originally Posted by Realtor 1
Why any realtor would bs on size is beyond me. You can be sued over inaccurate size and a lack of due diligence.
I don't like spending up to $500 for each listing to be professionally measured but I do to protect my clients and I.
As for condos, it states right on the survey plans what is included in condo size. If the developer sold it as X sq ft including the balcony then the owner will as well.
Perhaps a building goes up where balcony sizes are all over the map. This would make sense to include balcony size within the registered size so that someone with a 500 sq ft unit but 250 sq ft balcony pays the same as someone with a 700 sq ft unit and 50 sq ft balcony.
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Well technically it's not B/S as long as it's accurate. But, what I'm saying is 5 years (or longer, I'm getting old), it was above ground, then in what was perhaps condo's trying to complete with SFH's, condo listings started to get bigger by including other space that while technically accurate was never considered above ground space (apples to apples), so home listings had to one up condo's, not all, but I see it often enough, they list the whole house, but include basement as basement space or in the description say "living space" which makes it not B/S...
Maybe I'm out to lunch, but that's what I was seeing.
First three condos I checked. The first one, adding up the measurements equals about 84 m3, which is about 900 sq. ft. Where's the extra 900 sq. ft. coming from? I'm sure there's stairs, and bathrooms, but even if you could balconies maybe a few hundred... so 1,100 - 1,200 like the latter, so where's the next 600 sq. ft.?
Most SFH listings don't include basements, why do condos? They didn't use to.
http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetai...rtyId=13863980
http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetai...rtyId=13585746
http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetai...rtyId=13645027
Let's see another group
http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetai...rtyId=13836406
http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetai...rtyId=13650393
http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetai...rtyId=13778281
I've been in those, they're not 2,000 sq. ft.
They're certainly not 15% bigger than this two storey SFH.
http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetai...rtyId=13865175
Nor do I believe this house (below) is bigger than the above by 33%
http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetai...rtyId=13865175
And that's literally the first two condo projects I looked at (as they had multiple listings, and the first neighborhood I looked for SFH listings (because Tuscany always has 1,000s of listings).