Buying guide
Stop comparing headline ₹/sq.ft
The quoted rate excludes floor rise, PLC, parking, club charges and GST. Here is the full stack.
bhooomi Editorial · 11 July 2026 · 8 min read
The rate on a price list is the base rate on super built-up area. It is the beginning of the calculation, not the end, and the additions are rarely presented together.
Floor rise. Typically ₹25–₹75 per sq.ft per floor above a base floor. On the 18th floor of a tower with a ₹40 rise, that is ₹720 per sq.ft on top of the quoted rate — a 7% increase on a ₹10,000 base that appears nowhere in the headline.
Preferential location charges. Corner units, park-facing units and units away from the service core carry a premium, usually 2–6% of the base.
Car parking. Increasingly quoted separately, ₹3–₹12 lakh per bay depending on the city and whether it is covered, stacked or basement.
Club membership and maintenance corpus. One-time charges, frequently ₹2–₹6 lakh combined on a mid-premium project, plus an advance maintenance deposit of twelve to twenty-four months.
Statutory. GST at 5% without input credit on under-construction inventory, stamp duty and registration at 5–7% depending on the state, and legal charges.
Assembled, these routinely add 18–25% to the base price. The only defensible comparison between two projects is all-in cost divided by carpet area. Everything else is marketing arithmetic.
Put this to work on real inventory
Every listing on bhooomi publishes carpet area, the loading factor and the full price history, so the checks in this piece take seconds rather than an afternoon.
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