Glossary

Calculation of usable floor area

In Croatia there is no regulation or law that defines the way in which is declared area of properties that are on the market.

However, 2002. Croatia has taken as its norm ISO standard for the calculation of area and volume, which has brought the world's technical committee for adoption of ISO standards 1992. This is called the standard HRN ISO 9836:2002. It covered different surfaces, under construction, the net floor area, area inside the walls and the gross area. Net area is still divided into useful service and an area for communication.

It is important that one property area calculated by the same method, therefore can not be counted towards the garage area of one side to another room, hallway, etc. according to the third area can be calculated by any method, it is important that they be clearly specified in the contract , annexes, drawings, sketches ... This method, for example, may be the gross floor area, which includes a partition wall or partition and bearing together. The difference between gross and net surface can be 15 to 20 percent.

In practice, we can find two properties of same size, while differences in the net usable area can vary even 50 per cent. This is most noticeable in properties that contain relatively large attic and a terrace. For example, one-room flat of 30m2 with 20m2 terrace floor area will often be declared as flat of 50m2, while its usable area 30m2 + 20m2 x 0.25 = 30m2 + 7.5 m2 = 37.5m2.
In this example, the usable area 25% smaller than those declared.

On this web site as soon as we try to provide customers an easier comparison of different properties and are therefore useful above the surface of buildings or parts of buildings (wherever it was possible to calculate), and real estate that you do not have enough data are shown from the surface of the land register without accrued koeficijanata. Accurate information about the way in which the calculated size of a property can be obtained at the agency.

Coefficients according to Croatian standards
• 0.00 residential loft up to 1 meter height
• 0.25 terrace, balcony
• 0.35 lower economic attic of two meters
• 0.50 cellar, terrace and balcony, storage outside the apartment without being treated walls and floors
• 0.60 parking space
• 0.75 residential loft with light slopes of up to 2 meters height, with balconies open up the two sides, storage outside the dwelling with covered walls and floors, individual garages, garage group with solid barriers
1.00 • all rooms in the apartment, stairs, offices, business premises to a height of 4 meters
• 1.50 higher than the commercial space 4 meters

The names of the floors

Our advanced search engine enables search for apartment on specific floor but also by the criteria of whether is it in attic (loft) or not.
Fourth floor of the showed building is also an attic. Since the attic can be also on the first floor these search options are divided into two in order to enable faster searching.

Land area

For construction and agricultural lands expressed surface is equal to that in the cadastral operate. For houses without a garden plot area is not listed. For buildings with a large garden stated area includes part land around and under the building. For buildings with a small yard area as the land is stated only yard (total area of all land less covered area of the building).