{"id":96784,"date":"2018-08-28T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-hong-kong-buildings-are-bigger-than-they-appear-its-all-in-the-way-they-are-measured\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T05:03:04","slug":"why-hong-kong-buildings-are-bigger-than-they-appear-its-all-in-the-way-they-are-measured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-hong-kong-buildings-are-bigger-than-they-appear-its-all-in-the-way-they-are-measured\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hong Kong buildings are bigger than they appear: it\u2019s all in the way they are measured"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGenerally speaking, a building\u2019s size is quoted in terms of gross floor area or GFA. One of the peculiarities of Hong Kong\u2019s property market is the ability for buildings to grow in size over time.
\nAccording to Building (Planning) Regulation 23(3)(a), the GFA of a building is defined as \u201cthe area contained within the external walls of the building measured at each floor level (including any floor below the level of the ground), together with the area of each balcony in the…
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…Why Hong Kong buildings are bigger than they appear: it\u2019s all in the way they are measured<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Generally speaking, a building\u2019s size is quoted in terms of gross floor area or GFA....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-pb2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49102,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-property-will-trend-higher-until-it-doesnt\/","url_meta":{"origin":96784,"position":0},"title":"Hong Kong property will trend higher…until it doesn\u2019t","date":"March 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Property prices are going up. 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