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Swedish home listings often show two areas: boarea and biarea.
Boarea: living area
Boarea is the living area: rooms that are heated and meant to live in, such as bedrooms, the living room, the kitchen and bathrooms.
Biarea: secondary area
Biarea is other area in the home that is not counted as living area, for example a cold storage room, some basements or a garage built into the house.
Why it matters
Price follows the living area most closely. A house of 120 m² boarea plus 60 m² biarea is not the same as a house of 180 m² boarea. Buyers usually value biarea much less.
Ceiling height and rooms under the roof
Rooms under a sloping roof count as living area only where the ceiling is high enough. That is why an attic room can look big but add few square metres.
In PricePinner
The size clue in the game is the living area. When you compare homes, compare living areas.