Karnataka's 5.2 floor area ratio limit: Check how it could impact homebuyers

Karnataka’s existent property assemblage is witnessing a large development. In February, the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) raised the Floor Area Ratio successful its concern regions to 5.2, from a erstwhile headdress of 3.25.With this amendment, concern plots on roads wider than 30 metres tin scope a FAR of 5.2. Roads of 24–30 metres present let 4.8 FAR, 4.0 for 18–24 metre roads, and 3.6 for 12–18 metres. Roads nether 12 metres licence FAR betwixt 2.45 and 2.8.

What is FAR?

Gross Floor Area (GFA) is the full country of a gathering if the areas of each its floors were combined. FAR is the ratio of the gross level country to the full country of the land. For example, if a gathering has a GFA of 3000 sqm and a full onshore country of 1500 sqm, its FAR becomes 2.0.FAR determines the fig of floors a gathering would person and besides the country that each level would occupy. Karnataka’s FAR upgradation has allowed builders to conception taller buildings, which means a greater fig of floors. An summation successful the fig of floors volition pb to much flats.Due to perpetually booming demand, driven by an influx of colonisation and economical growth, Bengaluru has emerged arsenic 1 of the costliest cities to bargain a house.

According to PropTiger’s study connected India's existent property assemblage for Q1, 2026, Bengaluru has go India’s 2nd costliest city, aft Mumbai, with terms trends that spell up to Rs 9,785 per sqft.Hence, an summation successful the fig of floors is expected to easiness the costly existent property marketplace of Bengaluru. However, to physique vertically up to the recently specified limits, developers indispensable wage a premium interest to the authorities government, which whitethorn yet bespeak connected the pockets of buyers.