18 September 2025
Cadastral metres and the metres people actually live in
Adjara apartments often carry two areas. Boards that mix them make a family think a studio has grown. We keep cadastral figures in a footnote and draw rooms as rooms.
A rent roll that lists 52 m² next to a unit the family calls “the small one” is usually mixing cadastral area with a memory of the living room. In Adjara the cadastral figure can include a share of common parts, a balcony drawn as interior, or a number that was never updated after a partition.
We do not redraw the cadastre. We are not surveyors. What we do is refuse to let that number become the width of a colour bar that is supposed to mean occupancy.
What appears on the sheet
The unit is named as the door names it. Occupancy is a room state. Area, if shown at all, sits in a footnote with the source: extract, contract, or owner’s claim. When two sources disagree, both appear. The sitting then spends ten minutes on the disagreement instead of an hour on a bar that looked scientific.
Giorgi’s walk notes whether a “two-room” flat has a windowless alcove counted as a room in the listing. That note belongs next to any comparable asking price from the same stair.
Why owners ask us to hide the footnote
Some families want the larger number because a bank conversation is coming. Meeting boards can show cadastral area if you instruct us to, with the source on the same page. We will not silently swap usable rooms for cadastral metres on a portfolio review occupancy field. That swap is how a studio becomes “generous” on paper and cramped when a relative visits.