Marla to Square Feet Converter — Standard & Punjab
Marla-to-square-feet is the conversion construction actually runs on: covered-area planning, grey-structure quotes per square foot, and material estimates all need the plot’s land in feet, and the answer differs 17 percent between the two Pakistani marla conventions. This tool converts under both, with square-yard equivalents for the Karachi conversation.
How many square feet is a 5-marla plot?
1,361 sq ft under the standard convention, 1,125 under Punjab’s — and the plot’s documents, not preference, decide which applies. The popular sizes ladder: 3 marla runs 817/675, 7 marla 1,906/1,575, 10 marla 2,723/2,250, with the convention gap growing in step.
What covered area can a 5-marla plot actually take?
Bylaws, not arithmetic, answer that: development authorities cap ground coverage (commonly 60–80 percent of plot area depending on category) and storeys, so a 1,125 sq ft Punjab-convention 5-marla supports roughly 750–900 sq ft per floor within typical rules. The plot’s square footage is the input; the society’s building bylaws are the formula.
How do marlas translate to Karachi’s square yards?
Divide the square feet by nine: a standard marla is 30.25 square yards, the Punjab marla 25 exactly. The common cross-market sizes — 120 sq yd ≈ 4 Punjab marlas, 240 sq yd ≈ 8 — let Punjab and Karachi listings compare once everything passes through feet.
Marla to Square Feet Converter
The conversion table that should live in your file
For any plot under consideration, write three numbers once: marlas as documented, square feet under the governing convention, and square yards for cross-market comparison. Every downstream document — bank valuation, construction agreement, excise assessment — gets checked against the master figure, and unit drift gets caught at the desk instead of the demarcation. The five popular sizes (3, 5, 7, 10, 20 marla) in both conventions cover most of the market and are worth simply memorising for anyone transacting regularly.
From land feet to construction feet
The build conversation chains conversions: plot square feet, times bylaw ground coverage, times floors, gives buildable covered area; covered area times the per-square-foot rate prices the grey structure; finishing multiplies again by grade. Each link inherits the plot figure’s accuracy, which is why the convention question — settled by this tool against the documents — belongs at the very start of any construction budget rather than surfacing in the contractor’s measurement dispute later.
Reading plot dimensions like a surveyor
The dimensions line (25 × 45, 30 × 60) outranks every label: multiply for the true area, divide by both conventions, and the marketing’s marla claim either reconciles or it doesn’t. Irregular plots quote average dimensions that flatter; the site plan’s actual boundary measurements, multiplied honestly, occasionally reveal the "10 marla" parcel as nine and change. Thirty seconds of multiplication before the token payment is the cheapest due diligence in Pakistani property.
More questions answered
Because grey structure and finishing price per square foot of covered area, and covered area derives from plot footprint times floors within bylaw coverage. A convention error at the plot stage propagates: 236 phantom square feet on a "5 marla" plan misprices the build by hundreds of thousands at current rates before a brick is laid.
Rural fards typically run the traditional standard chain — marla, kanal, killa/acre — at 272.25, with sarsai subdivisions. The 225 convention is an urban-scheme artefact; inherited agricultural land converting to housing is where the two systems meet and the confusion compounds.
Corner, irregular, and road-widened plots routinely deviate from the nominal size — the allotment letter’s stated dimensions govern, and "10 marla category" describes the block, not necessarily your exact parcel. Premiums and deductions at resale follow the actual feet.
Divide square feet by 10.764: a standard marla is 25.29 m², the Punjab marla 20.90. Metric appears in architectural drawings and some approvals even as the market speaks marlas — one more reason the square-feet master figure earns its place in the file.
Location, front width, road category, and corner status price land as much as raw area — a 5-marla on a main boulevard outprices a 7-marla deep in the block routinely. Area conversion is the start of valuation, not the end; per-square-foot comparisons only work within comparable locations.