Area converter

What the result means

Area is length squared. A 10 m × 10 m room is 100 m², which is about 1,076 square feet — not 100 square feet.

How it is calculated

to = from × (factorFrom ÷ factorTo), using square metres as the common base

• Value: The amount in the starting unit.
• From / To: Units from the same measurement family.

Each unit is a multiple of a square metre. Convert through m² rather than converting length and forgetting to square the factor.

Worked example

100 m² in square feet

A 100 m² apartment is listed for an overseas buyer who thinks in square feet.

Factor

1 m² = 10.76391 ft²

Result

100 × 10.76391 ≈ 1,076.4 ft²

100 m² is a bit over a thousand square feet, not a small 100 ft² room.

Hectares for farms, square metres for homes

Australian property listings use square metres for houses and apartments, and hectares (10,000 m²) for rural land. Acres still appear in older rural descriptions: one acre is about 4,047 m², or 0.405 ha. A “quarter-acre block” is about 1,012 m², which is why the phrase survives in conversation long after the listings went metric.

Flooring quotes in square metres should not be converted with a 10× rule of thumb. Use the factor 1 m² ≈ 10.764 ft². A 100 m² apartment is about 1,076 ft², not 100 ft² and not 1,000 ft² on the nose.

Land area is not the same as floor area. A two-storey house on a 450 m² lot can have 280 m² of living space. Listings usually say which figure they mean; convert after you know.

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