Originally Posted by
Kilian Zoll
Not sure how Hyatt are counting or if the following is related at all to this, but Hong Kong in general has a bizarre way of calculating property square footage, and tends to include areas like window sills and other completely useless spaces. Our apartment is X sqft but our property in Sweden of a similar size (on paper) is significantly larger in reality.
It's much worse than that. They'll include the apartment's share of the common areas as part of the gross square foot calculation. It's completely ferkakte.