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Above-ground living area (AGLA) is the finished, habitable area within a house, excluding any basement space (even if that basement space is finished and habitable). This term is used in the real estate field in the United States, including by appraisers when valuing dwellings.

Some organizations that use this term have created specific definitions of this term for their own use, which may differ in some particulars as to the criteria for spaces that are included when measuring AGLA. Organizations that use or define this term include Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the U.S. Federal Housing Administration (FHA), the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), among others.