Most would assume that the Montgomery County Appraisal District has obtained your square footage from the blueprints of your home, or perhaps from the builder, or those in charge of issuing building ...

When you buy a new home, or sell your current one, thinking about how to measure its square footage probably isn’t top of mind. And while it may seem like an inconsequential metric, it’s one of the ...

During the boom, New Yorkers increasingly relied on “price-per-square-foot” as a way to compare rapidly rising apartment values. The metric is even more popular in the downturn, as discount-crazed ...

Single family homes are usually measured using outside measurements, meaning the width of the wall is included in the total square footage number. Duane Duggan, Realtor and Author, RE/MAX of Boulder ...

Most of us learned in grade school how to calculate square footage. So why is it so difficult to figure the size of a home? It's because measuring square footage when putting a home on the market ...

If real estate rule No. 1 is “location, location, location,” rule No. 2 may be that not all square footage is created equal. Many shoppers blindly trust that the size of a new home featured in an ad ...