Mention dollars per square foot to an appraiser and watch the meltdown begin. “Oh, you Realtors”, they say. “You don’t know anything about pricing a house”.
Mention dollars per square foot to a Realtor and everyone’s an expert. Mostly wrong. They think it’s a rule, not a tool.
Mention dollars per square foot to most home buyers or sellers, and you get confusion depending on who they talked to last.
Everyone’s an Expert.
At Those Callaways, we start with dollar per square foot, but then we look at everything from deferred maintenance to upgrades and remodeling to market trends to what a buyer will pay and what a seller will take.
At Those Callaways, dollars per square foot is a tool, not a rule. That said, here are some dollars per square foot highs, lows, and averages you may find of interest.
– Joseph Callaway
