On 8 Oct 2004 23:23:51 -0700, someone wrote:


If square footage is useless, what do people use to decide on which property
is better valued?

Location, neighborhood, appliances, cabinets, finishes, layout, number
of bedrooms and bathrooms, yard, landscaoing, the list goes on. You
sound like you have pretty mechanistic approach to value - what, no
decision making ability of your own? - to decide which house to buy
merely, or even mostly, from square footage. Measure if you want to -
but can't you tell which houses are bigger or smaller, and which are
about the same size? If two are about the same size - you would
really choose on square footage no matter what the other factors told
you???

In my area, square footage has very little relationship to value. The
million dollar houses don't seem to be 5 times the size of the $200k
ones. Or put it another way, for the same $300k people will buy
houses of vastly different sizes. Size is only one factor.

-v.