Welcome to the World of
Residential Square Footage
When it comes to buying and selling real estate, we all want to get a fair deal. Sellers want to be rewarded for all their hard work over years of building their home, and buyers want to get a bargain and expect everything to be in pristine condition. Thus, the negotiations begin. Who sets the price and how do they determine the fair market value? Within this site, you can learn all about the almost magical formula “price-per-square-foot”.
Discover how it should be used and how, much too often, it is abused.
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ANSI®, Home Measurement & the Power of Price-Per-Square-Foot
Based on the ANSI® Guideline, learn the “art” of measuring a single-family home. The ultimate square footage resource. From trainee to seasoned veteran.
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ANSI®, Home Measurement, & the Power of Price-Per-Square-Foot Realtor® Edition
Residential square footage based on the ANSI® guideline. Designed specifically for the professional Realtor®, this course teaches the “art”.
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Courses: Public Records & the Real Estate Information Crisis
Discover how the square footage details reported in Public Records all across the country are changing the “quality” of appraisals.
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The Book
How to measure a house. Based on the ANSI® Guideline, everything you need to know to accurately measure residential square footage. Most comprehensive publication on residential square footage available anywhere. In a price-per-square-foot world, the consistent creation of a home’s square footage has never been more important. The ultimate How To book for measuring houses based on the ANSI® measurement standard.
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D. Hampton Thomas: Leading expert on residential square footage and its influence on the home valuation process. Instructor, appraiser, Realtor and author. Offering new insights into real estate and appraisal issues, studying the power of size or square footage for over ten years. America’s favorite real estate formula, price-per-square-foot, is 100% dependent on having accurate square footage. The sqft information contained in public records and the MLS should be sounding alarm bells across the country. The next real estate crisis may be the information crisis. Inaccurate square footage details are costing home buyers, sellers, and the insurance industry millions every year. Author of over a dozen books, two dozen videos, eight continuing education courses and numerous nationally published articles and blogs. When it comes to the world of residential square footage and home values, no one knows more.
Bill Sahadi – Realtor
Testimonial
I thought your class was exceptionally timely and relevant to the working real estate professional in today’s market. Our understanding of the many facets of a real estate transaction helps us provide better service to our clients. I have completed your course and found it fascinating, eye opening, and of tremendous value. I will encourage all my agents to take the course. My perspective on the residential real estate transaction has been permanently altered. I heartily recommend this course and Hamp’s books.
