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exaggerated square feet

Misstating a Home’s Square Feet

Man Bites Dog — Real Estate Edition; or How Big is Too Big?* First, a stipulation:  in my experience selling residential real estate in Minnesota for over a decade, something like 95% of the time a listed property’s square feet on MLS is accurate to within a few percentage points, max, of the actual square feet....
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“Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?” — Real Estate Version*

Housing Yellow — and Red — Flags Foundation Size:   1,700 AbvGrdFinSqFt:   2,300 BelGrdFinSqFt:   1,900 Total Fin SqFt:   4,200              –Excerpt, MLS listing What is the maximum number of finished square feet in the basement of a home with a 1,700 square foot foundation? You’d guess 1,700 square feet, right? In fact, the maximum...
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Houses That Shrink — and Expand

Real Estate Measuring Mistakes(?) I’ve previously written about homes I’ve shown as a Buyer’s agent where the square footage was significantly exaggerated.  See, “The House That Shrank.” This post is about encountering a mismeasured home as a Listing agent, representing the seller.   Background First, a stipulation:  it doesn’t happen that often. I’d estimate the 90%...
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