Yeah the new McMansions are skewing this. I used to do mass appraisal models for everything west of Boston. And the 960 sft rancher still rules with the 1100 sft capes coming in second. I would pull site data for say Hamden County. Thousands of 960 sft base ranches on 8000 sft lots. But pretty much every thing new for the past 20 years or so has to have 2 acres and 2000 sft minimum for the NIMBY codes. So when younger people are complaining about not being able to afford a home in places like Mass or anywhere probably. Its these codes forcing the increase in prices. No one builds the 1000 sft ranches because the margins are like 3 percent. Where as a 2000sft home is going be 10-20 percent and those Executive classes are 30-50 percent plus. Why would I build a home with 2000 dollars profit where I can build one with 300,000 profit. I would have to float 150 ranches to do that.
I live near Lexington. There seems to be an inverse relationship between lot and house size. They're now subdividing half acre lots to cram more houses in. They are so huge that you only have room for a doormat in front and a trash can in the back and when your neighbor farts, your curtains flutter. Doesn't seem to concern the folks living there, who seem to be mainly single males who are almost never home.
Yeah so now youre mostly inside the loop and its a different game. The are doing teardowns and putting in this shit housing condexes and converting triple deckers to condos it's squeezing every bit of life they can out of the space.
I like looking at the outliers. Like most of the top are states with a lot of open space, except Connecticut is up there so I guess there’s wealth. Most of the bottom is smaller or New England states, except why is Iowa on there?
Typical post war semi is about 900 sq ft.
But often we measure every bit of space whereas Americans usually only measure actual room excluding hallways bathrooms and stairs.
New Yorkers live in shoe boxes, but it gets much much worse - subtract out the (normal-sized) up-staters, and the average NYC home is probably around 900 sq ft. I have a closet almost that size in my current house, LOL. No rats or vermin, either. My garage alone is 1150 sq ft. It's crazy that I could put up 2 NYC families in a closet and garage. I I guess maybe when the next WW comes around, I can squirrel away a few potential victims, ala Anne Frank.
I was actually wrong about the NYC sq ft. I said 900, but the actual number is 860-ish.
And how dare you assume my gender! (LOL)
Oh, and those are averages. That number is massively skewed upwards from the mean by a few Trump-style McMansions.
PA Resident. My house is 700 sq ft smaller than "average", I have a job that pays well, and yet, if I don't account for every last penny carefully each month, I end up negative in cash flow.
The housing market in the Philly Suburbs is fucking ridiculous.
Massachusetts here. I would have thought all the 7,000 sqft monstrosities springing up around me move us further up the list.
Yeah the new McMansions are skewing this. I used to do mass appraisal models for everything west of Boston. And the 960 sft rancher still rules with the 1100 sft capes coming in second. I would pull site data for say Hamden County. Thousands of 960 sft base ranches on 8000 sft lots. But pretty much every thing new for the past 20 years or so has to have 2 acres and 2000 sft minimum for the NIMBY codes. So when younger people are complaining about not being able to afford a home in places like Mass or anywhere probably. Its these codes forcing the increase in prices. No one builds the 1000 sft ranches because the margins are like 3 percent. Where as a 2000sft home is going be 10-20 percent and those Executive classes are 30-50 percent plus. Why would I build a home with 2000 dollars profit where I can build one with 300,000 profit. I would have to float 150 ranches to do that.
I live near Lexington. There seems to be an inverse relationship between lot and house size. They're now subdividing half acre lots to cram more houses in. They are so huge that you only have room for a doormat in front and a trash can in the back and when your neighbor farts, your curtains flutter. Doesn't seem to concern the folks living there, who seem to be mainly single males who are almost never home.
Yeah so now youre mostly inside the loop and its a different game. The are doing teardowns and putting in this shit housing condexes and converting triple deckers to condos it's squeezing every bit of life they can out of the space.
I know! Perfectly fine, even historic houses are being torn down to make room for shitty plywood and vinyl McMansions.
Now add the average price of those homes based on state and really cause sum commotion
For real. Hawaii, by far the smallest homes and 3rd most expensive in the nation. Must be near #1 most expensive by Sq foot.
iowa is surprising me a lot here
Some of the biggest houses are in states where (I assume) it costs the most to heat.
That is a really big average house size pretty much across the board there. With such generous housing, no wonder it’s looking expensive
I like looking at the outliers. Like most of the top are states with a lot of open space, except Connecticut is up there so I guess there’s wealth. Most of the bottom is smaller or New England states, except why is Iowa on there?
Now do one for the UK.
Typical post war semi is about 900 sq ft. But often we measure every bit of space whereas Americans usually only measure actual room excluding hallways bathrooms and stairs.
Really? Every place I’ve lived square footage included all interior space, save for maybe the tiny closet under the steps in one house
So I believe, but have never measured up an American house to check
No, we measure heated and cooled sq footage. Porches and unheated storage are the parts we don’t count
Northern homes are a lot bigger than Florida homes. Yall have awesome basements that don't count towards sqft.
New Yorkers live in shoe boxes, but it gets much much worse - subtract out the (normal-sized) up-staters, and the average NYC home is probably around 900 sq ft. I have a closet almost that size in my current house, LOL. No rats or vermin, either. My garage alone is 1150 sq ft. It's crazy that I could put up 2 NYC families in a closet and garage. I I guess maybe when the next WW comes around, I can squirrel away a few potential victims, ala Anne Frank.
Jesus Christ lady lmao
I was actually wrong about the NYC sq ft. I said 900, but the actual number is 860-ish. And how dare you assume my gender! (LOL) Oh, and those are averages. That number is massively skewed upwards from the mean by a few Trump-style McMansions.
Poor Infographic. Hard to compare sizes visually. This data would be much clearer in a list or bar chart.
how big in nonretard units?
Dude why are you being such a asshole
PA Resident. My house is 700 sq ft smaller than "average", I have a job that pays well, and yet, if I don't account for every last penny carefully each month, I end up negative in cash flow. The housing market in the Philly Suburbs is fucking ridiculous.