Price per square foot, a metric often used in helping to determine a home’s value, can be a useful comparison tool. It’s a tricky concept, though, because a home’s price per square foot multiplied by ...

If you’ve searched the market and determined there’s no existing home that meets your needs, you may start to wonder: How much does it cost to build a house? It’s a reasonable question considering ...

New U.S. homes shrank 11.2% in size from 2014 to 2024, but the price per square foot jumped 73.6% over the same period, according to a LendingTree study. The South and West saw the biggest size ...