Why Price Per Square Foot Will Lie to You (Especially in Conroe & The Woodlands)
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By a local appraiser who’s tired of Zillow acting like it knows everything If you’ve spent any time cruising Zillow, Realtor .com, or arguing with your neighbor over whose house is “worth more,” you’ve probably run into the price-per-square-foot trap . It sounds simple enough — take the sale price, divide by the square footage, boom: value. Easy math, right? Yeah… no. That’s like trying to figure out the value of a truck by dividing the sticker price by the number of cupholders. In Montgomery County — Conroe, The Woodlands, Montgomery, Willis, Magnolia — price per square foot is one of the quickest ways to misunderstand what your home is actually worth. So let’s break it down in plain English, Texas-style. 🏡 Why Price Per Square Foot Doesn’t Work (Most of the Time) 1. Smaller homes almost always have a higher $/SF Think of it like buying brisket. A whole brisket is cheaper per pound than buying sliced brisket by the quarter-pound at H-E-B. Homes work the same way: Sma...