Poll: How much did you pay for your house?

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How much did you pay per square foot for your home?

[underwaterrhymes]

We are lowly renters.

But the homes here are insanely expensive. If we were to buy a 3 BR / 2 BA right now, we'd be looking at $300 - $400 per square foot.

[lucky513]

$173 per sf

[Deleted]

The median price per square foot for the 127 apartments currently listed in our (beloved) neighborhood is $2184. I will never amount to anything.

We're renters, so the comparison metric for us is price/sq ft/year. We pay $60/sq ft/yr, which is a relative bargain.

[underwaterrhymes]

Mar 7, 2013 18:15:55 GMT -5 v said:

The median price per square foot for the 127 apartments currently listed in our (beloved) neighborhood is $2184. I will never amount to anything.

We're renters, so the comparison metric for us is price/sq ft/year. We pay $60/sq ft/yr, which is a relative bargain.

Where do you live that the median price is $2,000 per square foot??? Holy shit.

ETA - Are you sure you calculated that correctly? I mean, that means there are 500 square foot homes going for $1,000,000.

[Deleted]

$355 per sq ft.

[SKP82]

Around $160.

[SKP82]

Mar 7, 2013 18:19:01 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Mar 7, 2013 18:15:55 GMT -5 v said:

The median price per square foot for the 127 apartments currently listed in our (beloved) neighborhood is $2184. I will never amount to anything.

We're renters, so the comparison metric for us is price/sq ft/year. We pay $60/sq ft/yr, which is a relative bargain.

Where do you live that the median price is $2,000 per square foot??? Holy shit.

I think she is in NYC.

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Mar 7, 2013 18:19:01 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Mar 7, 2013 18:15:55 GMT -5 v said:

The median price per square foot for the 127 apartments currently listed in our (beloved) neighborhood is $2184. I will never amount to anything.

We're renters, so the comparison metric for us is price/sq ft/year. We pay $60/sq ft/yr, which is a relative bargain.

Where do you live that the median price is $2,000 per square foot??? Holy shit.

ETA - Are you sure you calculated that correctly? I mean, that means there are 500 square foot homes going for $1,000,000.

It's correct.  I live in Manhattan.  The calculation was done by Streeteasy (the real estate site I frequent)

Median price: $2,200,000     Median size: 1,965 ft²     Median price per ft²: $2,184

Most expensive listing is $33 million (10,000 sq ft townhouse); least expensive is $350,000 (a 200 sq ft studio with monthly maintenance fees of $628).

Which is why we rent.

[lolc]

We live in FL and paid about $87 sq/ft for our current home (bought in June, a short sale, comparable homes in our area are going for about ) $107 sq/ft.

Sold our last house, which was within city limits this past June at almost $120 sq/ft. When we bought in 2005, we bought it at $130 sq/ft.

[underwaterrhymes]

And this is why we do not live in NYC. LOL.

[chalupabatman]

$75

But I live in the middle of nowhere.

[starlily]

$128/sf

[SugarKane]

$63 per square foot but it was a foreclosure

[Deleted]

$94 per square foot, but it needs a lot of work. Fixed up it will be around $115/sq ft.

[theintended]

$186

[Deleted]

$400

[rugbywife]

Our house is officially a 1100 sq ft bungalow. At that calculation, $345. If you calculate the fact that we have a fully finished basement, half that, but that is not how it works.

[snipsnsnails]

$315

[VeryViolet]

We paid $240/sq ft. Thank you NYC for making me realize it isn't that bad a COL here lol.

[ginandjucie24]

$93

[HiC]

Mar 7, 2013 18:25:55 GMT -5 v said:

Mar 7, 2013 18:19:01 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Where do you live that the median price is $2,000 per square foot??? Holy shit.

ETA - Are you sure you calculated that correctly? I mean, that means there are 500 square foot homes going for $1,000,000.

It's correct.  I live in Manhattan.  The calculation was done by Streeteasy (the real estate site I frequent)

Median price: $2,200,000     Median size: 1,965 ft²     Median price per ft²: $2,184

Most expensive listing is $33 million (10,000 sq ft townhouse); least expensive is $350,000 (a 200 sq ft studio with monthly maintenance fees of $628).

Which is why we rent.

 We sold our place in NYC for about $1300/sqft almost 5 years ago.  Moved to CT and paid $400/sqft.  We probably (no definitely) couldn't afford to buy back our old apartment if we were to move back now.  :/

[stephm0188]

We paid $68 per sq ft. The average in our neighborhood is $100.

[amberlyrose]

The house we bought and currently rent out was $160 sq/ft

[Deleted]

$728/sq ft.

[candreco]

$148 including the utility room/laundry room/workshop/storage room and two car garage.

[berbles]

About $275

[awick14]

$152/sq ft.

The average for our area is $175-200. We bought a fixer upper.

[MixedBerryJam]

Hmmm, I've never done this calculation, but we bought at $51/sf in 1990 and if I sold tomorrow I would likely get in the area of $265.

[sillygoosegirl]

$121