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Price per square foot calculator
Divide a property’s price by consistently measured living area to compare purchase or listing prices across similar properties.
The short answer
Last updated: July 2026
Price per square foot is a property’s price divided by its living area. A $420,000 home with 1,400 square feet is about $300 per square foot. It lets you compare properties of different sizes on the same basis — but only when square footage is measured the same way. It’s a comparison metric, not an appraisal.
After the estimate:
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Compare properties on a per-square-foot basis.
Divide the price by the living area to get price per square foot — and, if you enter a rent, the monthly and annual rent per square foot too.
Property price or value
$
Living area
sq ft
Monthly rent (optional)
$
Enter a rent to also see rent per square foot. Leave it blank for price per square foot alone.
Input-driven result
Your inputs
Formula
Result below
Price per square foot
$300.00
$420,000 ÷ 1,400 sq ft.
Monthly rent per square foot
$1.86
$2,600 rent ÷ 1,400 sq ft.
Annual rent per square foot
$22.29
Monthly rent per square foot × 12.
Live per-square-foot values
Property price
$420,000
Monthly rent
$2,600
Price per sq ft
$300.00
Annual rent per sq ft
$22.29
Estimate based on your inputs. Not a promise of results.
Estimate only. Price per square foot depends on how the living area is measured — finished vs. total, and whether basements or garages count. Compare only listings measured the same way.
How it works
How this tool works.
Price per square foot lets you compare what buyers or sellers are asking for properties of different sizes. The comparison is useful only when the living-area measurement, property type, location, and condition are reasonably consistent.
Enter the price and living area to estimate price per square foot. The result is arithmetic on the figures you provide—a purchase-price comparison tool, not a valuation, appraisal, or rental-pricing opinion.
Make the result useful
price density
Price per square foot normalizes an acquisition or listing price by a consistently measured area. It can expose an outlier among otherwise similar sales, but it does not value repairs, land, legal use, layout, income, or property condition.
Use closed, dated, genuinely comparable transactions and write down material adjustments instead of averaging unmatched properties. For a rental purchase, follow the price comparison with separate NOI, debt, reserve, and cash-flow underwriting.
Calculation lens
price ÷ comparable square feet
Read the result as a planning measure for the selected period.
It is not an appraisal.
Questions landlords ask
Questions about this tool and its limits.
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