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The American Measurement Standard® is all new in 2023 and is a voluntary standard for the measurement of residential square footage. For those professionals who choose to provide this service, the AMS® helps to promote the public’s trust, as well as offering a consistent, reliable, reproducible, and defensible source for the methodology utilized in the collection and communication of square footage for single-family dwellings. The employment of a written “statement of square footage” is encouraged for the advancement of professionalism and consumer protection, by all those that create and communicate residential square footage data. In this, the information age and the era of technology, it is our sincere hope that the real estate industry will embrace the adoption of a universal measurement standard, mandate it, and educate all professionals about the importance of credible living area data.
One industry, one standard.
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D. Hampton Thomas
Leading expert on residential square footage and its influence on the home valuation process. Instructor, appraiser, Realtor and author. Offering new insights into real estate and appraisal issues, studying the power of size or square footage for over ten years. America’s favorite real estate formula, price-per-square-foot, is 100% dependent on having accurate square footage. The sqft information contained in public records and the MLS should be sounding alarm bells across the country. The next real estate crisis may be the information crisis. Inaccurate square footage details are costing home buyers, sellers, and the insurance industry millions every year. Author of over a dozen books, over one hundred videos, eight continuing education courses and numerous nationally published articles and blogs. When it comes to the world of residential square footage and home values, no one knows more.
