Land Measurements and Calculations✅

Gabi owns one parcel measuring one square mile and another parcel measuring one mile x half a mile. She combined the parcels and sold them for $2.5 million. What price per acre did she receive for the land?

$2,604.17 One square mile is 640 acres. The area of the second parcel is 5,280' x 2,640' = 13,939,200 sq. ft. Divide that by 43,560 (sq. ft. in an acre) to get 320 acres. 640 + 320 = 960 acres. $2.5 million divided by 960 acres = $2,604.17 per acre.

How many acres are in a quarter section in a rectangular survey?

160

After doing some research on local comparable properties, you find that most properties in the area of your new listing sell when they're priced $200 per square foot. If the property you're listing measures 1,500 square feet—and you want to put it at the top of this price-per-square-foot range—at what price could the home be listed? $250,000 $285,000 $300,000 $315,000

300,000$

How many acres are in a quarter section in a rectangular survey?

A section in the rectangular survey system is one square mile or 640 acres. A quarter section is 640 acres divided by four (160 acres).

144 square inches

A square foot

43,560 square feet?

Acre

Acres

An acre is land that contains 43,560 square feet. So, if you need to find out what percentage of an acre a parcel is that has 28,675 square feet, just divide the number of square feet in the property (28,675) by the number of square feet in an acre (43,560) to get .66, or 2/3 of an acre.

Front Foot

Another term you may hear is "front foot." The front foot of a property (often referred to as frontage) is simply the linear portion that abuts a waterway, highway, or street. To determine the front-foot measurement, you simply measure the length or width of the property that abuts this area. So, if you had a 200 x 50-foot property, but it was the 50-foot portion of the property that abutted the road, you would have 50 front feet, or a 50-foot frontage.

Price Per Square Foot?

Area, or square feet, is important in calculating price per square foot. This is found by taking the home's sale price and dividing it by the area. So, if we have our 800-square-foot rectangular building, and it sells for $75,000, that equates to $93.75 per square foot ($75,000/800 = $93.75).

Calculating the area of a square?

Equal side x equal side

Clint is interested in making an offer on a house with hardwood floors that will need to be replaced. The hallway is 18' x 6'. The kitchen is 20' x 30'. The living room is 25' x 45'. Two bedrooms are 12' x 16', and the master bedroom is 14' x 20'. If the cost of the flooring is $5.48 per square foot, and the cost of installation is $1.49 per square foot, how much can Clint plan to spend to replace the floors?

First, find the area of each room and add them together to get the total square footage. 108 + 600 + 1125 + 192 + 192 + 280 = 2,497 square feet. The total cost of the flooring per sq. ft. is $5.48 + $1.49 = $6.97. 2,497 x $6.97 = $17, 404.09.

Calculating the area of a rectangle?

Length x width

5,280 feet ?

Mile

Alana and Michael want to build a 5,000-square-foot ranch home on two acres of land they just bought. Once the house is built, how many acres of land will remain unbuilt?

One acre is equal to 43,560 square feet, so their parcel is 87,120 square feet (43,560 x 2). Subtract the house's 5,000 square feet from that, and you get 82,120 square feet. Divide that by 43,560, and you end up with approximately 1.89 acres.

Gabi owns one parcel measuring one square mile and another parcel measuring one mile x half a mile. She combined the parcels and sold them for $2.5 million. What price per acre did she receive for the land?

One square mile is 640 acres. The area of the second parcel is 5,280' x 2,640' = 13,939,200 sq. ft. Divide that by 43,560 (sq. ft. in an acre) to get 320 acres. 640 + 320 = 960 acres. $2.5 million divided by 960 acres = $2,604.17 per acre.

640 acres

Square mile

Your client, a builder, is considering buying three adjacent lots. They each have the same depth, 275 feet. Lot A is 35,750 s.f., Lot B 53,900 s.f., and Lot C is 33,000 s.f. If your client buys all three lots, what total street frontage will he have?

The total street frontage is 446 feet. Add up the square footages of the three lots and divide by the lot depth (275) to get the total street frontage. (35,750 + 53,900 + 33,000) ÷ 275 = 446

Calculating area is (0.5 x base) x height is what shape? Rectangle? Square? Triangle?

Triangle

Hectares

When discussing even larger parcels of land, it will be helpful to know about hectares. A hectare is 10,000 square meters, or approximately 2.47 acres in U.S. measurements. So, if you wanted to find out how many hectares were in a 45-acre tract of land, you would divide the total acres by 2.47. So, 45/2.47 = 18.21 hectares.

Three feet

Yard