When measuring the size of a house, what is a square?

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Request for Question Clarification by cynthia-ga on 10 Jul 2005 19:03 PDT

As in "square footage?"

Square footage is the area of a room. If a room is 10' X 10' then you
have a floor space area of 100 square feet.

If your computer screen was square, and 12" X 12", that would be 1
square foot. Imagine that on the floor, 10 rows, 10 columns.

This might help:

How to Measure and Calculate Residential Square Footage
http://homebuying.about.com/od/realestatecareers/ss/square_footage.htm

If this answers your question, let me know and I'll make it your official answer.

~~Cynthia

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Clarification of Question by smallfish1942-ga on 11 Jul 2005 18:12 PDT

When looking for a new house recently, (a free-standing dwelling with
3 or 4 bedrooms) some houses were described in size as being 18
squares or 24 squares.  No-one seemed to know exactly what that meant
except that the greater the number of squares, the larger the house. I
think it must have to do with square yards, but would love to know
exactly how many square yards is one 'square'.

This may be helpful:

http://www.appraisetoday.net/measure.html

Best regards,
Rainbow