When talking price per sq. ft. of a house

Living -

Yes but I’ve seen in Houston, Orlando and Atlanta that they shy away in using $/sq.ft living area and breaking out living vs. under roof sq.ft.

Good luck.

Living

Anything under 300/sq ft poor AF

Note taken

sounds like you're specifically referring to a house... but to be sure, just want to mention it may be different with apartments, depending on where you are.

... not sure how other big cities do it, but both with residential & commercial, real estate owners in NYC screw over prospective owners/renters. They like to use the term "rentable square feet". Using made up numbers for an example, you might be looking at what should be 1000 sq ft of living area or commercial space, and they'll call it anywhere from 1300 to 1500 rentable sq ft, citing the "loss factor"... meaning they charge you for your portion of common areas like hallways, elevators & stairwells. Somehow they're able to get away with inflating numbers over time as well. I've seen instances where same office was listed as approx 3000 sq ft at one point, then a few years later is about 3700 sq ft... It's a racket up here.

So, depending on where you are, the type of structure (house/bldg/apt), who was motivated to do the measuring, and why you need to know, it might be worthwhile to verify.

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Most properties in my area aren't broken down by living or under roof but generally speaking square footage is the living space.

When we sold our house, our agent was required by her brokerage to have the house digitally measured and we found out our house was a couple of hundred square footage smaller than we thought. Original square footage (what was on file with tax assessor) was using outside wall measurements and included walk in attic space. Bummer because we had the right price per square for the neighborhood but because of the decrease, we ended up having to set the price lower than we thought.