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What Adds Value to a Foster City House: Size, Lot, Bedrooms and Bathrooms (2026)
What actually moves the price of a Foster City house: more space, a bigger lot, another bedroom or another bathroom? We compared 169 Foster City house sales from the last 24 months, holding the other features we measured equal, and translated the results into dollars on the median house. Some answer
What Your Budget Buys in Foster City: Houses by Price Range (2026)
What does your budget buy in Foster City? We sorted every Foster City house sale from the last 24 months by price and looked at what each range bought: living area, bedrooms, bathrooms, lot and how hard buyers bid. The range where the median sale of the last 12 months ($2.27M) falls, $2.25M–$2.5M, b
Foster City Price per Square Foot by House Size: Why Bigger Homes Cost Less per Foot (2026)
Price per square foot is the number everyone quotes, and in Foster City it depends on the size of the house. Over the last 24 months, houses of 1,500–2,000 sq ft sold for a median $1,146 a square foot, and houses of 2,500–3,000 sq ft for $1,042. Here’s the full ladder, why bigger houses cost less pe
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