Residential Cost Handbook
Your comprehensive source for residential costs
The Marshall & Swift® Residential Cost Handbook by Cotality® is the most complete cost manual for residential valuations. With six classifications for building quality and corresponding descriptions and photographs of a wide variety of construction styles and qualities throughout North America, the Residential Cost Handbook helps eliminate the guesswork of construction quality and valuation.
The comprehensive manual contains historical cost indices, providing you the ability to manage trend costs historically using quarterly multipliers dating back to 2004. In addition, local multipliers for frame and masonry residences in more than 825 locations throughout the United States, U.S. Territories and most major cities in Canada ensure that your costs are localized and relative to current market conditions.
The Gold Standard of building cost data
Incorporating more than 80 years of experience, Marshall & Swift building cost data consists of three cost methodologies ensuring you have the tools for a complete and defensible determination of value.
- Square Foot Methodology: The most commonly used calculator/assumptive valuation method based on the gross square footage of dwellings by location.
- Segregated Methodology: Used component-by-component costs of superstructures such as foundation, frame, plumbing, electrical, etc.
- Unit-In-Place Costs: Individual pricing of components such as windows, doors, roofs, yard improvements, etc.
Join the thousands of professionals across the United States and Canada who have relied on the Residential Cost Handbook for their appraisal answers every day since 1954. It is available as a printed manual or electronically. The electronic version is known as the Residential Cost Explorer (RCE).
Benefits:
Improve consistency and accuracy in property valuations
Access historical costing
Produce defendable values that help appraisers remain in full regulatory compliance
Receive quarterly updates to maintain up-to-date and accurate costs
Interpolate between residential styles and quality levels
Cost indexes to more than 824 specific geographic areas
Thousands of square foot and component costs for every type of residence, including basic single-family sitebuilt homes, low-rise multifamily apartment buildings, manufactured housing, older homes, town houses, duplexes, and urban row houses
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