$1 million is a great deal of money…or is it? How much does $1 million really buy you in today’s real estate markets?

How much housing does $1 million really buy you?

That was the question behind a recent Business Insider article, which studied list price data from Movoto and Zillow and computed how much square footage $1 million would get you in the nation’s largest housing markets; and as expected, the results differ wildly.

Take a look at our graph below for some perspective: