In the sales offer for the house what was the square footage listed at? What is the average and some standard deviations on cost per square foot in that neighborhood for similar builds?

Seems to me that you need to prove some kind of fraud to you, some misrepresentation. That you got a VA loan doesn’t seem to be consequential to me, it’s that you didn’t get what you were offered. If you can prove that you made that offer based upon that appraisers numbers you’d have a pretty good argument. But if you had already decided to buy it at that price before he did his appraisal, that would weaken your argument a bit.

Really interesting.