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What Your Budget Buys in Los Altos: Houses by Price Range (2026)

by Eric & Janelle Boyenga

What does your budget buy in Los Altos? We sorted every Los Altos 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 middle of the market, $4.5M–$5.5M, bought a median 2,460 square feet with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms on an 11,200 square-foot lot. Here’s every range, plus condos and townhomes. We’re the Property Nerds, so the numbers come from real sales.

The short answer

Under $3.5M: 45 sales, a median 1,580 sq ft with 3 bedrooms.
$4.5M–$5.5M (where the median $4.9M falls): 145 sales, 2,460 sq ft, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, an 11,200 sq ft lot.
$7.5M and up: 43 sales, 4,400 sq ft, 5 bedrooms, a 17,160 sq ft lot.
Condos and townhomes: the median sold for $1.77M at 1,330 sq ft.

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Every price range

House sales in the last 24 months (October 28, 2024 to October 27, 2026):

Price range	Sales	Share	Living area	Beds	Baths	Lot	Per sq ft	Typical sale
Under $3.5M	45	8%	1,580 sq ft	3	2	8,750 sq ft	$1,857	at asking
$3.5M–$4.5M	167	31%	2,260 sq ft	4	2.5	10,400 sq ft	$1,819	2.5% over asking
$4.5M–$5.5M	145	27%	2,460 sq ft	4	3	11,200 sq ft	$2,021	8.2% over asking
$5.5M–$6.5M	83	16%	2,970 sq ft	4	3	11,840 sq ft	$1,978	11.5% over asking
$6.5M–$7.5M	49	9%	3,600 sq ft	5	4.5	13,910 sq ft	$1,964	6.2% over asking
$7.5M and up	43	8%	4,400 sq ft	5	5	17,160 sq ft	$1,885	2.5% over asking

What the next step up buys

Moving from $4.5M–$5.5M to $5.5M–$6.5M bought about 510 more square feet at the median, and a lot about 640 square feet bigger. The biggest jump in size is at the top: from $6.5M–$7.5M to $7.5M and up, the median house grew by 800 square feet.

Condos and townhomes by price

Condo and townhome sales in the last 24 months (October 28, 2024 to October 27, 2026); ranges with fewer than 10 sales are left out:

Price range	Sales	Living area	Beds	Baths	Per sq ft	Typical sale
$750K–$1.25M	21	1,010 sq ft	2	2	$1,013	2.2% under asking
$1.25M–$1.75M	26	1,240 sq ft	2	2	$1,197	0.4% under asking
$1.75M–$2.25M	32	1,350 sq ft	2	2	$1,417	0.6% under asking
$2.25M–$2.75M	15	1,410 sq ft	2	2.5	$1,772	at asking
$2.75M and up	17	1,840 sq ft	2	2	$1,667	at asking

Stretching a budget

Smaller lot, same house: a 10% smaller lot went with about 2% less in price for the same house here; see what adds value to a Los Altos house.
The monthly cost: what it costs to own in Los Altos turns each price into a payment.
Neighborhood by neighborhood: Los Altos neighborhoods ranked by price per square foot shows where a budget goes further.
Bidding: the “typical sale” column shows how far over or under asking each range closed.

What about $3 million across nearby cities?

Houses that sold for $2.75M to $3.25M in the last 24 months (October 28, 2024 to October 27, 2026). More in what $3 million buys in Silicon Valley.

City	Sales	Living area	Beds	Lot
Los Altos	23	1,500 sq ft	3	10,110 sq ft
Palo Alto	122	1,450 sq ft	3	6,340 sq ft
Sunnyvale	250	1,760 sq ft	4	6,600 sq ft
Cupertino	93	1,620 sq ft	3	7,250 sq ft
Santa Clara	51	1,980 sq ft	4	7,200 sq ft
Los Gatos	112	2,210 sq ft	4	9,180 sq ft
Saratoga	48	1,970 sq ft	4	10,600 sq ft

Where buyers compete hardest

Bidding varies across the price ranges. Over the last 24 months, buyers bid hardest in the $5.5M–$6.5M range: the typical sale closed 11.5% over asking, and 80% of sales went over asking. The range under $3.5M typically closed at asking, with 47% of sales over asking, and the range of $7.5M and up 2.5% over asking, with 67% over. Our Los Altos over-asking post has every range and size.

The least expensive quarter

A quarter of Los Altos houses sold for $4.19M or less in the last 12 months (64 sales). The median one had 1,920 square feet, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms on a 10,080 square-foot lot, and sold at asking.

Questions we get

What does $3 million buy in Los Altos?

Houses that sold for $2.75M to $3.25M in the last 24 months had a median 1,500 square feet and 3 bedrooms (23 sales).

What’s the least expensive way into Los Altos?

Condos and townhomes: the median sold for $1.77M in the last 12 months. The least expensive quarter of houses sold for $4.19M or less.

How big is the typical Los Altos house?

The median house sold in the last 12 months had 2,490 square feet and sold for $4.9M.

How we counted

Medians of closed sales reported to the MLS and read through the IDX feeds that power our home search, one record per sale with a usable living area and map position, the same rules as our city price posts. Houses are MLS property type “single family home”; condos include townhomes. Price ranges use the last 24 months (October 28, 2024 to October 27, 2026); the city medians use the last 12 months (October 28, 2025 to October 27, 2026). Lot is the lot size the listing reports. “Typical sale” is the median of sale price against list price. Past sales aren’t a forecast or the value of any one home, and nothing here is financial, tax or legal advice.

Go deeper

Los Altos housing market by the numbers, moving to Los Altos, Los Altos house prices by bedrooms and Los Altos condo and townhome prices.

More Los Altos numbers from the Property Nerds

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