Mountain View Housing Market by the Numbers: Prices, Bidding Wars and the Price Ladder Since 2012

What does Mountain View’s housing market look like in numbers? Everything below comes from closed MLS sales in Mountain View, read in October 2026, and from the datasets on our Property Nerds® market pages. The last 12 months run October 2025 through September 2026 (511 sales). Each section links to the page with the full method, the other cities and a CSV.

Prices now

• Median sale price: $1.84M in the last 12 months, against $1.65M for Silicon Valley as a whole. That’s the 12th lowest median of the 25 cities with 100+ sales.
• Median price per square foot: $1,109 (Silicon Valley: $992).
• What $1 million buys: about 900 square feet at that median price per square foot (Silicon Valley: about 1,010). See What $1 Million Buys.

How prices got here

• Since 2012: the median price went from $780K to $1.84M (2.36×) and the median price per square foot from $519 to $1,109 (2.14×). That’s the 3rd slowest growth of the 25 cities.
• The 2022 dip: price per square foot fell from $1,197 (three months ending May 2022) to $984 (ending January 2023), a 17.8% drop.
• Since then: price per square foot hasn’t passed its May 2022 high of $1,197; July–September 2026 came in at $1,109.

Every year since 2012 is on Home Price History.

The price ladder

Line up the last 12 months of sales by price: 1 in 10 closed at or below $735K (the entry price), half below $1.84M (the median) and 1 in 10 at or above $3.86M (the top end). The middle half sold between $1.29M and $2.79M. 45% of sales were single-family houses; the rest were condos and townhomes. Condos and townhomes on their own are in Mountain View condo and townhome prices.

Since 2019 the entry price is down 18% and the top end up 49% (Silicon Valley: entry up 8%, top end up 51%). The full ladder, year by year, is on the Price Ladder.

Bidding wars and discounts, January 2024 – September 2026

• Over asking: 65% of 1,428 sales closed above the final list price (Silicon Valley: 60%). The median overbid was $128K. See How Much Over Asking.
• Under asking: 26% closed below it, with a median discount of $38K. See Homes Selling Under Asking.
• Hottest price band: $3M–5M, where 76% of 249 sales closed over asking. See Bidding Wars by Price.

Timing

Averaged over 2012–2025, Mountain View closings in April sold over asking most often (79%) and January closings least often (61%). The busiest month for closings is May, with about 11% of the year’s sales. Month by month is on Best Month to Sell.

The $1M line

17% of Mountain View’s 2025 sales closed under $1 million, against 68% in 2012 (Silicon Valley 2025: 19%). Every year and price band is on The $1M Line.

The latest quarter

In July–September 2026, Mountain View had 123 sales (145 in the same months of 2025). The median price was $1.80M (+10%), the median price per square foot $1,109 (+3%), and 63% of sales closed over asking (57% a year earlier). One quarter is a small sample, so the 12-month figures above are steadier. Every city is in our Q3 2026 report.

What these numbers can’t tell you

• A city mixes many neighborhoods and home types, and a median blends them all. The closest recent sales to a specific home matter more.
• They describe homes that sold, not a forecast or any one home’s value.
• They don’t rank places to live. They show how homes sold.

How we counted

Closed sales reported to the MLS, read through the IDX feeds that power our home search, with repeat records removed. Houses, condos and townhomes are counted together unless noted. All of Mountain View’s numbers sit side by side on its City Scorecard datasheet, and every dataset is in the Property Nerds® Data Library.

Neighborhood by neighborhood

For the same numbers one level down, see Mountain View neighborhoods ranked by price per square foot, where Mountain View homes sell over asking and how Mountain View house prices changed by neighborhood from 2016 to 2026. By budget, size and season: house prices by bedrooms, where houses sold under $2.5M, where the $3.5M-and-up houses sold and the best month to sell. To see where we’ve sold, our Mountain View sales map shows the 42 Mountain View sales since 2012 we can match to MLS records.

Next to its neighbors: Palo Alto vs. Los Altos vs. Mountain View vs. Sunnyvale puts these numbers side by side.

The Mountain View data series: neighborhoods ranked by price per sq ft · where homes sell over asking · ten years of prices by neighborhood · condos and townhomes · house prices by bedrooms · houses under $2.5M · houses at $3.5M and up · the best month to sell · the most expensive streets · lots by neighborhood · our sales map

New for 2026: what it costs to own a home here each month · over asking by price and size · price per sq ft by house size · repeat-sales appreciation · what your budget buys · what adds value · moving up from a condo · downsizing to a condo or townhome · the Mountain View property tax rate

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