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Silicon Valley real estate, explained by the Property Nerds®

Market data, neighborhood guides, Eichler history and how-tos for buyers and sellers, from Eric & Janelle Boyenga and the team at Compass.

Cambrian Remodel Math: Addition, Reconfiguration, or Complete Rebuild?

One of the biggest decisions Cambrian homeowners face is not whether to improve their home—it's how far to go. Should you add square footage, reconfigure the existing layout, or start over with a complete rebuild? The answer depends on much more than construction costs. Lot characteristics, neighbor
The Most Expensive Streets from San Francisco to San Jose: 31 Cities, Street by Street

We ranked every street with enough single-family house sales for a median, in 31 cities from San Francisco to San Jose: 2,734 streets in all, from five years of MLS sales (October 1, 2021 to October 21, 2026). Here are the highest-priced streets across all of them, the top street in each city, and l
The Most Expensive Streets in East Palo Alto: Five Years of House Sales, Street by Street

Neighborhood averages hide a lot: two streets a few blocks apart can sell hundreds of thousands of dollars apart. To see where house prices are highest in East Palo Alto, street by street, we took the 419 single-family houses that sold through the MLS from October 1, 2021 to October 21, 2026, remove
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