Silicon Valley real estate, explained by the Property Nerds®

What does your budget buy in San Jose? We sorted every San Jose house sale from the last 24 months by price and looked at what each range bought: living area, bedrooms, bathrooms, lot and how far over or under asking each sold. The middle of the market, $1.5M–$2M, bought a median 1,710 square feet w

What did San Jose houses actually gain? Not a city average, but the same house, sold twice. We matched 2,181 San Jose houses that sold in the last 24 months to their previous sale since 2012. Of those, 1,913 were about the same size both times, so the gain isn’t from an addition. The median one sold

Price per square foot is the number everyone quotes, and in San Jose it depends heavily on the size of the house. Over the last 24 months, houses under 1,500 sq ft sold for a median $1,064 a square foot, and houses of 4,000 sq ft and up for $907. Here’s the full ladder, why smaller houses cost more