Silicon Valley real estate, explained by the Property Nerds®

What does a three- or four-bedroom house cost in Mountain View? We took the 459 single-family houses that sold in the two years to October 27, 2026, by the MLS records we can read with repeat records removed, and found the median price for each bedroom count, across the city and inside each of our n

Palo Alto and Sunnyvale are both in Santa Clara County, with Mountain View between them, and buyers often weigh one against the other. They differ in who supplies your power, which trains stop nearby, what you’d pay at closing, how many Eichler tracts each has and, by a wide margin, price. Here’s th

Palo Alto, Los Altos, Mountain View and Sunnyvale sit side by side, but their housing markets don’t. Here they are compared on price, price per square foot, bidding, the mix of houses and condos, and ten years of change, from closed MLS sales read in October 2026. Every figure is the same one used i