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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.
Silicon Valley’s Price Ladder Is Stretching: Entry-Level vs. Top-End Home Prices Since 2019
Line up every Silicon Valley home sale from the lowest price to the highest and read five points off the line: the entry price (the 10th percentile, where 1 in 10 sales closed at or below it), the lower quarter, the median, the upper quarter and the top end (the 90th percentile). We call it the pric
Silicon Valley Housing Market by City: The 2026 Scorecard
How does each Silicon Valley city’s housing market compare? We put every city on one spec sheet: median price, price per square foot, what $1 million buys, how often homes sold over and under asking, the hottest price band and the best month to sell. All of it comes from closed MLS sales; the full s
What Does $1 Million Buy in Silicon Valley? Square Feet by City, 2012 vs Now
What does $1 million buy in Silicon Valley? We answered it with price per square foot. Using every closed MLS sale in the 31 cities we cover in Santa Clara County and bay-side San Mateo County, here is how much floor area $1M, and bigger budgets, buy at each city’s median price per square foot, agai

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