Silicon Valley real estate, explained by the Property Nerds®

Here’s where home prices stood in every city we cover in mid-October 2026, from San Francisco to Gilroy. The numbers come from our City Match-Up, which reads the MLS live: closed sales from the 90 days before October 18, 2026, and homes for sale that morning, counting houses, condos and townhomes to

Thirty-two cities, from San Francisco to Gilroy, in one place: which have Caltrain, BART or VTA light rail stations, who supplies the electricity, what the city adds to the transfer tax, and how many Eichler tracts our indexes list. These are the same facts that power our City Match-Up, which adds l

San Carlos and Belmont are next-door neighbors in San Mateo County, each with one Caltrain station and hill streets climbing west from El Camino Real. On paper they match closely: same county, same electricity provider, no city transfer tax in either. The differences are in the details of each town