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Big-Lot Homes in Silicon Valley: Quarter-Acre to Acre-Plus Sales by City (2026)
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How much land comes with a Silicon Valley house, and what does a big lot cost? The typical house that sold in 31 Silicon Valley cities in the two years to October 27, 2026 sat on 6,490 sq ft. We sorted the 21,630 sales with a lot size in the listing by how much land came with them.
The short answer
- A quarter acre or more: 3,649 sales (17%), median $3.8M, 20% more than the typical house in the same city.
- A half acre or more: 1,717 sales (8%), median $4.25M, 19% more than the typical house in the same city.
- An acre or more: 1,047 sales (5%), median $4.05M, 19% more than the typical house in the same city.
- Two acres or more: 426 sales (2%), median $2.62M, 27% more than the typical house in the same city.
- Most acre-plus sales: Los Gatos (211), Los Altos Hills (172), Woodside (95), Morgan Hill (89) and Saratoga (85).
Next steps
- Search homes for sale, then use Save Search to get new listings by email.
- What’s my home worth? A starting estimate, then a real one from a Property Nerd.
- Talk to a Property Nerd about what you’re weighing.
City by city
Cities by typical lot size, largest first. Each lot column shows the number of sales at that size or more and, where there are at least 3, their median price.
| City | Sales | Typical lot | ¼ acre+ | ½ acre+ | 1 acre+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodside | 140 | 1.2 acres | 134 · $4.06M | 115 · $4.26M | 95 · $4.41M |
| Los Altos Hills | 192 | 1.1 acres | 192 · $5.55M | 191 · $5.55M | 172 · $5.59M |
| Portola Valley | 145 | 1 acre | 121 · $4.95M | 95 · $5.71M | 81 · $6.1M |
| Atherton | 142 | 1 acre | 130 · $10.52M | 114 · $10.98M | 70 · $12.1M |
| Hillsborough | 231 | 23,960 sq ft | 230 · $5.96M | 178 · $6M | 34 · $8.68M |
| Monte Sereno | 78 | 21,990 sq ft | 56 · $5.3M | 41 · $5.6M | 21 · $5.75M |
| Saratoga | 460 | 13,770 sq ft | 329 · $4.5M | 157 · $5.35M | 85 · $5.2M |
| Los Gatos | 742 | 11,430 sq ft | 393 · $2.48M | 268 · $1.85M | 211 · $1.8M |
| Los Altos | 549 | 11,310 sq ft | 304 · $5.26M | 50 · $5.78M | 11 · $4.82M |
| Morgan Hill | 688 | 8,630 sq ft | 267 · $1.98M | 135 · $2.08M | 89 · $2.1M |
| Cupertino | 417 | 7,490 sq ft | 48 · $3.92M | 11 · $4.45M | 7 · $4.66M |
| Palo Alto | 776 | 7,130 sq ft | 93 · $6.4M | 27 · $6.36M | 12 · $6.4M |
| Gilroy | 709 | 7,000 sq ft | 148 · $1.7M | 104 · $1.75M | 82 · $1.76M |
| Campbell | 398 | 6,880 sq ft | 47 · $2.62M | 3 · $2.9M | 0 |
| Menlo Park | 551 | 6,790 sq ft | 100 · $5.63M | 7 · $8.2M | 1 |
| Belmont | 335 | 6,650 sq ft | 60 · $3.02M | 11 · $3.33M | 0 |
| Redwood City | 928 | 6,500 sq ft | 119 · $3.33M | 26 · $3.62M | 3 · $1.68M |
| San Carlos | 474 | 6,500 sq ft | 69 · $3.45M | 9 · $3.54M | 0 |
| Sunnyvale | 976 | 6,320 sq ft | 26 · $3.12M | 1 | 0 |
| San Jose | 7,643 | 6,240 sq ft | 548 · $2.53M | 143 · $2.52M | 64 · $2.51M |
| Millbrae | 221 | 6,190 sq ft | 35 · $2.6M | 2 | 0 |
| Mountain View | 474 | 6,120 sq ft | 19 · $3.63M | 1 | 0 |
| Burlingame | 361 | 6,000 sq ft | 49 · $3.51M | 7 · $3.38M | 1 |
| Santa Clara | 839 | 6,000 sq ft | 15 · $2.56M | 3 · $4.5M | 0 |
| Milpitas | 370 | 5,920 sq ft | 14 · $2.93M | 8 · $3.15M | 8 · $3.15M |
| San Mateo | 1,008 | 5,900 sq ft | 79 · $3.1M | 9 · $2.7M | 0 |
| Foster City | 177 | 5,700 sq ft | 3 · $2.73M | 0 | 0 |
| East Palo Alto | 157 | 5,460 sq ft | 4 · $1.2M | 0 | 0 |
| San Bruno | 383 | 5,010 sq ft | 7 · $1.62M | 1 | 0 |
| South San Francisco | 429 | 4,640 sq ft | 8 · $1.3M | 0 | 0 |
| Daly City | 637 | 3,400 sq ft | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Before you buy for the land
- Not all of a lot is usable. Slopes, creek setbacks, easements and fire-zone rules can leave far less room to build or play than the acreage suggests.
- Check what it can hold. Zoning sets how big a house, ADU or pool can go on it; the Build Lab walks through it.
- Big lots cost more to keep: landscaping, water, defensible-space clearing in fire zones, and sometimes a private road or septic system.
- Lot size in a listing can be rounded or out of date; the county’s parcel map is the check.
- The city is the one in the listing’s address. “Los Gatos” addresses take in the mountains above the town (ZIP 95033, where most of its acre-plus sales were), and those rural houses often sell for less than in-town ones; that’s why its acre-plus median is lower than its quarter-acre median. “Morgan Hill” and “Gilroy” addresses also take in rural land outside the cities.
How we counted
Closed sales of houses (MLS property type “single family home”) between October 28, 2024 and October 27, 2026 in 31 cities of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, reported to the MLS and read through the IDX feeds that power our home search, with repeat records from different feeds removed (normalized address plus sale date). Lot sizes are the ones in each listing (sales with a lot between 500 square feet and about 115 acres). “The typical house in the same city” is that city’s median sale price for all houses. Past sales aren’t a forecast or the value of any one home.
Go deeper
See lot sizes neighborhood by neighborhood, from public parcel records, on Lot Size by Neighborhood, what land adds to a price in Lot Value Lab and what a bigger lot sells for, city by city, the trade-offs in Los Altos vs. Los Altos Hills, and fire and flood zones on Flood & Fire Zones. More from the same sales: homes with RV parking or a 3-car garage, luxury home features and what Silicon Valley buyers pay more for.
Looking for room to spread out?
A Property Nerd will pull the recent sales closest to the home you’re weighing and show you what buyers paid. Call (408) 373-1660 or (650) 383-8606, or book a strategy call. Commissions are negotiable, and we offer bundled services, so ask us what’s included.