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Where Los Gatos & Monte Sereno Homes Sell Over Asking, Neighborhood by Neighborhood
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In the 24 months to October 27, 2026, 1,031 Los Gatos & Monte Sereno homes sold in the MLS records we can read (houses, condos and townhomes, repeat records removed). The typical one sold for 0.2% under its list price, and 39% sold over asking. For houses alone, the typical sale was at asking and 40% sold over asking. Here is how that breaks down across our 24 Los Gatos & Monte Sereno neighborhood guides.
The short answer
- Furthest over asking (guides with at least 10 sales): Daves Avenue (4.4% over, 67% of 18 sold over), Twin Oaks & Creekside (4.2% over, 59% of 17 sold over) and Rose Avenue & Andrews Street (4.1% over, 64% of 11 sold over).
- Closest to asking or under: Glen Ridge (3.0% under, 23% of 26 sold over) and Santa Cruz Mountains (3.3% under, 19% of 86 sold over).
- 22 of the 24 guides had 5 or more sales in the window, enough to list here.
- Over asking isn’t the whole story. Where many homes sell right at asking, list prices may simply sit closer to what homes end up selling for.
Next steps in Los Gatos & Monte Sereno
- What’s my home worth? Request an estimate, and ask us for the recent sales on your street.
- See Los Gatos & Monte Sereno homes for sale, then use Save Search to get new listings by email.
- Book a strategy call with a Property Nerd.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Guides with at least 5 sales, furthest over asking first. “Typical sale” is the median of each home’s sale price divided by the list price on its sale record. Each name opens its guide, with live listings and the last 12 months of sales.
| # | Neighborhood | Town | Sales | Typical sale | Sold over asking | Median price | Houses: typical sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daves Avenue | Monte Sereno | 18 | 4.4% over | 67% | $4.38M | 4.4% over (18) |
| 2 | Twin Oaks & Creekside | Los Gatos | 17 | 4.2% over | 59% | $2.31M | 4.5% over (16) |
| 3 | Rose Avenue & Andrews Street | Monte Sereno | 11 | 4.1% over | 64% | $4.62M | 4.1% over (11) |
| 4 | Almond Grove | Los Gatos | 10 | 3.2% over | 60% | $3.02M | 3.2% over (10) |
| 5 | Vasona & Oak Meadow | Los Gatos | 20 | 1.4% over | 55% | $2.38M | 1.2% over (17) |
| 6 | San Benito & Mariposa | Los Gatos | 17 | 0.6% over | 65% | $2.58M | 0.4% over (16) |
| 7 | Blossom Hill | Los Gatos | 134 | 0.6% over | 56% | $3.04M | 0.5% over (120) |
| 8 | Monte Sereno | Monte Sereno | 74 | 0.4% over | 54% | $4.49M | 0.1% over (71) |
| 9 | Worcester Park & Vista del Monte | Los Gatos | 35 | 0.1% over | 51% | $3.35M | 0.1% over (35) |
| 10 | North Lark | Los Gatos | 45 | at asking | 49% | $1.57M | at asking (15) |
| 11 | Rinconada Hills | Los Gatos | 41 | at asking | 44% | $1.77M | — |
| 12 | La Rinconada | Los Gatos | 106 | at asking | 42% | $2.12M | at asking (44) |
| 13 | University-Edelen | Los Gatos | 11 | at asking | 36% | $2.58M | at asking (8) |
| 14 | Los Gatos Blvd & North 40 | Los Gatos | 117 | 0.3% under | 34% | $1.7M | 0.2% over (46) |
| 15 | Downtown Los Gatos | Los Gatos | 30 | 0.4% under | 30% | $2.7M | at asking (23) |
| 16 | Shannon & Kennedy Road hills | Los Gatos | 46 | 0.6% under | 37% | $4.3M | 0.6% under (44) |
| 17 | El Sereno Hillside | Monte Sereno | 8 | 0.8% under | 38% | $4.6M | 0.8% under (8) |
| 18 | Johnson Avenue & Foster Road | Los Gatos | 18 | 0.8% under | 39% | $3.47M | 0.8% under (18) |
| 19 | Twin Creeks | Monte Sereno | 26 | 1.3% under | 42% | $5.63M | 1.3% under (26) |
| 20 | College Avenue & Jones Road | Los Gatos | 23 | 1.6% under | 30% | $3.36M | 1.7% under (21) |
| 21 | Glen Ridge | Los Gatos | 26 | 3.0% under | 23% | $2.95M | 3.6% under (15) |
| 22 | Santa Cruz Mountains | Los Gatos | 86 | 3.3% under | 19% | $1.24M | 3.3% under (86) |
Fewer than 5 sales in the window, so not listed: Broadway (1) and Fairview Plaza (0).
Reading it right
- Sale-to-list measures price against asking, not value. A seller who lists low to draw offers will show a bigger “over asking” number than one who lists near the expected price, even if both homes sold for what the market would pay.
- It uses the list price on the sale record, usually the last one, so a home that cut its price and then sold at the new price counts as “at asking.”
- Small samples swing. Each row shows its sale count; a guide with 6 sales can move a lot when one more home closes.
- Condos and townhomes behave differently from houses, so the last column shows houses on their own where a guide had at least 5 house sales.
- Some guides overlap, and a sale inside two outlines counts in both. 804 of the 1,031 sales fall inside at least one of our guides.
Go deeper
How Much Over Asking tracks the same measure city by city with live MLS data, Bidding Wars by Price splits it by price band, and Homes Selling Under Asking shows the other side. For timing, the best month to sell in Los Gatos shows how often homes sold over asking by closing month since 2012. For price per square foot by neighborhood, see Los Gatos & Monte Sereno neighborhoods ranked; the Los Gatos city guide links every Los Gatos guide and the Monte Sereno page its four. To see where we’ve sold, our Los Gatos sales map shows the sales we can match to MLS records. Across every city we cover: Silicon Valley neighborhoods ranked by sale vs. asking.
The Los Gatos data series: housing market by the numbers · neighborhoods ranked by price per sq ft · ten years of prices by neighborhood · condos and townhomes · house prices by bedrooms · houses under $3M · houses at $5M and up · the best month to sell · the most expensive streets · houses by neighborhood · fire hazard zones · our sales map
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