Selling a home in Mountain View is different from selling in almost any other Silicon Valley market. Why? Because Mountain View has two powerful buyer pools that often overlap but do not think exactly the same way: tech buyers and family buyers. Tech buyers are looking for commute efficiency, Google

In Mountain View real estate, proximity to Google still matters. Not because every buyer works at Google. Not because commute is the only value driver. And definitely not because “near Google” magically makes every home worth more. The real Property Nerd answer is more nuanced: Google proximity matt

Here is where Monta Loma gets especially Property Nerdy. Most people casually describe Monta Loma as a Mountain View Eichler neighborhood, and that is partly true. But the full story is more interesting. Monta Loma was developed in the mid-1950s by three competing builders: Joseph Eichler, John Mack