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The Budget Lab
What does your budget actually buy? Pick up to three cities and see the typical home that sold near your price in the last six months: living area, bedrooms, lot size and price per square foot, read live from the MLS.
the comparison
What $2.5M bought, side by side
Median living area for your budget
the nerd check
How to read the comparison
What it shows
- Sales near your priceEvery house, condo or townhome sale in each city within the range you pick, from the last six months.
- Medians, not averagesThe middle value of those sales, so one estate or one very small condo doesn’t skew the picture.
- Price per square footSale price divided by the listed living area; the lot and the condition aren’t in it.
- Sale-to-listHow those sales closed against their list prices. There’s more in the Offer Lab.
What it can’t show
- Condition and updatesA remodeled home and a fixer can sell for very different prices on the same street.
- The exact streetPrices can change block by block inside a city; ask us for the sales near a specific home.
- What’s for sale todayThese are closed sales. For homes on the market now, see Market Pulse or search homes.
Small samples move a lot: if a column shows fewer than five sales, widen the price range or change the home type. Sale records don’t include the year built, so it’s left out rather than guessed.
questions
Questions we hear
Why six months?
It’s long enough to give most cities a useful number of sales near a given price, and short enough to reflect the current market.
Why is a lot size missing?
Lot size only applies to houses, and some sale records don’t include it.
Can I compare more than three cities?
Three at a time keeps the page fast. Change any city to compare a different one, or open Market Pulse for all 32 cities.
Where does the data come from?
Closed sales reported to the MLS and shared with our site through IDX feeds, read each time the page loads. Mobile homes, multi-unit buildings, land and commercial sales are left out.
more to learn
Keep going
- Single-story homes under $2 millionWhere single-story houses still sell for under $2M, city by city and neighborhood by neighborhood.
- Every neighborhood under $2MWhere Silicon Valley houses still sold under $1.5M, $2M and $2.5M, city by city and neighborhood by neighborhood.
- Neighborhood by neighborhoodWhere a budget has bought within one city, neighborhood by neighborhood, from 180 days of sales.
- Palo Alto houses under $3MWhere house sales closed under $2.5M, $3M and $4M, guide by guide.
- Los Altos houses under $4MLos Altos and Los Altos Hills sales under $3.5M, $4M and $5M, guide by guide.
- Mountain View houses under $2.5MWhere house sales closed under $2M, $2.5M and $3M, guide by guide.
- Sunnyvale houses under $2.5MWhere house sales closed under $2M, $2.5M and $3M, guide by guide.
- Santa Clara houses under $2MWhere house sales closed under $1.5M, $2M and $2.5M, guide by guide.
- Campbell houses under $2MWhere house sales closed under $1.5M, $2M and $2.5M, guide by guide.
- Saratoga houses under $4MWhere house sales closed under $3.5M, $4M and $5M, guide by guide.
- Los Gatos houses under $3MWhere house sales closed under $2.5M, $3M and $4M, guide by guide.
- San Jose houses under $1.5MWhere house sales closed under $1M, $1.5M and $2M, guide by guide.
- Milpitas houses under $1.5MWhere house sales closed under $1M, $1.5M and $2M, guide by guide.
- Redwood City houses under $2MWhere house sales closed under $1.5M, $2M and $2.5M, guide by guide.
- San Mateo houses under $2MWhere house sales closed under $1.5M, $2M and $2.5M, guide by guide.
- Gilroy houses under $1MWhere house sales closed under $800K, $1M and $1.2M, guide by guide.
- Morgan Hill houses under $1.5MWhere house sales closed under $1M, $1.5M and $2M, guide by guide.
- Burlingame houses under $3MWhere house sales closed under $2.5M, $3M and $4M, guide by guide.
- San Carlos houses under $2.5MWhere house sales closed under $2M, $2.5M and $3M, guide by guide.
- Belmont houses under $2.5MWhere house sales closed under $2M, $2.5M and $3M, guide by guide.
- Foster City houses under $2MWhere house sales closed under $1.5M, $2M and $2.5M, guide by guide.
- Millbrae houses under $2MWhere house sales closed under $1.5M, $2M and $2.5M, guide by guide.
- San Bruno houses under $1.5MWhere house sales closed under $1.2M, $1.5M and $1.8M, guide by guide.
- South San Francisco houses under $1.2MWhere house sales closed under $1M, $1.2M and $1.5M, guide by guide.
- Daly City houses under $1.2MWhere house sales closed under $1M, $1.2M and $1.5M, guide by guide.
- East Palo Alto houses under $1MWhere house sales closed under $900K, $1M and $1.2M, guide by guide.
- San Francisco houses under $1.5MWhere house sales closed under $1.25M, $1.5M and $2M, guide by guide.
- Cupertino houses under $3.5MWhere house sales closed under $3M, $3.5M and $4M, guide by guide.
- Menlo Park houses under $3MWhere house sales closed under $2.5M, $3M and $4M, guide by guide.
- The $1M LineHow the share of sales under $1M, $2M and more moved in every city since 2012.
- What $1 Million BuysSquare feet per $1M (or your budget) in every city, 2012 against now.
- Home Price HistoryEvery city’s median price and price per sq ft since 2012, and the 2022 dip.
- City Match-UpTwo cities side by side, live: prices, supply, trains and transfer tax.
- Bedroom MathWhat one more bedroom costs in each city, from 180 days of sales.
- HOA LabCondo and townhome HOA dues by city, with the all-in monthly cost.
- Offer LabHow far over or under asking homes are selling.
- Market PulseHomes for sale and 12 months of sale prices by city.
- What you can affordFrom income, debts and cash to a price.
- Neighborhood guidesGuides to the neighborhoods we cover, city by city.
- Buyer PlaybookFrom pre-approval to keys, with a contract clock.
- Tech Equity HomebuyingTurn RSUs and options into a down payment.
Based on closed sales reported to the MLS through our IDX feeds, read live each time the page loads. Shown as reported and not guaranteed; repeat records are removed. Figures describe past sales, not the value of any home.
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Shopping in more than one city?
We’ll pull the sales behind these numbers, street by street, and help you decide where your budget goes furthest. Commissions are negotiable, and we offer bundled services, so ask us what’s included.
