Selling a home in Cambrian

Over asking in every neighborhood

measured: 24 months

In all seven of Cambrian’s neighborhoods the typical sale closed over asking (all home types), from 1.6% over in North Cambrian to 3.7% in Kooser & Dartmouth. Three are among the 15 San Jose neighborhoods that sold furthest over asking (at least 10 sales each): Kooser & Dartmouth, Cambrian Park and Branham-Kirk, the last two at 3.5%. Of Cambrian’s 977 house sales, 67% closed over asking, against 62% across San Jose. We price from your neighborhood’s record and the closest recent sales, and plan the offer date around the response.

Over asking, neighborhood by neighborhood

Measure E and the $2.3 million line

city rule

Cambrian’s median house sold for $1.93M. No Cambrian neighborhood’s median house sold above the $2.3 million line, but three came close: Cambrian Park ($2.28M), Union Ave & Lone Hill ($2.2M) and North Cambrian ($2.2M). Above the line, Measure E adds 0.75% of the whole price up to $5 million, on top of San Jose’s $3.30 and the county’s $1.10 per $1,000: a sale at exactly $2,300,000 owes $10,120 in transfer tax, and at $2,300,001, $27,372. Cambrian Park also takes in unincorporated county land, where only the county tax applies; your escrow officer confirms it from the parcel’s tax rate area.

By local custom the seller pays the county tax and the buyer and seller split the city taxes; all of it is negotiable, and the purchase contract decides. If your price could land near the line, we plan for it before you list.

San Jose transfer tax and Measure E

Price per square foot

measured: houses

Cambrian houses sold for a median $1,188 per square foot in the two years to October 27, 2026, against $980 across San Jose, from $1,109 in Valley View-Reed to $1,306 in Union Ave & Lone Hill. The median house measured 1,658 sq ft. Buyers here compare price per square foot closely, so we confirm the measured size and the permits on any addition before we set the price.

Neighborhoods ranked by price per sq ft

The lot and the floor plan

measured: R-1 lots

Cambrian’s median single-family (R-1) lots run from 6,280 sq ft in Branham-Kirk and Cambrian Park to 7,320 sq ft in North Cambrian, against 6,410 across San Jose (for Cambrian Park, which takes in unincorporated county land, the city’s part only). With a 1,658-sq-ft median house on a lot that size, many buyers weigh what the house could become as well as what it is, so we show both: how the floor plan lives today, and what an addition or a remodel would take.

Cambrian remodel math

Flood and fire zones in two neighborhoods

measured: R-1 lots

By City of San Jose parcel records, five of Cambrian’s seven neighborhoods have no single-family lot in a FEMA high-risk flood zone or a CAL FIRE fire hazard severity zone (for Cambrian Park, the city’s part). Valley View-Reed has 315 of its 3,153 lots (10%) in a high-risk flood zone, all in shallow-flooding zone AO, and in Union Ave & Lone Hill 194 of its 4,239 lots are at least partly in a fire zone, 122 High and 72 Moderate. No San Jose lot is in a Very High zone.

If the house itself is in an A or V zone, lenders on federally backed mortgages require flood insurance, and a High zone can bring stricter building code requirements, defensible space requirements and real estate disclosure obligations. We order a flood zone determination for the address before launch, and the seller’s natural hazard disclosure report states the zones for the property.

Flood and fire zones by neighborhood