Selling a home in Blossom Valley or Santa Teresa

Below the San Jose median

measured: houses

The area’s median house sold for $1.53M in the two years to October 27, 2026, or $905 per square foot, against $1.66M and $980 across San Jose. Its neighborhoods sit close together: medians from $1.38M in Blossom Valley to $1.68M in Oakridge & Foxchase, and from $890 to $938 per square foot outside Communications Hill. With prices this close, buyers compare across neighborhoods, so we price from the closest recent sales of your kind of house, not the area median.

Neighborhoods ranked by price per sq ft

Over asking, led by the foothills

measured: 24 months

Of the area’s 556 house sales, 63% closed over asking, against 62% across San Jose. Counting all home types, the typical sale closed 2.5% over asking in Santa Teresa Foothills, one of 26 San Jose neighborhoods at 2.5% or more (of 112 with at least 10 sales), and between at asking (Oakridge & Foxchase) and 1.1% over (Blossom Valley) in the other five. We plan the list price and the offer date around your neighborhood’s record.

Over asking, neighborhood by neighborhood

Communications Hill

measured: houses

Most of Communications Hill is planned-development zoning. Its houses are the area’s largest, a median 2,170 sq ft, and sold for the least per foot, $690, against $905 across the area; 79% of its 42 house sales closed over asking, the area’s highest share. Counting all home types, it had 185 sales, and the typical one closed 0.2% over asking. We’ve handled 13 sales there, listing and buyer side. We price a Communications Hill home against the sales of its own kind of home on the hill, and if it’s in an HOA, we gather the documents before launch.

Our Communications Hill guide

Liquefaction zones on the valley floor

measured: R-1 lots

By the state’s earthquake zone maps, every single-family lot in Blossom Valley (2,331), Cahalan & Chesbro (1,686) and Thousand Oaks & Erikson (1,813) is in a liquefaction zone, along with 2,744 of 2,920 in Santa Teresa Foothills and 406 of 429 in Oakridge & Foxchase. None of the six neighborhoods has a single-family lot in a FEMA high-risk flood zone.

Sellers must disclose a liquefaction zone, and the seller’s natural hazard disclosure report states it for the property. It mainly matters for new construction and larger projects, which may need a geotechnical report first, so we have the report ready before launch and answer buyers’ questions up front.

Earthquake zones by neighborhood

Fire zones at the foothill edge

measured: R-1 lots

Santa Teresa Foothills has 329 single-family lots in a CAL FIRE Moderate fire hazard zone, the most Moderate-zone lots of any San Jose neighborhood, of 2,920, and 33 in an earthquake-induced landslide zone. Oakridge & Foxchase has 108 lots in a Moderate zone, of 429. No lot in the area is in a High or Very High zone.

A fire zone can bring building code and defensible space requirements and a line on the seller’s natural hazard disclosure, so we pull the zones for your address before launch.

Flood and fire zones by neighborhood