property nerds · city scorecardfrom the mlsclosed sales 2012–2026by the boyenga team at compass
Every city, one spec sheet
Median price, price per square foot, what $1 million buys, how often homes sell over and under asking, the hottest price band and the best month to sell, for Silicon Valley and all 31 cities we cover, on one sheet each.
- median price, 12 mo$1.65M
- price per sq ft, 12 mo$992
- sq ft per $1M1,010
- entry price (10th pct), 12 mo$755K
- top end (90th pct), 12 mo$3.90M
- $/sq ft growth since 20122.60×
- sold over asking, 2024–2660%
- median overbid$112K
- sold under asking, 2024–2630%
- median discount$48K
- hottest price band$2M–3M
- best month to sellApril
- sales under $1M, 202519%
- sales, 12 mo15,237
one city
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Pick a city for its datasheet. Every line links to the page with the full history, the method and the data.
- median price, 12 mo$1.40M
- price per sq ft, 12 mo$873
- sq ft per $1M1,150
- entry price (10th pct), 12 mo$650K
- top end (90th pct), 12 mo$2.53M
- $/sq ft growth since 20122.81×
- sold over asking, 2024–2661%
- median overbid$87K
- sold under asking, 2024–2630%
- median discount$34K
- hottest price band$2M–3M
- best month to sellApril
- sales under $1M, 202525%
- sales, 12 mo5,387
every city
All cities, side by side
All cities side by side. Click a column to sort. Silicon Valley overall: $1.65M median price, $992 per square foot, 60% of sales over asking and 30% under.
| Silicon Valley | $1.65M | $992 | 1,010 | 2.60× | 60% | $112K | 30% | $48K | $2M–3M | Apr | 19% | 15,237 |
| Santa Clara County | $1.60M | $957 | 1,040 | 2.70× | 60% | $104K | 30% | $42K | $3M–5M | Apr | 20% | 10,915 |
| San Mateo County | $1.80M | $1,095 | 910 | 2.32× | 59% | $143K | 31% | $50K | $2M–3M | May | 18% | 4,322 |
| Atherton | $11.30M | $2,219 | 450 | 2.46× | 38% | $405K | 51% | $469K | $5M+ | May* | 0% | 73 |
| Hillsborough | $6.50M | $1,619 | 620 | 2.28× | 40% | $353K | 40% | $287K | $5M+ | Jun* | 0% | 129 |
| Los Altos Hills | $5.46M | $1,518 | 660 | 1.98× | 42% | $205K | 50% | $302K | $5M+ | Apr* | 0% | 97 |
| Los Altos | $4.55M | $1,878 | 530 | 2.48× | 61% | $372K | 29% | $90K | $5M+ | Apr | 2% | 327 |
| Monte Sereno | $4.47M | $1,482 | 670 | 2.31× | 50% | $314K | 40% | $249K | $5M+ | Mar* | 0% | 40 |
| Portola Valley | $4.25M | $1,442 | 690 | 1.76× | 40% | $203K | 50% | $195K | $3M–5M | Apr* | 0% | 79 |
| Woodside | $4.06M | $1,410 | 710 | 2.20× | 27% | $124K | 58% | $195K | $3M–5M | May* | 1% | 72 |
| Saratoga | $4.00M | $1,490 | 670 | 2.43× | 60% | $240K | 32% | $127K | $3M–5M | Mar | 3% | 279 |
| Palo Alto | $3.44M | $1,945 | 510 | 2.20× | 62% | $287K | 29% | $100K | $3M–5M | Mar | 4% | 528 |
| Cupertino | $3.01M | $1,496 | 670 | 2.49× | 68% | $202K | 25% | $61K | $3M–5M | Mar | 3% | 278 |
| Menlo Park | $2.90M | $1,579 | 630 | 2.17× | 53% | $177K | 35% | $98K | $2M–3M | May | 6% | 369 |
| Burlingame | $2.85M | $1,456 | 690 | 2.38× | 58% | $252K | 30% | $81K | $3M–5M | Apr | 9% | 239 |
| San Carlos | $2.50M | $1,299 | 770 | 2.42× | 59% | $188K | 29% | $79K | $3M–5M | Apr | 10% | 327 |
| Los Gatos | $2.30M | $1,103 | 910 | 2.19× | 43% | $114K | 47% | $76K | $3M–5M | Apr | 12% | 465 |
| Belmont | $2.25M | $1,252 | 800 | 2.49× | 66% | $188K | 24% | $49K | $3M–5M | Apr | 8% | 196 |
| Redwood City | $2.10M | $1,191 | 840 | 2.49× | 59% | $132K | 32% | $57K | $2M–3M | Apr | 10% | 612 |
| Millbrae | $2.04M | $1,099 | 910 | 2.11× | 68% | $196K | 24% | $49K | $1.5M–2M | May* | 15% | 148 |
| Campbell | $1.85M | $1,080 | 930 | 2.76× | 61% | $129K | 29% | $45K | $2M–3M | Apr | 17% | 272 |
| Mountain View | $1.84M | $1,109 | 900 | 2.14× | 65% | $128K | 26% | $38K | $3M–5M | Apr | 17% | 511 |
| Sunnyvale | $1.80M | $1,230 | 810 | 2.70× | 73% | $187K | 21% | $44K | $3M–5M | Apr | 11% | 859 |
| San Mateo | $1.68M | $1,106 | 900 | 2.42× | 58% | $152K | 30% | $39K | $1.5M–2M | May | 23% | 813 |
| Santa Clara | $1.68M | $1,075 | 930 | 2.78× | 67% | $145K | 25% | $29K | $3M–5M | May | 19% | 670 |
| San Francisco (also shown) | $1.55M | $1,095 | 910 | — | 59% | $200K | 29% | $45K | $2M–3M | May* | 28% | 5,002 |
| Foster City | $1.43M | $906 | 1,100 | 2.02× | 59% | $100K | 33% | $38K | $2M–3M | May | 19% | 222 |
| San Jose | $1.40M | $873 | 1,150 | 2.81× | 61% | $87K | 30% | $34K | $2M–3M | Apr | 25% | 5,387 |
| Morgan Hill | $1.32M | $635 | 1,570 | 2.51× | 44% | $50K | 40% | $35K | $3M–5M | Apr | 28% | 458 |
| Milpitas | $1.30M | $805 | 1,240 | 2.54× | 66% | $77K | 27% | $29K | $2M–3M | Apr | 15% | 350 |
| San Bruno | $1.26M | $903 | 1,110 | 2.62× | 60% | $102K | 30% | $24K | $1.5M–2M | Apr | 34% | 232 |
| South San Francisco | $1.25M | $838 | 1,190 | 2.41× | 72% | $110K | 20% | $29K | $1.5M–2M | May | 30% | 296 |
| Daly City | $1.18M | $777 | 1,290 | 2.34× | 70% | $102K | 21% | $25K | $1.5M–2M | May | 31% | 423 |
| Gilroy | $1.10M | $524 | 1,910 | 2.61× | 44% | $25K | 38% | $29K | under $1M | May | 35% | 394 |
| East Palo Alto | $1.05M | $790 | 1,270 | 3.13× | 51% | $52K | 43% | $29K | $1M–1.5M | Apr* | 42% | 92 |
12 mo = October 2025 – September 2026; over and under asking, overbid and discount = January 2024 – September 2026; best month = 2012–2025 average (* pooled: Atherton, East Palo Alto, Hillsborough, Los Altos Hills, Millbrae, Monte Sereno, Portola Valley, Woodside, San Francisco). Fewer than 100 sales in 12 months: Atherton, East Palo Alto, Los Altos Hills, Monte Sereno, Portola Valley, Woodside.
the method
Where each line comes from
Where each line comes from. Nothing here is new; each figure is the one on the linked page.
- Median price, $ per sq ft, square feet per $1M
- Home Price History and What $1 Million Buys: the last 12 months, October 2025 – September 2026.
- Entry price and top end
- Price Ladder: the 10th and 90th percentile sale prices over the last 12 months. 1 in 10 sales closed at or below the entry price, and 1 in 10 at or above the top end.
- Growth since 2012
- Home Price History: median price per square foot, last 12 months against 2012 (San Francisco: not shown, the data starts in 2022).
- Over asking and median overbid
- How Much Over Asking: January 2024 – September 2026, sales closing above the final list price, and the median dollars over list among them.
- Under asking and median discount
- Homes Selling Under Asking: the same window, sales closing below the final list price, and the median dollars under list among them.
- Hottest price band
- Bidding Wars by Price: the band with the highest over-asking share, January 2024 – September 2026, among bands with 30+ sales.
- Best month to sell
- Best Month to Sell: the closing month with the highest average over-asking share, 2012–2025 (San Francisco 2022–2025). Cities marked “pooled” have too few sales to average year by year, so their months are pooled.
- Share under $1M
- The $1M Line: the share of 2025 sales that closed under $1 million.
- What it isn’t
- Not a ranking of places to live, not a forecast and not a home value. Each city mixes many neighborhoods and home types.
questions
Questions we hear
What’s the median home price in Silicon Valley?
$1.65M over the last 12 months (October 2025 – September 2026), from 15,237 closed sales of houses, condos and townhomes, at $992 per square foot.
Which Silicon Valley city has the highest median price?
Among the 25 cities with at least 100 sales in the last 12 months, Hillsborough ($6.50M). The lowest was Gilroy ($1.10M). Smaller towns with fewer sales are in the table.
Where do homes sell over asking most often?
From January 2024 to September 2026, Sunnyvale (73%) had the highest share of sales over asking among cities with 100+ sales in the last 12 months. Silicon Valley overall: 60%.
Where do buyers get under-asking deals most often?
Los Gatos (47%) had the highest share of sales under asking over the same window and cities. Silicon Valley overall: 30%.
How is this different from the other pages?
Each line is a summary of a deeper page with every year, the method and a CSV. The scorecard puts them together so cities can be compared at a glance.
Is this a ranking of the best cities?
No. It describes how homes sold, not what a city is like to live in, and it doesn’t rank places to live.
Where does the data come from?
From closed sales reported to the MLS, read through the IDX feeds that power our home search, with repeat records removed. Homes sold without an MLS listing aren’t included.
more to learn
Go deeper
- Market MapEvery city as a tile, colored by the measure you pick.
- Home Price HistoryEvery city’s median price since 2012.
- Data LibraryEvery dataset in one catalog, with methods, downloads and citations.
- What $1 Million BuysSquare feet per $1M in every city, 2012 against now.
- How Much Over AskingThe overbid in dollars, by city and price.
- Homes Selling Under AskingWhere buyers still get a discount.
- Best Month to SellEach city’s strongest and weakest closing months.
- City Match-UpTwo cities side by side.
Based on closed sales reported to the MLS through our IDX feeds, read in October 2026. Shown as reported and not guaranteed; repeat records are removed. Figures describe past sales, not any single home or a forecast.
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