Silicon Valley real estate, explained by the Property Nerds®

Cupertino and Saratoga share a border in western Santa Clara County, about 4 miles apart center to center. Neither has a train station, both get electricity from the same provider, and neither adds a city transfer tax. The differences are in what each city is built around, its housing and its zoning

Here’s where home prices stood in every city we cover in mid-October 2026, from San Francisco to Gilroy. The numbers come from our City Match-Up, which reads the MLS live: closed sales from the 90 days before October 18, 2026, and homes for sale that morning, counting houses, condos and townhomes to

Thirty-two cities, from San Francisco to Gilroy, in one place: which have Caltrain, BART or VTA light rail stations, who supplies the electricity, what the city adds to the transfer tax, and how many Eichler tracts our indexes list. These are the same facts that power our City Match-Up, which adds l