Silicon Valley real estate, explained by the Property Nerds®

Every home sale in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties pays a county transfer tax when the deed is recorded. A handful of cities add their own, and San Francisco runs its own brackets. On the same price, the total can run from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands depending on the city. Here’s

Move a few blocks across a city line here and your electric company can change. In most of the area, PG&E delivers the power over its poles and wires while a local community program supplies it. Two cities run their own electric utilities instead. Here’s who supplies electricity where, according to

BART already reaches San Jose: the Milpitas and Berryessa/North San Jose stations opened on June 13, 2020. The next step is VTA’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II, a 6-mile, four-station extension through downtown San Jose to Santa Clara. VTA’s target for opening is the second quarter of 2037, a date it