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What Adds Value to a Santa Clara House: Size, Lot, Bedrooms and Bathrooms (2026)

What actually moves the price of a Santa Clara house: more space, a bigger lot, another bedroom or another bathroom? We compared 803 Santa Clara house sales from the last 24 months, holding the other features we measured equal, and translated the results into dollars on the median house. Some answer
What Your Budget Buys in Santa Clara: Houses by Price Range (2026)

What does your budget buy in Santa Clara? We sorted every Santa Clara house sale from the last 24 months by price and looked at what each range bought: living area, bedrooms, bathrooms, lot and how hard buyers bid. The middle of the market, $1.5M–$2M, bought a median 1,350 square feet with 3 bedroom
Santa Clara Home Appreciation: What the Same Houses Resold For (2026)

What did Santa Clara houses actually gain? Not a city average, but the same house, sold twice. We matched 255 Santa Clara houses that sold in the last 24 months to their previous sale since 2012. Of those, 211 were about the same size both times, so the gain isn’t from an addition. The median one so
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