Silicon Valley real estate, explained by the Property Nerds®

What does your budget buy in Cupertino? We sorted every Cupertino 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, $3M–$3.5M, bought a median 1,840 square feet with 4 bedrooms an

What did Cupertino houses actually gain? Not a city average, but the same house, sold twice. We matched 71 Cupertino houses that sold in the last 24 months to their previous sale since 2012. Of those, 53 were about the same size both times, so the gain isn’t from an addition. The median one sold for

Price per square foot is the number everyone quotes, and in Cupertino it depends heavily on the size of the house. Over the last 24 months, houses under 1,500 sq ft sold for a median $2,161 a square foot, and houses of 4,000 sq ft and up for $1,170. Here’s the full ladder, why bigger houses cost les