Silicon Valley real estate, explained by the Property Nerds®

What did Sunnyvale houses actually gain? Not a city average, but the same house, sold twice. We matched 253 Sunnyvale houses that sold in the last 24 months to their previous sale since 2012. Of those, 196 were about the same size both times, so the gain isn’t from an addition. The median one sold f

Price per square foot is the number everyone quotes, and in Sunnyvale it depends heavily on the size of the house. Over the last 24 months, houses under 1,500 sq ft sold for a median $1,677 a square foot, and houses of 3,000–4,000 sq ft for $1,197. Here’s the full ladder, why bigger houses cost less

Trading a Sunnyvale house for a condo or townhome is one of the biggest money moves a longtime owner makes. In the last 12 months the median Sunnyvale house sold for $2.63M at about 1,640 square feet, and the median condo or townhome sold for $1.35M at about 1,460 square feet. That’s a gap of about