Silicon Valley real estate, explained by the Property Nerds®

Every home sale in Santa Clara County pays the county’s transfer tax when the deed records, and three cities add their own: San Jose, Palo Alto and Mountain View. Here’s the tax at common prices, what it comes to on a typical home in each city, and who usually pays. To try your own price and city, o

Selling or buying in San Jose? When the deed records, up to three transfer taxes come due: Santa Clara County’s, the city’s own, and Measure E on sales over $2.3 million. Here’s what each one costs at common prices, how many San Jose sales crossed the Measure E line, and who usually pays. To try you

Thinking of living near St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy? We took every house that sold in the two years to October 27, 2026 and measured how far it is from St. Louise Regional Hospital, at 9400 No Name Uno in Gilroy. Here’s what houses cost within 1, 2, 3 and 5 miles, the cities and neighborh