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Silicon Valley Property Tax Rates by City (2025–26): Palo Alto, Los Altos, Sunnyvale, Cupertino and More
What’s the property tax rate in Palo Alto, Los Altos, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Los Gatos or Saratoga? We pulled every tax rate area in the county’s 2025–26 rate book, weighted each by its assessed value, and applied the result to what homes actually sold for in the last 12 months. Los Alto
Saratoga Property Tax Rate: What You’ll Pay on a Saratoga Home (2026)
Saratoga’s typical property tax rate for 2025–26 is 1.1467%, between Los Gatos’s 1.1459% and Palo Alto’s 1.20135%, the lowest and highest of the nine cities in our comparison. On the median Saratoga house, which sold for $4.28M in the last 12 months, that’s about $49,100 a year. Here’s where the rat
Los Gatos Property Tax Rate: What You’ll Pay on a Los Gatos Home (2026)
Los Gatos’s typical property tax rate for 2025–26 is 1.1459%, the lowest typical rate of the nine cities in our comparison. On the median Los Gatos house, which sold for $2.67M in the last 12 months, that’s about $30,600 a year. Here’s where the rate comes from, what you’d pay on a house or a condo,
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