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Silicon Valley real estate, explained by the Property Nerds®

Market data, neighborhood guides, Eichler history and how-tos for buyers and sellers, from Eric & Janelle Boyenga and the team at Compass.

Millbrae Neighborhoods by Their Lots: Lot Sizes, Flood Zones and Fire Zones

San Mateo County’s public parcel layer gives an outline and a property use code for every parcel. We took the 5,369 parcels with the county’s single-family use code, 1,500 square feet or more, inside our five Millbrae neighborhood guides, measured each lot from its outline, checked its center agains
East Palo Alto Housing Market by the Numbers: Prices, Bidding Wars and the Price Ladder Since 2012

What does East Palo Alto’s housing market look like in numbers? Everything below comes from closed MLS sales in East Palo Alto, read in October 2026, and from the datasets on our Property Nerds® market pages. The last 12 months run October 2025 through September 2026 (92 sales). Each section links t
Best Month to Sell a House in San Francisco: 4 Years of Sales, Month by Month

When do San Francisco homes sell best? We sorted the 18,028 San Francisco sales that closed from January 2022 through December 2025, as reported to the MLS with repeat records removed, by the month they closed. Our MLS records cover San Francisco fully only from 2022, so these figures pool all 2022–
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