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Market data, neighborhood guides, Eichler history and how-tos for buyers and sellers, from Eric & Janelle Boyenga and the team at Compass.
Los Altos Property Tax Rate: What You’ll Pay on a Los Altos Home (2026)
Los Altos’s typical property tax rate for 2025–26 is 1.153%, 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 Los Altos house, which sold for $4.9M in the last 12 months, that’s about $56,500 a year. Here’s where the rat
The AI Effect on Silicon Valley Real Estate: Bigger Than Google, Facebook and Apple Combined?
In 2019 we asked whether the “Uber effect” would be as large as the “Facebook effect” on Bay Area home prices. The 2026 version of that question is a lot bigger. OpenAI and Anthropic, both based in San Francisco, are valued at $852 billion and $965 billion in their latest funding rounds. Together th
How ADU Potential Influences Cambrian Buyer Demand
Today's homebuyers are increasingly looking beyond the house itself. They're evaluating what a property could become. That shift has made accessory dwelling units (ADUs) one of the most important long-term considerations in many Silicon Valley neighborhoods, including Cambrian. While not every buyer
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