The capital of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area's largest city
Buying a home in San Jose is a micro-market game: schools, commute paths, and neighborhood lines move pricing more than any citywide average. List prices are marketing, not truth, and the best homes trigger fast multiple-offer situations-especially in Willow Glen, Cambrian, Almaden, Evergreen, and West San Jose.
San Jose demand is powered by tech compensation and stock equity liquidity, while new single-family supply stays structurally constrained. To win here, you move fast, write clean offers, and beat competitors on terms-not just price. Will the prices go up or down? The tech stock index can offer a bigger clue rather than the interest rates.
Source: locally stored MLS data for single-family homes, January 2016 through July 2026. An asterisk and gold marker identify an incomplete current period.
Which San Jose neighborhoods have appreciated the most over the last few years? We cover the top 16 neighborhoods by population over the last 1, 3, 5, 10, 20 and 25 years. All data has been taken from Zillow for single family homes, and the interactive table allows sorting by any column so you can compare total return and CAGR side by side across different periods.
| (SIZE RANK) NEIGHBORHOOD | 1 Year | 3 Year | 5 Year | 10 Year | 20 Year | 25 Year | Price Index |
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We serve all neighborhoods in San Jose including East San Jose, Blossom Valley, West San Jose, Willow Glen, Downtown, North Valley, Evergreen, Fairgrounds, Cambrian Park, Almaden Valley, Berryessa, Edenvale - Seven Trees, North San Jose, Santa Teresa, Alum Rock-East Foothills, Rose Garden.
Yes, we pride ourselves on exceptional service and exceptional advice! A majority of our clients are first-time homebuyers. Many of our past clients who switched to us from full commission realtors told us that our service and insights were actually significantly better than what they got before. We operate less like a sales team and more like a tech and data team.
We do more transactions than a typical real estate agent. We typically write multiple offers per week, are deeply plugged into how the real estate market is doing, and can give you accurate advice on how to play the game.
"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." Our past clients have left about 50 or so public reviews on Google and Zillow. Every single one of these reviews has been 5-star! We do very little advertising and we get significant repeat and referral business.
Yes, we invest significant effort in sourcing off-market properties. We have a special off-market property program for San Jose and we charge percentage based commission for our off-market properties. Please call us for more details.
See Our Process for more details on our fee and service, Closed Properties for our past sales, Reviews for some reviews from past clients (ask us for more), and simply call/text us for anything.