Santa Clara Unified Unified
Single-family · 3 bedrooms · Cupertino, San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale
As of Sun, Oct 4, 7:41 AM PT
Typical-size homes · 1,200–1,600 sqft · last 90 days to Oct 4 · 41 sales
Houseticker tracks 864 homes in this market; 282 sold in the last year.
How prices compare
3-bedroom houses · Past 12 months
For 1,200–1,600 sqft homes, homes sell for 44% more per square foot in the Wilcox High School zone than in the Kathleen MacDonald High School zone.
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| Zone | Median $/sqft | Median sale | Typical lot | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilcox High School | $1,584 | $2.17M | 6,000 sqft | 62 |
| Santa Clara High School | $1,396 | $1.90M | 6,000 sqft | 61 |
| Kathleen MacDonald High School | $1,102 | $1.54M | 5,700 sqft | 13 |
School zones are from each district's published boundaries. Boundaries and enrollment rules change: confirm a home's school assignment with the district.
Price & competition read · September 2026
Pendings slowed to 12 days while adjusted prices held steady
Typical size homes sold for a median $1,368 per square foot in the 90 days to September 30, 5.6% above the $1,296 a year earlier, on 41 sales against 31. After adjusting for what sold, the change is 2.3%, within normal variation: the median's move mostly reflects what sold.
Pace points the other way: a median 12 days to pending against 9 a year ago, across 56 pendings and 58 then, 33.3% slower, though the evidence is noisy.
Bidding held: sales closed 1.8% above the original ask and 62% beat it, among the 63 of 77 sales whose original asking price we saw, against 59% a year ago.
Prices of similar homes clustered into a tighter band this summer
In the 90 days to September 30, the middle half of typical size homes sold between $1,206 and $1,497 per square foot, a 21.3% spread from the 25th to the 75th percentile, on 41 sales. A year earlier that band ran from $1,157 to $1,548, a 30.2% spread, on 31 sales.
The median is 5.6% higher, but after adjusting for what sold the change is 2.3%, within normal variation. What changed is the range: the low end came up and the high end came down. The evidence is noisy at these sample sizes, but a buyer comparing listings now sees less distance between the cheapest and priciest comparable sales.
Prices look 11.8% lower than last quarter, but not against last year
Typical size homes sold for a median $1,368 per square foot in the 90 days to September 30, on 41 sales, against $1,551 in the 90 days before, on 47 sales: 11.8% lower, though that comparison is noisy. Against the same 90 days last year, $1,296 on 31 sales, the median is 5.6% higher, and after adjusting for what sold the change is 2.3%, within normal variation.
We measure the month against the same season last year because a quarter to quarter chart mixes season with trend. By that measure we see no move beyond normal variation, and the spring to summer dip is not evidence that prices fell.
Generated automatically from listing and sale records, and it can make mistakes: check the numbers before relying on them, and confirm details with the listing agent and public records. For information only: not an appraisal, and not financial, legal or real estate advice.
How this market is changing
3-bedroom houses · 1,200–1,600 sqft homes · past 12 months
Typical-size homes sold for $1,366 per square foot over the latest 90 days, 6% higher than the same 90 days last year (40 and 34 sales).
Homes that went pending in the latest 90 days took about 12 days to do it (30 homes; 2 more had no known listing date).
Price move explained
- Typical-size $/sqft, last 90 days
- $1,366 · ↑6% from a year ago
- After adjusting for what sold
- ↑0.8% from a year ago
Houseticker read. Comparable homes are selling about where they were a year ago: the change is within normal variation.
Based on 40 sales in the last 90 days and 34 in the same 90 days a year earlier. Adjusted for home size, lot size and school zone.
Are prices rising?
$1,366/sqft
6% above the same 90 days last year
The typical price per square foot 1,200–1,600 sqft homes sold for over the last 90 days, worked out again each month: 40 sales in the last 90 days, and 34 in the same 90 days last year. Our sales records start October 23, 2023. The bars count the sales that closed each month. The typical sale price over the last 90 days: $1.84M.
Each point covers 90 days, so neighboring points share sales: look at the direction over several months. A month with a short bar has few sales, and one unusual home can swing it.
How widely do similar homes sell?
$1,206–$1,497
the middle half of sales · 21.4% wide
The 25th to 75th percentile of typical-size homes' price per square foot over the last 90 days, worked out again each month, on 40 sales. The width is that range as a share of the median.
A narrower range means similar homes sell at more predictable prices; a wider one means more room either way.
What do homes sell for against asking?
3% over the first asking price
65% sold over asking
How the typical sale over the last 90 days compares with the home's first asking price: 31 sales whose asking price we know, and 9 we never saw advertised. Our sales records start October 23, 2023.
Above the dashed line, homes sell for more than they first asked. Against the last asking price before the sale, the typical sale was 3% over the last asking price (33 sales). We lead with the first ask: after a price cut, the last ask makes a sale look stronger than it was.
How many homes sell over their first ask?
65%
sold over asking, down 11 points from the previous 90 days
The share of sales over the last 90 days that closed above the home's first asking price, worked out again each month, on the 31 sales whose first asking price we saw.
A rising share means more homes draw more than one offer; the typical sale above can stay level while the share moves.
How fast do homes go pending?
12 days
14% below the previous 90 days
The typical number of days from listing to pending over the last 90 days, for homes whose listing date we know: 30 in the last 90 days, and 2 left out without one. Pendings before September 19, 2026 come from the histories of homes that later sold.
Fewer days means more competition. A home that went pending and fell through counts from its relisting.
Homes for sale and new listings each week appear once this market has twelve weeks of tracking, which began September 19, 2026.
What explains price differences here · Q3 2026
Once a quarter, Houseticker analyzes recent sales to measure how price differences are associated with home size, lot size, city, and school zone while controlling for the other factors.
Prices fell from spring, but the year-ago comparison tells a different story
Matched to the same quarter last year, which shares its season, prices for comparable homes are within normal variation of where they stood in Q3 2025: a 3.2% difference we cannot separate from noise. Against the previous quarter, Q2 2026, they are 9% lower after adjusting for what sold, but the evidence is not strong.
The median sale price was $1,379 per square foot this quarter, based on 43 sales, against $1,516 on 46 sales in Q2 2026 and $1,296 on 31 sales in Q3 2025.
For a buyer, the quarter-to-quarter fall looks like the season, not a new direction. We would not read it as a turn in prices.
Once size is accounted for, this quarter's prices clustered more tightly
Once home size is accounted for, the middle half of sales, from the 25th to the 75th percentile of price per square foot, spanned 25% of the median this quarter, against 33.7% in Q2 2026. That is a tighter range: fewer sales landed far above or below the typical price. The evidence is not strong, so treat this as directional.
This is based on 79 sales this quarter against 88 in Q2 2026. The median was $1,379 per square foot, against $1,516.
For a buyer, a tighter range means a home's size tells you more about what it will likely sell for, and there is less room for an outlier to surprise you.
Home size, not school zone, accounts for most of this quarter's price gaps
Reading home size, lot size, school zone and city together, each with the others held still, the four explain 43% of the price differences between this quarter's 68 sales. Home size takes 35.4 points of that, lot size 5.7 and school zone 2.1. The rest is what the records cannot see: condition, updates, views, the street.
A home 10% bigger is associated with a 7.4% higher price, the others held still; a bigger home sells for more in all but less per square foot. A lot 10% bigger is associated with a 1.1% higher price. Both figures are clear of normal variation.
For a buyer, square footage is the one factor in the records that reliably separates one sale from another here; the school zone matters far less.
Generated automatically from listing and sale records, and it can make mistakes: check the numbers before relying on them, and confirm details with the listing agent and public records. For information only: not an appraisal, and not financial, legal or real estate advice.