Palo Alto Broker Tour: Townhomes, Condos & Starter Homes Take Center Stage — Lisa M. Musich, Compass Palo Alto May 8, 2026 Lisa M. Musich of Compass Palo Alto hit Friday’s May 8th broker tour and found a sheet that felt more like January than May. If the busy spring season was supposed to arrive […]
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Menlo Park & Atherton Broker Tour: Ultra-Luxury Surges While the $5M–$10M Market Goes Missing Tuesday, April 28, 2026 My Musings This week’s broker tour across Menlo Park and Atherton revealed a market telling two very different stories—and a missing third. On one end: ultra-luxury dominance. Three properties above $15M, most notably the ~$36M
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Palo Alto Broker Tour: The Bungalow Edition Lisa M. Musich, Compass Palo Alto Friday May 1, 2026 Lisa M. Musich of Compass Palo Alto hit the Friday May 1st broker tour with one clear theme emerging fast: Palo Alto bungalows. Three of them on today’s sheet, all with personality, all with upside, and all asking
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Moves & Metrics May 2026 Much like a home in escrow, this month’s market report experienced a slight delay in closing. With Patrick Carlisle’s retirement, the new Compass analytics team is working through issuing the monthly reports. A few speed bumps aside… the data is in! Santa Clara County Competition remains strongest in the family-home
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On The Move May 2026 Birthday tulips. Photo credit: Brian, a patron of Terún Pizza This month’s inspiration came from a vase of tulips. Terún is a neighborhood spot that reminds you why locally owned businesses matter. This year, the staff surprised me with a vase of tulips at the bar (last year it was
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Low Supply, Loud Demand: This Week in Menlo Park & Palo Alto Tuesday, April 21, 2026 My Musings Inventory across Menlo Park and Palo Alto continues to feel unusually constrained for a spring market—traditionally the most active listing season in Silicon Valley real estate. I started the day in conversation with a founder
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On The Move April 2026 Y Combinator HQ, Mountain View, CA: February 2026 You can literally smell spring in Palo Alto! Not just fresh-cut grass, but those unexpected corners where the air turns floral and almost sweet. It still catches me off guard. After years in NYC, where you learned which blocks doubled as wind
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Palo Alto Broker Tour Report: New Listings & Coffee Insights Friday, April 10, 2026 My Musings Palo Alto Broker Tour delivered one of the strongest showings we’ve seen in recent weeks, with a noticeable uptick in overall home quality, thoughtful renovations, and well-positioned pricing across key neighborhoods like Barron Park, Greenmeadow, and Crescent Park. While
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Menlo Park Real Estate: Weekly Broker Tour Highlights + Lifestyle Highlights Tuesday, April 7, 2026 My Musings It’s Spring Break here in Palo Alto—which may explain the lighter broker tour—but the bigger story continues to be limited inventory across the Menlo Park and Peninsula real estate market. Supply simply hasn’t broken free this year.
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Moves & Metrics April 2026 Key Takeaways Across both Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, March activity accelerated despite macro noise (rates, infl ation chatter, global headlines). Buyer demand proved resilient, inventory remained constrained, and competition quietly intensifi ed heading into Q2. Santa Clara County: Demand Builds, Prices Hold Market activity surged month-over-month: New listings,
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