Atherton · on the market What’s for sale in Atherton right now.
21 single-family homes on the market and 4 already in escrow, as of September 28. A good deal of what is listed is still sitting.
- 21 for sale now
- 4 in escrow
- $10.5M median asking price
- $2,685 median per square foot
- 17 median days on market
Atherton · single-family homes · MLSListings, as of September 28, 2026. Counts and medians only — this is a market report, not a listing search.
Where buyers are actually transacting
Of everything in each price band, the share already in escrow. A high figure means the band is clearing; a low one means listings are sitting.
- $4–5M 0% 4 for sale · 0 in escrow
- $5–7M 3 listings 1 for sale · 2 in escrow
- $7M and above 11% 16 for sale · 2 in escrow
Bands with fewer than 4 listings show the count instead of a percentage. A clearing rate out of three houses is a coin toss with a percentage sign on it.
Where it is
Neighbourhoods with at least 3 homes on the market. Anything thinner is counted in the totals above but not given a row of its own. No asking price is shown per neighborhood — at this scale that would be a price attached to identifiable houses.
| Neighborhood | For sale | In escrow | Typical home |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lindenwood Area | 6 | 2 | 6.5 bed · 5,879 sq ft |
| Alameda to 280 | 6 | 1 | 5 bed · 4,643 sq ft |
| Middlefield to El Camino Atherton | 4 | 1 | 4 bed · 2,700 sq ft |
| El Camino to Alameda | 5 | 0 | 5 bed · 5,583 sq ft |
How fresh it is
- 5 came on in the last seven days
- 33% have been listed under two weeks
- 14% have been on the market past sixty days
- The longest has been listed 239 days
A market where most of the inventory is fresh is a market where price is being set week by week. A market with a long tail of old listings is one where the asking prices at the top have stopped meaning very much.
Where it is
Every home on the market, to about a block.
Where the inventory sits
Every home currently listed, by approximate location.
- For sale
- In escrow
Alameda to 2807 listings, several miles southwest
About this map. Each dot is a single-family home currently listed in Atherton, placed within about 120 metres of its actual position — roughly a block — so it shows where inventory is concentrated and is not precise enough to identify a property. The figures on each card are medians for that neighborhood, not that home. To search actual listings, use the MLS search on this site or ask Maggie directly. Single-family homes currently listed in Atherton — active, contingent and pending — as of September 28, 2026, refreshed every Friday morning. Source: MLSListings. Dot positions are approximate and are not a listing display; no address or price is published here for any home other than Maggie’s own. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Open houses
When Palo Alto opens its doors.
2 of the 21 homes for sale are open this weekend — 1 of them on Saturday alone. If you are buying, that is a lot of driving in a short afternoon. If you are selling, it is who you would be sharing it with.
Tue29Sep
9:30am–1:30pm
1home
Lindenwood Area
Sat3Oct
12pm–3pm
1home
Middlefield to El Camino Atherton
Open house times from MLSListings for Palo Alto single-family homes, current at September 28, 2026, refreshed every Friday morning. Addresses and times for individual homes are not published here.
This weekend
2 open houses, 2 neighbourhoods, one afternoon.
- 1Lindenwood Area1 home
- 2Middlefield to El Camino Atherton1 home
If you are the one thinking of selling
These are the houses yours would be standing next to.
The useful way to read the figures above is as competition rather than as comparables. A home listed this month in Atherton is not being judged against what sold last spring; it is being judged against the 21 houses a buyer can walk through this weekend, and against whichever of them are priced to move.
That is the part that changes fastest and the part a seller has least visibility of. It is also most of what an hour with Maggie is for.
Ask what this means for your house
Or see what has actually sold in Atherton, which is the longer-run picture — and when in the year to list.
About these figures
What this page is, and what it is not.
- It is a market report. Counts, medians and distributions for the single-family homes currently listed in Atherton. No address, no individual price, no listing agent, no MLS number.
- For the houses themselves, ask Maggie. This page is built to show you the shape of the market — where things are trading, at what, and how fast. When you want to walk through one, she will send you what is on it and arrange the visit.
- Each dot marks a street, not a door. Each is placed within about 120 metres of the real position — roughly a block — so the map shows where inventory is concentrated and cannot be used to identify a house.
- Source and date. MLSListings, as of September 28. Figures are medians; one very large sale moves an average and does not move a median, and this market produces those.
Maggie Ma · DRE #02117367 · Keller Williams Palo Alto
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