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Palo Alto · Barron Park What has sold in Barron Park.

Every single-family sale recorded in Barron Park over the last twelve months — where each one is, what it fetched, and how it did against the price it first asked.

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What this neighborhood actually did.

39Sold
$4.25MMedian
$1,887Median / sq ft
8Median days
3 For sale now 5 in escrow
Briones ParkBol ParkPackard Grove Juana BrionesBowmanKeys Miranda AvenueLos Robles AvenueMatadero AvenueWilkie WayBarron AvenueMaybell AvenueHansen WayPark BoulevardGeorgia AvenueLaguna AvenueChimalus DriveEl Camino WayLa Para AvenueSuzanne DriveLa Donna AvenueAmaranta Avenue El Camino Real

Closed sales of single-family homes in Barron Park, Palo Alto, from September 2, 2025 to September 25, 2026. Source: MLSListings. Each sale is listed with the firm that represented the seller. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Figures are medians rather than averages — one very large sale should not move a neighborhood’s number. 446 sales were recorded in this period; 39 of them carried coordinates and are drawn here. Base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

What this place is

It was county land, not Palo Alto, until November 1975 — and it still looks it: no sidewalks on most streets, and a donkey pasture at the center of it.

Barron Park spent nearly forty years refusing to join Palo Alto, and the reason is a fire. In November 1936 the 26-room Barron mansion burned. Engines came from Redwood City and Menlo Park; Palo Alto’s crew stopped at the city line over jurisdiction. Residents voted against annexation in 1947 and started their own volunteer fire department instead.

They finally voted to join in November 1975, 936 to 478. What that history left behind is a neighborhood that does not look like the rest of the city: most streets have no sidewalks, the lots are irregular, and the whole place has a semi-rural feel that is a direct consequence of having been county land while Palo Alto was laying kerbs everywhere else.

And there are the donkeys. A Dutch Stanford physicist who fled Nazi Europe in the 1930s kept donkeys that local children rode; the pasture survived him, and the Barron Park Donkey Project has kept animals there since 1996.

The specifics

  • The land was Mayfield Farm, bought in 1878 by Edward Barron, a San Francisco mining executive, who added a cupola and a west wing to the 1857 house.Palo Alto Historical Association
  • On November 29, 1936 the Barron mansion burned. Palo Alto’s fire crew stopped at the city line. Residents voted against annexation 338–261 in 1947 and formed their own volunteer fire department by 1949.Palo Alto Historical Association
  • Barron Park voted to join Palo Alto on November 4, 1975, 936 to 478 — ending close to forty years of separation.
  • Bol Park is named for Cornelis Bol, the Dutch Stanford physicist who invented the mercury-vapour lamp and kept the first donkeys. The county bought the land in May 1971 for $68,750; the first phase was dedicated in April 1974.
  • The bike path through the park is the old Southern Pacific Mayfield Cutoff, built 1906–08. Passenger service ended in early 1964.
  • DreamWorks’ animation contractor came to the pasture in 1999 and used a donkey named Perry as a live movement reference for Shrek — they picked him over the other donkey, who tried to eat a crew member’s boots. Perry’s side was paid $75. He died in January 2025 at thirty; about 150 people came to the memorial.Barron Park Donkey Project
  • Three Eichler tracts sit here: University Gardens (1949–50), El Centro Gardens (1950, Anshen & Allen) and Maybell Gardens (1952, 30 lots).City of Palo Alto — Eichler Neighborhood Design Guidelines

Barron Park in one paragraph

39 homes sold in Barron Park over the last year, at a median of $4.25M — above the Palo Alto median of $4.01M. The typical one is a 2,212 sq ft single-story house from 1952 on a 7,830 sq ft lot, at $1,887 a square foot.

Against the price sellers first asked — not the price they had been reduced to — the median sale here finished +6.8%, and 79% of sellers got at least their asking price. That is in line with Palo Alto as a whole, where the median is +5.5%.

In Barron Park, the first two weeks are the sale

Every sale grouped by how long it took, against the price it first asked. Not against a reduced price — against the number it launched at.

Too few sales in Barron Park’s outer bands to read this one on its own, so here is the wider market it sits in: homes that sell in the first week finish +10.4% against their opening price and 98% reach it; past sixty days the median is −11.7% and 3% reach it. Whatever is going to happen, happens early.

Every sale: what it fetched, and how it did

One dot per home. Across is the result against the price it first asked. Up is what it actually sold for. Red beat its asking price; charcoal did not.

$2M$3M$4M$5M$6M$7M$8M
$5.20M · +33.4% against its first asking price$5.35M · +27.4% against its first asking price$5.75M · +15.1% against its first asking price$4.25M · +1.5% against its first asking price$4.58M · +14.9% against its first asking price$3.48M · +16.6% against its first asking price$3.52M · +7.1% against its first asking price$4.55M · −5.1% against its first asking price$5.78M · +0.0% against its first asking price$4.90M · +40.2% against its first asking price$5.00M · +13.9% against its first asking price$3.42M · +14.4% against its first asking price$3.15M · +5.0% against its first asking price$3.31M · +1.9% against its first asking price$4.00M · +11.1% against its first asking price$3.27M · +31.6% against its first asking price$4.43M · −3.4% against its first asking price$7.43M · −15.6% against its first asking price$2.96M · +3.9% against its first asking price$5.55M · +23.6% against its first asking price$5.50M · +10.2% against its first asking price$7.20M · −19.0% against its first asking price$4.65M · +3.3% against its first asking price$4.15M · −3.4% against its first asking price$2.78M · −0.3% against its first asking price$3.60M · +6.3% against its first asking price$6.50M · +6.8% against its first asking price$5.40M · −1.7% against its first asking price$3.21M · +7.1% against its first asking price$3.20M · +10.3% against its first asking price$3.20M · +6.8% against its first asking price$4.00M · +0.1% against its first asking price$6.40M · +6.9% against its first asking price$2.75M · −8.0% against its first asking price$3.90M · +0.3% against its first asking price$4.98M · +25.1% against its first asking price$3.75M · +10.6% against its first asking price$5.97M · +1.4% against its first asking price$5.20M · +33.4% against its first asking price$5.35M · +27.4% against its first asking price$5.75M · +15.1% against its first asking price$4.25M · +1.5% against its first asking price$4.58M · +14.9% against its first asking price$3.48M · +16.6% against its first asking price$3.52M · +7.1% against its first asking price$4.55M · −5.1% against its first asking price$5.78M · +0.0% against its first asking price$4.90M · +40.2% against its first asking price$5.00M · +13.9% against its first asking price$3.42M · +14.4% against its first asking price$3.15M · +5.0% against its first asking price$3.31M · +1.9% against its first asking price$4.00M · +11.1% against its first asking price$3.27M · +31.6% against its first asking price$4.43M · −3.4% against its first asking price$7.43M · −15.6% against its first asking price$2.96M · +3.9% against its first asking price$5.55M · +23.6% against its first asking price$5.50M · +10.2% against its first asking price$7.20M · −19.0% against its first asking price$4.65M · +3.3% against its first asking price$4.15M · −3.4% against its first asking price$2.78M · −0.3% against its first asking price$3.60M · +6.3% against its first asking price$6.50M · +6.8% against its first asking price$5.40M · −1.7% against its first asking price$3.21M · +7.1% against its first asking price$3.20M · +10.3% against its first asking price$3.20M · +6.8% against its first asking price$4.00M · +0.1% against its first asking price$6.40M · +6.9% against its first asking price$2.75M · −8.0% against its first asking price$3.90M · +0.3% against its first asking price$4.98M · +25.1% against its first asking price$3.75M · +10.6% against its first asking price$5.97M · +1.4% against its first asking pricemedian +6.8% median $4.25M
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The dashed lines are the two medians — $4.25M and +6.8%. A dot to the right of the upright line beat the price it opened at; a dot above the flat one sold for more than the typical home here. What the corners tell you is whether the top of Barron Park behaves like the rest of it.

If this is your street

The map says what sold. It doesn’t say what yours would.

Two houses on the same Barron Park block can be hundreds of dollars a square foot apart, and the difference is almost never the house — it is what was done to it before anyone saw it. Maggie will tell you which of those things is worth doing on yours, and which is not.

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