Palo Alto · Green Acres What has sold in Green Acres.
Every single-family sale recorded in Green Acres over the last twelve months — where each one is, what it fetched, and how it did against the price it first asked.
Green Acres · Palo Alto
What this neighborhood actually did.
Closed sales of single-family homes in Green Acres, 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; 12 of them carried coordinates and are drawn here. Base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
What this place is
Two neighborhood units rather than one, on a Mexican land grant bought by a Californiana businesswoman — and the one Palo Alto neighborhood whose recent history was settled at the ballot box.
Green Acres works as two units, Green Acres I and Green Acres II, which are registered separately and are treated as distinct by the people who live in them even though one MLS area covers both.
The land is part of Rancho La Purísima Concepción, granted in 1840 to José Gorgonio, an Ohlone man, and his son. In 1844 Juana Briones de Miranda bought the 4,439-acre rancho in her own name — a rare thing for a woman in California at the time — and the United States patented it to her in 1871. The grant ran from Matadero Creek to Adobe Creek. Juana Briones Park on Maybell Avenue carries a city marker telling that story, and it is the neighborhood’s one confirmed historical anchor.
Its recent history is a ballot measure. In November 2013 Palo Alto voted on rezoning 2.46 acres on Maybell Avenue — a former apricot orchard — for sixty affordable senior apartments and twelve market-rate houses. It was rejected, 56 percent to 44. The aftermath reshaped zoning citywide, and the site was built as twelve market-rate houses.
A note on what is not known.Green Acres is the thinnest-documented neighborhood in Palo Alto. The city’s historic inventory, the Eichler guidelines and the preservation record are all silent on it, and no primary source gives its subdivision date, tract number or developer. Anything you read elsewhere stating "built in 19XX by Y" is unsourced until a county tract map confirms it. Settling that would take a records pull at the Santa Clara County Recorder rather than a search.
The specifics
- The land is part of Rancho La Purísima Concepción, granted on June 30, 1840 to José Gorgonio, an Ohlone man and former Santa Clara Mission Indian, and his son.
- Juana Briones de Miranda bought the 4,439-acre rancho in 1844 in her own name; the United States patented it to her in 1871. The grant ran from Matadero Creek to Adobe Creek.
- Juana Briones Park at 609 Maybell Avenue carries a city marker from 1989 describing the rancho era.Historical Marker Database
- Measure D, November 5, 2013 — a referendum on rezoning 2.46 acres at 567–595 Maybell Avenue, a former apricot orchard, for sixty affordable senior apartments and twelve market-rate houses. Rejected 8,476 to 6,538.Ballotpedia
- Maybell Avenue is the Green Acres and Barron Park seam, and the sources genuinely disagree about where it runs. The Briones Park marker places 609 Maybell in Green Acres; other accounts place 567 Maybell, two lots east, in Barron Park.
- No Green Acres address appears on the city’s historic inventory, and there is no National Register district and no Single Story Overlay here — unlike the Eichler tracts to the east.City of Palo Alto — Historic Inventory
Green Acres in one paragraph
12 homes sold in Green Acres over the last year, at a median of $4.49M — above the Palo Alto median of $4.01M. The typical one is a 2,126 sq ft single-story house from 1955 on an 8,050 sq ft lot, at $2,032 a square foot.
Against the price sellers first asked — not the price they had been reduced to — the median sale here finished +15.7%, and 82% of sellers got at least their asking price. That is stronger than Palo Alto as a whole, where the median is +5.5%: Green Acres gets bid up harder than the city average.
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.
The dashed lines are the two medians — $4.50M and +15.7%. 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 Green Acres 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 Green Acres 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.