Palo Alto · on the market What’s for sale in Palo Alto right now.
46 single-family homes on the market and 25 already in escrow, as of September 27. Roughly a third of what is on the market has already found a buyer.
- 46 for sale now
- 25 in escrow
- $4.84M median asking price
- $2,083 median per square foot
- 17 median days on market
Palo Alto · single-family homes · MLSListings, as of September 27, 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.
- Under $3M 27% 16 for sale · 6 in escrow
- $3–4M 54% 6 for sale · 7 in escrow
- $4–5M 64% 4 for sale · 7 in escrow
- $5–7M 21% 11 for sale · 3 in escrow
- $7M and above 18% 9 for sale · 2 in escrow
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Palo Alto | 12 | 2 | 5 bed · 2,955 sq ft |
| South Palo Alto | 10 | 2 | 4 bed · 1,945 sq ft |
| Midtown | 5 | 6 | 5 bed · 2,636 sq ft |
| Barron Park | 3 | 5 | 3 bed · 1,847 sq ft |
| Crescent Park | 3 | 3 | 3.5 bed · 2,563 sq ft |
| Downtown Palo Alto | 3 | 2 | 3 bed · 1,638 sq ft |
| Community Center | 2 | 2 | 4 bed · 2,047 sq ft |
| College | 3 | 1 | 1.5 bed · 809 sq ft |
| Green Gables | 4 | 0 | 4.5 bed · 2,680 sq ft |
How fresh it is
- 14 came on in the last seven days
- 39% have been listed under two weeks
- 15% have been on the market past sixty days
- The longest has been listed 123 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
About this map. Each dot is a single-family home currently listed in Palo Alto, 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 Palo Alto — active, contingent and pending — as of September 27, 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.
21 of the 46 homes for sale are open this weekend — 20 of them on Sunday 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.
Sun27Sep
1pm–4pm
5homes
College · Old Palo Alto · Crescent Park & 1 more
Sun27Sep
1pm–3pm
1home
Midtown
Sun27Sep
1:30pm–4:30pm
4homes
Midtown · Green Gables · South Palo Alto
Sun27Sep
2pm–4pm
9homes
Downtown Palo Alto · Old Palo Alto · Barron Park & 3 more
Sun27Sep
2:30pm–4:30pm
1home
Green Gables
Thu1Oct
5pm–7pm
1home
Community Center
Open house times from MLSListings for Palo Alto single-family homes, current at September 27, 2026, refreshed every Friday morning. Addresses and times for individual homes are not published here.
This weekend
21 open houses, 9 neighbourhoods, one afternoon.
- 1Crescent Park2 homes
- 2Downtown Palo Alto2 homes
- 3Community Center1 home
- 4Green Gables3 homes
- 5Old Palo Alto3 homes
- 6Midtown4 homes
- 7South Palo Alto2 homes
- 8Barron Park2 homes
- 9College2 homes
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 Palo Alto is not being judged against what sold last spring; it is being judged against the 46 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 Palo Alto, 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 Palo Alto. 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 27. 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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