Sold by Maggie Ma · Palo Alto listing agent 1560 University Avenue, Palo Alto
Sold August 2026 for $5,825,000 5 days on market Represented the seller
+16.8% over asking — +$836,200 above the price it first asked
The record
What this house was, and what it did.
- Represented
- Seller
- Neighborhood
- Crescent Park
- Listed
- July 10, 2026
- Closed
- August 13, 2026
- Days on market
- 5
- Asking
- $4,988,800
- Sold
- $5,825,000
- To asking
- +16.8% (+$836,200)
- Property
- Single Family
- Bedrooms
- 6
- Bathrooms
- 3.5
- Living area
- 3,892 sq ft
- Lot
- 12,600 sq ft
- Built
- 1930
- MLS
- ML82053628
What it was up against
Heavy traffic, original windows, an aging roof. Reframed as an architectural and emotional transition rather than a list of deficiencies buyers would price down for.
The long version
What the house was up against
A busy street, single-pane original windows, and a roof near the end of its life. On paper, three line items a buyer’s agent would use to argue the price down.
The strategy
Not every problem is worth solving before a sale. Replacing the windows would have cost real money and removed something that could not be bought back — the original 1930 glass is the reason the front rooms look the way they do at four in the afternoon.
So the windows stayed, and the listing said so first. Naming a thing as a feature before a buyer can name it as a fault changes what it is worth. The roof was disclosed and priced in rather than patched over.
The result
Sold at $5.825M, to a buyer who came for the period detail rather than in spite of it.
If this is your street
Own a home in Crescent Park?
What this one did is a data point, not a valuation. If you want the number for your own house, and what would move it, that is a conversation rather than an algorithm.
Or read what Crescent Park actually is — its history, its architecture and what has sold there.
What would mine sell for? How a sale is run
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Sold August 2026. Data: MLSListings ML82053628. Updated September 29, 2026. Maggie Ma, Keller Williams Palo Alto, DRE #02117367.