The City of Santa Clara sits in the heart of Silicon Valley. It’s got a little bit of everything, including history, museums, a highly regarded university and California mission, beautiful neighborhoods, industry, shopping, and entertainment.

The City of Santa Clara’s major attractions for residents

Today the City of Santa Clara is well known for Mission Santa Clara, Santa Clara University, the Great America Theme Park, neighborhood & civic swimming pools and competitive swim teams, and of course high tech companies such as Intel, Applied Materials and Texas Instruments (among others).

Within the San Francisco Bay Area, the construction of the Levi’s football stadium in the City of Santa Clara has been huge in raising the city’s profile in the eyes of sports enthusiasts. Helpfully, it’s on the light rail line! The Santa Clara Convention Center is a big draw, too.

For many Silicon Valley workers, one of the biggest advantage to Santa Clara is the shorter commute times it tends to afford. Or access to CalTrain and VTA (and eventually BART). For some, it may also be newer construction and a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood at the Rivermark area. And others may want to live in Santa Clara near Valley Fair and Santana Row.

Santa Clara packs a lot of advantages for a city of only about 130,000 people!

I have a particular fondness for what used to be referred to as “The Mission City”  due to its history and presence of the Mission Santa Clara today. Perhaps I am also biased as I spent 10 years of my childhood living in the University Square neighborhood (near SCU) and another in the San Tomas Woods neighborhood, and to this day am a frequent visitor at the Mission. There’s a lot to love about this community!

Want to learn more about the City of Santa Clara? Please read additional info about this city in our longer article!

City of Santa Clara real estate market conditions

We publish a monthly real estate market update for many areas of Santa Clara County on our Valley of Heart’s Delight blog. You can see the most current article for this city here: City of Santa Clara Real Estate Market. There is also an interactive widget from Altos Research (more on them below), so pull it up anytime to view the live feed data!

On that page you’ll find data and analysis, including two real estate market tracking subscriptions that you may find helpful if wanting to sell or buy a home in this community. These two tools are:

1. Monthly RE Report for the City of Santa Clara, includes sold data, pending info, etc. The limitation is that it only gets info on homes listed directly into MLSListings.com, our local MLS provider. Some homes are entered via other MLS organizations, though, such as Bay East. Those are not included (not allowed by MLS rules, that’s a longer story).
2. Weekly Altos Research Reports by city or by zip code. The limitation with this tool is that they only use active listing (and sale pending) data, not sold listings. It does include statistics that aren’t readily available on other tools, though, such as the percent of homes with prices decreased. In the middle of the page there is a carat area where you can toggle to see additional information.

You don’t need to register or provide any info to make use of our tools!

Here’s a link to view the RE Report for single family homes or houses in the City of Santa Clara. (Usually updated around the 5th of the month.)

Here’s the weekly Altos Research report for all of Santa Clara.

Buying a home in Santa Clara

What does it cost to buy a house, townhouse or condo in the city of Santa Clara?  Have a look – below please find a list of homes for sale, with the newest listings shown first.

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(all data current as of 10/6/2026)

Listing information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Read full disclaimer.