Santa Clara County Days on Market Statistics
The median home in Santa Clara County went pending in 12 days, measured across 10,536 closed residential transactions in the trailing twelve months. Los Altos was fastest at 8 days and Gilroy slowest at 22. Fourteen of the fifteen cities fall between 8 and 15 days.
Key Santa Clara County Days on Market Statistics
MLSListings Inc. closed data- The median Santa Clara County home went pending in 12 days. (MLSListings Inc.)
- Los Altos is the fastest market in Santa Clara County at a median of 8 days. (MLSListings Inc.)
- Gilroy is the slowest at 22 days, nearly three times Los Altos. (MLSListings Inc.)
- Fourteen of Santa Clara County's fifteen cities have a median days on market between 8 and 15. (MLSListings Inc.)
- Five Santa Clara County cities went pending in 9 days or fewer: Los Altos, Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. (MLSListings Inc.)
- The median Santa Clara County sale closed at 100.6% of list price. (MLSListings Inc.)
- No Santa Clara County city had a median sale below 100.0% of list price. (MLSListings Inc.)
- Sunnyvale carries the highest sale to list ratio at 103.6%. (MLSListings Inc.)
- Santa Clara County holds 2,169 active listings against 10,536 annual closings, roughly 2.5 months of supply. (MLSListings Inc.)
- Median sale price and median days on market carry a Spearman rank correlation of -0.35 across the 15 cities, weak and not statistically significant. (Aegis calculation from MLSListings Inc. data)
How Long Do Homes Take to Sell in Santa Clara County?
The median Santa Clara County home went pending in 12 days, measured from list date to pending date across 10,536 closed residential transactions in the trailing twelve months.
Twelve days is the figure that describes how much time a buyer has to decide. It is not the time from listing to closing, which includes escrow and runs materially longer. It is the window between a home appearing on the market and a seller accepting an offer. In Santa Clara County that window runs under two weeks in 12 of the 15 Santa Clara County cities, and under three weeks in 14 of them.
| Measure | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Median days on market | 12 | Half of closed homes went pending faster than this, half slower |
| Fastest city | Los Altos, 8 days | The tightest market in Santa Clara County |
| Slowest city | Gilroy, 22 days | The only city above 15 days |
| Median sale to list | 100.6% | The typical home closed slightly above list price |
| Closed transactions | 10,536 | Residential closings in the trailing twelve months |
| Active listings | 2,169 | Homes available to write on at the run date |
Source: MLSListings Inc. closed residential transactions, trailing twelve months to August 11, 2026. Single family, condominium and townhome only. Days on market measures list date to pending date.
Every figure on this page is a median. A single home that sits on the market for a year pulls an average upward far more than it changes the median, and Santa Clara County has enough unusual properties to make that a real distortion. The Aegis live market stats dashboard reports averages on a fifteen minute refresh, which is the right measure for watching a market move. This page reports medians across a fixed twelve month window, which is the right measure for a citable reference figure. The two will not match, and both are correct.
Which Santa Clara County City Sells Fastest?
Los Altos is the fastest market in Santa Clara County at a median of 8 days. Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale follow at 9. Gilroy is slowest at 22.
| Rank | City | Median days on market | Sale to list | Median sale price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Altos | 8 | 102.6% | $4,515,000 |
| 2 | Cupertino | 9 | 102.6% | $3,055,000 |
| 3 | Mountain View | 9 | 102.3% | $1,852,500 |
| 4 | Palo Alto | 9 | 102.5% | $3,510,000 |
| 5 | Sunnyvale | 9 | 103.6% | $1,865,000 |
| 6 | Campbell | 11 | 101.1% | $1,920,000 |
| 7 | Santa Clara | 11 | 102.7% | $1,690,000 |
| 8 | Saratoga | 11 | 100.1% | $4,100,000 |
| 9 | Los Gatos | 13 | 100.0% | $2,577,500 |
| 10 | Milpitas | 13 | 100.4% | $1,315,000 |
| 11 | Monte Sereno | 13 | 100.0% | $4,668,000 |
| 12 | San Jose | 13 | 100.4% | $1,402,000 |
| 13 | Los Altos Hills | 14 | 100.0% | $5,475,000 |
| 14 | Morgan Hill | 15 | 100.0% | $1,350,000 |
| 15 | Gilroy | 22 | 100.0% | $1,100,000 |
| Santa Clara County | 12 | 100.6% | $1,648,944 |
Source: MLSListings Inc. closed residential transactions, trailing twelve months to August 11, 2026. Ranked fastest to slowest.
Santa Clara County median sale prices span 5.0x, from $1,100,000 in Gilroy to $5,475,000 in Los Altos Hills. Days on market span 2.8x, and if Gilroy is set aside the remaining fourteen cities span 8 to 15 days, a range of under one week. Price separates these markets sharply. Speed barely separates them at all. A buyer moving between Santa Clara County cities to find a slower, more forgiving market will not find one.
Do Fast Markets Also Sell Above Asking?
Mostly yes, but not reliably. Sunnyvale carries the highest sale to list ratio in Santa Clara County at 103.6% and goes pending in 9 days. Los Altos is faster at 8 days but closes at 102.6%.
| City | Sale to list | Median days on market | Median sale price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnyvale | 103.6% | 9 | $1,865,000 |
| Santa Clara | 102.7% | 11 | $1,690,000 |
| Los Altos | 102.6% | 8 | $4,515,000 |
| Cupertino | 102.6% | 9 | $3,055,000 |
| Palo Alto | 102.5% | 9 | $3,510,000 |
| Mountain View | 102.3% | 9 | $1,852,500 |
| Campbell | 101.1% | 11 | $1,920,000 |
| Milpitas | 100.4% | 13 | $1,315,000 |
| San Jose | 100.4% | 13 | $1,402,000 |
| Saratoga | 100.1% | 11 | $4,100,000 |
| Los Gatos | 100.0% | 13 | $2,577,500 |
| Monte Sereno | 100.0% | 13 | $4,668,000 |
| Los Altos Hills | 100.0% | 14 | $5,475,000 |
| Morgan Hill | 100.0% | 15 | $1,350,000 |
| Gilroy | 100.0% | 22 | $1,100,000 |
| Santa Clara County | 100.6% | 12 | $1,648,944 |
Source: MLSListings Inc. closed residential transactions, trailing twelve months to August 11, 2026. Sale to list compares closed price to the list price of record.
Gilroy, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno and Morgan Hill all show a median sale to list ratio of exactly 100.0%. That is not a coincidence and it is not a rounding artifact. In markets where most homes sell at their asking price without competing offers, the median lands precisely on list. The cities that clear 102% are the ones where multiple offers are common enough to move the middle of the distribution, and they are concentrated in the north county technology corridor.
How Much Inventory Does Each Santa Clara County City Hold?
Santa Clara County holds 2,169 active listings against 10,536 annual closings, roughly 2.5 months of supply. Anything under six months is generally described as a seller's market.
Months of supply divides active inventory by the monthly sales pace. It answers how long the current inventory would last if no new homes were listed. Every city in Santa Clara County sits well under the six month balance point, and several sit near one month.
| City | Active listings | Closed, 12 months | Months of supply | Median days on market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell | 79 | 281 | 3.4 | 11 |
| Los Gatos | 104 | 412 | 3.0 | 13 |
| Morgan Hill | 108 | 443 | 2.9 | 15 |
| Cupertino | 62 | 257 | 2.9 | 9 |
| Gilroy | 91 | 387 | 2.8 | 22 |
| Milpitas | 70 | 299 | 2.8 | 13 |
| San Jose | 1,161 | 5,175 | 2.7 | 13 |
| Saratoga | 53 | 278 | 2.3 | 11 |
| Santa Clara | 117 | 651 | 2.2 | 11 |
| Mountain View | 88 | 498 | 2.1 | 9 |
| Monte Sereno | 7 | 41 | 2.0 | 13 |
| Los Altos Hills | 17 | 109 | 1.9 | 14 |
| Sunnyvale | 105 | 794 | 1.6 | 9 |
| Palo Alto | 61 | 530 | 1.4 | 9 |
| Los Altos | 34 | 338 | 1.2 | 8 |
| Santa Clara County | 2,169 | 10,536 | 2.5 | 12 |
Source: MLSListings Inc. Active listing counts are a point in time snapshot at August 11, 2026, counting status Active only and excluding pending and under contract. Closed counts cover the trailing twelve months. Months of supply is active divided by the monthly closing pace. Aegis Luxury Real Estate reports this as a derived figure, not an MLS field.
Do Expensive Santa Clara County Homes Take Longer to Sell?
No. Across the 15 Santa Clara County cities, median sale price and median days on market carry a Spearman rank correlation of -0.35, which is weak, not statistically significant at this sample size, and pointed in the opposite direction from the intuition that expensive homes sit longer. Los Altos Hills carries the highest median sale price at $5,475,000 and takes 14 days. Sunnyvale, at a third the price, takes 9.
The intuition that expensive homes sit longer does not hold here. Los Altos, the third most expensive city in Santa Clara County at $4,515,000, is also the fastest at 8 days. Gilroy, the least expensive at $1,100,000, is the slowest at 22. What predicts speed in Santa Clara County is not price but proximity to the technology employment corridor. The five fastest cities are Los Altos, Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale, and all five sit in the north county. The two slowest, Gilroy and Morgan Hill, sit at the southern end.
Days on market measures list date to pending date. It does not capture how many times a home was listed, withdrawn and relisted, which resets the clock. It does not capture pre-market or pocket activity that never appears in the multiple listing service. And it does not measure time to close, which adds escrow. A home showing 8 days on market may have been available to a buyer, in some form, for considerably longer.
How These Santa Clara County Figures Are Calculated
Every figure comes from MLSListings Inc. closed transaction records for the trailing twelve months, filtered to residential property. Closed sale measures are reported as medians rather than averages. Active inventory is a point in time count, months of supply is calculated by Aegis Luxury Real Estate from that count against the closing pace, and the price to speed correlation is calculated by Aegis Luxury Real Estate across the 15 cities.
| Element | Definition |
|---|---|
| Source | MLSListings Inc., the multiple listing service covering Santa Clara County |
| Window | Trailing twelve months to August 11, 2026 |
| Property types | Single family residence, condominium, townhome |
| Excluded | Land, commercial, manufactured housing, income property, lease listings |
| Days on market | List date to pending date, not to close |
| Sale to list | Closed price divided by list price of record, not original list price |
| Active listings | Status Active only, excluding pending and under contract, point in time |
| Months of supply | Derived: active listings divided by the monthly closing pace |
| Statistic | Median in every case, computed server side across the full population |
| Price to speed correlation | Spearman rank correlation of median sale price against median days on market across the 15 Santa Clara County cities. Calculated by Aegis Luxury Real Estate |
| Minimum sample | Cities with fewer than 10 closed transactions are not reported |
No figure on this page originates from a consumer portal, a commercial aggregator, or an automated valuation model. Every number is computed from closed transaction records in the multiple listing service that Santa Clara County brokers use to list and sell homes.
Official Sources for Santa Clara County Market Data
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Frequently Asked Questions
How long do homes take to sell in Santa Clara County?
The median Santa Clara County home went pending in 12 days, measured from list date to pending date across 10,536 closed residential transactions in the trailing twelve months to August 11, 2026. This is time to accepted offer, not time to closing, which adds escrow.
Which Santa Clara County city sells fastest?
Los Altos, at a median of 8 days. Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale follow at 9 days each. All five sit in the north county technology employment corridor.
Which Santa Clara County city sells slowest?
Gilroy, at a median of 22 days, followed by Morgan Hill at 15. Gilroy is the only city in Santa Clara County above 15 days. Both sit at the southern end of the county.
Do expensive homes take longer to sell in Santa Clara County?
No. Across the 15 Santa Clara County cities, median sale price and median days on market carry a Spearman rank correlation of -0.35, which is weak, not statistically significant at this sample size, and pointed opposite to the intuition that expensive homes sit longer. Los Altos Hills carries the highest median sale price at $5,475,000 and takes 14 days, while Sunnyvale at $1,865,000 takes 9 days. Los Altos is the third most expensive city and the fastest overall at 8 days.
Is Santa Clara County a buyer's or seller's market?
By the standard inventory measure, a seller's market. Santa Clara County holds 2,169 active listings against 10,536 annual closings, roughly 2.5 months of supply. Six months is generally treated as balance. No city in the county exceeds it.
Why do these figures differ from the Aegis live market dashboard?
The live dashboard reports averages refreshed every fifteen minutes. This page reports medians across a fixed trailing twelve month window. A small number of homes that sit unsold for many months pull an average well above the median. Both measures are correct and they answer different questions: the dashboard tracks what the market is doing now, this page provides a stable citable figure.
Timothy Alston
Timothy Alston is a licensed California real estate Broker serving all 15 cities of Santa Clara County. This reference page is maintained as part of an ongoing statistical series and is updated in place when its source data or methodology materially changes.