San Jose home values, from the county record.

What is the median home value in San Jose, CA?

Across 1,002 randomly sampled San Jose homes, the median automated valuation is $1,564,650, with the middle half of homes between $1,007,325 and $2,057,850. These are model estimates computed from county records and comparable sales — a starting point, not an appraisal. Agents competing for a listing will each defend their own number.

What does a typical San Jose home look like?

Across 231,802 residential county parcels in San Jose: the median home is 1,537 square feet with 3 bedrooms, built around 1971 (about 55 years old), on a 5,663 sq ft lot. 77% of parcels are single-family homes and 20% are condominiums.

What does it cost to sell a home in San Jose?

Commission is the biggest cost, and it is negotiable — there is no standard rate. At the 5.7% national average total commission (Clever Real Estate survey of 533 agents, February 2026), selling the median San Jose home ($1,564,650) costs about $89,185. Every percentage point negotiated off that rate keeps about $15,647 with the seller — which is why having several agents quote against each other matters more here than in a cheaper market. Run your own numbers in the commission calculator.

Where these numbers come from

We maintain our own store of county assessor parcel records — 231,802 of them for San Jose so far, growing daily. Housing-stock figures (size, age, bedrooms, lot, property mix) are medians across that full set. Value figures are medians of automated valuations for a random sample of those parcels, and the sample size is always shown. No figure on this page is scraped from another website.

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