Selling Your Home in Atherton
July 2026: median $12,125,000 · 108% of list received · 20 days to sell. What that means for your sale, and the number that matters for your home.
Atherton single-family market, July 2026
What this market means for Atherton sellers
In July 2026, 12 single-family homes closed in Atherton at a median of $12,125,000, or $2,393 per square foot. Sellers collected 108% of their list price, and the average sale took 20 days.
That is a seller's market by any measure. Buyers in Atherton are competing, and homes that are prepared, priced, and marketed well are clearing above asking. The spread between a well-run sale and a passive one is widest in exactly these conditions.
Supply stays tight: Atherton carried 0.8 months of inventory in July 2026. Serious buyers have little to choose from, which is precisely the environment where a well-presented home commands its price.
For context, the July 2026 median sits 27% above the full-year 2025 median of $9,575,000.
A 5,750 sq ft single-family home, the Atherton average, typically sold between $12,797,000 and $14,723,000 in July 2026.
Computed from the month's median price per square foot. Your home's condition, upgrades, lot, and street move the real number. Lisa's free valuation pins it down within 24 hours.
Run your own numbers first
Every tool below uses current San Mateo County figures. Start with the net sheet; it answers the question every seller asks first.
Seller Net Sheet
What you walk away with after commissions, taxes, and fees at your sale price.
CalculateCapital Gains Estimator
Your taxable gain after the $250K/$500K exclusion, at Atherton price levels.
CalculateListing Timing
How list month has historically moved sale price and speed on the Peninsula.
CalculatePricing Strategy
How Lisa prices to create competition instead of chasing the market down.
ReadHome Refresh
Pre-market preparation managed end to end: design, vendors, timeline.
ExploreAtherton Community Guide
Neighborhoods, schools, and the full market picture buyers are reading.
VisitThe market sets the range. Preparation decides where you land in it.
Lisa manages the whole arc of a Atherton sale: pricing built from street-level comparables, pre-market preparation through the Home Refresh program, and negotiation when the offers arrive. One person, accountable for the result, from the first walkthrough to the wire transfer.
Watch: why some Peninsula homes sell in 13 days while others sit for 51
The preparation and pricing decisions behind the spread, from Lisa's Silicon Valley market films.
More Peninsula market films on Lisa’s YouTube channel.
Selling in Atherton: common questions
Straight answers from the current data. For anything specific to your property, call Lisa at (650) 668-1868.