
Mountain View, California derives its name from the majestic views of Santa Cruz Mountains where it is bordered to the northwest by Palo Alto, southwest by Los Altos, southeast by Sunnyvale, and northeast by the San Francisco Bay.
One of the major attractions of Mountain is the historic route, El Camino Real, goes through the town. This historic route has many visitors wishing they owned a home in this beautiful and wonderful area of Santa Clara County. Of course, Mountain View is home in the Silicon Valley and has many famous Silicon Valley companies headquartered here including Google, AOL, Jajah, Mircosoft's Tellme/MSN/Hotmail/Xbox/MSNTV divisions, Red Hat, and VeriSign just to name a few.
Mountain View maintains quality educational facilities with 12 public schools, which are governed by the Mountain View-Whisman School District and eight private schools including German International School of Silicon Valley, Yew Chung International School of Silicon Valley, and the Saint Francis High School.
Living in Mountain View gives your family many wonderful adventures, activities, and attractions such as the Shoreline Park, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Rengstorff House, Stevens Creek, The Stevens Creek Trail, Moffett Field which is home to NASA Ames Research Center, the Jehning Family Lock Museum, the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, the Computer History Museum, and the Huff House.
Mountain View has property for sale that encompasses such dwellings as single-family homes, condominiums, town homes, and commercial property. The average list price for a single-family dwelling is $1,044,575, for condominium's and town homes, the average price is $562,821, and for commercial property, the average list price is $1,124,936. When it comes to homes whether 1 bedroom or 5 and up you will find a variety of amenities to make your family happy. When it does come to pricing for 1-bedroom homes the average range is between $299,950 and $459,000 while the largest 5-bedroom homes average range is between $899,900 and $1,398.000.