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Palo Alto Real Estate

Palo Alto is home in Santa Clara County in the San Francisco Bay area at the northern end of Silicon Valley. Palo Alto is known for its beautiful older homes many which date back to the 1890's along with a few famous home built in the Joseph Eichler design just after World War II, however, this is not the reason many people wish to call Palo Alto home.

The magnificent weather, excellent educational opportunities along with natural beauty draws people from all over the nation in hopes of finding their dream home. The residents enjoy such natural habitats as estuarine, riparian, and oak forest along with all the animals you would expect to see. Palo Alto is bordered to the north by East Palo Alto, the west by Menlo Park, to the east by Mountain View and Los Altos and the southern border with Los Altos Hills and Stanford.

Some of the notable companies headquartered in Palo Alto include Agilent Technologies, Amazon.com's A9.com, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Photobucket, and the Wall Street Journal to name just a few.

Palo Alto provides quality education through Palo Alto Unified School District along with numerous private schools such as the Bowman International School, Pinewood School, St. Elizabeth Seton Extended, and Castilleja School.

Some of the famous landmarks at home in Palo Alto include Arastradero Preserve, Arizona Cactus Garden, Gamble House, Matadero Creek, Stanford Theater, Foothills Park Nature Interpretive Center, Veterans Golf Course, Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club , Museum of American Heritage, and University Avenue.

Palo Alto has many wonderful opportunities for your dream home including single family dwellings, condo's, and town homes. The average list price of condo's and town homes is around $933,986 and single family home average is $4,062,404. Commercial property on average is around $1,951,333.

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