Alpine Uplands & Los Trancos Portola Valley, CA
Wooded hills along Alpine Road, including the Los Trancos Woods and Vista Verde area.
Living in Alpine Uplands & Los Trancos
This area covers the wooded hills along upper Alpine Road, including the Los Trancos Woods and Vista Verde neighborhood, which began as a collection of summer cabins for San Franciscans. Today it's single-family homes of many eras on wooded lots, in an area often described as a wildlife corridor. About 8 to 9 homes sell each year, with a 12-month median around $2.83M.
Parking & walkability: Homes have driveways and off-street parking, and many roads are narrow and winding with no sidewalks. It's a driving area, with open space preserves and trails all around, and Portola Valley's town center, Stanford and Highway 280 a short drive down Alpine Road.
What homes in Alpine Uplands & Los Trancos are doing
Single-family homes in Alpine Uplands & Los Trancos sold for a median of about $1.66M in 2015–16 and $2.5M in 2024–25, a 51% increase, behind Portola Valley as a whole (+59%). In 2025, homes here sold at a moderate pace (median 16 days on market) and close to asking (100.0% of list price on average). So far in 2026 (5 sales through September), the median is $2.55M.
Median single-family price, 2015–2026
* 2026 covers January through September. Hollow dots mark years with fewer than 3 single-family sales; treat those medians as rough. 92 single-family sales since 2015.
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 5 | $2.55M | $1,107 | 69 | 95.6% |
| 2025 | 9 | $2.92M | $1,172 | 16 | 100.0% |
| 2024 | 9 | $2.08M | $1,270 | 10 | 100.0% |
| 2023 | 6 | $2.31M | $1,033 | 31 | 99.6% |
| 2022 | 3 | $2.33M | $945 | 62 | 103.4% |
| 2021 | 15 | $2.6M | $1,098 | 19 | 98.7% |
| 2020 | 12 | $2.19M | $970 | 12 | 94.7% |
| 2019 | 7 | $1.4M | $1,186 | 85 | 93.6% |
| 2018 | 7 | $2.25M | $1,037 | 41 | 94.9% |
| 2017 | 6 | $2M | $992 | 14 | 102.1% |
| 2016 | 4 | $1.33M | $950 | 43 | 94.2% |
| 2015 | 9 | $1.8M | $880 | 49 | 96.2% |
Alpine Uplands & Los Trancos on the map
Borders are built lot by lot from the county's property lines and where homes have been listed (MLS neighborhood codes), and stay inside official city limits (dashed), so a home or two along an edge may differ from official MLS lines.
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Source: MLSListings, Inc. closed sales, 2015–September 2026, summarized by Drew Lehr. Neighborhood figures combine the MLS area(s) that make up Alpine Uplands & Los Trancos; where there are several, yearly figures are sales-weighted. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.