Portola Valley Ranch Portola Valley, CA
A 1975 planned community that clusters homes to preserve hundreds of acres of open space.
Living in Portola Valley Ranch
Portola Valley Ranch is a planned community designed in 1975 to protect the natural landscape: homes are clustered together so that about 347 acres remain open space. It's single-family homes, many designed to blend into the hillsides, with about 5 to 10 sales a year and a 12-month median around $4.28M.
Parking & walkability: Homes have garages and driveways, and the community's quiet roads are easy to park on. Trails through the Ranch's open space start right outside the door, and Portola Valley's town center, Stanford and Highway 280 are a short drive.
What homes in Portola Valley Ranch are doing
Single-family homes in Portola Valley Ranch sold for a median of about $2.79M in 2015–16 and $4.08M in 2024–25, a 46% increase, behind Portola Valley as a whole (+59%). In 2025, homes here sold at a moderate pace (median 30 days on market) and close to asking (100.0% of list price on average). So far in 2026 (7 sales through September), the median is $4.53M.
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. 96 single-family sales since 2015.
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 7 | $4.53M | $1,273 | 46 | 98.1% |
| 2025 | 7 | $4.2M | $1,231 | 30 | 100.0% |
| 2024 | 5 | $3.9M | $1,302 | 12 | 100.0% |
| 2023 | 4 | $3.08M | $1,194 | 25 | 96.8% |
| 2022 | 9 | $3.3M | $1,209 | 13 | 98.0% |
| 2021 | 14 | $3.31M | $1,175 | 12 | 100.0% |
| 2020 | 7 | $3.49M | $974 | 30 | 95.9% |
| 2019 | 6 | $3.32M | $1,110 | 32 | 95.8% |
| 2018 | 7 | $3.7M | $1,031 | 9 | 103.0% |
| 2017 | 13 | $3M | $1,028 | 20 | 99.5% |
| 2016 | 12 | $2.83M | $875 | 17 | 99.9% |
| 2015 | 5 | $2.7M | $844 | 12 | 100.0% |
Portola Valley Ranch 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 Portola Valley Ranch; where there are several, yearly figures are sales-weighted. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.