Located at the west end of the Santa Clara Valley, Saratoga offers an exceptional balance of suburban and small-town living, along with healthy dollops of outdoor recreation opportunities, community activities and a small but impressive wine and fine dining scene. Overflowing with natural beauty, spacious homes and a commitment to being one of the South Bay’s most family-friendly cities, Saratoga is a regular on “best places to live” lists and in 2009, was named by Forbes Magazine as one of “America’s top 20 most-educated small towns.”
In 2010, Bloomberg Businessweek named it the “most expensive suburb in California,” and a 2016 Coldwell Banker study found Saratoga to be the most expensive place in the United States to purchase a four-bedroom, two-bathroom home (Saratoga’s median price for such a home was $2.453 million).
Despite Saratoga’s exclusive reputation, it is possible to find a comfortable home on a roomy lot for under $2 million. Neighborhoods like Brookview, Prides Crossing, Saratoga Creek and Saratoga Woods offer slightly more “entry-level” opportunities than Saratoga’s more exclusive hillside neighborhoods like Parker Ranch, a planned hillside community with a one-acre lot minimum where homes often fetch sale prices ranging well into eight figures.