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Linda Taaffe

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
33
Latest publication
Sep 21, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Palo Alto Online
Top 1M sites
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Jul 8, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · Linda Taaffe, Xin Jiang

    Palo Alto neighborhoods mapped: See where median prices jumped, inventory dipped and sales surged in 2026 (opens the original)

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    Limited inventory and strong buyer demand shaped Palo Alto’s housing market in 2026. Buyer activity has picked up since fall 2025, while the number of homes coming onto the market has remained low. That has kept competition strong for the limited number of homes that do come up for sale, with some selling for substantially more than the asking price. During the first eight months of 2026, the number of new single-family-home listings in Palo Alto declined 9% from the same period last year. Yet s

  2. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Linda Taaffe

    How Palo Alto’s newest housing projects are testing the limits of what can be built (opens the original)

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    For years, Palo Alto has struggled to add enough housing, particularly affordable homes, while working within some of the region’s most restrictive zoning rules. Six projects now moving through various stages of Palo Alto’s pipeline show how that landscape is changing. From a downtown parking lot and a longtime shopping center to an office park east of Highway 101, the developments are using state housing laws, new zoning tools and public-private partnerships to add hundreds of homes to the city

  3. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Linda Taaffe

    How Palo Alto’s newest housing projects are testing the limits of what can be built (opens the original)

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    For years, Palo Alto has struggled to add enough housing, particularly affordable homes, while working within some of the region’s most restrictive zoning rules. Six projects now moving through various stages of Palo Alto’s pipeline show how that landscape is changing. From a downtown parking lot and a longtime shopping center to an office park east of Highway 101, the developments are using state housing laws, new zoning tools and public-private partnerships to add hundreds of homes to the city

  4. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Linda Taaffe

    How Palo Alto’s newest housing projects are testing the limits of what can be built (opens the original)

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    For years, Palo Alto has struggled to add enough housing, particularly affordable homes, while working within some of the region’s most restrictive zoning rules. Six projects now moving through various stages of Palo Alto’s pipeline show how that landscape is changing. From a downtown parking lot and a longtime shopping center to an office park east of Highway 101, the developments are using state housing laws, new zoning tools and public-private partnerships to add hundreds of homes to the city

  5. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Linda Taaffe

    What $217K gets you in Palo Alto: A condo where an 1840s adobe once stood (opens the original)

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    Each week, Embarcadero Media takes a look at home sales activity along the Midpeninsula in the communities of Atherton, East Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Portola Valley and Woodside. Home sales are provided by California Resource, a real estate information company that obtains the information from counties’ recorder’s offices. Information is recorded from deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to eight weeks. Here’s a look at hom

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