Silicon Valley Land Entitlement
Every parcel below is vacant, unentitled, and residential-capable, screened from 549 active listings and ranked by the modeled return on your entitle-and-resell play. Because you also build, each card weighs the resale exit against the option to build it out yourself. Filter and sort the list, heart the ones worth a closer look, and open Full details for the real market read and the tradeoffs.
How we ranked these
We underwrite backward, from the finished homes to the dirt. Resale value per square foot, from real closed sales, less construction, developer margin and soft costs gives the entitled land value, the price a builder pays for shovel-ready land. That is your resale floor, and because you build, it is also the line where constructing the homes yourself starts to compete with a flip. Subtract entitlement cost and carry and you have the most you should pay for the raw land today.
The order is set by risk-adjusted return: the modeled multiple discounted by the real odds of winning approval in that jurisdiction, about 85% in compliant Tier A cities and roughly 42% in the estate towns. The multiples are pre-diligence ceilings, not appraisals, and every parcel needs zoning, utility and title verification before an offer. The market chips on each card, liquidity and days on market, come from two years of sold land data.
Beyond this list: the listed market is a fraction of what exists. Roughly 2,827 buildable parcels sit off-market across the two counties, 112 in Saratoga alone where nothing is currently listed. We can run a targeted outreach campaign to those owners on request.
Drag the number badge on any home to move it up or down the list.