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The Commute Arbitrage Calculator

Every minute of commute you're willing to accept is a discount on your house. We fit median single-family prices against AM-peak drive times to each major campus — so you can see exactly what proximity costs, and where the market is mispricing your commute.

Every minute closer to Apple Park costs
$8K
in median home price, across the 10 markets we track
Best commute value right now
San Jose
$1.65M median · ~25 min to Apple Park — the most house per minute of drive in this set

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City medians hide the arbitrage inside each city — the Sunnyvale pocket that beats Cupertino on commute and price. That's the conversation worth having with real listings on the table. Buying with us also returns up to 1% of the purchase price to you at closing.

Methodology: drive times are AM-peak estimates to each campus from typical residential areas of each city; the $-per-minute figure is the slope of a least-squares fit of median single-family price against drive time (Atherton excluded as an estate-market outlier). City medians refresh with our monthly data push. Illustrative analysis, not an appraisal.

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