Why Yvonne Yang is our featured agent for Palo Alto
Palo Alto is a market of old houses and very high prices. The Census counts 25.1% of the city's homes as built in the 1950s and a median build year of 1963, while Redfin's median sale price over the three months to September 2026 was $3,608,282. Many sellers are long-time owners deciding whether to update, sell as is, or downsize, and many buyers are weighing a remodel against a rebuild. We chose Yvonne Yang because her team's work centers on exactly those choices: it plans and manages pre-sale renovation and staging, and she has published a guide to downsizing and 55+ moves for Silicon Valley owners.
Her office is at 270 3rd Street in Los Altos, and Palo Alto is one of the four places she names as her own and one of the six cities on her website's communities page, which carries a Palo Alto buyer's guide. None of the 17 renovation projects on her website is in Palo Alto; most are in San Jose, Mountain View and Sunnyvale, so ask her for a list of her recent Palo Alto sales by ZIP before you sign. She is our recommendation, not a ranking of every agent in the city. Interview more than one agent.
Yvonne Yang's license, brokerage and team
Yvonne Yang's DRE license
The California Department of Real Estate public lookup, checked October 30, 2026, lists Yifang Yvonne Yang as a licensed broker, license 01371905, expiring December 11, 2027, with no disciplinary action. She was first licensed as a salesperson on April 10, 2003, and as a broker on December 12, 2011. She is a broker associate for Compass California II, Inc. (license 01527235), and was with Alain Pinel Realtors from August 2019 to January 2022. Her website shows the same license number.
Who works on the Yvonne Yang Homes team
Her team page lists Zi Jian Zhao (DRE 01049014), who runs property management, and Tiffany Wong (DRE 02252674), team lead and design and project manager, plus a project and marketing coordinator, an executive assistant and a marketing assistant. Ask which of them will handle your showings, contractors and paperwork.
Background and languages
Her website says she spent more than 10 years in technology and engineering before real estate, and she lists English, Mandarin and Wu Chinese (Shanghainese).
Yvonne Yang's record and client reviews
Rankings that list Yvonne Yang
RealTrends' verified rankings, based on 2025 sales, show her small Compass team with 49 sides and $115.65 million in volume, an average price of $2.36 million, ranked 230th in the nation and 84th in California by volume. The Leading 100's 2025 list of individual agents places her 20th, with $127,572,663 of closed volume. Her website reports more than 23 years in the business, over 1,300 families helped and more than $1.3 billion in sales; those career totals are her own figures and we could not check them independently.
What Yvonne Yang's clients say
She reports 292 reviews. In a 2026 review she shared with us, a client named Ly writes: "In 2023, despite limited inventory and high interest rates, she helped us find a home in a great school district that fit both our family’s needs and budget." On her website, Leonip Xu writes: "Honestly, Yvonne, over the past 12 years you’ve helped us buy and sell four homes (two bought, two sold)." Neither review names the city where the homes were.
How Yvonne Yang works with Palo Alto sellers and buyers
Selling an older Palo Alto house
Her team chooses the updates, hires the contractors and stages the home before listing. On a $3 million house, the question is whether a few weeks of work will lift the price by more than it costs, or whether the buyer pool is builders who will tear it down. Ask her for the before-and-after numbers on two or three of her projects and for Palo Alto comparables of updated and unupdated homes. Our California home selling guide covers the steps.
Downsizing from a long-held Palo Alto home
Her downsizing guide covers Prop 19 base-year transfers for owners 55 and older, buying before selling with bridge loans, and estate sorting. If you are moving within California, read our Prop 19 guide and ask her how she coordinates the timing of two closings.
Buying in Palo Alto
Redfin shows 94306 houses selling at 109.2% of list on average over the three months to September 2026, while 94306 condos sold at 99.3% and took a median 59 days. Ask her how she sets an offer when there is a review date, and check school assignment on the district's own address map.
Palo Alto prices by ZIP
The table uses Redfin's rolling three months to September 30, 2026, for all home types.
| Palo Alto ZIP | Redfin median sale price | Homes sold | Average sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|
| 94301 | $4,207,264 | 39 | 107.4% |
| 94306 | $3,413,997 | 58 | 106.7% |
Zillow's typical home value, a different measure, was $3,592,240 for the whole city in September 2026. See our Palo Alto homes guide for more.
How we chose Yvonne Yang for Palo Alto
We confirmed her broker license and responsible broker on the DRE lookup, read her RealTrends profile and The Leading 100's 2025 list, and read her website's Palo Alto, team and renovation pages. Every featured agent passes the same checks. Read the full method on how we choose agents.
How to contact Yvonne Yang
Call (650) 530-3162, email yvonne@yvonneyanghomes.com, or visit the Compass office at 270 3rd Street, Los Altos, CA 94022. Her website is yvonneyanghomes.com. Bring your Palo Alto address or target ZIP, your timing and, if you are selling, a list of the work the house has had.