Discover Your Home's Value.
Keep More of Your Equity.
Get a personalized home value estimate, explore comparable sales, and see what you could keep when you sell with Equitas Homes.
Our tool benchmarks 3 real-estate portals and a multi-model AI panel against Santa Clara County transfer taxes — so you see a defensible value and the equity you keep.
The Brokerage Designed Around
Protecting Seller Equity.
Selling your home isn't just about the final sale price. From pricing and preparation to marketing, negotiation, commissions and closing costs, every decision can affect how much equity you ultimately keep.
Equitas Homes is built around protecting it.
It's not just what you sell for—it's what you keep.
Protect Your Price
Local pricing, preparation and market strategy designed to position your home effectively.
Protect Your Exposure
Professional marketing and broad MLS distribution designed to reach the market.
Protect Your Negotiation
Experienced representation through offers, inspections, concessions and escrow.
Protect Your Equity
Full-service representation for a 1% listing fee, helping reduce one of the largest costs of selling.
Better information helps protect your equity.
Our valuation technology compares multiple data sources to help sellers understand not only what their home may be worth, but what they may actually keep.
How the Santa Clara County valuation tool works
What is the Santa Clara County Multi-AI Home Valuation Tool?
The Santa Clara County Multi-AI & 3-Portal AVM tool is a free home-valuation instrument from Equitas Homes. It benchmarks three real-estate portal estimates — a live Zillow Zestimate® (via Bridge Interactive) alongside Redfin and Homes.com — against a three-model AI appraisal panel (Google Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic Claude) reasoning over local MLS comparables. It then applies the Santa Clara County documentary transfer tax of $1.10 per $1,000 (plus any city measure such as San Jose's Measure E or Mountain View's Measure G) and a 1% listing fee to show a seller's true net equity.
3-Portal AVM Benchmarking
Cross-checks a live Zillow Zestimate® (via Bridge Interactive) with Redfin and Homes.com figures against MLS comparable sales, so your Santa Clara County value reflects several independent models — not a single black-box estimate.
Multi-AI Comparative Market Engine
Three independent AI appraisers — Google Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic Claude — each weigh Santa Clara County comparables for proximity, recency, size, and lot nuances, then reconcile to a defensible range with the adjustment math shown.
Real Net Equity Calculation
Instantly deducts the Santa Clara County documentary transfer tax of $1.10 per $1,000 (plus any city measure such as San Jose's Measure E or Mountain View's Measure G) and models a 1% Equitas listing fee against a traditional 3%, so you see the equity you actually keep — not just a headline price.
Automated Valuation
An instant estimate with a low–high range, confidence, and a clear source and date — no guesswork, no jargon.
Local Tax Accuracy
Jurisdiction-aware transfer taxes for Santa Clara County, including San Jose Measure E and Mountain View Measure G.
1% Equity Retention
See exactly what you keep with a 1% listing fee compared to a traditional 3% assumption.
Every portal's number, side by side
Instead of trusting a single estimate, Equitas lines up the major portals next to a multi-model AI appraisal, then reconciles them into one defensible range for your home.
Live Zestimate® via Bridge Interactive
Side-by-side in your valuation report
Side-by-side in your valuation report
Your reconciled range
A 3-model AI panel (Gemini, OpenAI, Claude) weighs local comparables and blends the portal signals into a low–high range with the math shown — then applies local transfer taxes and your 1% net equity.
Enter your addressIllustrative schematic — portal availability varies by home; enter your address for live figures.
See what a 1% listing fee keeps in your pocket.
Drag to your estimated sale price. Comparison figures are illustrative assumptions — all commissions are negotiable and not set by law.
$1,800,000
Illustrative 3% Fee
$54,000
Equitas 1%
$18,000
You Keep
$36,000
Comparison figures are illustrative assumptions — all commissions and fees are negotiable and not set by law.
Prepared by a licensed Santa Clara County broker
Estimates on this site are provided by Equitas Homes and can be reviewed by Louis Fong, Broker (California DRE 01151598), who helps sellers across San Jose, Cupertino, Palo Alto, Saratoga, Los Gatos and all of Santa Clara County. We're transparent: automated estimates are clearly labeled and never presented as a guaranteed sale price, and your report request never enrolls you in marketing.
When an unrepresented buyer makes an offer,
your total commission is just 2%.
When a buyer discovers your home without an agent, you shouldn't be locked into high buyer-broker fees. With the Equitas Homes 2% Direct Sale your total brokerage commission is 2% of the gross sale price — while you keep exclusive, single-agency seller representation.
1% + 1% = 2% total
Transparent fee structure
A 1% listing fee for full-service marketing and advocacy, plus 1% for the transaction coordination and escrow oversight an unrepresented buyer lacks.
Zero dual agency
Dedicated seller loyalty
Equitas represents you exclusively. The buyer stays unrepresented, so our negotiation strategy and confidential advice belong entirely to you.
Illustrative: 2% vs 5%
Real equity preservation
On a $2,000,000 San Jose home, 2% total is $40,000 — an illustrative $60,000 less than a 5% model. Commissions are negotiable and not set by law.
Commissions are negotiable. Broker: Louis Fong · CA DRE #01151598 · Serving San Jose, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, and across Silicon Valley.
Seller questions, answered.
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