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About Linda
Linda Taaffe is associate editor for the Palo Alto Weekly/PaloAltoOnline.com. She oversees special print projects, including the Home & Real Estate, Neighborhoods and award-winning Info magazines. She coordinates special digital projects such as Searching for their Father's Killer and Palo Alto's Journey into the 21st Century.During the past two decades, Linda has worked as a Bay Area journalist covering education, government, business and neighborhoods. She launched her career as a writer at her hometown paper in Los Altos and was an editor at Bay Area News Group and Silicon Valley Business Journal before joining the Palo Alto Weekly in 2016.
Stories by Linda
Home Sales: Old Palo Alto home fetches $12.5M
At $12.5 million, a newly built home in the Old Palo Alto neighborhood sold with the highest price tag. Out of this week's 27 sales, Palo Alto saw the most transactions with nine homes sold.[Friday, January 19, 2024]
Home Sales: Contemporary custom home with 9 bathrooms sells for $16.8M in West Atherton
At $16.8 million, a newly built 7,276-square-foot contemporary home with nine bathrooms in West Atherton sold with the highest price tag on the Midpeninsula.[Friday, January 12, 2024]
HP Garage isn't the only notable landmark in Palo Alto's University South: Here's 7 places to explore
Want to explore the Midpeninsula's neighborhoods? Embarcadero Media's new "A Day In" series highlights the history, architecture and points of interest of different local neighborhoods on an interactive map each month.[Thursday, January 11, 2024]
These Midpeninsula homes sold for over $20M in 2023
There were plenty of homes that sold for eight figures along the Midpeninsula over the past year. We've compiled a list of 12 single-family homes that sold for north of $20 million in the region during 2023.[Tuesday, January 9, 2024]
Home Sales: Atherton home with its own sports bar sells for $24M
At $24 million, a 12,778-square-foot Atherton home with seven en suite bedrooms, a wine cellar, a one-bedroom guest house and recreation room with a sports bar sold with the highest price tag.[Friday, January 5, 2024]
Home Sales: Los Altos Hills Mediterranean-style hilltop home sells for $9M
At $9 million, a Mediterranean home with vaulted ceilings, a custom pool and trail access to Rancho San Antonio park in Los Altos Hills sold for the highest price tag.[Friday, December 29, 2023]
Home Sales: At $6M, Los Altos home with guest house near golf course sees highest price
A single-level 4-bedroom-, 3-bath home with a guest house on 1.1 acres in Los Altos' Country Club neighborhood saw the highest sales price at $6 million.[Friday, December 22, 2023]
Home Sales: Atherton home with 'California style' garden by noted landscape pioneer sells for $12.75M
A remodeled 1960s-era home with classic French details and original landscaping by 20th-century landscape architect Thomas Church, who is credited with creating the "California style" garden, fetched $12.75 million in Atherton.[Friday, December 15, 2023]
How Mountain View's oldest house became a motive for the 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping
Most people who have ventured into Shoreline Park have seen the Rengstorff House. Years before the mansion became Mountain View's history museum, it was part of the motive behind one of the country's largest mass kidnappings.[Thursday, December 14, 2023]
Home Sales: At $11.7M, Atherton home with wine room, tennis court fetches highest price
A 7,880-square-foot home with a 750-bottle wine room, tennis court, pool, spa and library sold for $11.7 million in Atherton. See which homes sold for the highest amounts in various cities along the Midpeninsula.[Friday, December 8, 2023]