Eric & Janelle Boyenga have spent nearly three decades buying and selling mid-century modern homes across Silicon Valley. Sunnyvale is the heart of it — roughly 1,100 Eichlers across 16 tracts, from Fairorchard and Fairbrae to Rancho Verde's double A-frames. More post‑and‑beam glass walls per square mile than almost anywhere in California.
The original Property Nerds · Compass
Clients started calling us the Property Nerds years ago and it stuck, because it's accurate. In Sunnyvale we know which of the sixteen tracts you're standing in — Fairbrae's Jones & Emmons plans, the courtyard-and-atrium models of Fairorchard, Rancho Verde's rare Claude Oakland double A-frames. We know which streets sit in a single-story overlay, what the city's Eichler Design Guidelines allow, why a 1959 radiant slab runs cold in the back bedroom, and what a foam-roof recoat costs this year. When an original-condition atrium model lists, that detail is the difference between winning it and watching it go.
Every Eichler is the same handful of moves in the same order: slab, frame, roof, glass, and the details that give it away from the sidewalk. Keep scrolling to build one.
Before the frame, the heat. Eichler crews laid the radiant heating pipes straight into the concrete floor slab — no ducts, no vents, the floor itself is the furnace. It's also why a 1959 slab can run cold in the back bedroom sixty years on.
Redwood posts, then beams across them, everything on a four-foot module. It's why an Eichler ceiling runs flat and unbroken from the front door straight out to the glass — and why moving one interior wall is easy and moving another is structural.
The gable drops on, the street side closes up for privacy, and the garden side becomes floor-to-ceiling glass. Same house, two completely different faces — the whole point of the design.
The finishing marks that read as "Eichler" from fifty feet: the open beamed carport, the drought-tolerant front planting, and the globe lamp glowing beside a saturated front door.
Sunnyvale's Eichlers run on two things: architecture that rewards people who know it, and a preservation-minded city that has written the rules down. We work both.
Which of the sixteen Sunnyvale tracts you're looking at, which blocks kept their atriums, and how Fairbrae's 350 homes trade against Rancho Verde's 180.
Radiant slabs, foam and tar-and-gravel roofs, single-pane glass, original mahogany — what to keep, what to fix, and who does Eichler work well in the South Bay.
A restored original with its atrium intact can clear well over list; a deferred-maintenance house won't. Sunnyvale Eichlers run roughly $2.1M to $3.4M — we price to the market that's actually bidding.
Sunnyvale's Eichler Design Guidelines and single-story overlay zones cover Fairbrae, Fairorchard, Fairwood, Rancho Verde and more. We know what they mean for an addition or a siding change.
Sunnyvale Eichler buyers are specific: a designer who wants an original Claude Oakland plan, a tech family trading a bigger house for a walk to Fairbrae Swim & Tennis, a mid-century collector who has watched Rancho Verde for years. A general MLS push never reaches them. Our marketing does — the Eichler Network audience, the modern-home brokers, the client list we've built since 1996.
Pricing built on real Eichler comps, not the nearest four-bedroom. Compass Concierge to get the kitchen, baths and roofline to the standard this buyer expects. Matterport tours for the out-of-area offers that come in non-contingent.
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We tour the house with you and read it out loud: the roof's age and type, whether the slab has been opened, original glazing versus retrofit, how sympathetic the last remodel was, and what the tract's overlay zone and the city's design guidelines will and won't allow you to change.
Then we build the offer. Deep Eichler comp data tells us the number that wins without leaving money on the table past the next bidder. Our network surfaces Compass Private Exclusives in the Sunnyvale tracts before they reach the open market.
Start your searchThey knew the house before we walked in — the plan number, the roof, the one wall we could legally move. We closed in Fairbrae under budget and haven't second-guessed it since. — Sunnyvale homeowner, represented by the Boyenga Team
The things that set a Sunnyvale Eichler's value — an original floor plan versus a rebuild, whether the atrium is intact, the condition of the roof and slab, and which of the tracts it sits in — are exactly the things an automated estimate gets wrong.
Tell us the address and we'll come back with a range and the reasoning behind it, priced by hand against real Eichler sales. No obligation, no drip campaign.
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