Stanford, CA Home for Rent

In the middle of Silicon Valley is Stanford, a census-designated community home to a dynamic academic scene centering around the area’s namesake, Stanford University. Located within the city of Palo Alto, dubbed the “Birthplace of Silicon Valley” because of its global influence on technology, Stanford University is a private research university known to be one of the top collegiate institutes in the world. Its alumni roster includes hundreds of political leaders, tech founders and Olympic athletes, and its sprawling 8,180-acre campus has residential communities with reduced-price housing options for university faculty, staff and students. “Stanford is one of the country’s largest colleges in terms of acreage,” says Caroline Reinhart, a recent alum of the university’s undergraduate and graduate degree programs. “The university owns the Stanford Shopping Center, the Stanford Golf Course and a lot of other places that aren’t on the main campus but are rather spread throughout the Palo Alto area.” According to Pamela Culp, a local Realtor with Compass who has sold multiple Stanford residences, single-family homes located on land owned by the university can only be bought by faculty