Gilroy Condos

Gilroy is at the southern end of the Santa Clara Valley and still an agricultural area, known as the world's Garlic Capital, and host of an annual garlic festival. It was founded in 1814 by a Scottish seaman who jumped ship or was left in Monterey to recover from scurvy, named John Gilroy, who was the first non-Hispanic recognized as a resident of Alta California by the Spanish Crown. 

Gilroy is convenient to several parks and recreation areas in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and since the mid to late 1970s has evolved as a bedroom community for Silicon Valley residents who want a rural agricultural area lifestyle, many older residents raised in the orchards of the northern valley fleeing urbanization. Gilroy Premium Outlets, offers upscale factory outlet stores in the largest factory outlet center in the valley. Much of the year, the city is perfumed with garlic and a winery and roadside stands provide the freshest produce available in the valley. 

Condominium living in Gilroy is a new and growing phenomenon. Proximity to both San Jose and the Monterey Bay as well as the Pacheco Pass Road has made Gilroy popular with both younger single people trying to escape the higher condo prices of the northern valley and baby boomers winding down into a rural retirement in condominium convenience. 

Your Gilroy condominium will be relatively new and quite possibly with limited amenities. Condo prices in Gilroy tend to be 20-30% below equivalent properties in the northern valley. The central location between the beaches of Monterey Bay, the Santa Cruz Mountains and San Jose make a Gilroy condo convenient to the best of Northern California. 

Gilroy is centered at the intersection of Highway 101 and Highway 152, on the east Pacheco Pass Highway and on the west Heckler Pass Highway. Pacheco leads to the San Joaquin Valley, Heckler to Watsonville and Monterey Bay. 

Gilroy condominium real estate is a rural alternative to the north valley, a laid back agricultural area with many rural amenities and upscale shopping.  The CondoCompany.com is your source for this new and coming condominium market.