While sales have dragged in the Bay Area’s overall housing market amid high interest rates and market volatility, the region’s elite have continued to trade homes at eye-popping prices.

The bulk of the region’s most expensive home sales so far this year are in Atherton, where famous residents like Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry and former Hewlett-Packard CEO and Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman have sought privacy behind tall hedges. The leafy Peninsula enclave also boasts the most expensive ZIP code in America.

And it’s only getting more expensive. The median price of a home in Atherton was just over $10 million in the first half of the year — a new record, according to statistics from Compass, the country’s biggest real estate brokerage by sales volume.

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