Bay Area housing market so wild that ‘murder house’ sells for $2.1 million

A Santa Clara home where a Google software engineer is accused of viciously beating his wife to death in January has sold for $2.1 million, according to sales records.

On Jan. 16, police found Xuanyi Yu, who was also a Google employee, dead inside the home after they received a call from a concerned friend who said that neither Yu nor her husband Liren Chen were answering their phones or the door. The friend said he could see that Chen was inside the house, “motionless on his knees, had...