San Bruno

Belle Air Park

San Bruno’s second-oldest subdivision is a friendly, working-class place located on the cusp of the city’s downtown core. Belle Air Park residents enjoy walking distance access to downtown shops, restaurants and the new CalTrain station and live a mere five minutes by car from San Francisco International Airport. They live in a variety of homes, including post-war bungalows and century-old cottages.

Belle Air Park residents enjoy walking distance access to downtown shops, restaurants and the new CalTrain station and live a mere five minutes by car from San Francisco International Airport. They live in a variety of homes, including post-war bungalows and century-old cottages. It’s not unusual to find in Belle Air Park a single block comprised of homes that wildly differ from each other, especially given the amount of upgrading and remodeling that has gone on since the district’s inception. The majority of homes, though, are two- and three-bedroom abodes, one or two stories high, built between 1940 and 1960. Homes here sell for less than the citywide median, are often smaller than the citywide median and are more likely to be renter-occupied than the norm. Recent sales in Belle Air Park show homes selling for between $625,000 and $840,000 with a median sales price of $780,000 and a median square footage of 940. Homes are generally on 2,500 or 5,000 square foot lots.

  • $0.96M

    Median Sale Price

  • $0.99M

    Average Sale Price

Pricing data based on single-family homes

Belle Air Park on the Map

Schools & History

Schools

There is one elementary school in Belle Air Park, K-6 Belle Air Elementary, which was opened in 1946. The school has 402 students, an Academic Performance Index (API) score of 791 and a Great Schools rating of 3 out of 10. From there, students continue to Parkside Intermediate School for grades seven through nine, and onto Capuchino High School.

History

Though the majority of homes in Belle Air Park were built between 1940 and 1960, the history of this two-piece neighborhood goes back much further than that. “Belle Air,” built on one-time swampland at the mouth of San Bruno Creek, was the second subdivision in San Bruno, established by Alfred Wiehe & Company and platted in 1905, shortly after the real estate firm of George A. Hensley, A.H. Greene & Company subdivided San Bruno Park. A quick one-two punch (the 1906 earthquake and the 1907 completion of the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Bayshore Cutoff), which skirted San Bruno Mountain, led to quick immediate growth. According to Roy Cloud’s 1928 account of those times, “in a very short time the homes became so numerous” that fledgeling San Bruno required its own school district. The efforts of the West Shore Realty Company, which offered free train rides to those wishing to view property at Belle Air Park, didn’t hurt.

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