Burlingame Grove has two of the most picturesque tree-lined streets you’ll see in all of Burlingame — Cambridge and Oxford. Burlingame Grove, like Burlingame Terrace to its south, is another early development located on the former property of the Eastons’ Black Hawk Ranch. Children were once so numerous in this area that residents advocated for their own school. Coolidge Elementary, formerly located on Grove Avenue, opened in 1927 so that the 130 young children in the immediate area would not be forced to “journey” to McKinley or Roosevelt. During a period of sharp enrollment declines in the 1970s, Coolidge School was the first of four Burlingame elementary schools that were closed. Coolidge School ultimately was demolished and the property was used for homes. The elementary schools have experienced a surge in enrollment of the years; Roosevelt school reopened in the 1990s and Hoover School reopened in 2016.

2022 was a blip on the ambitions of Burlingame Grove. Last year, after a strong 2021 ($2.559 average home value, average DOM of 10), Burlingame Grove had a softer year like most neighborhoods. Average prices dropped 3% and DOM more than doubled, to 22. The average price per square foot and sale-to-list price percentage also fell and total sales dropped from 22 to 9. Sales were evenly spaced between $1 million to 2 million (4), $2 to $3 million (4) and $3+ million (2), in contrast to 2021, when over a quarter of homes sold in Burlingame Grove closed escrow for $3 million-plus.

To view a detailed google map of the Burlingame Grove neighborhood, click here. The MLS area is 467.

Favorable

• Reasonable pricing

• Lincoln Elementary School

• The neighborhood literally smells like chocolate when Guittard Chocolate across Rollins Road is making chocolate!

Adverse

• Homes are smaller than those west of El Camino