For these relatively modest prices ($700,000 to $1 million for recently sold single-family homes), residents and new buyers enjoy proximity to Highway 101, the Hillside Rec Center and biotech companies and relative proximity to downtown’s Grand Avenue — and vintage homes that often have been in the hands of a single owner for decades, creating great opportunities for buyers looking to update and remodel to suit their own vision.

Favorable

• Convenient location
• Large and diverse inventory of entry-level homes
• Diamond Heights/Pecks Heights offers row upon row of neat, post-war single-family homes

Adverse

• Some Peck’s Lot addresses experience freeway and industrial noise
• Airport Boulevard experiences heavy traffic at times