1212 Balboa Avenue
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3
Beds
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2
Baths
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1,640 sq ft
Home Size
per county records
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6,000 sq ft
Lot Size
per county records
Overview
Updated Craftsman Bungalow in Easton Addition One Block from Broadway
This classic Craftsman bungalow presents all the character and charm of its circa 1908 roots combined with numerous updates for today’s living. Original details abound starting at the welcoming and elevated covered front porch with paneled ceiling and two entire walls of true divided light glass edged with a row of colorful stained glass. This inviting space is certain to be a fresh-air gathering place overlooking the sidewalk-lined streets of this sought-after neighborhood. Inside, the early era details include hardwood floors, just refinished and gleaming, plus coved ceilings reaching above crown moldings that encircle the rooms. Freshly painted interiors include a designer selected palette that complements the home’s style and highlights the moldings. The formal living room overlooks the front yard through three side-by-side windows and adjoins a spacious formal dining room with extra-deep closet for storing linens, crystal, and china. The kitchen has been remodeled with richly hued cabinetry topped in granite, glass mosaic tile backsplashes, and stainless steel appliances. Adjoining the kitchen is an enclosed sun porch perfect for casual dining, a playroom, or today’s home office complete with outside entrance to the rear yard and garage. A full bath with shower adds convenience to this flexible-use room.
This home has 3 bedrooms with one located at the front of the home and two at the rear of the home next to a large bath with slate tile mosaic finishes and jetted tub with overhead shower. Accessed from outside is the attached 2-car tandem garage plus a finished bonus room with laundry area and a huge walk-in storage space that spans the depth of the home. Adding the finishing touch are newly planted front and rear lawns with ample space for play and entertaining. And, with a location in Burlingame’s most desirable neighborhood, Easton Addition, this home has access to excellent schools and is just around the corner from Broadway shops and restaurants.
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Built in
1908
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Listed
3 years ago
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Neighborhood
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Schools
Roosevelt Elementary, Burlingame Intermediate, Burlingame High School (buyer to verify)
Amenities
Enchanting circa 1908 bungalow with fresh updates for today in sought-after Easton Addition
Newly landscaped front yard and gardens
Three bedrooms and 2 baths
Approximately 1,640 square feet of living space
Freshly painted inside and out plus refinished hardwood floors
Elevated and covered front porch with paneled ceiling and two walls of true divided light glass outlined with a row of colorful stained glass at the top
Front door with inset glass panes at the top opens to a traditional foyer where crown moldings and refinished hardwood floors begin and continue throughout the home
Spacious living room overlooks the front yard through three side-by-side windows; tall, coved ceiling with center light above crown moldings
Formal dining room, with access from the living room or hallway, has a coved ceiling above crown moldings, center light, and two side windows; a deep closet provides for storage needs
Remodeled eat-in kitchen has richly hued cabinetry topped in granite slab with backsplashes in mosaic glass tile; travertine tiles finish the floor
Step down from the kitchen to the fully enclosed sun porch lined with windows on two sides and a glass-paned door with steps to the rear yard
Adjoining the sun porch is a full bath with pedestal sink and glass-enclosed tiled shower
Two bedrooms, each with lighted ceiling fan, closet, and two side windows, are served by a large bath with slate mosaic tile wainscot that continues around the glass-enclosed jetted tub with overhead shower; a single-sink vanity is topped in granite and auto-entry lighting adds convenience
Spacious third bedroom at the front of the home, just off the foyer, has three side-by-side windows, a lighted fan, tall coved ceiling above crown moldings, and closet with mirrored sliding doors
Attached 2-car tandem garage, with outside access only, and rear finished bonus room that includes a Samsung washer and dryer and outside entrance to the rear yard and stairs leading up to the sun porch and kitchen
Tremendous walk-in storage space adjacent to the garage and spanning the depth of the home
Private rear yard with newly planted lawn and perimeter garden
Lot size of approximately 6,000 square feet
Located just around the corner from Broadway shops and restaurants
Top-rated Burlingame schools
Burlingame
Easton Addition
After falling some 42% between 2021 and 2023, sales in Burlingame’s signature neighborhood increased by 36% in 2024, landing at 50 — by far the highest in Burlingame but still far from the 66 homes sold in the neighborhood in 2020. Unfortunately for Easton Addition sellers in 2024, accompanying overall home values fell by 6.8%, finishing the year at $3.357 million, though Easton Addition’s price-per-square foot rose slightly, from $1,399 to $1,410. Average Days on the Market (DOM), which rose to 32 in 2023, fell back to their norm at 19 (equal to 2022). Notably, despite these mixed numbers, Easton Addition buyers paid 104.1% of asking price for their homes in 2024, almost 6% more than in 2023 and slightly more than recorded in 2022.
To view a detailed google map of the Easton Addition neighborhood, click here. The MLS area is 466.
Favorable
One of the most popular and prestigious neighborhoods in Burlingame
Classic Burlingame architecture with homes that have a historic, charming feel
Easton Addition has its own picture-perfect branch of the Burlingame Public Library
Adverse
One of the two most expensive neighborhoods in Burlingame along with Burlingame Park
Not as close to Burlingame Ave and Broadway as other areas, but parts of the neighborhood are walkable to Broadway
Burlingame is one of the few areas that has maintained its gracious charm and timeless elegance over the decades. A favorite among families, Burlingame’s two main shopping areas, Burlingame Avenue and Broadway, attract a wide variety of shoppers discovering its boutiques, restaurants, dessert places, and clothing stores. Home to fresh farmer’s markets every Sunday morning in the summer and fall, jazz concerts in Washington Park, and a yearly Art in the Park fair, Burlingame is a wonderful place to start a family or retire later in life, and is well equipped for both!
Its tree lined streets offer an abundance of architecture and style of homes, from quaint two bedroom bungalows to thoughtfully designed four and five bedrooms.
- Timeless elegance
- Renowned small town, community feel
- Top schools
- Top rated schools
- Tree lined streets
- Burlingame is well known for it’s beautiful trees: each of its 15,000 trees is visited at least once every five years for care, and Burlingame has been a Tree City USA for over 30 consecutive years.
If you’re looking to buy a home in Burlingame in a particular public elementary school district, this unique google map will help you identify the geographic boundaries for enrollment of each school. This map was assembled from data from the school district website (handy for quickly identifying what school a particular address is assigned to), and is reliable but not guaranteed.
If you have more specific questions about schools in Burlingame, please contact Raziel. To verify enrollment in the event it is impacted, contact the Burlingame School District.
All addresses in Burlingame go to Burlingame High School (In 2003, the district lines were redrawn to incorporate this change). Burlingame High is within the San Mateo Union High School District (not the Burlingame School District, which includes all five public elementary schools and BIS). To verify enrollment information, please contact the High School District.
Burlingame shares a common history with neighbors San Mateo, Millbrae and Hillsborough, but only up to a point. Like the surrounding communities, Burlingame was once the site of native Costanoan villages and then part of a Mexican land grant (Rancho Buri Buri to the north and Rancho San Mateo to the south). Burlingame’s history diverges from that of nearby Peninsula cities in the late 1800s, when Francis Newlands, son-in-law of landowner and Nevada Senator William Sharon, came up with a plan to turn this stretch of real estate into a playground for San Francisco’s wealthiest residents.
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