1453 Balboa Avenue
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4
Beds
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3
Baths
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2,480 sq ft
Home Size
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4,440 sq ft
Lot Size
Overview
Burlingame Luxury in Premier Easton Addition
Located in desirable Easton Addition and entirely rebuilt in 2005, this home evokes classic traditional style outside with top-of-the-line designer appeal inside. Beautiful hardwood floors, crown moldings, and a perfectly selected color palette combine for an ambiance of sophisticated elegance, yet ever so comfortable for day-to-day living. The graceful two-level floor plan flows seamlessly from one inviting living space to the next, culminating at a chef’s kitchen and family room, opening to an exceptional back yard. Here, an outdoor kitchen and entertainment bar awaits complete with built-in beer tap and wine cooler beneath the shade of a retractable awning, plus built-in heaters and sound speakers. Enjoy the eco-friendly synthetic lawn to the rear and the paver stone patio with fire pit that extends to the gated driveway for even more space to play and entertain.
Personal accommodations are ideally arranged with a main-level bedroom – ideal for guest or office needs – plus three bedrooms upstairs, including a spacious primary suite and a newly remodeled hallway bath. Adding to the accommodations, the detached garage (225 square feet) has been fully renovated and is perfect for a fitness center or private office for today’s work-from-home needs. Behind the scenes, tech features are plentiful with Ring, high-end security cameras (Luma), keyless entry, state-of-the-art wireless access points in all rooms connected to a central switch, the most high-end smart lighting in the whole house controlled by an app and a smart sprinkler system. This home is also just 3 blocks to Broadway shopping and dining, is down the street from Ray Park and Lincoln Elementary School, and a short drive to 101/280 and Caltrain.
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Built in
1923
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Listed
3 years ago
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Neighborhood
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Schools
Lincoln Elementary, Burlingame Intermediate, Burlingame High School (buyer to verify)
Amenities
4 bedrooms and 3 baths over two levels plus detached fitness center/office as a bonus room (225 s/f)
Approximately 2,480 square feet of living space (detached room not included in the square footage)
Meticulously rebuilt in 2005 with picture-perfect curb appeal framed by newly planted lawn
Freshly painted exterior showcases a covered entrance that shelters the front door and side lights beneath a leaded glass transom; keyless entry and Ring front doorbell add convenience
Gleaming hardwood floors and crown moldings begin in the traditional foyer and continue throughout the home
Light and bright formal living room has a glass-enclosed gas fireplace surrounded in granite and a large front-facing window for natural light; extensive built-in cabinetry spans one wall
Formal dining room features a lampshade-style chandelier, inlaid dual feature strip on the floor, and expansive side window
Recently updated kitchen has custom cabinetry with granite slab counters and tumbled travertine backsplashes; a peninsula counter offers breakfast bar seating next to a large casual dining area with windows on two walls
Newer stainless steel appliances include a Jenn-Air gas range, GE microwave, Bosch dishwasher, and built-in Jenn-Air refrigerator
Family room, fully open to the kitchen, has an electric fireplace beneath media wiring, 65” 4K Smart TV, and flanked by built-in cabinetry; sliding glass doors open to the rear yard
Main-level bedroom with organized closet, and ideal for a home office, is served by a bath with granite-topped vanity and tub with overhead shower surrounded in white tile with a mosaic feature strip also accenting the floor
Upstairs primary suite has a sky-lit foyer entrance, 2 customized walk-in closets, and en suite travertine and marble bath with dual-sink vanity, frameless-glass rain shower, jetted tub, and private commode room
Two additional bedrooms, each with tray ceiling and organized closet with sliding doors, are served by a newly remodeled bath with Calacatta marble-style tile on the floor and around the tub with overhead shower; granite tops the newly painted dual-sink vanity
Detached garage (225 square feet) fully converted to extra living space for a fitness center or office with vaulted ceiling, sliding glass door entry, and ceramic floors
Renovated rear yard includes synthetic lawn, paver stone patio with fire pit, new fences + planting areas, plus a built-in kitchen with barbecue, refrigerator with beer tap, wine cooler, sink, and raised counter seating; a retractable awning offers optional coverage and two heaters plus sound speakers enhance the setting
Paver stone driveway with gate provides added space for play and entertainment
Additional features: upstairs laundry room with sink and LG washer and dryer; smart lighting system with fiber optic color choices and app control; Nest thermostats; sound speakers inside and out, including surround sound in family room; high-end security system; smart irrigation system; state-of-the-art wireless infrastructure
Lot size of approximately .101 Acres
Top-rated Burlingame schools
Burlingame
Easton Addition
Easton Addition accounted for 25% of all Burlingame home sales in 2022 (30% in 2021) while posting the city’s second-highest average and median home values ($3.51 and $3.4 million, notably up 6% from 2021). As Burlingame goes, though, so goes Easton Addition, and the city’s overall drop in real estate activity was reflected in its most popular neighborhood where overall sales fell 35% after increasing by 18% in 2021. That Easton Addition real estate actually gained value while most other neighborhoods lost value is a tribute to its enduring desirability, as is the fact that during a down year $5 million-plus homes increased their neighborhood market share from 1.5% to 9%. Since 2018, property values in Easton Addition have increased by 25%.
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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