Burlingame Park again posted the city’s highest home values in 2020, cementing its status as Burlingame’s most exclusive neighborhood. Homes in Burlingame Park sold for an average of $3.5 million in 2020 (median of $3.03 million), which is a slight increase over 2019’s $3.384 million ($2.93 million median). Burlingame Park’s numbers were consistent across the board, save for a year-over-year increase of 25% in average days on the market (DOM). Burlingame Park’s most expensive sale in 2020 was a 7,000 square-foot compound that sold in August for $6.75 million. That property was on the market for 61 days before finding a buyer. If you remove it from Burlingame Park’s overall data, the average DOM drops to 17, one day more than it took to sell homes in the neighborhood in pre-pandemic 2019.

To view a detailed google map of the Burlingame Park neighborhood, click here. The MLS area is 460.

Favorable

• The closest walkable neighborhood to downtown
• Large, historic homes
• Tree-lined streets
• One of the two neighborhoods (along with Easton Addition) where you're likely to find new home

Adverse

• Homes rarely come on the market here...typically around 1 a month

Schools

The elementary school for the neighborhood is Washington Elementary, which is about a 10-12 minute walk and a 3 minute drive to Howard Avenue.

There is one public middle school, Burlingame Intermediate School, which is located in the Ray Park neighborhood. It’s about a 7 minute drive from Burlingame Park, straight up El Camino.

There is one public high school, Burlingame High, which is just east of the neighborhood at Oak Grove and Carolan and is a 10 minute walk or 5-minute drive.

History

Burlingame Park is “Old Burlingame.” Its tree-lined streets and gracious homes date from the time of the city’s incorporation and before. In 1893, the Burlingame Country Club formed around 5 English Tudor style “cottages” built for vacationers’ use in 1892. Two of those homes still stand in their original location just north of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The street names here reveal some of the area’s history: Francis Newlands is the man credited with forming the Burlingame Country Club. William Sharon was Newlands’ father-in-law. Together with William Ralston, Sharon built San Francisco’s Palace Hotel. The hotel maintained a dairy farm west of El Camino Real across from the present day Safeway store on Howard Avenue. You can walk this neighborhood and imagine the polo ponies and fox hunting hounds that were once housed here. The entire neighborhood is within easy walking distance to the shops and restaurants on Burlingame Avenue.