Burlingame Hills offers options for buyers looking for something outside the Burlingame norm. With its hilly terrain and secluded homes it often feels like a part of neighboring Hillsborough and its housing market often mimics that higher-profile address. In 2020, that meant homes that took a bit longer to sell — 34 average DOM, highest in Burlingame but down 4% year-over-year — and the city’s lowest sales-to-list-price ratio (96.2%). Burlingame Hills homes, however, are among Burlingame’s most expensive, coming in at the city’s fourth-highest average home price in 2020, $2.65 million. They are among the best values in Burlingame, however. Homes here sold for $907 per square foot in 2020, $318 below the citywide average.

To view a detailed google map of the Ray Park neighborhood, click here. The MLS area is 470.

Favorable

• Tree-lined streets with more modern ranch style homes
• Walking distance to Franklin Elementary, Burlingame Intermediate and Ray Park.
• Very close to Trousdale for popping up to 280 and only a few minutes to Millbrae BART

Adverse

• Homes don't have the same historic feel as most in Burlingame
• Hard to find a large original home in the neighborhood

Schools

The elementary school for the neighborhood is Franklin Elementary, which is walkable from throughout the neighborhood.

There is one public middle school in Burlingame, Burlingame Intermediate School, which is located in the northern part of the neighborhood directly next to Franklin Elementary.

There is one public high school, Burlingame High, which is a 10 minute drive across town.

History

Ray Park is one of two neighborhoods (the other is Burlingame Village) that were developed during and immediately after World War II on the former Darius Ogden Mills Estate. The wealthy San Francisco industrialist Milton S. Ray developed Ray Park and gave the area his name. An avid ornithologist as well as an avid history buff, Mr. Ray named the streets in his development after explorers: Coronado, Marco Polo, and Quesada. Today, a clipper ship marks the entrance to Ray Drive at El Camino Real. Perhaps, the ship is a nod to the Bay Area company that Mr. Ray’s father founded in 1872: The Ray Burner Co. manufactured oil burners for ships. The area is within walking distance to the shops in Burlingame Plaza, the new Mills-Peninsula Hospital and the city’s one public intermediate school.