1708 Terrace Drive

  • 2

    Beds

  • 2

    Baths

  • 1,540 sq ft

    Home Size

  • 12,400 sq ft

    Lot Size

Sold

$1,250,000

Overview

Located in the hills of Belmont, yet just minutes to shopping and dining, this home’s elevated position takes full advantage of sweeping, south-facing views. Many recent improvements unfold throughout including designer paint colors inside and out, new carpeting, and a wonderfully flexible floor plan. Original character from the home’s mid-century heritage is evidenced from beautiful wood-paneled ceilings in several rooms. A combination living and dining room connects easily to a front deck for outdoor living with a backdrop of the views, while a more casual family room fully extends off the kitchen for everyday living.

There are two bedrooms on the main level, including a master suite, plus lower-level quarters that provide flexibility for a variety of lifestyle needs. A private unwarranted lower level with its own outside entrance, living room, bedrooms, small office, and full bath make this bonus space perfect for extended family members.

Adding to the appeal of this special home are the terraced rear grounds with covered entertainment porch, level space for gardening, plus a deck and play area at the apex of the lot offering the best views of all. And, with the home’s minutes-away location to both Highways 101 and 280, commuting to San Francisco or Silicon Valley is within easy reach.


Amenities

  • Updated home overlooking the Belmont hills

  • 2 bedrooms and 2 baths including private quarters ideal for extended family members

  • Approximately 1,540 square feet of living space, per county records

  • Freshly painted inside and out

  • Outdoor steps lead to the home’s elevated position on the lot, which allows for optimum views

  • An inviting front porch provides an outdoor living space looking across the hills and out toward the South Bay

  • A foyer area in the living room is defined by slate tile flooring

  • The spacious living/dining room has a wood-paneled ceiling with two fans, new carpeting, and sliding glass doors to the front deck; a wood stove is set on an elevated hearth and wall of slate tiles

  • An eat-in kitchen offers oak cabinetry topped with tiled counters, including a peninsula with breakfast bar seating, and tiled flooring; sliding glass doors open to a covered rear porch

  • Appliances include a Jenn-Air electric range, Sharp microwave, Blomberg dishwasher, and Whirlpool refrigerator

  • speakers, and components closet with custom copper door enhance media enjoymenttwo plus body sprays
  • Additional main-level bedroom with mirrored closet doors and window looking out to the views

  • Remodeled full bath in tumbled marble and mosaics has a vessel-sink vanity, tub, and separate shower

  • Lower-level bonus quarters include a private outside entrance, living room, bedrooms, and bathroom with shower, plus two small flexible-use areas for storage, hobbies, or office needs

  • Laundry area in kitchen and on the lower level

  • Detached 2-car garage

  • Terraced rear yard has a level area with raised garden beds plus staircase to a level area at the top of the lot with sun deck, play area, and fabulous views

  • Lot size of approximately 12,400 square feet

  • Just minutes to Notre Dame de Namur University, Caltrain, and Highways 101 and 280 to Silicon Valley or San Francisco


Belmont

Antique Forest Homes

Though the MLS calls adjacent to “Belmont Country Club,” present-day Antique Forest Homes carries more of the old golf club’s DNA. The course itself was located within Antique Forest Homes and the original plans of Belle Monti developers Monroe, Miller and Lyon focused on property located east of Alameda de las Pulgas. It’s not by mistake that you’ll find streets named “Fairway,” “Monroe,” “Miller” and “Lyon” in Antique Forest Homes.

Belmont’s country club dreams ended before World War II but the development of Antique Forest Homes went on. Within Antique Forest Home neighborhood you’ll find a number of blocks developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s alongside ones left undeveloped until the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Mixed in among these are a few original “hunting lodges,” rustic cabins built in the 1920s by weekenders drawn by the promise of golf, swimming, clean air and seclusion.

As it is with every other neighborhood in Belmont, the “typical” Antique Forest Homes is difficult to pin down. It could be a modest 1950s rancher, part of the original Belmont Country Club tract. It could be a one-off custom job from the 1960s or 70s, peeking out among the trees and wild grasses along Terrace Drive. It could be a crisp, 1970s contemporary home with 2,000-plus square feet of space or it could be something bigger, built in the past 20 years on a sloped, barely cleared lot on Folger Court. It could even be an apartment or one of the new, neo-Craftsman townhouses on Edgewood, just a block from El Camino Real.

The area is flat and hilly. Its streets have sidewalks, except when they don’t. It includes Central Elementary School, very highly rated with a nine out of 10 score on Greatschools.net. Its southeastern border includes part of downtown Belmont and El Camino Real. Many of its homes feature views of either hillside or San Francisco Bay views.

Given its diversity, it’s difficult to determine the value of an “average” Antique Forest Homes property. During the first five months of 2018, 18 homes sold in this neighborhood, ranging in value from $1.1 to $3.25 million. The majority of sales were in the $1.7 to $2.2 million range, with a median sale price of $1.95 million.

Another way of looking at it is that Antique Forest Homes – closer-in than Belmont Woods and Belmont Country Club but more secluded than Carlmont and Homeview — has something for everyone.

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Belmont is a wonderful, serene town with a rural feel and a destination for families. Most of the streets do not have sidewalks, and since much of the town is built amidst the hills, many homes offer extraordinary views of the peninsula. Belmont boasts four parks, and is mostly made up of homes and retail stores. The town’s heritage harks back to William Ralston, the founder of the Bank of California and builder of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, who built his masterful summer residence, Ralston Hall, at the current site of Notre Dame University.

Ralston was offered to have the town of Modesto named after him, but at a Spanish ceremony he declined, and a Spanish lady dubbed him muy modesto, or very modest, and that is how the town got its name. To see a high resolution map of the image above, click here.

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Hiking trails
Verdant, hilly setting; great hiking and outdoor space at Hidden Canyon and Water Dog Lake
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A variety of homes
Belmont draws those who value privacy, windy streets, verdant streets without sidewalks, and views
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Easy access
Positioned between highways 101 and 280 commute corridors and has a downtown CalTrain station
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