1938 Bayview Avenue

  • 4

    Beds

  • 3

    Baths

  • 2,410 sq ft

    Home Size

  • 4,000 sq ft

    Lot Size

Sold

$2,300,000

Overview

Bay Views on Bayview Avenue


Living up to its street’s name, this home presents Bay views that reach out to the East Bay and north to glimpses of Sutro Tower in San Francisco – dazzling by day and by night. A fully fenced front yard introduces the home and offers a wonderful spot for fresh air living beneath bountiful citrus trees and freshly updated landscaping. Paying homage

to the flowering foliage is an original stained glass panel above the front door, which presents a hummingbird and colorful flowers. This piece of art is visible from many vantage points inside the home and the hummingbird is a symbol of love, good luck, and joy to many.

The 4-bedroom, 3-bath home is arranged with a split-level design with 2 bedrooms upstairs, 2 bedrooms downstairs, plus there is space for a possible attached ADU and/or a detached ADU in the large backyard. Hardwood floors and crown moldings finish the spacious living room and dining room where sliding glass doors open to a deck and look out to the Bay views. The bright and light kitchen is beautifully updated with Corian counters, crisp white cabinetry, laminate wood floors, and plenty of space for casual dining. Also on the main level is the primary suite, located at one end of the home benefitting from the twinkling lights at night reaching out across the Bay. The en suite bath, like the other two baths in the home, is updated with contemporary flair and includes a modern vanity and frameless-glass shower. Tile-like vinyl flooring in a pattern of seafoam greens finishes the floor of the primary bath and the hallway bath, which includes a tub with hand-held shower. Hardwood floors are found in the two upstairs bedrooms while laminate wood flooring extends throughout the lower level.

Introducing the lower level is a large and inviting family room with alcove, perfect for media enjoyment, and direct access to the level rear yard. Two bedrooms, one at each end of this level, are served by an updated bath with tile floors, tub with overhead shower, and mosaic tile accents. Rounding out the amenities are a concealed laundry area on the lower level, an attached 2-car garage, off-street driveway parking and easy on-street parking, plus convenient stroller access to the level rear yard. The home’s location is also ideal benefitting from access to acclaimed Belmont schools. and midway between shopping centers in both Belmont and San Mateo.

  • Built in

    1962

  • Listed

    2 years ago

  • Neighborhood

  • Schools

    Cipriani Elementary, Ralston Intermediate, Carlmont High School (buyer to verify)


Amenities

  • 4 bedrooms and 3 baths

  • Split-level design with approximately 2,410 square feet of living space

  • Potential for attached and/or detached Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU)

  • A freshly painted gate opens to an inviting fenced front yard with brick walkway, bountiful orange and lemon trees, flowering foliage, and lots of room for fresh air living

  • Front door with leaded glass inset and obscure glass side light is set beneath an original stained glass transom with hummingbird and colorful flowers – a brilliant piece of art visible from many vantage points inside

  • Enter to a foyer with tiled floor and a split staircase leading up to the main living areas and 2 bedrooms and down to the family room and 2 additional bedrooms; freshly painted interiors begin at the entrance and continue throughout

  • The spacious living room has oak floors, crown moldings, and wide sliding glass doors to a deck with Bay views and north to glimpses of Sutro Tower in San Francisco; a tiled platform in one corner of the room is designed for a free-standing fireplace

  • Formal dining area with suspended pendant lighting and crown moldings

  • Updated bright and light kitchen has white cabinetry topped in Corian with white tile backsplashes and a mosaic feature strip; laminate Pergo flooring continues into the casual dining area, which has additional cabinetry for storage

  • Appliances include a Dacor gas range, Kenmore dishwasher, and Amana refrigerator

  • Primary bedroom suite has bay views, beautiful by night and by day, a ceiling light, hardwood floors, and full wall of closets with organizers; the en suite bath has tile-like vinyl floors in patterns of seafoam green, a single-sink modern vanity, and a frameless-glass shower

  • Additional main-level bedroom with hardwood floors, ceiling light, and wardrobe closet

  • Updated hallway bath has seafoam green tile-like vinyl flooring, a modern vanity, and tub with hand-held spray

  • Spacious lower-level family room features laminate wood floors, an alcove perfect for media enjoyment, plus a glass-paned door opening to the level rear yard

  • Two bedrooms on the lower level, each with laminate wood floors and ceiling light, and one with two sets of closets

  • Lower-level hallway bath is beautifully updated with tile floors, a single-sink vanity with mosaic tile backsplash, and tub with overhead shower surrounded in subway-set white tile with a mosaic tile feature strip; a window adds natural light and ventilation

  • Additional features include concealed lower-level laundry with Maytag washer and dryer and a brand-new water heater

  • Attached 2-car garage with brand-new garage door, off-street driveway parking, plus easy on-street parking

  • Lot size of approximately 4,000 square feet

  • Side gate with easy stroller access to the level rear yard

  • Excellent location with convenience to both Carlmont Shopping Center in Belmont or great shopping in San Mateo, including the recently updated Hillsdale Shopping Center, featuring over 130 stores and restaurants plus movie theatre, just one mile away

  • Just over one mile to trailhead access at Laurelwood and Water Dog Lake Parks, also play structures, picnics, and summer concerts are minutes away at Twin Pines and Burton Parks

  • Top-rated Belmont schools


Belmont

Belmont Country Club

The country club from which Belmont Country Club gets its name actually sat in Antique Forest Homes neighborhood. Belmont Country Club, located west of the $65,000 Belle Monti clubhouse (today the Congregational Church of Belmont, on Alameda de las Pulgas), was to be used for residential development. Nine decades later, it’s difficult to judge whether the plans were a success. This area is heavily developed, much more so than neighboring Belmont Woods, but the majority of building didn’t take place until the country club had long since disappeared.

In their wake is a large neighborhood whose housing diversity is the Belmont norm. Belmont Country Club contains perhaps the city’s most extensive collection of steep, winding roads, some named after Belmont pioneers (Sharon, Cipriani, Pullman), one of Belmont’s most isolated areas (the stretch of East Laurel Creek Road that runs alongside Laurelwood Park) and some orderly, almost Millbrae-like blocks of housing from 1950s and 1960s. These properties, part of a neighborhood called “Plateau-Skymont,” have three and four bedrooms. Recent listings show them asking anywhere from $1.8 to $3.0 million on the open market. Mixed in among them, again showing the neighborhood's diversity, are a handful of newer homes with price tags running into the high $1 millions.

Properties hidden in Belmont Country Club’s northwest corner abut San Mateo, perched on hillsides along narrow roads that snake in and out of both cities. Here you’ll find large, multi-level houses that offer great value along with isolation and, increasingly as roads like Monte Cresta and Sequoia climb back uphill, views. These homes are poised at or near the top of the Belmont market, but are generally spacious, offering good price per square foot value. Occasionally, they’re new construction, custom homes loaded with of-the-moment amenities and perks.

Closer to the Alameda are homes built in the 1960s and 70s, ranging in size all the way from 1,100 to over 2,000 square feet, with anywhere from two to five bedrooms. Belmont Country Club’s diversity extends to its homes’ asking prices. Homes in Belmont Country Club sold for anywhere from $1.85 to $3.1 million, with the majority changing hands for between $1.8 and $1.9 million. For the period, homes sold at a median of $1.87 million.

With their heavily wooded, peaceful, somewhat rural neighborhoods, sections of Belmont Country Club and neighboring Antique Forest Homes embody a certain kind of Belmont lifestyle. Both neighborhoods change from block to block, however, with classic “suburban” streets segueing into blocks that appear to be the direct descendants of Woodside Glens or San Carlos’ Devonshire Canyon.

One thing all of Belmont Country Club’s diverse streets share: none of them can be considered “pedestrian-friendly,” unless your taste in walks tends toward hillside hikes.

Explore Belmont Country Club

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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