Baywood Park’s surprisingly diverse housing inventory includes a handful of townhouses and single-family homes ranging anywhere from 1,500 to 3,000 square feet in size. Some homes, particularly those along streets adjacent to Hillsborough, mimic the latter town’s post-war California rancher style, long, low-slung buildings on large lots (though not large by Hillsborough standards; usually between 7,000 and 9,000 square feet), often with four or five bedrooms.

There are plenty of reasons to find Baywood Park attractive. It is quiet, yet convenient to Highways 92 and 280. It is suburban but only three miles from downtown San Mateo and offers shopping and dining options at nearby shopping centers. Its children attend three of San Mateo’s most highly-regarded public schools – Highlands Elementary, Borel Middle School and Aragon High School – and offers large, comfortable, modern homes.

All of this does not come cheaply or easily, however. Baywood Park home prices can cost up to $3 million, with recent sales showing a median of $2.75 million and a price range from around $2.28 to $3.23 million, and activity is not brisk. Only a handful of Baywood Park homes are on the market at any one time.

To view a detailed google map of the Baywood Park/Enchanted Hills neighborhood, click here. The MLS area is 432.

San Mateo has it all: a diversity of neighborhoods, great parks, easy access, a plethora of shopping, and home to many businesses and an anchor for employment on the peninsula. With a rich heritage, dating back to the turn of the century with its most famous resident being A.P. Giannini, the founder of the Bank of Italy and later Bank of America, San Mateo offers a delightful spread of activity for all. The downtown area is studded with delicious restaurants and a variety of retail stores, and also boasts a 12 screen movie theatre and one of the largest wine cellars in the country, at Draeger’s Grocery Store. Shopping abounds at Hillsdale and Bridgepointe as well as the many neighborhood shopping centers.

Perhaps the most well known natural area is Coyote Point, a rock outcropped peninsula that juts into San Francisco Bay and home to a natural history museum, the Peninsula Humane Society, windsurfing, a private marina, and large picnic areas with uplifting vistas. Within walking distance of downtown, Central Park has something for everyone: ride the toy train, pick up a game of tennis, take a serene walk through the Japanese Garden, have a picnic while listening to Thursday evening’s Jazz in the Park, or enjoy the playgrounds.

San Mateo attracts a variety of homeowners, from those seeking their first home in the upcoming neighborhoods of the Village, Parkside, or Shoreview, to those looking for more a little more space in Hillsdale or the Meadows, to larger families seeking the spaciousness offered by San Mateo Park, Baywood, and Aragon.