San Mateo Union High School District 2008 API Scores

The school scores for our elementary and high school districts have been published for 2008. I will break down each elementary district by school and then move to the San Mateo Union High School District, by school. What you need to know about these numbers: If you see a letter “grade” of A or D…Read More »

Hillsborough CA 2008 API School Scores

The school scores for our elementary and high school districts have been published for 2008. I will break down each elementary district by school and then move to the San Mateo Union High School District, by school. What you need to know about these numbers: If you see a letter “grade” of A or D…Read More »

Hillsborough CA Market Update for May 28, 2008

Hillsborough Market Report Last week, Hillsborough had 47 houses on the market with a median price of $3,880,000. The average price of all of them was  $4,763,631.  One would think that these houses would sit on the market but they are selling.  Yes, not the way they did at the peak of the market in…Read More »

The City of Hillsborough, California

HILLSBOROUGH The town of Hillsborough, formed when members of the Burlingame Country Club decided that the Village of Burlingame was becoming too commercial, sits on land that was part of Rancho San Mateo, William Davis Merry Howard’s vast property purchased from the Mexican governor Pio Pico in 1846.  The Rancho was so large that after…Read More »

It’s Spring and the School Scores Are Here

I often have conversations with clients about whether to buy a home near a school with high test scores.  Never mind that they don’t have kids yet, they’re thinking ahead.  So, we talk about how important it is, or isn’t to do this.  I’m mentioning this because the 2006 API test scores were released yesterday. …Read More »

Hillsborough and Foster City Have Disappeared!

If you live in Hillsborough or Foster City you have disappeared!  You no longer exist.  At least as far as the United States Postal Service is concerned.  Yup.  You no longer exist.  Poof you’re gone.  Last week the USPS consolidated zip codes and eliminated any and all cities or towns that share a zip code…Read More »

Real Estate Has Ebbs and Flows Even Here In San Mateo County

Real estate, like many other industries, has ebbs and flows of the market.  As we enter the final month of the year we are in one of the slow periods for buying and selling homes.  San Mateo County’s real estate market has slowed down.  We are seeing fewer homes coming on the market   and fewer…Read More »

If You Hurry You Can See the Dickens House Early!

Every year the parents of St. Matthews Episcopal Day School in San Mateo run Dickens House.  It is generally held in a Hillsborough mansion that a group of designers have redone and then the parents fill the house with unusual gifts and Christmas goodies for the public to buy.  It’s always a great hit with…Read More »

What’s Going on in the Market with Hillsborough?

Hillsborough, California, 94010, is considered one of the most expensive communities in the country and one of the most expensive in San Mateo County.  Atherton is always in the top three nationally.  Hillsborough is in the top ten.  This beautiful town wends its way up and down hills filled with trees and amazing  views of…Read More »

Hillsborough Market Update

Today I’m continuing the question I keep get about “What’s going on with the real estate market in San Mateo County?”  with the Town of Hillsborough which also shares the zip 94010.   Hillsborough is considered one of the most expensive towns to live in the United States so the median price for a home is…Read More »



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