The City of San Mateo

The City of San Mateo had 140 houses for sale last week with a Median price of $677,000.  The Average price of those houses for sale was $820,827, with the least expensive house listed at $399,000 – something we haven’t seen for years.  The most expensive house was listed at $1,998,000.  [...]

There is a mantra that all real estate is local, so when you look at this week’s Altos Research’s report on the entire City of San Mateo you think that the real estate market is in the doldrums, yet as I embark on this report and lay out each zip code, you’ll really see why [...]

The southern half of San Mateo is where the 94403 zip code sits.  That means highway 92 is the line dividing 94402 from 94403 and it runs south to the Belmont border and east across 101 to the bay and west up through Laurelwood.  This area has many older single family homes, Bay Meadows – [...]

San Mateo is the largest of our local cities and has four zip codes that Altos Research follows.  For the sake of simplicity I am focusing on their combined report but I’ll talk about each zip a little bit as I go
along.  San Mateo like the other cities I’ve written about this week is a [...]

The largest city in our immediate area is San Mateo with almost 100,000 people living there.  It has a large spread of housing and the prices run from entry level in the high $500,000’s to almost $3 million.  Obviously what you get for the smaller amount is far different than the larger amount and so [...]