Belcrest Gardens (Belmont, CA)
By Kevin Dalonzo
Belcrest Gardens consists of a small community of 133 homes bordered by Ralston Avenue at Ralston Middle School, Hallmark Drive, and Water Dog Lake/Lake Road Trail.   To view Homes for Sale in Belmont, go to the link below:     http://www.sfpeninsulacondos.com/listings/areas/31218/propertytype/SINGLE,CONDO/     Of six homes sold in Belcrest Gardens in 2012, sold prices ranged from $834,500 to $977,500  with one exception:   A large updated home with park-like landscaped grounds overlooking  Water Dog Lake Park on Tahoe Dr sold  for $1,650,000.   Home buyers look to this neighborhood for their first home, and retirees for  sizing-down, as home range from about 1390 square feet upwards, and many are single-story.  Home owners who prize this location, have expanded smaller 3 bedroom 2 bat...
Comments 0
By Drew & Christine Morgan, Belmont California Real Estate
(RE/MAX Star Properties)
Just thought I'd share this with everyone. We've always enjoyed astronomy and I love it when there's a new moon and we can get a good look at the night sky. In Belmont, we're pretty close to the city (San Francisco) and get a lot of city light which tends to wash-out the night sky. If we look south-south-west however it's much darker as we're looking towards the Santa Cruz mountain range. When I got up early this morning I had to grab my camera and capture one of my favorite constellations-Orion. This was taken today, October 9th 2010 just after six in the morning. I used our Nikon D70 with a shutter speed of 30" at f4.8 and ISO of 1600.
Comments 1
By Drew & Christine Morgan, Belmont California Real Estate
(RE/MAX Star Properties)
    If you’ve been thinking like we have, you're probably wondering when will the weather get a little warmer. The wind has been relentless this month. Our Davis weather station located at our home in the Hallmark area of Belmont, has been collecting data since we moved from Barclay Way in 2001. We’ve been broadcasting it live since January 2002 and it receives more hits than any of our other web pages each month. A recent software upgrade has allowed us to extract data for analysis and this is my first graph. It illustrates the wind at time intervals for the Month of May, 2008—to date. Notice that there hasn’t been one day so far this month that there hasn’t been any wind between the hours of 12:45 PM to 11:00 PM! The positive ions wind can create may actually have a negative affect o...
Comments 0
By Drew & Christine Morgan, Belmont California Real Estate
(RE/MAX Star Properties)
Days on Market and Price Received CorrelationThough the nation's mortgage industry is tumultuous at best, the peninsula market in the Bay Area is faring much better. Last month 17 homes sold as compared to 14 in 2006 and off the high of 25 in 2005. That's a glimpse the market may not be getting too much worse. Of those 17 sales eight sold over the seller's asking price, two sold at asking and seven homes sold under asking.                                                                                     The average time it took to sell a home was 39 days. Of the homes which sold over asking however, they took only 18 days to sell and on average sold for 3.61% over what the seller was asking. Seller's which received their asking price took on average 40 days to sell, and homes which so...
Comments 0
By Drew & Christine Morgan, Belmont California Real Estate
(RE/MAX Star Properties)
Continued from Part I.Data from the country tax records indicate that the median home is a three bedroom, two bath 1820 square foot home on a 6,600 square foot lot. If the median size of sold homes during a given period were greater than that it would account for the median price also being more. Quickly surveying the sales from September to October (closed homes) we indeed see that more large home sold in October-6 0% of the homes sold were over 1820 square feet as opposed to only 46% in September. Since there was a shift in the median size home sold (up 14%), it stands to reason that the median home price would reflect that change-as it did. Yet applying the median price per square foot for the homes which sold, to the true median size home in Belmont (1820 Sq. Ft.), we return the fol...
Comments 0
By Drew & Christine Morgan, Belmont California Real Estate
(RE/MAX Star Properties)
Well almost, actually it was 1:52 pm.Today marks the 126th anniversary of the famous "Gunfight at the OK Corral" in Tombstone Arizona-then called the Arizona Territory. Here are some quick trivia facts about Wyatt Earp and the shootout at the OK Corral: Wyatt Earp was first and foremost a simple business man who lived to be 81 and died in Los Angels in 1929. (I happen to own a copy of his death certificate.) Wyatt Earp was never a U.S. Marshall The "Shoot-out at the OK Corral" was started by an argument over some stolen mules? Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday stood trial for their part in the shooting which lasted a month-they were both acquitted. Wyatt Earp's favorite city was San Francisco until he stood accused of throwing a prize fight in which he was asked to referee-it made all the pape...
Comments 1
By Drew & Christine Morgan, Belmont California Real Estate
(RE/MAX Star Properties)
Belmont View Ordinance-Only a Vision?Belmont-or beautiful mountain (beau mont)-is one of the most unique and charming cities on the peninsula. It's heavily forested hillsides and undulating hills make for a delightful backdrop against the busy peninsula transportation arteries.Belmont offers impressive views of San Francisco and the open space around Sugarloaf Mountain, the San Francisco Bay, and on any clear day Mt. Tamalpias, Mt. Diablo and Mt. Hamilton.Belmont's attributes are many but its highly coveted views are among the top reason people choose to live in Belmont. The hills of Belmont weren't always so heavily wooded as suggested by this rendering-published in "Heritage of the Wooded Hills-A Belmont History, by Ria Elena MacCrisken and available at the Belmont Historical Society....
Comments 2
Belmont, CA Real Estate Professionals