San Carlos: Great Family Home and Location

If you have children, this nice-sized family home at 18 Cedar Street is well situated, located in a quiet neighborhood on the San Carlos/Belmont border and within the highly-regarded San Carlos Elementary School District. At 1,570 square feet, with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, this home also has the good fortune to be immediately adjacent to a small, well-kept city park. It’s like having your own 7,000-square foot playground with swings, slide, basketball court, and more. (And the noise from the park on a 70-degree Saturday afternoon was definitely tolerable.)

While many of the homes in the area are two-story, this single story rancher has a nice layout with living area in the front of the house, and bedrooms located in the back. The living/dining room is unremarkable, but the kitchen is large and modern with granite countertops, Miele appliances, sufficient cabinetry, and windows to the back yard. An adjacent small outdoor patio has been turned into an indoor sunroom, perfect for morning coffee and paper, or for afternoon homework sessions, not to mention entertaining.

The front bedroom was good sized and had its own door to the hall bathroom, which has been totally renovated, with skylight and corner shower. The master bedroom is similar in size to the other bedrooms, but the bathroom did have a wonderful large corner Jacuzzi tub and granite countertops. The third bedroom in the back was good sized, and is currently being used as an office. Some other nice touches were the multiple skylights throughout, upgraded electrical, and new furnace.

Given the fact that I overheard the realtor talking on the phone about the traffic she had encountered on this first-day open house (she had 100 people through in just the first two hours), I think this home listed for only a week and on the market at $969,000, will sell quickly to a very lucky family.