Places to Eat in Mariner’s Island, San Mateo

There are some yummy spots in Mariner’s Island.  Here are a few:

BJs Restaurant and Brewhouse
BJs is a hot spot so be sure to get there before you’re too hungry.

Mimi’s Cafe

Wall Street Cafe

Hokkaido Seafood Buffet

Fish Market
Okay, so the Fish Market isn’t really in Mariner’s Island but it needs to be on the list anyway.

Di Neri’s Pizza

Armadillo Willy’s

Tokai Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar

Wall Street Cafe

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San Mateo Real Estate

San Mateo is a Northern California city of approximately 92,000 people and is located between Burlingame to the north – Belmont to the south and is about 15 minutes south of San Francisco. The weather in San Mateo is mild all year round making it a perfect place to enjoy all the parks and open space we have.

Homes for Sale in San Mateo

• Active Listings: 109 homes
• New Listings: 43 homes
• Sold Listings: 47 sales

San Mateo Home Sales Price Info

• Median Sales Price: $730,000
• Average Sales Price: $840,365
• Sale Price to List Price Ratio: 96.66%
• Average Number of Days to Sell:  50

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Here is the San Mateo Real Estate Market Report for November 2009 brought to you by the San Mateo Real Estate Blog.

San Mateo Real Estate

San Mateo is a Northern California city of approximately 92,000 people and is located between Burlingame to the north – Belmont to the south.  San Mateo is about 15 minutes south of San Francisco.

The weather in San Mateo is mild all year round making it a perfect place to enjoy all the parks and open space we have.

Homes for Sale in San Mateo

• Active Listings: 142 homes
• New Listings: 53 homes
• Sold Listings: 36 sales

San Mateo Home Sales Price Info

• Median Sales Price: $755,000
• Average Sales Price: $805,107
• Sale Price to List Price Ratio: 99.24%
• Average Number of Days to Sell:  38

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Here is the San Mateo Real Estate Market Report for October 2009 brought to you by the San Mateo Real Estate Blog.

San Mateo Real Estate

San Mateo is a Northern California city of approximately 92,000 people and is located between Burlingame to the north – Belmont to the south and is about 15 minutes south of San Francisco.

The weather in San Mateo is mild all year round making it a perfect place to enjoy all the parks and open space we have.

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Homes for Sale in San Mateo

• Active Listings: 154 homes
• New Listings: 66 homes
• Sold Listings: 58 sales

San Mateo Home Sales Price Info

• Median Sales Price: $720,000
• Average Sales Price: $823,217
• Sale Price to List Price Ratio:  98.57%
• Average Number of Days to Sell:  51

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I was walking around taking pictures of Las Casitas for an upcoming listing and couldn’t resist this.  San Mateo County’s geography is so amazingly diverse.  I’ve lived here all my life and it still surprises me.

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San Mateo Train Station

Here is the San Mateo Real Estate Market Report for September 2009 brought to you by the San Mateo Real Estate Blog.

San Mateo Real Estate

San Mateo is a Northern California city of approximately 92,000 people and is located between Burlingame to the north – Belmont to the south and is about 15 minutes south of San Francisco.

The weather in San Mateo is mild all year round making it a perfect place to enjoy all the parks and open space we have.

Pictures of San Mateo

Homes for Sale in San Mateo

• Active Listings: 169 homes
• New Listings: 82 homes
• Sold Listings: 56 sales

San Mateo Home Sales Price Info

• Median Sales Price: $698,000
• Average Sales Price: $741,346
• Sale Price to List Price Ratio: 98.97%
• Average Number of Days to Sell: 55

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It’s crazy enough until you get to the bottom of the article, “If confronted by a mountain lion, residents should not run or turn their backs on the animal. They should make eye contact but not squat down; make noise and appear as large as possible; and throw objects at the animal or fight back if it attacks.”  Are you kidding me?!  Yeah, right.  That’s what I’d do.

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Beresford Community Garden is located at the corner of 27th and 28th in San Mateo.  It’s actually leased from the city and run by a non-profit.  If you’d like to get a plot to grow your own fruit, veggies and flowers, contact me and I’ll put you in touch with the right folks.

The garden is adjacent to Beresford Park which has a ton of outdoor activities -  there’s something for everyone.

What’s wrong with Zillow?

It’s a computer-generated system. I don’t know exactly how it works – actually, it doesn’t. I know one thing: It makes my job a lot more difficult.

How do I explain to a home seller – it’s the sellers who love Zestimates – why their house is not worth the $903,500 that Zillow says? It’s always a viscious fight-to-the-death arm wrestle.

BTW, a few weeks ago the Zestimate for the 502 Parkside, San Mateo house was $947,000. Both of these Zesimates were displayed after the house sold for $860,000.

Seller vs Agent

When the house first went up for sale, it was listed for $938,800. A few weeks later: 898,000. What was going on? The seller and his Realtor were negotiating over the price.

The number one thing you can’t do in this market – really, any market – is overprice.

The Real Home Value

When a buyer is writing an offer, one of the first questions they ask is: What do you think about the price? It has very little to do with what I think. It has to do with what the market statistics prove out to be. With this particular house, the comparable properties showed its value to be about 850 to 860. The buyers liked the house, wanted to buy it and agreed to pay 860k.

The sale price of a home is equal to how much the seller will sell for and how much the buyer will pay.

In this market, buyers are looking for a deal. Pricing is, as always, the number one consideration when selling your property. Pick the wrong number and no deal – maybe ever. In fact, you’ll probably get less than you would if you had priced it accurately in the first place. There are a lot of reasons for that, but that’s for another post. I want to make one more point about Zillow.

Zillow Professional Directory

They recently rolled out their new Professional Directory. It’s terrible – or Ztupid as Kris Berg so correctly coined.

The Professional Directory is just as accurate (cough) as their Zestimates. So how do they stay in operation? $87 million – that’s how. Give me $87 million – heck, give me 1 million.  I know what to do with it.

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It’s only been about five years that the reservoir area has been accessible to the public.  The San Francisco Water Department kept it completely locked up due to the immense fear of a disaster to the liquid gold.  You can even make a reservation for a guided trek through this mountain wilderness.

The history of the area is long and interesting.  William Bowers Bourn, president of Spring Valley Water Company and operator of the Empire Gold Mine, began purchasing farms to aquire the watershed and fill the insatiable need for water during the Gold Rush. 

Bourn is also well known for his magnificent home Filoli - Fight, Love, Live.  If you’re not familiar with the property, think back to the Dynasty days.  The mansion is the one shown in the opening of the show during the fly-over.  It’s an incredible site and is open for tours – the gardens are a must-see.

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All the best,
Vicki Moore