Burlingame Properties

In Burlingame, you don't buy a house-you buy a home. Relationships run as deep as the roots of the huge heritage trees that shade the streets of this mid-Peninsula city. An advertising slogan adopted by merchants and real estate agents in the 1920s-"You are a stranger here but once"-still rings true today. The Burlingame community welcomes the newcomer to share all the best California has to offer-exceptional weather, architecturally unique homes, lush landscaping, highly-rated public schools, fine dining, great shopping and a wide array of civic clubs and religious institutions. Situated within a 15-mile commute to either San Francisco or Silicon Valley, the frequent air traveler will also love Burlingame's location, just ten minutes away from the San Francisco airport. The city's iconic emblem is its 130-year-old Spanish mission revival style train station, situated at the foot of its main commercial shopping street, Burlingame Avenue. There, in the late afternoon, one can bask in the warmth of the California sun while enjoying the cool breeze and lovely views created by the scarves of fog that drape the city's western hills nearly every sunset. The train station - a California historical landmark - once welcomed wealthy San Franciscans to the prestigious Burlingame Country Club, the oldest country club west of the Mississippi. Founded in 1893, 15 years before the city's incorporation, the country club gave the community its name and its cachet. Around the turn of the 19th century, the club and its activities, including fox hunts originating at the train station, helped define Burlingame as "perhaps the most exclusive hometown in California" where San Francisco high society had its country headquarters. Now, the Chamber of Commerce resides in the old stationmaster's quarters and The Burlingame Hillsborough History Museum occupies the station's former waiting room and ticket office. The Burlingame community consists of several smaller neighborhoods.