This handsome brick and glass building awaits new tenants to appreciate its crisp and clean exterior and interior ambiance.  Located at 651 Thomas L. Berkley Way in Oakland, it is exceptionally well placed between W. Grand Avenue and Uptown Oakland.  

It is transit friendly--just minutes from the 19th Street Bart Station, it offers easy access to Highway 580, and the surrounding businesses offer a pleasant variety of dining and shopping.  

A side view reveals a perfect combination of rich brick trim with a thoughtfully created combination of windows that capture light from every level and facing.  

This is a large two story building offering 9895 sf of space, two bathrooms, and a rear roll up door for receiving deliveries.  

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This handsome hillside home is located among lush gardens and sheltering trees in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood at 6258 Crown Avenue. 

As with so many locations in Montclair, there is a special Tahoe like atmosphere that surrounds one, yet the village of Montclair and surrounding cities are just moments away.   

The home offers 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms in 2013 sf of living space, and is being offered for sale for a well priced $649,000.  

This light filled living room and dining room combination represents two of the best features for a desirable home-warm and relaxing, but spacious enough for easy entertaining.  

The view, seen here, truly represents the design concept of the home's central living space.  There is a well…

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This stunning two storied home, located at 5966 Glenarms Drive in the Oakland hills, has been carefully designed to capture light and beauty from virtually every source.  This has created a dramatic and innovative way to enjoy this indoor/outdoor living experience.  

High vaulted ceilings, walls of multipaned windows, and sliding glass doors all play a role in creating this effect. Even more pleasing is that  these the doors open out onto a beautiful, and well conceived garden 

In addition, the house offers 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms in 2519 sf of living space.

Located in Montclair close to the Oakland/Berkeley border, it is just moments from Montclair Village, Rockridge, Berkeley, and Highways 13 and 24 for easy access to Oakland or Contra Costa…

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This luminous Oakland hillside home is truly stunning.  It manages to capture all the light, beauty and scenery of the world around it, and makes living there a daily, and ever changing, experience.  

The design of the home is one that is perfect for day to day living, with everything oriented around space and comfort, yet its especially generous size is ideal for entertaining at any of its three levels.   

The white walls and lightly colored ceiling capture, and reflect, the sunlight that flows in from the far floor to ceiling windows, and a gleaming fireplace awaits to offer warmth and beauty on cooler days.   

Located at 2861 Chelsea Drive in Montclair,  it offers 5 bedrooms, and 5 bathrooms in an expansive 3709 sf of living space.  

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This handsome Crocker Highlands home, with its Mediterranean grace, is located at 740 Calmar Avenue.  Perfectly situated, and surrounded by other homes of equal quality and appeal, it offers 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, expansive rear garden space, and 2052 sf of living space.  

The curb appeal on this home is extraordinary.  This appeal of the lush greenery, which has been carefully conceived, welcomes guests, and enhances the entire home with its beauty.

This softly colored living room is anchored by a handsomely tiled fireplace that is paired with a large, white mantle and matching lamps.  The complimentary color of the wooden flooring contributes to the restful beige and white ambiance that characterizes this space.  

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The Berkeley hills are alive with distinctive and imaginative homes.  A lot of this effect has been due to the unique development of the Arts and Craft movement, which found a home in the Bay area due to the influence of well known Bay area architects, and the University of California's School of Architecture.

This home, to be seen below, located at 91 Tunnel Road in Berkeley, was designed by renowned architect Walter Radcliff, and handsomely updated for today's living.  

It offers 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms and 2048 sf of living space.  

There is no doubt that the living room is centered around, and enhanced by, the dramatic floor to ceiling multipaned leaded glass curved window at its far end. 

It has been carefully restored to its…

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This location high atop the Oakland hills is perfectly paired with this striking multi-level view home at 6019 Ridgemont Drive.  The views are extraordinary, and they incorporate most of the Bay area below.  

It offers 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms in a very generous 2391 sf of living space.  

Directly below, the entire South Bay is revealed in this panorama, and is just part of the total expanse to be seen from the home's site.  More below.  

This view of the home illustrates how carefully this home has been designed in order to provide a generous open space that allows easy passage from one living space to another, and then out onto the home's grassy knoll.  

Sunlight flows in through the entire far wall of floor to ceiling windows and…

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This outstanding three story Berkeley hillside view home, located at 2583 Buena Vista Way, represents the height of Berkeley's architectural history when some of the many famous Bay area architects were creating unique and imaginative living spaces.  

This Mediterranean style home was created and designed in 1929 by Walter Ratcliff, Berkeley's chief city architect for the early 20th century and offers 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and 2508 sf of living space.  

This room is the on the main level of three floors, is the entry space to the home itself, and is ideal for casual entertaining and relaxation, with the kitchen just steps away to the rear of the home.   

Handsome multi-layered bookcases along the left wall are ideal spaces for displays…

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This striking home, located at 4378 Arcadia Avenue in the hills of Oakland has immediate and impressive curb appeal with its beautifully landscaped front yard.  

It offers 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms in 2818 sf of living space, and is located in the Oakmore neighborhood-one that includes hillside living and views of the Bay area, easy access to the Oakland, Contra Costa County, and San Francisco via Highways 13 and 580 that are above and below the site.  Montclair Village is just up the hill for shopping and enjoying favorite restaurants.  

This garden patio off the living room continues the theme that is seen above of surrounding the home with beauty and drama, and is ideal for outdoor parties, events and barbecues.  

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This distinctive, and very serene home, located at 5950 Grizzly Peak Boulevard, sits high atop the Oakland hills, and is immediately adjacent to 928 acres of Sibley Regional Park with its many hiking and walking trails.  It offers 4 bedrooms and 3 1/2 bathrooms in 2478 sf of living space, and an expansive above ground pool.   

Originally hand built on site using Montana pine, it has been meticulously upgraded to the imaginative present by architect Robert Helton and structural engineer Milton Leong. 

Every element of this home has been conceived to fit together as a relaxing and welcoming living experience.  A spacious front garden welcomes guests as they arrive, and invites various creative configurations of plants, bushes, trees and…

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