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For decades, Piedmont has attracted buyers looking for something increasingly difficult to find in the Bay Area: a close-knit residential community with outstanding schools, beautiful homes, and convenient access to major employment centers. While many homebuyers initially focus their search on San Francisco, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, or Silicon Valley, a significant number ultimately find themselves drawn to Piedmont.

As a local real estate agent who has worked throughout the East Bay for more than 20 years, I've helped many buyers make that transition — from San Francisco residents seeking more space to Silicon Valley professionals looking for a better lifestyle balance.

Exceptional Public Schools Remain a Major Draw

Piedmont's public schools…

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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 large and freshly painted two story building is defined as a multi-use property, and spans an entire block.  Especially well located at 4900 Bancroft Avenue in Oakland, it stands ready to offer a wide variety of potential uses to a new owner. 

It offers 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms in 3000 sf of living space.  

There are also valuable additional new features worth noting -the building has a new roof, and an updated sewer lateral.  

It is currently in use as a duplex, but its size, dual levels, and flexible floor plan offer opportunities as a multi level business, offices, or a configuration into multiple living units-it previously contained 5 units.  

The building's set back front door opens onto a set of stairs that lead to the upper…

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This distinctive, and truly charming Tudor style home makes an outstanding first impression.  Bearing all the classical elements of this classic design, it offers the expected castle like roof peaks, arches, and turrets, and awaits one who wants estate like living close to everything the area has to offer. 

Located at 4628 Melton Avenue in Oakland, it offers 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a full downstairs apartment in a very spacious 2690 sf of living space.  

As would be expected in a home of this character, this English style newly landscaped, and fully developed rear yard provides a privacy and serenity that is created by the presence of its many fully grown trees, bushes, and garden.  

As with all Tudor themed homes, guests will…

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This exceptionally well located home at 2520 Delmer Street in Oakland's Dimond Heights neighborhood has been recently renovated to create a welcoming, and very appealing, living space for its new owners.  

It offers 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in a very comfortable 1567 sf of living space.  

It is close to the many shops and restaurants of the Dimond District, and just a short trip away from Montclair Village, and its equally engaging retail district. 

Highway 580 is just a short drive away, as is Highway 13, both of which can take one easily to Oakland, San Francisco, or Contra Costa County.  Sequoia Elementary School is nearby. 

  

A large sheltered porch, with a handsome front door, welcomes both guests and residents as they…

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This charming two story home is located at 2035 17th Avenue in the Highland Terrace neighborhood of Oakland.  It offers 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, with 1412 sf of living space.   It has been impressively updated within.   Exceptionally well located, it provides easy access to downtown Oakland, Lake Merritt, and both Highways 880 and 580,  

As one views the home from the exterior, one can see the Craftsman bungalow style that is, and was, so especially popular in California.  It's overhanging eaves, generous wooden window and door trim, and efficient, but inviting garden represent just a start of what will be seen here.  

Worth Noting--There have been many upgrades to the home, which will be noted below, but most dramatic is the effect of both…

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This glowing hillside home is found at 5106 Fairhill Court in the Ridgemont neighborhood of Oakland.  It is stunning in its quiet beauty, and is surrounded by well established trees, gardens, and greenery on the exterior, and gracious living space on the interior.  

It offers 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in a very generous 2425 sf of living space, and on a 3/4 acre lot. 

While it appears to be well settled in at the end of a quiet cul de sac in the Oakland hillsides, it is just 5 minutes from Highway 580-a direct route to most of the Bay area's nearby cities.   The Oakland Zoo and multiple hiking and biking trails are close by, as well.  

An additional perspective of the rear garden reveals it proximity to the home's wide outdoor viewing…

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This outstanding home, located at 174 Alta Road in Oakland's Upper Rockridge neighborhood is immediately impressive in both style and size.  It is a home for gracious living and entertaining.  

It offers 4 bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms in a very expansive 2736 sf of living space.  

The living room is perfectly conceived with very generous floorspace, a high peaked ceiling highlighted with a dark open cross beam, and a wall of view windows that are enclosed in a pair of floor to ceiling French doors that lead to a marvelous view porch.  

The floor to ceiling fireplace deserves special attention.  It is artfully conceived, and offers a floor to ceiling architectural statement of its presence, a promise of welcoming warmth, and a handcrafted…

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This classically handsome Craftsman home is immediately exceptional.   

Located at 2568 Humboldt Avenue, It has been well cared for, and carefully updated-from the crisp front and side gardens, through the home's interior, and on to an outstanding back yard.  

It features designer landscaping, front and back, with 30 plus rare succulents, planters, and fruit trees, and is fully fenced for privacy.  

It offers 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in a generous 1185 sq. ft. of living space, and is located only minutes from both the busy and popular Dimond and Laurel shopping districts.  

Certainly one of the most surprising and remarkable features of the house is the size of this very expansive back yard that provides multiple sites for parties,…

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This dramatic hillside home is located in Woodside Glen community of Oakland at 22 Woodside Glen Court.  Sitting atop a private cul de sac, it offers a pleasant serenity among the trees that surround it.  There are 4 bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms in a very spacious 2841 sf of living space. 

It is ideally located for daily living as well.  Highway 580, just below, offers easy transportation to the many attractive shops and restaurants of Montclair, San Leandro, and Castro Valley, as well as a direct commute to Oakland and Berkeley to the north, and Hayward and the Tri-Valley, to the south.  

Upon arrival, one becomes immediately aware of the home's stunning curb appeal.  A sweeping driveway anchors the space, and leads to two separate garages that…

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