Real Estate Burt

10/16/2026

Selling your first Peninsula condo to buy a house? The two markets move at very different speeds. We break down how to sequence your move-up.

09/24/2026

After the Foster City fire, here's why condo costs are rising, why that shrinks your buyer pool, and how to check if your building's exposed.

09/16/2026

A 20% down payment on a San Mateo home takes nearly 7 years, even on $240K a year. Get the real math and a plan to get there faster.

09/09/2026

There's a version of the San Mateo County market you can't see from your couch. A lot of the best homes sell before they ever go public, because sellers quietly test their price before listing. If you're serious about buying, you want a look at the homes other buyers never even see. Join our VIP Homebuyer List, and you'll get a first look before anyone else. Click here to join:

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09/03/2026

The state promised to replace a fee it cut in 2004. San Mateo County still isn't getting its full share, and local services pay the price.

08/26/2026

08/26/2026

Nearly 3,400 square feet, and you can walk to downtown San Mateo for dinner.

That combination is the hard part. Plenty of properties on the Peninsula have the space. Fewer have it this close to B Street.

201 S Idaho is a legal duplex on a 7,630 square foot lot with an attached 2-car garage. Three bedrooms and two baths in one unit, three bedrooms and one bath in the other. Both units are vacant, so you’re not inheriting anybody’s lease or waiting on someone else’s move-out date.

Live in one and rent the other. Or keep family close without everyone living on top of each other.

Built in 1950, same family ever since. It’s original — well cared for, but original — and there’s real room to make it yours over time.

The walk to the Caltrain station, Central Park, and dinner downtown is the part you can’t renovate in later.

DM me if you want to see it.

08/24/2026

Single-family prices rose while condos fell across San Mateo County. Here's why that gap gives condo buyers real leverage right now.

08/12/2026

Six hundred square feet of private outdoor space. In San Francisco.

That’s not a balcony. That’s a backyard, six floors up, looking out over Mission Creek.

I’ve sold and toured a lot of condos on this side of the city, and the outdoor space is almost always the compromise — a slab big enough for two chairs and a grill you’re not technically supposed to have. This one is a room. You can put a table for eight out there and still have space left over.

The rest of the unit is a 2 bed, 2 bath open plan at 235 Berry Street, but the patio is the reason to see it in person. Photos flatten it.

What’s around it matters too: Mission Creek Park is out the front door, the boathouse is a block down if you want to kayak out toward McCovey Cove, Caltrain at 4th & King is two blocks, and Oracle Park is a walk. Chase Center is one stop on the T.

Units in this building come up a few times a year. This much private outdoor space on the water doesn’t.

DM me and I’ll get you in for a private showing this week. 📍 235 Berry St #607, Mission Bay

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