Looking to purchase a home around the San Leandro area. Any current resident on the forum willing to give their 2 cent on the different neighborhoods in the city ? I am also considering Fremont, Castro Valley and Hayward.

 

I didn't know San Leandro had an "arena". Anyways find an area with the most soccer moms, probably your best bet to a "good" area.

 

Just bought a house in Hayward. I work in san Leandro and my fiance works in Fremont. We have both been living in the area for a long time and by area I mean east-southish bay. You got any school age kids?

We looked around for a little bit and ended up with a brand new kb home development. Fremont was too expensive for what we wanted. If I could do it over again I would have sent more time looking at properties in Castro valley.

I also work in ems so I kind of have a pretty good idea of the quality of communities in alameda county,

 

San leandro definitely has its rough parts but so do most cities around here unless you want to go out to the valley.

 

My old business partner (who previously lived in Oakland near the San Leandro border) bought a home in Castro Valley in roughly 2009 and has been super happy with the decision. Schools and the housing prices are better than many of the surrounding cities and the commute to most places in the bay is decent (he works at Stanford). Having grown up in the East Bay (Oakland/Piedmont/Oakland) my entire life I would have looked at Castro Valley if I hadn't decide to move up to the North Bay. Just food for thought.

-Brian

 

I live and own a house in San Leandro, what are you looking for, what price range, and such I can give you some places to look.

 

I went to CSUEB for 2 years and honestly I ain't a big fan of Hayward. I do like the Kirkwood Dr & Glen Eden neighborhood though. I am a bit young for kids, I am still in my mid 20's. I want to buy closer to San Francisco, but with whole tech boom going on, the prices are really steep. You're looking at 1/2 a million to live in the hood in the city. I know that Castro Valley and Fremont has good schools so property value/rent should run at a premium.

 

The layout of the freeways basically splits the different neighborhoods of San Leandro.

West of 880 is primarily defined by the shorelines and many commercial businesses, and a lot of the newer homes were built in these areas. Great parks, great golf courses, and beautiful and generally clean marina with a lot of trails for running and biking. An overall quiet town-like feel.

The area between 880, 238, and 580 consists of downtown a majority of the civil buildings and heavy industries are located here, as well as many more dense residential zoning like apartments. The city's only highschool and lots of elementary and middle schools are here. A lot of "rough" neighborhoods are here, but overall San Leandro is a pretty safe from my experience. You have Bayfair Mall/BART to the South and San Leandro BART to the North supplmented by an overall decent bus system, pretty convenient for many around here for those without a car.

East of 580 are the hills, with a very small, but classier neighborhood. Lake Chabot is nearby for hiking, camping, and paddle boating, and Lake Chabot road is a pretty fun alternative towards Castro Valley, albeit very short and is pretty busy at certain hours.

San Leandro is more or less in the middle of the Bay Area, and a quiet one at that, so anywhere you want to go may feel "far" in any direction once you get use to the location. As far as house pricing, I'm not too familiar, maybe Overbear and shed light on this subject.

 

Close to the Bart station as possible

 

The areas close to Bayfair BART is a bit more sketchy than the San Leandro station. This is just from what it looks like as I have only driven through those hoods. I've lived in SL for 4ish years and don't really have much complaints. I actually like how it's almost in the middle of the Bay Area.

 

Hayward has changed a lot in the last 5 years or so. I would avoid Tennyson and the surrounding areas but the northern part is decent. Downtown is nice now. And I think Hayward is considered the heart of the bay cause I guess it's centered and all the freeways run through it.

We bought off of orchard ave which is pretty much Carlos bee. Gated community. Tri level 4 bed/3.5bath front yard is a park. I think it was starting at like 59xxxx. They're still building. We can be neighbors!

My fiance wanted a newer 90s+ home with 3 bed+. There was not much else in our budget haha. We plan on keeping the place for about 5-7 years until we have school age kids

 

Nice to know who all the other "Property Millionaires" are around here?

Ya'all know I live just North of Fremont. Good area, relatively new school just down the block, issues come and go with the wind and the economy.

My advise, find a great real estate agent and use zillow for searching. Crime Reports aren't as easy to get from police departments so that and the rest of the vitals are where a great agent comes into play.

Good luck finding anything "reasonably priced" around me. We have FarseBook and Amazon Kids coming over with at least 50% Cash-Down the past year.

 

https://www.crimereports.com/

 

Not seeing yesterday's shooting a mile away from here. Same for some other stuff.

 

If O/P has kids: Megan's Law - California Dept. of Justice - Office of the Attorney General

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