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Each week, Embarcadero Media takes a look at home sales activity along the Midpeninsula in the communities of Atherton, East Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Portola Valley and Woodside. Home sales are provided by California Resource, a real estate information company that obtains the information from counties’ recorder’s offices. Information is recorded from deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to eight weeks. Here’s a look at home sales activity between July 13-31 that was made public the week of Aug. 24.
Of interest this week … A two-bedroom, below-market-rate condominium in Palo Alto’s San Alma neighborhood, built on the former site of an adobe dating back to the 1840s, sold for $217,000 on July 31. Built in 1975, the residential development is near the intersection of San Antonio Avenue and Alma Street, where the Robles Adobe once stood. The adobe, which became a social hub for the greater area in the second half of the 1800s, is now commemorated with a plaque.
Early Californios and brothers Don Secundino and Teodoro Robles purchased the 8,418-acre Rancho Rincon de San Francisquito — encompassing what is now south Palo Alto and Barron Park — from a retired Presidio soldier. The family transformed the sheepherder’s shelter on the site, which had been part of the Mission Santa Clara pastoria, into a center of social life, complete with a ring for bear and bullfights. The adobe’s walls collapsed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and the building was later demolished.
San Alma consists of 26 townhomes and eight below-market-rate condominiums built around a 60-foot-tall American elm, designated a heritage tree in part because of its age and its location on the former Robles family hacienda. Architect John Brooks Boyd, who also designed homes for Joseph Eichler, made the tree a focal point of the development’s design.
