Oakland Real Estate

Crocker Highlands, Oakland: The Storybook Neighborhood Above Lakeshore ..

Some neighborhoods you have to explain. Crocker Highlands you just have to show. Walk up from Lakeshore Avenue into its curving, tree-vaulted streets and the whole place unfolds like an illustration: Tudor cottages with rolled eaves, Mediterranean villas in soft plaster, storybook Normandy revivals with turrets ... block after block of 1920s architecture so intact it feels curated.

Kelli Kelly

Sep 154 min read

A century ago, a wooden railway trestle carried picnickers over a leafy ravine east of Lake Merritt to a park called Trestle Glen. When the trestle came down and the streetcar era faded, developers in the 1920s did something unusually graceful with the land: instead of flattening the ravine, they designed the neighborhood into it .... streets that curve with the creekbed, homes stepped along the wooded slopes, sunlight filtering through a canopy that predates every resident. From Kelli Kelly Realtor Bay Area Top Producing Top Zillow Premier agent too.

Trestle Glen, Oakland: The Neighborhood Hidden in a Ravine

Tucked into a wooded ravine just east of Lake Merritt, Trestle Glen is one of Oakland’s most distinctive and tightly held neighborhoods. Its winding streets, mature tree canopy, and collection of 1920s Tudors, Mediterraneans, and storybook homes create a setting unlike anywhere else in the city. With limited inventory, strong buyer competition, and recent sale prices averaging well above asking, buying or selling here requires preparation, local market knowledge, and a strate

Kelli Kelly

Jul 284 min read