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Fairway Glen, Santa Clara Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide
North Santa Clara's 1960 ranch-house tract, plus 1970s homes and townhomes and 1990s apartments, between Lafayette Street, Tasman Drive, Lick Mill Boulevard and Hope Drive, half a mile from Levi's Stadium.
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Homes for sale, for rent and recently sold in Fairway Glen
Every active listing, rental and closed sale in Fairway Glen from the MLS, updated automatically, with a map of the neighborhood outline.
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Listings come from MLSListings and other MLSs through IDX and show their listing brokerage; confirm details with the listing agent. The map outline is the neighborhood boundary used by our listing search (Fairway Glen: Lafayette St, Tasman Dr, Lick Mill Blvd and Hope Dr (approximate)); it may not match every local definition.
the story
How Fairway Glen came to be
This corner of Santa Clara was once part of Rancho Ulistac, an 1845 land grant that ran from the Alviso shoreline south between the Guadalupe River and Saratoga Creek. In the 1850s James Lick built a flour mill and, in 1858-60, an Italianate mansion beside the river about a mile southeast of here. Lick Mill Boulevard, the eastern boundary, carries the mill's name.
The neighborhood's name comes from a single recorded subdivision, the Fairway Glen tract, whose 221 single-story ranch houses carry 1960 build dates in county records. Its streets read like a postwar pro-golf leaderboard: Hogan, Snead, Demaret, Nelson, Mangrum, Armour and Burke, plus Eisenhower Drive and Vista Club Circle. Kathryn Hughes Elementary opened next to the tract in 1964. A second round of building in the 1970s added townhomes on Plaza Corona and Calle de Primavera (1972 and 1978) and a 1976 single-family tract on Spanish-named avenues such as Avenida de Lago and Avenida de los Arboles.
The last big pieces came along Lick Mill Boulevard. In 1987 the city circulated a draft environmental impact report for a 'Fairway Glen Development' on Tasman Drive: up to 2,200 studio, one- and two-bedroom units, up to 170,000 square feet of commercial space including a small library, and a 9-acre public park on 105 acres. County records show four large apartment communities on the Lick Mill side of the neighborhood built between 1993 and 2003; how closely they follow that 1987 plan is not in the public summary.
streets and homes
The streets and the houses
The 1960 tract fills the south half, between Hope Drive and Fairway Glen Drive, on a tidy grid of short streets: Hogan, Snead, Demaret, Nelson, Mangrum, Armour, Burke and Eisenhower, with Vista Club Circle. County records list 218 of its 221 houses as one story, about half with three bedrooms and most of the rest with four, on lots of roughly 5,660 square feet, nearly all with a two-car garage in county records. Expect a one-story ranch house as the starting point, in every state from original to redone.
North of Fairway Glen Drive, around Fairway Glen Park and Hughes Elementary, the 1976 single-family tract (about 185 houses, with 20 more from 1979) uses Spanish street names: Avenida de Lago, Avenida de los Arboles, Avenida de las Flores, Avenida de Carmen, Corte Primavera and Nantucket Circle. These lots run larger, typically 6,100 to 8,300 square feet, and about 30% of the houses are two-story. Townhome groups from 1972 and 1978 line Plaza Corona, Avenida de los Alumnos, Calle de Primavera, Avenida de Guadalupe and Plaza Escuela, with a 1981 group on Hogan Drive and a 2007 group on Payne Place.
Along Lick Mill Boulevard the scale changes to large apartment communities: county records show buildings with 634 units (1993), 252 units (1998), and 71 and 148 units (2003). Across Tasman Drive to the north, the city's Tasman East plan area is slated for mid-rise and 12-story apartment buildings, some approved and one under construction (city project map), so this is a neighborhood of 1960 ranch houses with a changing skyline next door.
streets in fairway glen
- Lafayette Street
- Tasman Drive
- Lick Mill Boulevard
- Hope Drive
- Fairway Glen Drive
- Hogan Drive
- Snead Drive
- Demaret Drive
- Nelson Drive
- Nelson Court
- Mangrum Drive
- Armour Drive
- Burke Drive
- Eisenhower Drive
- Vista Club Circle
- Calle de Escuela
- Calle de Primavera
- Corte Primavera
- Avenida de Lago
- Avenida de los Arboles
- Avenida de las Flores
- Avenida de Carmen
- Avenida de Angelina
- Avenida de los Rosas
- Avenida del Prado
- Avenida de Guadalupe
- Avenida de los Alumnos
- Plaza Corona
- Plaza Escuela
- Nantucket Circle
- Payne Place
parks and places
Parks, shops and landmarks near Fairway Glen
- park
Lick Mill Park
9.6 acres at 4750 Lick Mill Boulevard in the middle of the neighborhood (city park GIS); OpenStreetMap shows a playground and a tennis court.
- park
Fairway Glen Park
4.1 acres at 2051 Calle de Primavera, next to Hughes Elementary (city park GIS); OpenStreetMap shows a playground, a tennis court and picnic tables.
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Ulistac Natural Area
Across Lick Mill Boulevard: a 40-acre, volunteer-maintained natural area between the boulevard and the Guadalupe River with seven natural habitat areas (4901 Lick Mill Boulevard).
- landmark
Levi's Stadium
Home of the San Francisco 49ers, about half a mile west across Lafayette Street (straight line). Event days bring crowds and traffic to Tasman Drive and Lafayette Street, and VTA closes the Lick Mill light rail stop for up to an hour after events.
- shopping
Rivermark Village
The Rivermark Village center at Agnew Road and Montague Expressway, with a supermarket and shops, is about a mile south (straight line) through Rivermark.
schools and commute
School districts and getting around
School districts
Fairway Glen is in the Santa Clara Unified School District for TK-12, per Census school-district boundaries and the city's parcel data. Kathryn Hughes Elementary (4949 Calle de Escuela) is inside the neighborhood, and Don Callejon School, a district TK-8 campus, is just south in Rivermark on Lick Mill Boulevard. Attendance boundaries change, so confirm the assigned schools for a specific address with the district.
Getting around
- VTA light rail's Lick Mill station sits in the median of Tasman Drive at the north edge, served by the Orange Line (Mountain View to Alum Rock) and the Green Line, about 0.4 mile from the middle of the neighborhood (straight line).
- Santa Clara-Great America station at Lafayette Street and Tasman Drive, about a fifth of a mile from Lick Mill station, has ACE trains (San Jose to Stockton) and Capitol Corridor trains (San Jose to Auburn), plus VTA's ACE shuttles to employers around the region.
- Highway 237 is about 1.1 miles north and US 101 about 1.4 miles south (straight line), via Lafayette Street, Great America Parkway or Lick Mill Boulevard and Montague Expressway.
- The San Tomas Aquino/Saratoga Creek Trail runs past Levi's Stadium about half a mile west and continues north toward the Bay.
- San Jose Mineta International Airport is about 3.2 miles southeast (straight line).
nerd notes
Buying or selling in Fairway Glen: what we check
Buying here
- Plan for stadium days. Levi's Stadium is about half a mile away; check the event calendar, local parking rules and how your street handles game-day traffic before you commit.
- Check the flood zone for the exact parcel. FEMA's current layer (September 2024) shows almost all of the neighborhood as zone X with reduced flood risk due to a levee, and four parcels in zone AH. Zone X is not a special flood hazard area, but flood insurance is still available and worth pricing.
- Expect 1960 systems in the original tract: ask about the electrical panel and wiring, any original plumbing, the heating system, and scope the sewer lateral. The 1976 houses are newer but now nearly 50 years old.
- For townhomes, read the HOA documents: reserves, roof and siding history, and what the association maintains.
- Watch the construction pipeline north of Tasman Drive. The city's project map lists approved and under-construction apartment buildings in the Tasman East plan area, including about 600 units in three 12-story towers at 2200 Calle de Luna.
Selling here
- Say which tract you are in: the 1960 Fairway Glen tract and the 1976 tract are different houses on different lot sizes, and buyers compare them separately.
- Document remodels and additions with permits and final sign-offs.
- Show the walk to Lick Mill light rail and the Great America train station; both are close enough to matter to commuters.
- If your parcel is in zone X behind the levee, include the FEMA map printout so buyers do not have to guess.
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faq
Fairway Glen questions, answered
Where is Fairway Glen?
In north Santa Clara, in the block bounded by Lafayette Street, Tasman Drive, Lick Mill Boulevard and Hope Drive, between Levi's Stadium to the west and the Guadalupe River to the east, with Rivermark directly south.
How old are the homes in Fairway Glen?
The original Fairway Glen tract's 221 houses date to 1960 in county records. A second tract of about 185 houses followed in 1976, townhomes in 1972-81, and large apartment communities along Lick Mill Boulevard in 1993-2003.
Why do the streets have golfers' names?
The 1960 tract's streets (Hogan, Snead, Demaret, Nelson, Mangrum, Armour, Burke) match the names of well-known pro golfers of the era, which fits the tract name, but we found no record of who chose them or why.
How close is Fairway Glen to transit?
The Lick Mill light rail station is on Tasman Drive at the north edge, and the Santa Clara-Great America station, served by ACE and Capitol Corridor trains, is at Lafayette Street and Tasman Drive. Caltrain is farther: Lawrence and Santa Clara stations are about 3 to 3.7 miles away (straight line).
Which school district serves Fairway Glen?
Santa Clara Unified School District, TK-12. Kathryn Hughes Elementary is inside the neighborhood. Confirm the assigned schools for any address with the district.
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