Serramonte, Daly City Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide

Serramonte covers the hills at Daly City's south end, from the Highway 1 freeway and Serramonte Center down to King Drive, where South San Francisco begins. The city's General Plan dates it to the late 1960s and early 1970s, and Census survey estimates bear that out: of about 5,400 housing units in the three tracts that cover most of it, about 57 percent date from the 1970s, 20 percent from the 1960s and 14 percent from the 1980s. The city's history page places it in the run of post-war subdivisions south of Westlake, with regional shopping centers linking the St. Francis Heights and Serramonte subdivisions.

The city's address records still carry the recorded subdivision names. Most of the house blocks were recorded as numbered units, Serramonte No. 1 through No. 23, with smaller tracts named Christopher Highlands (Crestview Circle and Vistamonte Avenue), Serravista and Montevista. In the northwest corner, below the freeway, Higate Drive, Christopher Court, Manzanita Avenue and Castillejo Drive were recorded as St. Francis Heights Units 3 and 3A, a piece of the tract to the north that the freeway left on this side. The condominium groups have their own names: Crown Colony on Imperial Way, Half Moon Lane and Mandarin Drive, Village Serramonte on Philip Drive, Cypress Point on Innisfree Drive and Ventana Townhomes at Hyde Court.

The commercial core sits along Serramonte Boulevard and Gellert Boulevard: Serramonte Center by I-280, which the city's General Plan EIR describes as an 860,000-square-foot regional center, with Serramonte Plaza and Gellert Marketplace on Gellert Boulevard. Gellert Park and the Serramonte Main Library are in the middle of the neighborhood, and large apartment complexes line Campus Drive, St. Francis Boulevard and King Drive.