No wonder property is thin on the ground in all these areas; Carol Jeans, a founding member of Sereno in Santa Clara County, says she has never seen such a buoyant market. And San Francisco itself, served by Sereno’s Burlingame office, is making a rapid comeback, thanks to verdant, low-density neighborhoods on the western and northern edges of town where those unwilling to move away from the culture and buzz of the U.S.A.’s most beautiful city are building a new, family-oriented lifestyle base.
