The term "Gold Coast" is universal for the most superbly located real estate to be found in any region. Made famous at 19th Century Long Island, New York, the Gold Coast region set the tone and inspired the Gatsby era of timeless luxury. When F. Scott Fitzgerald romanticized Great Neck and Old Westbury, NY, the vehicle was always architecture, the defining statement and metaphor for lifestyle, expression, and joie de vivre. On the Pacific stage, the Gold Coast of San Francisco is considered prime blocks of Broadway in Pacific Heights. In Hillsborough, our Gold Coast is surely Lower North. Here, around the circa 1890s Burlingame Country Club and downtown Burlingame Avenue, Lower North Hillsborough tops the charts year after year with #1 achievements in median sales price, price per sq. ft., and volume of sales over $10,000,000. Within Lower North Hillsborough, "The Farm," is a very special enclave known for its privacy, estate-caliber homes, and focus on design prowess.

Steeped in history, yet thoroughly modern of the 1990s-2000s, the Farm Lane circle is quite clearly the best of both worlds. The estates here were once the grounds of Jennie Crocker Henderson's "Homeplace" on some 200 acres, and prior to that, the setting for one of the oldest structures in Hillsborough, the Tevis Carriage House still standing at 5 Farm Lane. But it's not the lore that will first impress you, it's the sheer stateliness and modern glamour of this collection of estates. Sprinkled in for good measure, and contributing to the pastoral ambiance, there's even a handful of vacant lots still owned by Crocker descendants.

Approaching 22 Farm Lane...