Broadmoor, San Leandro

Broadmoor sits in the north end of San Leandro, next to Estudillo Estates and close to the Oakland border. One local description runs it from the Oakland line down to Dutton Avenue, and from Bancroft Avenue west to East 14th Street, though San Leandro's neighborhood edges vary from one source to the next. The City has built a neighborhood gateway for Broadmoor, one of a handful it has added to mark major residential areas.

At a glance: In the 12 months through September 2026, the median sale price of a single-family home in Broadmoor was $965,000, across 23 sales. Homes sold for about 110.3% of their list price, and the middle sale took 15 days on the market.

The City of San Leandro's General Plan names Broadmoor, along with Estudillo Estates, among the city's early-twentieth-century neighborhoods of California bungalows, Craftsman and Prairie-style homes, and Mediterranean-style cottages. Local sources describe many Broadmoor homes as custom-built, so no two are quite alike. Most were built by 1939, with some homes from the 1940s through the 1960s filling the remaining lots. Sizes run from compact bungalows to much larger houses.

Some of these older San Leandro neighborhoods also carry ideas from the City Beautiful movement of the early 1900s: winding streets, gracious street trees, and large front lawns.

What should you look for in a Broadmoor home? Over the decades, different owners cared for their homes to different extents, so condition can vary a lot from one house to the next on the same street. Older layouts don't always fit the way people live now, with smaller kitchens, fewer bathrooms, or closed-off rooms, so think about what you'd want to change. Ask about past remodels, too. Unpermitted work turns up in older homes, and it's worth knowing what was done with a permit and what wasn't.

A California bungalow is the Craftsman style applied to a small or medium-sized home, and it was popular across the country from about 1910 to 1939, the same years Broadmoor filled in. Look for one or one-and-a-half stories, sloping roofs with exposed rafters under the eaves, a front porch, and a living room you enter straight from the front door, often with a fireplace as its focal point. Prairie-style homes, which the City also names in this part of San Leandro, lean on strong horizontal lines, low hipped or flat roofs with broad overhanging eaves, and bands of windows.

East 14th Street runs along Broadmoor's western side, with AC Transit buses. The Downtown San Leandro BART station is a short drive away, and Interstates 580 and 880 are both within easy reach.

Buyers who look at Broadmoor are usually drawn to its 1920s architecture, its wide streets and deep setbacks, the variety of home sizes, and how close it sits to downtown San Leandro and the north end's freeways.

Tanja Odzak knows what to check in a century-old tract home, from past remodels to how well it has been kept up, and how a San Leandro sale works. If you're weighing a move to Broadmoor, that's worth a conversation.