As per Bay East Association of Realtors, the Median Sales Price of single-family homes in San Lorenzo is $462,000 as of January 2015. There were 12 single-family detached units that were sold during January.
However, Realtor Property Resource reported in December that the Median Estimated Home Value for the County $607, 000 while that of San Lorenzo is $440,220 with changes:
Change over last month:
San Lorenzo is located on the route of El Camino Viejo on land of the former Rancho San Lorenzo a Mexican land grant given to Guillermo Castro in 1841, and the former Rancho San Leandro, granted to José Joaquin Estudillo in 1842.[
Early residents during the California Gold Rush era lived here as squatters along the border between Rancho San Lorenzo and Rancho San Leandro. The informal name given to the area was Squatterville.[
The first post office opened in San Lorenzo in 1854.
Many of the early inhabitants have been laid to rest in San Lorenzo Pioneer Cemetery, including Moses Wicks, who brought oysters to San Leandro Bay (by boat around the cape) from Patchogue, Long Island.[citation needed]. The cemetery is maintained by the county and the Hayward Area Historical Society.
San Lorenzo was mostly farmland, a significant center of production of fruit and flowers, from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.
The full caption for this photograph reads: San Lorenzo, California. Fruit and vegetable stand on highway operated by Philipino. This year he is able to use his nationality in California as an advertisement for trade.
In 1944, under contract to the U.S. Navy, David D. Bohannon's Greenwood Company began construction of San Lorenzo Village, a tract of two- and three-bedroom homes for workers in the East Bay's war industries. San Lorenzo Village was one of the nation's first planned communities, with parcels designated for schools, churches, parks, and several retail centers. Bohannon's pioneering pre-cutting techniques, referred to as the "California method," were used in later developments, such as the more famous Levittown, Pennsylvania. Home construction continued into the 1950s to accommodate the region's booming population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Lorenzo,_California
