40 Ashfield Rd, Atherton, CA 94027

Stunning Mediterranean home within gated manicured grounds. The rooms have tall ceilings, there are fireplaces in the living room and family room. Main level has a bedroom that can be used as a guest room or an office. Spacious master suite has a wonderful bathroom, a large tub with jets, a walk in closet, plus two additional closets. The other two bedrooms on this floor share a bathroom. Hardwood floors on the main level, limestone entry and carpet upstairs. Kitchen has beautiful granite countertops, tumbled stone backsplash and stainless steel appliances. There is also a center island and counter seating. Kitchen opens up to the family room which has a fireplace and opens up to the back yard which includes a patio agree and gas fire pit. Laundry room on the main floor. Award winning Menlo Park Schools! A little more about Atherton: If Atherton seems especially quiet and secluded, it's no accident: The town prohibits commercial development of any kind, and it declares in its General Plan that streets are "designed primarily as scenic routes rather than for speed of travel." Atherton was named Fair Oaks until 1923. Today, the town's neighborhoods are still thickly wooded with oaks, redwoods, cedars, pines, and ornamental trees. Atherton also stands out as one of the wealthiest communities in the United States. In 2014, Forbes magazine ranked Atherton's ZIP code, 94027, as the nation's most expensive ZIP code, with a median home price of $9,026,885. Notable residents, past and present, include former movie star and diplomat Shirley Temple Black, baseball great Willie Mays, Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, and Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman. Atherton was originally comprised of large estates owned by wealthy San Francisco businessmen. The estates were gradually subdivided, beginning in the 1920s and '30s, but the town has held fast to rules setting the minimum lot size at one acre. Atherton covers five square miles in southern San Mateo County, bordered by Menlo Park, Redwood City, Woodside, and unincorporated areas of the county. It stretches from Interstate 280 to the southwest to Highway 101 to the northeast. San Francisco is 29 miles to the north, and San Jose is 21 miles to the south. Contact: SUSAN LUCAS Pacific Union Property Management BRE #01072579 Minimum SIX MONTH lease. Security deposit is 1.5 times monthly rent. Applications can be found on www.pacunionpm.com. $30.00 application fee per applicant. Proof of income required. Tenant pays all utilities.