Willow Glen California Condos

Willow Glen was incorporated in 1927 and annexed by San Jose in 1936, it is located southwest of downtown. An historical and unique district within San Jose, it is an area of charming older homes and mansions, some cut up into unique condominiums while a few apartment/condo conversions, townhouses and newer condo construction sit on its borders.

Willow Glen is a quiet area of historical homes, situated among beautiful trees, gardens and neighborhood parks, mixed in with little boutique shops and restaurants that give the community character.  

Downtown Willow Glen is situated on Lincoln Avenue between Coe and Minnesota Avenues and consists of well-maintained smaller shops and restaurants in a pedestrian friendly arrangement. Willow Glen is a small, charming upscale district and community reflecting the architecture and style of the late Victorian era to the 1920s.  

Your Willow Glen community condominium may be a newer horizantal duplex to four-plex or carved into a building that may be a century or more old. Unlike much of the newer areas of Silicon Valley, Willow Glen has resisted building vertically and most condo properties are no more than three or four stories at most. The care taken in converting older architecturally unique buildings in Willow Glen to create new and exciting condominium space is often profiled in leading upscale magazines and architectural digests. 

The traditional boundaries of Willow Glen are the Guadalupe River, Los Gatos Creek, and Coe and Curtner Avenues. Unlike most Silicon Valley communities it is not bounded or crossed by a freeway or expressway preserving a quiet atmosphere. The Guadlupe Expressway (87) can be reached through Minnesota Avenue by taking W. Alma Ave and the Junipero Serra Freeway (280) intersects Lincoln Avenue to the north. 

Willow Glen condominium real estate is not plentiful and tends to have a unique character in tune with this settled, nearly century old community. The area tends toward affluent from upscale and is often sited as one of Northern California's best residential areas. The CondoCompany.com maintains contact with the best and most unique condo properties in this unique and quiet urban suburb.