A guide for Warriors players, staff and families
Playing for the Warriors, living near Chase Center
A signing or a trade can give a player days to land in a new city. This page lays out the whole housing picture around Chase Center in one sitting: the city, the East Bay, the Peninsula, and the man who handles all of it for you.
I am Simon Sahi, a real estate agent with Signature Properties here in Silicon Valley. The Warriors play in San Francisco, and their people live all over this region, in the city, across the bay, and down the Peninsula where my practice is based. I built this page so a player, a coach, or a family arriving with the team can see the whole map before the plane lands.
Chase Center stands on the Mission Bay waterfront, and the whole region around the bay is in play for a home.
Who this page is for
Short answer: anyone whose work brings them to this team and this building, whether the move is next week or next season.
This page was written for you if:
- You signed or were traded to the Warriors and you are landing here for the first time.
- You are a coach or staff member moving your whole household to the Bay Area.
- Your family is arriving after you, and they need the full picture in one place.
- You are weighing the city, the East Bay and the Peninsula against each other.
- You are leaving the team and need the home here sold well, from a distance.
The building: Chase Center
Chase Center opened in 2019 on the Mission Bay waterfront in San Francisco, and it is the home of the Golden State Warriors. It anchors a new waterfront district of offices, restaurants and open space along the bay.
For a player or a staff family, the choice here is the widest of any team in this region. Live in the city for the shortest days, live across the bay for hills and views, or live down the Peninsula for space, schools and sun. All three lives work from this building, and the sections below walk through each one.
San Francisco and the East Bay, covered too
Short answer: yes. If you are buying anywhere in San Francisco or the East Bay, I am qualified to show you the right homes and handle the deal. And a good part of my work never reaches the public market at all, which matters in a region where the best homes often change hands quietly.
Many Warriors players live in the city itself. Mission Bay puts you beside the building, Pacific Heights and Russian Hill give you the grand city life, and Noe Valley and the streets south of downtown give families a quieter city home. Across the bay, Piedmont and the Oakland and Berkeley hills hold estate ground with views over the water, and Walnut Creek, Danville and the Lamorinda towns give you space, schools and sun.
My home ground is the Peninsula and the South Bay, and the cards below cover the Peninsula towns in full detail. But my practice is not fenced by a map. I work with high net worth clients across this whole region, and where a home sits matters far less than how the search is run: quietly, personally, and around your schedule. If the right home for your family is in the city or across the bay, we go and get it.
Where players and families land
The four cards below cover the Peninsula towns in full detail, the ground where many Warriors staff and coaches live and where my own practice is rooted. The city and the East Bay get their own section above, because plenty of players land there too.
Palo Alto
The college town with the schools everyone names first.
The drive. About forty five to seventy minutes at peak by Highway 101, thirty five to fifty off peak, with Caltrain into the city as the calm option on game days.
The homes and prices. Historic homes in Professorville, grand homes in Old Palo Alto, Eichler tracts through the south of the city, and condos near the downtown cores. The median single family price is about $4.13M, and the high end passes $10M.
The schools. Palo Alto Unified School District runs the whole journey in one district, with Palo Alto High School and Gunn High School at the top of it. For many families this district is the reason the town is on the list at all.
The feel. A true college town. University Avenue for dining, California Avenue for its market and cafes, Stanford at the west edge with its arts and sports, and the Baylands marshes at the east edge for morning rides.
Atherton
An estate town of acre lots and total quiet, the privacy pick of the four.
The drive. About fifty to seventy five minutes at peak by Highway 101, forty to fifty five off peak.
The homes and prices. Gated estates, ranch compounds and full architectural rebuilds on lots of an acre or more, behind heritage oaks. The median price is about $11.3M, the highest in the country, and the high end runs $30M and up. There is no small way in here, and that is the point of the town.
The schools. Las Lomitas Elementary School District for the younger years, then Menlo Atherton High School. Sacred Heart Schools and Menlo School give private options inside the town itself.
The feel. Quiet by design. There is no downtown at all; the lanes carry walkers and riders, Holbrook Palmer Park is the town green, and Menlo Park next door happily does the errands, the dinners and the coffee.
Menlo Park
A warm Peninsula town with an easy run north to the city.
The drive. About fifty to seventy minutes at peak by Highway 101, forty to fifty off peak, with Caltrain close at hand.
The homes and prices. Storybook cottages in Allied Arts, ranch homes and Eichlers through the middle of town, estates in Sharon Heights, and bungalows in Belle Haven. The median price sits at about $3.58M, and the high end passes $10M.
The schools. Menlo Park City School District covers most of the city for the younger years, while Ravenswood City School District serves Belle Haven and the east side. Both feed Menlo Atherton High School, one of the most regarded public high schools on the Peninsula.
The feel. A complete small city. Santa Cruz Avenue is a genuine downtown with a farmers market, Flood Park anchors the middle, Bedwell Bayfront Park opens to the Bay on the bay side of town, and the foothills rise at the west edge.
Redwood City
The value of the four, with a revived downtown and room to spread out.
The drive. About forty to sixty five minutes at peak by Highway 101, thirty five to fifty off peak.
The homes and prices. Townhomes and condos around Redwood Shores and the downtown, classic single family neighborhoods through the middle of the city, and hillside homes with Bay views at the west edge. The median price is about $1.79M, well below the other three towns, and the high end runs $5M and up.
The schools. Redwood City School District for the younger years, then the Sequoia Union High School District, with Sequoia High School in town. Ratings vary by pocket here more than in the other three towns, so we read the map street by street.
The feel. A working county seat with a playful heart. Courthouse Square fills with concerts and movies, the Fox Theatre anchors Broadway dining, Edgewood Park blooms with wildflowers in spring, and the port and marinas give the city a waterfront most Peninsula towns do not have.
One call handles everything
Short answer: you make one call to me, and the whole move gets handled. Buying, selling, leasing and settling in, all of it, on your schedule.
A basketball life runs on a calendar nobody else keeps. Training, travel, games, family time squeezed between all of it. House hunting the normal way, with weekend open houses and slow replies, does not fit that life, and it should not have to. My practice is built the other way around, around your hours.
- Buying: I search on and off market, tour on your hours, and send full video walkthroughs when you are on the road, so a decision never waits for a flight home.
- Selling: when a move sends you out of the Bay Area, I price, prepare and sell the home you leave behind, and I handle every showing and every paper while you are gone.
- Leasing: for a short stay or a first season, I find the right lease fast, furnished or not, close to the building and the schools.
- Settling in: neighborhoods, schools, the daily life around a home. I walk your family through all of it before you land, and I stay a phone call away after you do.
- Coordination: your agent, your family, your advisors. I work with the people already around you, quietly, and I keep everyone on the same page so you do not have to.
That is the whole offer. One person who knows this ground, answers his own phone, and treats your move like it is the only one on his desk, because for that stretch of days, it is.
A boutique firm, built for high net worth clients
Short answer: Signature Properties is a small boutique firm, and working with very high net worth clients is our expertise. Privacy is not a policy with us. It is the way the firm runs.
I am not an agent who works with every caller who finds my number, and this firm is not built that way either. We keep our client list small on purpose. The people we work with are executives, founders, athletes and families whose lives are full and whose business is their own, and they stay with us because everything they share with us stays with us.
I work in multimillion dollar properties, mansions and grand estates included, and a good part of that world never touches the public market. I keep a private database of homes whose owners want to sell quietly. They are discreet people, the same way my clients are discreet, so their homes never come up in public and no one else can show them. When you tell me what you are looking for, on a quick phone call or a Zoom, I go into that database, find the homes that fit, show them to you in private, and make the deal happen. At that level a deal carries intricacies that a volume practice never sees: trusts and entities, timing tied to contracts and seasons, and families whose names carry weight. I have spent twelve years inside those situations, and I handle them calmly and carefully.
The portfolio says the rest. More than two hundred fifty million in sales, one hundred four verified five star reviews, and sold homes across this valley at every level, each one handled with the same care. When you work with me, anything you tell me, anything you deal with through me, stays private. That is one of my most important assets, and I protect it like one.
Questions players and families ask
Short answer: the questions below are the ones I hear most from players and families, answered the way I answer them in person.
Do you cover San Francisco and the East Bay too?
Yes. If you are buying anywhere in the city or across the bay, I will show you the right homes and handle the deal with the same care I bring on my home ground. And if the right home is not on the public market, I have a private database of quiet listings to go through with you.
I just got traded. How fast can this move?
A good lease can be found in days. A purchase can close in weeks when the search starts at once and touring runs on your hours, in person or by video while you travel.
Where do Warriors people tend to live?
Players lean toward the city and the East Bay hills. Staff and coaches spread wider, with many on the Peninsula in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton and Redwood City.
Will anyone know I am looking?
No. I do not talk about clients, searches or deals, and neither does my firm. What you tell me stays with me.
The other Bay Area playing fields
I built the same kind of guide for every Bay Area team, so wherever the game takes you in this region, the housing picture is already laid out.
- Living near Levi’s Stadium, for the 49ers in Santa Clara.
- Living near SAP Center, for the Sharks in San Jose.
- Living near PayPal Park, for the Earthquakes in San Jose.
Moving here for a tech campus instead? My guides to living near the big campuses cover Apple, Google, Meta and the rest the same way.
Thinking of buying or selling near Chase Center?
Let us talk through the areas, the numbers and your timing, in one honest conversation.
Peninsula (650) 274-1134
South Bay (408) 389-6939
