Woodside Real Estate Agent
Private roads and horse-keeping rights shape many Woodside sales.
Lisa M. Lum is a Woodside real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Realty, working from the office at 1706 El Camino Real in Menlo Park. Woodside covers about 12 square miles of wooded hillside between Skyline Boulevard and Interstate 280.
The town’s General Plan emphasizes rural scale and substantial setbacks across its R-1 sub-districts. Many properties are equestrian-zoned, with on-site stables, riding rings and direct trail access.
Town life centers on the central village, with its general store, restaurants and post office, while most daily errands run through adjacent Menlo Park or Portola Valley. Woodside School sits at the heart of town.
Wunderlich County Park and Huddart County Park sit at the edges of town. The Mountain Home Road equestrian trail network connects them.
Higher up, parcels grow larger and private roads become common, with redwood and oak canopy and views toward the Coast Range.
Here, a property’s road, water source and recorded easements can matter as much as the house, so review the title report carefully before you settle on a number.
Meet Lisa M. Lum
Lisa is a Realtor with Coldwell Banker Realty, working from the brokerage’s Menlo Park office at 1706 El Camino Real. She has been licensed in California since 2018 (DRE #02005150) and studied Legal Studies at UC Berkeley.
More about Lisa →Selling your Woodside home
A Woodside sale is priced parcel by parcel. Acreage, road access, horse facilities and water source each change the comparison.
If your property keeps its equestrian zoning but you no longer keep horses, the listing can present those rights as an option for the next owner.
Disclosures here tend to run long. Standard California disclosures apply under Civil Code Section 1102, and private-road and easement disclosures are often substantial.
Gather your road maintenance agreement, any well records and the recorded easements early, so buyers can review them with the inspection.
Work in the public right of way, including infrastructure within a public easement, needs an encroachment permit from the Town. Plan any driveway or utility work before launch with that in mind.
Through her Home Refresh program, Lisa manages the vendors for repairs, paint, staging and curb appeal, and you approve every estimate before work begins.
Home Refresh also covers a pre-listing inspection and a disclosure package, assembled before the home goes live.
San Mateo County’s documentary transfer tax of $1.10 per $1,000 applies at recording, and Woodside adds no municipal transfer tax. How it affects your proceeds is a question for your tax advisor.
Go deeper: current Woodside seller data and the Home Refresh program.
Lisa’s guide
The Home Refresh Guide
How Lisa prepares a home before it goes to market, from the pre-listing inspection to staging.
Buying a home in Woodside
Start with access. Many Woodside properties sit on private roads with recorded maintenance and access easements, so read the title report for shared road obligations.
Those agreements can include cost-sharing for maintenance and repair. If a building fronts a private road or easement, town code sets the front setback at least 50 feet from the centerline.
Next, check the easements on the parcel itself. Conservation, open space and scenic easements appear on many parcels and may restrict construction, fencing or vegetation removal in mapped areas.
If you plan to keep horses, verify the parcel’s current equestrian zoning and water availability. Stables, riding rings and paddocks may convey with the sale, subject to negotiation.
Water comes from California Water Service or a private well, depending on location and elevation. Some parcels use septic, and defensible-space wildfire requirements apply, so scope your inspections with both in mind.
Woodside Elementary School District serves K-8, and the Sequoia Union High School District serves high school, with Woodside High or Menlo-Atherton High depending on attendance area. Confirm the assignment for the exact address with the district before you write an offer.
If you plan to build, ask the Town of Woodside about setbacks and lot coverage under the R-1 Zone District, Town Code Chapter 153, before you sign.
For the full picture of the market, see the Woodside community guide and Lisa’s buyer’s guide.
Woodside neighborhoods served
- Central WoodsideAround the village core, from 1920s ranch estates to modern reconstructions on heavily wooded parcels.
- Woodside HillsOne- to five-acre lots at higher elevation in the west, under mature redwood and oak canopy.
- SkylineRidge-view parcels along Skyline Boulevard, commonly over five acres, beside the Coast Range open-space preserves.
- Family FarmA gated estate community with common open space and a controlled-access entry.
- Woodside HeightsOne- to two-acre lots with ranch-era architecture and horse-keeping rights on the eastern side of town.
Every neighborhood above has a full profile in the Woodside community guide.
