The Glenview Serenity neighborhood in Almaden Valley enjoys spacious, well maintained homes and a great proximity to top schools, shopping, and commute routes. This community features a good number of houses with 3 car garages, something that can be hard to find! While not all of the homes are super young, you won’t find many power lines there, making the whole area feel especially nice.
New listing in the Serenity tract!
We just put a new listing on the MLS today: 6894 Serenity Court, San Jose CA 95120 and we invite you to stop by and see our open house this Wednesday, April 15, 2026 from 9:30 – 12 noon, or Saturday / Sunday April 18 & 19, from 2 – 4 p.m..
Where is the Glenview Serenity neighborhood?
You’ll find this area in the heart of Almaden Valley (click on the link to find many more neigbhorhoods in San Jose 95120). Nearby neighborhoods include the Country Club and the Glencrest Estates areas.
The neighborhood is more or less a triangular shape, with the boundaries following the west side of Almaden Expressway, the north side of Rajkovich and beyond, and Elwood Road, roughly – but a bit past it in the upper left corner of the map above.
Glencrest Estates is an upscale neighborhood in San Jose’s Almaden Valley. Built by Shapell homes in the mid 1980s, these homes are highly sought after as they provide a perfect mix of top schools with top quality construction. The neighborhood is bookended by Glencrest Park and Cathedral Park.
Quick facts on Glencrest Estates
160 single family, detached homes (the nearby patio homes number 223)
150 of the houses are 2 stories, just 10 are single story homes
All appear to have been constructed with 3 car garages (cannot confirm as Realist, our county records resource, no longer displays garage info)
Community Pool (more info below), but low HOA dues
Built between 1984 and 1988
These houses are generously sized with the smallest at 2,078 square feet, the largest at 3,776 SF, and the average home size is 2881 SF
Nearly all feature 4 bedrooms, but eight of them include 5 bedrooms and two others boast 6 bedrooms
All properties offer a minimum of 2 bathrooms, but most have 2.5 or 3
Lots average 10,830 SF and range from 7,490 SF to 24,300 SF
This is a hilly area, and some homes or yards enjoy views
Three tracts in this subdivision: 6897, 6899, 7149
Developed by Shapell Homes, which was the premier local builder at that time
The streets are public, and comfortably wide, and they do include sidewalks.
Where is the Glencrest Estates neighborhood?
This community is found next to, and just south of, Williams Elementary School, which is on Rajkovich Way. Calcaterra Creek is the eastern boundary.
Map data: Google Imagery, Airbus, Maxar Technologies.
The popular Glencrest neighborhood in Almaden includes both the Glencrest patio homes as well as the Glencrest Estates properties, which are larger houses on larger lots. Today we’ll focus on the patio homes in particular.
Glencrest Patio Homes – quick facts
There are 223 houses in the Glencrest patio homes community
There are 4 tracts: 6900, 7711, 7712, and 7713
Home sizes run from 1,612 square feet to 3,253 SF – typical is 2,200 – 2,400 SF
Lot sizes range from 5,000 SF to 13,440 – typical is around 6,000 SF
Construction was completed between 1987 and 1981
The patio or zero lot line properties are found on the inside streets (of the pentagram shape) and have about 6,000 SF lots. (The outside is the estates.)
Streets included are Quail Creek Circle, Mountain Quail Circle, and Quail Cove Way.
This corner of Almaden is located at the end of Serenity Way near Glenview Park and Cathedral Park in the Williams area. The Glencrest patio homes area is shaped like a pentagram (a five sided object) so is easy to spot on the map.
The patio homes community enjoys a shared pool with the Glencrest Estates homes. The joint venture is run by Glencrest Recreation. The outside ring of homes are single family houses on large, normal lots of about 10,000 to 13,000 square feet (on Valley Quail Circle, Hollow Lake).
All of the Glencrest homes were built by Shapell, a company which is known for a very high quality. Most were built in 1987 or 1988.
The big draws for these homes are as follows:
Top Almaden schools are close by: Williams Elementary, Bret Harte Middle, and Leland High School
Shapell is a highly regarded builder, perhaps the most valued in Santa Clara County
The Glencrest area homes, whether on normal lots or zero lot line / patio homes, are fairly young by local standards
Glencrest Patio Homes
As you enter the interior part of the neighborhood, a small sign has some important information for anyone in a vehicle:
A pretty neighborhood with Almaden Valley’s best schools, Orchard Creek includes 179 comfortably sized single family homes on good sized lots. Many have been updated or remodeled over the years, and some expanded.
The neighborhood has gently winding streets and is generally very well kept up.
Where is Orchard Creek?
The Orchard Creek neighborhood is in San Jose, 95120, in the scenic Almaden Valley. It is located between Calcaterra Creek to the west and Almaden Expressway to the east, a little north of the split between Almaden Expressway and Almaden Road. It sits adjacent to the Glencrest area to the west, Cathedral Oaks Park on the southwest, Almaden Springs to the south, and the expressway to the east.
Streets include Amur Creek, Anjou Crek, Bartlett Creek, Calcaterra, Casaba Creek, Macintosh Creek, and Pippin Creek. For the truly curious, this is tract number 5436.
The public schools include Williams Elementary, Bret Harte Middle, and Leland High.
Map data: Google, neighborhood boundaries and overlay by Mary Pope-Handy.
How is the Williams Elementary School area of San Jose’s Almaden Valley 95120 doing in terms of the real estate market? Today we’ll look at the Williams area as compared to Almaden as a whole to see. First, the basic realty trends and stats for this nice section of Silicon Valley side by side for this year only (I pulled and crunched all of this data from MLSListings.com myself tonight, “deemed reliable but not guaranteed”):
1. Comparison of the average price per square foot for all of Almaden (including the Williams area) with just the Williams area of 95120:
Status
Average $ per SF
Williams Area only
All Almaden (including Wms)
1
Active
$428
$415
2
Pending with release
$365
$372
3
Pending w/out release
$556
$439
4
Pending do not show
$355
$414
5
Sold
$418
$399
While there is some fluctuation from one status to the next, at the end of the day there’s one number that matters the most, and that’s what actually sold and closed. In the Williams area, homes have sold at an average of $418 per square foot while in Almaden generally (including this area), the price is $399 per square foot – about 5% less. This is tremendously important to understand if you are trying to purchase a home in the Williams area – homes there do, in fact, sell for more than in most parts (perhaps all parts) of the Almaden Valley.
Next, the stats for just the Williams area followed by the stats for all of 95120. (more…)
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A pretty neighborhood with Almaden Valley’s best schools, Orchard Creek includes 179 comfortably sized single family homes on good sized lots. Many have been updated or remodeled over the years, and some expanded.
