The Many Corners of Tiburon & Belvedere

Paradise Cay sits at the far north end of the Tiburon peninsula, off Paradise Drive. The neighborhood is built around the Paradise Cay Yacht Harbor, a private marina protected by a stone breakwater, with single-family homes lining the harbor, inlets, and small lagoons. Many properties include direct water access, private docks, or slips within the marina. The setting is residential and quiet, and daily errands generally involve a drive to Strawberry Village or downtown Tiburon.

The Del Mar area covers the residential streets around Del Mar Middle School in the mid-section of the Tiburon peninsula. Housing is mostly single-family, a mix of 1960s and 70s construction with a steady stream of remodels and the occasional newer rebuild. The area is family-oriented and walkable to Del Mar Middle, which serves all 6th–8th graders in the Reed Union School District.

Downtown Tiburon is the village around Main Street, Ark Row, and the ferry landing, a compact, low-rise waterfront district at the southern tip of the peninsula. Restaurants, cafes, boutiques, and a weekend rhythm of pedestrians and cyclists define the shoreline, with the Golden Gate Ferry departing for the San Francisco Ferry Building from the foot of Main Street. Ark Row, a short curving block of historic 19th-century "arks" (former floating houses) that were pulled ashore and converted into shops, gives downtown much of its distinct character.

Housing is unusually varied here: ferry-adjacent condos, townhomes, smaller cottages, and a handful of single-family homes tucked into the streets behind the waterfront. True on-the-water bayfront properties are limited and tightly held; homes and townhomes a block or two off the water are typically the more realistic entry point into the neighborhood.

Tiburon Knolls is a hillside subdivision on the Tiburon peninsula, with streets climbing the slope above Tiburon Boulevard. Homes are predominantly single-family on view lots, with sightlines toward the bay, Angel Island, and, depending on the lot, the Golden Gate. Architecture ranges from earlier-decade view homes through more recent rebuilds.

Belvedere Island is a residential island connected to the Tiburon peninsula by causeways at Beach Road and San Rafael Avenue, and it forms the heart of the small City of Belvedere. The island is steep and tightly held, with narrow streets climbing the central ridge and homes oriented toward some of the Bay Area's most expansive views: the Golden Gate, the San Francisco skyline, Angel Island, and the open bay. Lots are generally private, often gated, and turnover is famously thin, when homes here do change hands, many move through relationships rather than the open market.

Corinthian Island is a small island immediately east of downtown Tiburon, connected to the mainland by a short causeway at Beach Road. Despite the name and its proximity to downtown Tiburon, the island is part of the City of Belvedere rather than Tiburon. Homes are tightly packed on narrow lanes climbing the island's central hill, with the south side facing Belvedere Cove and the San Francisco skyline beyond. The Corinthian Yacht Club, founded in 1886 and one of the oldest yacht clubs on the West Coast, sits at the foot of the island on Beach Road.