Pomona Ave, Martinez

Pomona Avenue is a curving suburban street in the Mountain View neighborhood of Martinez. The Mountain View neighborhood is in the northern section of Martinez, but it along the elevated section before you get near the courthouse.

Along Pomona Avenue, you find mainly older homes and duplexes dating to before WWII I believe. It seems like a fairly quiet street. I came here to see about a duplex this weekend. It was fairly inexpensive--less than $900--perhaps because it is not too far from the Chevron Refinery or to the Downtown area. It may also be because it was fairly small and old like most houses in this neighborhood. It didn’t seem like a bad neighborhood however.

Homes in this neighborhood sell for around $200K. These prices seem low to me compared to other places in the Bay Area where similar homes could sell for nearly twice as much. I would especially say this when you take into consideration that the schools here are fairly strong and crime is relatively low. If I were single with only one kid, I could definitely see myself taking one of these places. It is only the size that holds me back now.

The only other issue might be the commute and the boredom. Martinez is not too far out of the way so long as you are headed into the rest of Contra Costa County and the East Bay but any farther than SF and it might take a bit of a toll--no pun intended.

Overall it is not too bad a street.