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Commute once. Live on the waterfront.
Skye at River Islands is 78 miles from San Francisco — close enough for the occasional office day, far enough that your mortgage buys a brand-new home on the river instead of someone else's fixer-upper.
From the mid $800s
New Construction · Skye at River Islands
$1.3M–$2.1M
Median Resale Home · Bay Area Counties
78 mi
To San Francisco · Once a Week, If That
The Bay Area Math
Your salary is from Silicon Valley. Your mortgage doesn't have to be.
The median Bay Area single-family home now runs well past a million dollars — often for a house built in the 1950s. The same budget goes a very different distance in River Islands.
Bay Area · Typical Resale
$1.3M–$2.1M
Median single-family resale, by county
- Often 60–75 years old, sold as-is
- Competitive offers over asking
- Renovation costs on top of purchase
- Smaller lots, older systems, deferred maintenance
Skye at River Islands · New Construction
From the mid $800s
2,100–3,978 sq ft · 3–6 beds · 2–3 car garage
- ✓ Brand new — you're the first owner
- ✓ Waterfront lots with semi-private docks available
- ✓ Full builder warranty, modern systems, tankless water heater
- ✓ Ten-foot ceilings, gourmet kitchen, smart-home package included
Bay Area figures reflect 2026 county median single-family resale prices, which vary by county and month. Skye pricing per Kiper Homes and subject to change; confirm current pricing with the sales team.
The Geography
West to the office. East to the mountains.
River Islands sits in the middle of the map most Bay Area buyers never look at — one direction covers your work life, the other covers your weekends.
San Francisco
78 mi · ~1 hr 25 min
For the one day a week you actually go in
San Jose
62 mi · ~1 hr 10 min
South Bay HQs via I-680 or ACE train
River Islands
Home · Lathrop, CA
Your dock, your office, your ten-foot ceilings
Yosemite Valley
115 mi · ~2 hr 30 min
Day trips that used to be long weekends
Truckee
150 mi · ~2 hr 20 min
Skiing before the Bay crowd merges onto I-80
Lake Tahoe
140 mi · ~2 hr 30 min
South shore summers, north shore winters
Drive times are approximate, off-peak. From San Francisco, Tahoe is a 3.5–4 hour drive on a good day — from River Islands, you're already an hour ahead of everyone leaving the city.
The Schools
On-island schools that outperform the state — by a lot.
River Islands was master-planned around education. The community's own K-8 charter schools — River Islands Technology Academy I & II — sit inside the neighborhood, and a STEM-focused high school rounds out the on-island campus.
A-
Overall Niche grade for River Islands Technology Academy, rated 4.5 of 5 by families
Top 20%
Statewide ranking for combined math and reading scores among all California schools
65%
vs. ~47% CA averageStudents at or above proficiency in reading
51%
vs. ~34% CA averageStudents at or above proficiency in math
Designed for How You Work
These homes weren't retrofitted for remote work. They were drawn for it.
Skye was designed from the ground up around flexible living — which happens to be exactly what a remote-first household needs.
My Space Flex Rooms
A real office. Maybe two.
Dedicated flex rooms configured as work-from-home offices, Zoom rooms, studies, or gyms — with a door that closes, not a corner of the kitchen table.
Wired & Ready
Enterprise-grade connectivity
Pre-wired CAT-6e in the great room, primary bedroom, and loft, plus whole-house Eero mesh Wi-Fi with a ceiling-mounted access point on every floor. No dead zones on your video calls.
Multi-Gen Suites
Room for how life actually looks
Independent suites with separate exterior entrance options — for parents, adult kids, long-stay guests, or a genuinely separate office entrance.
The Commute You'll Want
Waterfront lots with docks
Select homes sit on the water with semi-private docks and view decks. Log off at 5:00, be on the water by 5:05.
New Construction · Modern Farmhouse Design · River Islands, Lathrop
The Remote-Work Reality
Hybrid isn't going anywhere. Neither is the 101 traffic.
Return-to-office headlines come and go, but the data keeps saying the same thing: a large share of Bay Area knowledge work still happens at home — and for fully-remote and one-day-a-week roles, where you live is finally your choice.
~28%
of paid workdays in the San Francisco–San Jose metro are still worked from home as of 2026 — essentially unchanged year over year.
1 day
in the office per week — or fewer — is the reality for many fully-remote and remote-flexible roles at Bay Area tech and fintech employers.
$0
is what your commute costs on the four days you work from a dedicated office overlooking your own backyard.
Remote-work share per WFH Research metro data, 2026. Individual employer policies vary and change — check yours. We'll be honest: if you're in the office three days a week, this drive is a lot. If you're in once a week or less, it's a different life.
See It in Person
The models are open. The water's out back.
Call 209-297-6300
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