San Francisco, CA

The cultural and financial capital of Northern California

Buying in San Francisco

Buying a residential home in San Francisco requires dealing with many unique aspects such as the lottery system for schools and a famously opaque home pricing culture. List prices mean very little and having an experienced buyer's agent is important to help win the bidding wars.

Multiple upcoming AI IPOs for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic promise to unlock significant home purchasing power in the next couple of years. With very little new inventory, this means that buying a home in the city is only going to get more competitive.

SF Real Estate Trends

Price Index (Historical)

 2.9%
YoY Price Change
 1.0%
5-Year Price Change
 21.8%
10-Year Price Change
 190.6%
25-Year Price Change
$1,379,665
Median Sale Price
26
Median Days on Market

San Francisco
Neighborhood Ranking

Which neighborhoods have given the best returns over 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, and 25 years? Covering 50 neighborhoods sorted by population. All data from Zillow for single-family homes.

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(SIZE RANK) NEIGHBORHOOD 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year 20 Year 25 Year Price Index
(SIZE RANK) NEIGHBORHOOD 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year 20 Year 25 Year Price Index

Frequently Asked Questions

We serve all neighborhoods in San Francisco including Outer Sunset, Mission, South of Market, Outer Richmond, Parkside, Inner Richmond, Pacific Heights, Excelsior, Bernal Heights, Noe Valley, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Potrero Hill, Crocker Amazon, Lower Nob Hill, Western Addition, Portola, Visitacion Valley, Bayview, Mission Dolores.

Yes, we pride ourselves on exceptional service and exceptional advice! A majority of our clients are first-time homebuyers. Many of our past clients who switched to us from full commission realtors told us that our service and insights were actually significantly better than what they got before. We operate less like a sales team and more like a tech and data team.

We do more transactions than a typical real estate agent. We typically write multiple offers per week, are deeply plugged into how the real estate market is doing, and can give you accurate advice on how to play the game.

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." Our past clients have left about 50 or so public reviews on Google and Zillow. Every single one of these reviews has been 5-star! We do very little advertising and we get significant repeat and referral business.

Yes, we invest significant effort in sourcing off-market properties. We have a special off-market property program for San Francisco and we charge percentage based commission for our off-market properties. Please call us for more details.

See Our Process for more details on our fee and service, Closed Properties for our past sales, Reviews for some reviews from past clients (ask us for more), and simply call/whatsapp/text us for anything.