Bay Area Housing Alpha
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Single-family homes · Jun 2026–Aug 2026 · rolling 3 months1 / 3 cities selected
San Francisco BayPacific Ocean
City boundaries · simplified overview
Median sale price
$1.03M$11.99M
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25 of 25 cities · Numbers match the map. Search filters this list.

Median sale price
$11,992,972 · 26 salesGuide ↗
$2,396,596 · 50 salesGuide ↗
$1,574,078 · 12 salesGuide ↗
$3,318,056 · 54 salesGuide ↗
$1,756,970 · Small or unknown sampleGuide ↗
$1,299,239 · 72 salesGuide ↗
$1,034,394 · 27 salesGuide ↗
$2,160,234 · 26 salesGuide ↗
$1,723,990 · 28 salesGuide ↗
$6,496,193 · 38 salesGuide ↗
$4,821,175 · 68 salesGuide ↗
$5,796,603 · 30 salesGuide ↗
$3,652,859 · 53 salesGuide ↗
$2,333,632 · 37 salesGuide ↗
$2,860,324 · 50 salesGuide ↗
$1,349,209 · 80 salesGuide ↗
$4,192,543 · 102 salesGuide ↗
$5,709,154 · 17 salesGuide ↗
$2,361,116 · 119 salesGuide ↗
$1,457,146 · 56 salesGuide ↗
$2,598,477 · 73 salesGuide ↗
$1,868,905 · 693 salesGuide ↗
$2,148,741 · 140 salesGuide ↗
$1,301,737 · 70 salesGuide ↗
$4,622,291 · 21 salesGuide ↗

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City medians describe the homes that sold, not an individual home's value or homes available within a budget.

Sources, dates & how to read this map

Published Redfin snapshots; rolling three-month windows overlap. Changing the home type updates every value and preserves your cities. Price and marketing-time shading requires at least ten reported closed sales as a caution screen; the closed-sales count does not establish the sample size of contracts used for days on market. Condos / co-ops exclude townhouses. Missing values are not zero.

U.S. Census Bureau city boundaries · BAS 2026, captured 2026-09-17. Mainland view for orientation; some boundaries include water and San Francisco’s offshore islands are outside this view. These are citywide values, not neighborhood prices, parcel surveys, hazard maps or forecasts.

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How to compare Bay Area home prices

Choose the same home type and time window in each city. The comparison shows median sale price, price per square foot and closed sales together, so you can see the price gap alongside the number of homes behind it.

History points cover three months. Monthly updates overlap; calendar-quarter views use separate quarters. A city median describes the homes that sold, so different lot sizes, condition and neighborhoods can explain a gap.

Read the guide to comparing home prices fairly, with examples of medians, price per square foot and overlapping dates.

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