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Luxury vs Non-Luxury Market Performance
Year-over-year sales volume growth comparison
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San Francisco's housing market has lost its mind | TechCrunch
San Francisco real estate has never been very accessible. But the record sales happening right now in the city’s high-end market are testing the upper limits of what even this famously unaffordable city thought was possible. Consider a six-bedroom, 5,700-square-foot home in Cow Hollow, one of San Francisco’s most coveted neighborhoods. It was listed two weeks ago at $7.95 million, so, not cheap. It just sold for $15 million. The sellers, who bought the property for $7.8 million in the summer of 2020 as the pandemic was pushing residents out of cities, nearly doubled their money in under five years. San Francisco real estate agent Rohin Dhar flagged the sale on X, where it drew the kind of reactions you’d expect from people who thought they’d seen everything this market had to offer. Then there’s a 4,100-square-foot home in Presidio Heights, one of the city’s most exclusive enclaves, that was listed in late April for $4.4 million and sold a week later for $8.2 million, nearly double the asking price. Venture capitalist Nichole Wischoff, who toured the property before it sold, wasn’t impressed with what the money was buying. “Mediocre house, good location,” she wrote on X, noting that the view from the patio was of a neighboring home that appeared to have burned down. “Someone just bought this for $8.2M,” she wrote. “If you like to see cash lit on fire, come tour real estate in SF.” It isn’t only the ultra-high end that’s seeing action. A 2,300-square-foot home in Bernal Heights sold this week for $4 million — a million dollars over asking — just two years after the same owners tried and failed to sell it for $2.95 million. That sale represents a different but equally telling story: the frenzy isn’t limited to the rarefied tier of eight-figure homes. Across a wide swath of the market, buyers are bidding aggressively, with homes routinely selling for $500,000 to $1 million over asking. The numbers back up the anecdotes. New data from Redfin shows luxury home sales in San Francisco jumped 22% year-over-year in March, with homes going under contract in a median of just 12 days — down from 28 days a year earlier. Nearly two-thirds of luxury properties went under contract within two weeks. By contrast, non-luxury sales rose less than 4%, with prices essentially flat. The high end is essentially operating in a totally different universe. Techcrunch event San Francisco, CA | October 13-15, 2026 The invisible force behind all of this is no mystery to anyone...
The San Francisco housing market is unhinged. Now it’s also a game
The launch leans into a stat that captures just how extreme the local market has become: 88.3 percent of San Francisco homes that closed in April 2026 sold above asking price, according to housing analyst Ryan Lundquist of Sacramento Appraisal.
Real Estate Market Trends in San Francisco, CA: Prices Fall
Active listings fell to 747 homes in April — a 31.2% drop from April 2025, even as new listings held nearly flat at 672 homes. Nationally, inventory actually grew 4.6% over the same period.
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