August marked a broad seasonal cooling across the Bay Area. Closings declined year over year in 13 of 14 counties and month over month in 12, while months of supply increased from July in 13 counties. The shift reflects the typical late-summer slowdown as the market transitions from the spring/summer peak toward the fall market peak.

Mortgage rates ended July near their highs for the year, taking some momentum out of homebuyer demand. But in San Francisco, sales have been driven more by wealth creation than by mortgage rates: the AI boom has spiked demand, especially for family-ready homes in specific neighborhoods.

The Bay Area housing market is the center of national attention this summer. AI-driven wealth has offset persistently higher mortgage rates, pushing demand in a handful of neighborhoods to dramatic levels.

Our Housing Market Outlook is here to help you navigate a market that isn’t always easy to interpret. By examining the latest data, economic conditions, and emerging trends, we share our predictions for the year ahead to help you make more confident housing decisions.

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The Bay Area housing market hit a lot of national headlines in May. In San Francisco, Al and tech-driven demand has created aggressive bidding wars on the scarce inventory. Skyrocketing rents are back in the norm. Even the city’s condo market, which has been under pressure for six years, is showing signs of demand recovery.

For the first time in many years job creation in the Bay Area is positive and economic opportunity is attracting net inbound migration, despite the region’s chronic shortage of homes and affordability issues. It’s notable that other tech cities like Seattle and Austin are not seeing the boom in the real estate market related to Al. In fact, those cities are now sending more people to San Francisco than the reverse.

While the city dominates the headlines, many areas have not seen the massive wealth effect driving home buying demand like the city has. In this cycle, this resurgent demand is so far concentrated to a very small section in the city, and luxury markets in Peninsula and Marin.
For much of the region, interest rates matter more than stock market performance. In May, mortgage rates jumped higher with sharply higher inflation data. That tension between higher interest rates and the wealth effect is likely to continue for the rest of 2026. Inflation pressures have been pushing higher, and it seems unlikely that interest rates will dip again very soon.

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The median HOUSE sales price in March 2026 hit $2,150,000, up 18% year-over-year, exceeding the previous peak of $2,050,000 in April 2022. The median CONDO sales price was $1,357,500, up 27% year-over-year, marking the second-highest monthly price ever after the $1,375,000 peak in April 2022.

22 luxury HOUSE sales of $5 million+ were reported in March 2026, up 83% year-over- year, surpassing the previous peak of 21 sales in June 2021. 24 luxury CONDO sales of $3 million+ were reported in March, up 380% year-over-year, exceeding the previous high of 17 sales in August 2021.

The number of homes listed for sale fell 28% year over year. The inadequate supply of listings – especially of houses – compared to soaring demand continues to pressurize the market as buyers compete furiously for scarce listings.

85% of house sales sold over list price with an average sale price 23% over list price, tied with April 2022 for highest overbid percentage ever. 62% of condo sales sold over list price with an average sale price 7% over list price, the highest overbid % since 2019. The average days on market to acceptance of offer was 29 days in March 2026, the fastest rate of sale since spring 2022. Price reductions fell 39% from March 2025.

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Moving into spring, soaring buyer demand vs. an extremely inadequate supply of homes for sale continues to foster ferocious buyer competition, faster sales, more overbidding and rapidly rising home prices. Luxury home sales rose over 200% year over year to hit their highest month-of-February count ever. The upcoming months are typically among the most active of the year and median home sales prices often hit their calendar-year highs in spring – though that did not happen in 2025 due to autumn’s enormous AI-driven market boom. As has been the case in recent years, houses are seeing stronger market conditions than condos, but SF’s condo market is also rebounding dramatically. More affluent buyers continue to play an outsized role in demand and home- price appreciation.

The wild card in coming months is what sustained effects, if any, the Iran war may have on inflation, interest rates, financial markets and consumer confidence. Barring an extreme decline in economic conditions, we currently consider a significant negative impact on the city’s housing market unlikely.

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While national home price appreciation is stuttering to a halt and many states and regions are seeing price declines, San Francisco’s median home sales prices continue to surge higher, a dynamic we expect to see continue in 2026. The underlying factors are an extremely inadequate supply of homes for sale vs. rapidly increasing demand due to the AI startup boom.

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In 2025, Bay Area real estate markets started the year seeing strong buyer demand, but had the wind taken out of their sails by the political/economic uncertainty that soared in early spring. Then, in mid- late summer, stock markets rebounded to hit new highs, and interest rates began a sustained decline, initiating a shift in the psychology of buyers and sellers that is still developing.

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The real estate market began its usual mid-winter holiday season slowdown in November, marked by a substantial decline in both listing and sales activity. This contraction typically speeds up through December – normally the year’s slowest month – before the market begins to wake up in mid-January.