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Mission Bay

Explore Mission Bay real estate with dated Redfin market figures, local places, official transit and research links, and practical guidance on ownership, comparable sales and total property costs.

MISSION BAY · THE MARKET IN MOTION

A neighborhood.
A different rhythm.

12 SECOND
MARKET BRIEF

September 2026 · All home types

01 / THE PRICE OF ENTRY$1,449,594

Median sale price.

+16.9% from the same period last year. The homes that sold affect the median.

Redfin · Transactions: rolling 3 months ending September 2026. Competition 86/100 over a separate 3-month window. Source ↗

This report uses Redfin’s provider-defined Mission Bay area in San Francisco and Zillow’s independently defined geography. All Home Types mixes property and ownership types. The map is approximate orientation, not a statistical boundary. Select comparables for the actual block and ownership type. Redfin’s median days-on-market change conflicts with its narrative, so the year-over-year day change is unavailable. The competition panel uses a separate three-month window and a different marketing-pace measure.

Data, dates & definitions
Median sale price
$1,449,594
Sold above list price
65.4%
Sale-to-list ratio
104.5%
Median days on market
27

Source retrieved 2026-10-29T22:52:47Z. Report updated 2026-10-29T22:52:47Z. The buildings and calendar are illustrations of market measures, not individual sales or an actual listing schedule. Medians describe the sales mix, not a same-home investment return. Commentary is our interpretation.

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By Lucas Beard, REALTOR® · CA DRE #02417843

Local guide checked . Market and weather data carry their own observation dates.

Get closer to the details.

A neighborhood name is a useful starting point, but each property deserves its own review. Use these questions to make your next visit more productive.

Start with the building, then the waterfront.

Mission Bay is a useful search for buyers who want to compare condominium living with access to the waterfront and UCSF. Start with the unit itself: bedroom orientation, usable living space, floor height and outlook. Then walk to Mission Rock Resort and test your regular errands from the entrance. Public waterfront access and a building’s private amenities are different benefits with different costs. Compare the nearby South Beach guide when the search crosses provider boundaries.

Make UCSF access specific to your destination.

UCSF lists its Cancer Center at Mission Bay at 1825 Fourth Street. That gives a prospective resident a concrete destination to test, but a campus address is not a commute-time guarantee. Include elevators, crossings and the return trip. Use the T Third Street route to check the correct stop and current alerts. For a rental purchase, verify achieved rents in comparable units rather than assigning an automatic premium to proximity.

Compare the monthly bill before comparing the asking price.

Two similarly priced condos can carry very different ownership costs. Ask for the operating budget, reserve study, insurance documents, assessments and planned elevator or mechanical work. Confirm whether parking and storage are included and how their rights transfer. Our rent-versus-buy condo guide helps organize the comparison; the condo-versus-TIC guide explains why ownership structure deserves its own analysis.

Use the market report as a starting point for the offer.

Read the Mission Bay market update for the source period, sales median and competition window. Then select recent closed sales from the same building or a tightly matched group of properties. The neighborhood median combines different layouts and buildings. Buyers should keep assessment and appraisal-gap reserves outside the down payment; sellers should explain their unit’s differences with evidence. Investors can use our investment property checklist to separate income, operating costs and financing.

Research the neighborhood from the source.

Use these official resources to check transit, public places and property details. An address or route does not establish a rent or resale premium.

AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Get a feel for Mission Bay.

Use the map to explore the streets, then follow the official links for parks, dining, and drinks in and around the neighborhood.

Orientation map · Approximate area, not a market-data boundary.Open a larger map ↗Interactive map by Google Maps

Local links checked . Check the linked businesses and park pages for current details.

WEATHER & EVERYDAY LIVING

San Francisco weather context.

Put Mission Bay visits in context with city rainfall and regional sky conditions. Check the actual home in morning and afternoon light.

Rainfall and temperatures come from NOAA’s San Francisco Downtown station. Fog and sky conditions come from SFO and are regional context only. Neither station measures the featured neighborhood’s block-by-block microclimate; airport fog days are not neighborhood fog days.

Complete calendar month: to . Retrieved . Updated .

City rainfall and temperature.

San Francisco Downtown station ↗ · City station near Mission Dolores.

SF Downtown precipitation
0.03inches

NOAA station USW00023272

SF Downtown wet days
1day

At least 0.01 inches of precipitation

Average daily high 70.1°F · Average daily low 57.5°F

City precipitation through the month Inches per station observation day, San Francisco Downtown

Chart scale: 0 to 0.10 inches. Trace amounts are recorded separately and do not become zero-rain claims.

View daily weather data +
NOAA San Francisco Downtown daily records for September 2026
Station datePrecipitation (inches)High (°F)Low (°F)
0.006961
0.007061
0.037260
0.006857
0.007156
0.006957
0.008157
0.008561
0.009465
0.007559
0.006658
0.006859
0.006658
0.007157
0.006657
0.006357
0.007059
0.006657
0.006656
0.006055
0.006156
0.006356
0.007556
0.007558
0.006757
0.006856
0.006355
0.006955
0.007454
0.007255

City data retrieved · Download NOAA daily records ↗

Regional fog and sky conditions.

Station: San Francisco International Airport (SFO). These counts describe the airport, not the featured neighborhood. Fair weather is the source’s sky category; it does not mean six hours of sunshine or a fog-free day.

SFO fog days
18days

Fog reported at the airport

SFO fair-weather days
8days

NWS fair-sky category, not measured sunshine hours

SFO partly cloudy days
20days

NWS partly cloudy category

SFO cloudy days
2days

NWS cloudy category

SFO period: to . Source issued ; retrieved . Read the archived NWS report ↗

Sources, definitions and limits +
  • Rainfall and temperature source: NOAA NCEI San Francisco Downtown, USW00023272 ↗, at 37.7705, −122.4269. These are city station readings, not measurements at an individual home. We sum the daily precipitation records and count days with at least 0.01 inches. The precipitation variable includes any liquid-equivalent frozen precipitation.
  • Daily values retain NOAA’s station observation dates. An observation day can end at a station’s reporting time; we do not relabel it as a midnight-to-midnight Pacific measurement. Trace precipitation is marked “Trace.” Missing or quality-flagged precipitation rejects a monthly update; incomplete temperatures remain unavailable.
  • Fog and sky source: National Weather Service CLMSFO, archived by Iowa Environmental Mesonet ↗. The source’s fog, fair, partly cloudy and cloudy counts are kept as reported. Fog can occur during part of a fair-weather day, so fog is not an additional mutually exclusive sky category. We do not convert fair days to measured sunshine hours or add them to fog counts.
  • These are free public weather records. Our summary and chart are independent of NOAA and Iowa State University. No affiliation or endorsement is implied. NOAA usage information ↗ · IEM usage information ↗.
  • Weather periods and source timestamps are separate from the rolling Redfin market window. Monthly updates retain the previous verified month if either source is delayed. These stations cannot establish a specific home’s sunlight, fog, moisture condition or investment return.

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