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Nob Hill

Explore Nob Hill from Huntington Park to California Street. Compare condos, TICs and whole buildings by ownership, reserves, access and total cost, then read the neighborhood’s dated Redfin market update.

NOB HILL · THE MARKET IN MOTION

A neighborhood.
A different rhythm.

12 SECOND
MARKET BRIEF

September 2026 · All home types

01 / THE PRICE OF ENTRY$1,994,441

Median sale price.

+49.7% from the same period last year. The homes that sold affect the median.

Redfin · Transactions: rolling 3 months ending September 2026. Competition 59/100 over a separate 6-month window. Source ↗

This report uses the provider-defined Nob Hill area. Lower Nob Hill, Polk Gulch, and Russian Hill are separate provider geographies and are not interchangeable. The map provides orientation, not a statistical boundary. All Home Types mixes ownership and building types; select comparables for the actual property.

Data, dates & definitions
Median sale price
$1,994,441
Sold above list price
23.9%
Sale-to-list ratio
103.9%
Median days on market
71

Source retrieved 2026-10-26T18:31:53Z. Report updated 2026-10-26T18:37:03.460Z. 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 at Huntington Park, then follow California Street.

Huntington Park provides a hilltop starting point among Grace Cathedral and the hotels. Walk to Nob Hill Cafe on Taylor or the Tonga Room inside the Fairmont on Mason. California Street’s cable car offers another way to orient yourself along the slope. The map below connects these stops; it does not reproduce Redfin’s market boundary or fold Lower Nob Hill into this data series.

The building can change the economics more than the neighborhood label.

For a condo, read the HOA budget, reserve study, master insurance and any assessment notices. For a TIC, review shared obligations and financing separately. For a whole building, verify leases and operating statements rather than treating the neighborhood’s all-home median as a per-unit valuation. Check elevators, stairs, storage and garage access in person, then model the full monthly cost.

A large price gain is a reason to inspect the sample.

Our perspective: the rise in the transaction median and the longer selling period call for more specific comps. Compare ownership, size, condition, floor height and outlook before setting a price. Visit the actual block at different hours to understand the interaction of residential entrances, hotel activity and transit. Investors should test achievable long-term rents and a flat-price resale after costs rather than assume a neighborhood price gain repeats.

AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Get a feel for Nob Hill.

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 Nob Hill 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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