🇺🇸 US · West Coast
San Francisco.
Where the housing market sits.
Tech-payroll-driven Bay Area market with the country's highest median prices and a sharp 2022-2024 correction.
Updated 20h ago
Latest data: 2026-02-01
FRED SFXRSA · Zillow ZHVI · Census ACS
San Francisco sits in Expensive Stagnation — unaffordable and stalled. Affordability scores 3/100 and momentum 39/100.
City gauges
Affordability
3
Extreme — bottom decile
0 · Most expensive100 · Most affordable
- Median price (USD)
- $1,143,246City-level median home price, source-specific (see below).
- Median household income (USD)
- $136,300Most recent published metro-level median household income.
- Mortgage payment burden
- 50.2%30-year amortized payment at current rates as a share of median household income.
Momentum
39
Below average
0 · Cooling/declining100 · Running hot
- Year-over-year price change
- -0.3%Latest available city-level YoY HPI delta.
- Months of supply
- —Not yet sourced for this market — see methodology.
- Days on market
- —Not yet sourced for this market — see methodology.
Regime · What the gauges say together
Expensive stagnation
Unaffordable and prices not rising in real terms.
Unaffordable, but no longer rising.
Context
| Real price growth (3-mo annualized) | -5.91% |
| Headline mortgage rate | 6.37% |
| CPI year-over-year | 3.95% |
| Leading equity indicators (homebuilders/REITs) | -13.3% avg vs 200-day MA · breadth 0/8 |
Data sources for San Francisco
- Case-Shiller SF component
- Redfin Bay Area data
- SFAR market reports
Full source documentation on /data-sources.
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