Episode 2 · Property Types & Supply Dynamics
Parkside Housing Stock: Sizes, Age, Lots and Ownership
Parkside is known as a San Francisco district of one kind of home: a house from one long building wave, on a lot of nearly standard size, often kept by the same owner for decades. This page covers what is built here, how big and how old the houses are, how the rooms are laid out, how long owners stay, and what assessed values say about the cost of holding a house.
💡 Key Insights & Takeaways
- Houses make up 94.6% of the 5,567 residential parcels in Parkside, and condominium units are 0.5%, so the usual alternative to a house is a unit in a small building.
- The median house has 1,456 square feet of living area, and 54.7% of houses sit on lots recorded at either 2,996 or 3,000 square feet.
- Half of Parkside's houses record a single bathroom, as the property record counts them, so a second bathroom is the filter that removes the most houses from a search.
- The median house was built in 1938, and 88.7% of houses went up in the three decades from 1920 through 1949.
- Among houses with a recorded sale, the median hold is 22.5 years, and recorded sales end in December 2024, so newer sales are not counted.
As of 30 September 2026, a Parkside house sold in 2020 or later carries a median assessed value 3.07 times that of a same-size house sold before 2000. Between 1,500 and 2,499 square feet, the medians are $1,697,931 and $553,878. Assessed value is not market value, and sale records end in December 2024.
At a glance
This table gives the headline figures for Parkside's houses as of 30 September 2026. Every figure describes Parkside's houses unless the row says otherwise, and assessed values are not market values.
| Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Residential parcels, and the share that are houses | 5,567 parcels, 94.6% of them houses | 30 September 2026 |
| Median living area of a house, and median lot | 1,456 square feet on a 2,996-square-foot lot | 30 September 2026 |
| Median year built | 1938 | 30 September 2026 |
| Houses recording one bathroom, as the property record counts them | 52.1% | 30 September 2026 |
| Gap in median assessed value, houses of 1,500 to 2,499 square feet sold since 2020 against before 2000 | 3.07 times, on sales recorded through December 2024 | 30 September 2026 |
What kind of homes make up Parkside?
Parkside is a district of houses. As of 30 September 2026, houses make up 5,266 of its 5,567 residential parcels, or 94.6%. A parcel is a record, not a home, so the parcel count is not a count of households.
The rest is mostly small buildings. The 266 multi-family parcels are 4.8% of the total. Of those buildings, 210 have two to four units and 37 have five or more. Condominium units are close to absent, at 0.5%, and some units are filed as houses, so the 27 counted here are a floor. If you are not buying a house in Parkside, you are most likely buying a unit in a small building.
This table shows Parkside's residential parcels by type as of 30 September 2026.
| Type | Parcels | Share of residential parcels |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | 5,266 | 94.6% |
| Multi-family buildings | 266 | 4.8% |
| Condominium units, at least | 27 | 0.5% |
| Other residential parcels | — | 0.1% |
| All residential parcels | 5,567 | — |
How big are Parkside houses, and how big are the lots?
The median Parkside house has 1,456 square feet of living area as of 30 September 2026, and most houses sit close to that size. Living area here is the property record's figure, which can differ from the size a listing advertises.
The lots barely vary. Lot size is recorded on every one of the 5,266 house parcels, and more than half of the houses sit on lots recorded at one of two sizes. The median house covers 0.54 of its lot in floor area, a measure called the floor-area ratio, which is living area divided by lot size. You are choosing between houses here, not between pieces of land, and the trade is floor area rather than yard.
This table shows house and lot sizes across the 5,266 house parcels in Parkside as of 30 September 2026.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Median living area | 1,456 square feet |
| Half of houses fall between | 1,238 and 1,800 square feet |
| Houses between 1,000 and 2,499 square feet | 89.4% |
| Median lot | 2,996 square feet |
| Half of lots fall between | 2,495 and 3,000 square feet |
| Lots under 4,000 square feet | 98.3% |
| Lots recorded at 2,996 or 3,000 square feet | 54.7% |
| Median floor-area ratio, living area divided by lot | 0.54 |
How old are Parkside houses?
The median Parkside house was built in 1938, as of 30 September 2026. Among houses with a recorded build year, 92.7% went up before 1950, and 88.7% were built in the three decades from 1920 through 1949. Only 4.0% predate 1920.
The district was built out in one long wave and has barely been added to since, so you are choosing among houses of one generation. A build year says when a house went up, not what has been redone inside it since.
How are Parkside houses laid out?
Half of Parkside's houses record a single bathroom. As of 30 September 2026, 52.1% of houses record one, and the median is 1 bathroom. These are bathrooms as the property record counts them, in whole bathrooms, so a bathroom added later may not be on it. Count them yourself at every showing.
Most houses stand one story tall, at 85.4%. Bedroom counts are thinner. Bedrooms are recorded on only 45.3% of houses, and that group leans toward larger houses that sold more recently, so its figures do not describe every house. Among the houses that record a bedroom count, the median is 3 bedrooms.
This table shows how Parkside houses are laid out as of 30 September 2026. Bathrooms are counted as the property record counts them, and the bedroom rows cover only the 45.3% of houses that record a bedroom count.
| Measure | Value | Houses counted |
|---|---|---|
| One bathroom | 52.1% | 5,262 |
| Three bathrooms or more | 17.0% | 5,262 |
| One story | 85.4% | 5,248 |
| Two stories or more | 14.6% | 5,248 |
| Median bedrooms, among houses with a count | 3 | 2,386 |
| Three or four bedrooms, among houses with a count | 62.1% | 2,386 |
| Most common layout, among houses with both counts | 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, 22.6% | 2,385 |
How long do Parkside owners keep their houses?
Owners here stay a long time. Among houses with a recorded sale, the median hold is 22.5 years as of 30 September 2026. Of those houses, 79.3% have been held more than 10 years, 56.4% more than 20 and 26.2% more than 30.
These recorded sales end in December 2024, 21.6 months before that date. A house sold since then still shows its previous owner's date, so the newest sales are missing and those houses' holds read longer than they are. Recorded sales start in 1987, and 37.4% of houses carry no recorded sale since then, so the hold figures cover dated houses only.
Owners who carry the homeowners' exemption have held a median 24.6 years, against 17.8 years for houses without it. The exemption marks a principal residence whose owner filed for it, which makes it the closest thing to an occupancy count the record gives.
Why do same-size Parkside houses carry such different assessed values?
The year of purchase sets them. Under Proposition 13, a house's assessed value is set when it is bought or newly built, and it may rise by no more than 2% a year until the next change of ownership. As of 30 September 2026, houses last sold in 2020 or later carry a median assessed value 3.07 times that of houses last sold before 2000, on houses of close to the same median size. Those sale years come from recorded sales that end in December 2024.
The homeowners' exemption shows the same pattern. Houses that carry it are assessed below the rest on nearly the same floor area, because their owners have held longer. The gap is time, not the house.
Land outweighs the building on 64.9% of houses. The median house is assessed at $320,905 for the land and $238,738 for the building, and land makes up a median 58.2% of a house's assessed value. That split was set at each house's last reassessment, so it shows the allocation at purchase, not today's balance. On lots this alike, the land value reflects location rather than acreage.
All of these are assessed values under Proposition 13, not market values and not what a house would sell for. When you buy, reassessment on transfer sets a new base-year value from your own purchase, so the seller's assessed value does not carry over to you.
This table compares median assessed values of Parkside houses as of 30 September 2026. These are assessed values, not market values, and the sale years come from recorded sales that end in December 2024.
| Group of houses | Median assessed value | Houses |
|---|---|---|
| Last sold before 2000 | $511,794 | 1,230 |
| Last sold in 2020 or later | $1,570,984 | 444 |
| With the homeowners' exemption | $524,226 | 3,000 |
| Without the homeowners' exemption | $616,652 | 2,266 |
| All houses | $553,062, or $373 per square foot of living area | 5,266 |
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