Ground zero for gentrification arguments in almost every housing cycle. Flat streets, sunny weather, historical cultural institutions, and colorful street life. Welcome to the Mission, where hipsters zoom down Valencia on tomorrow’s transport idea while humble housekeepers hustle hard with their heads down.
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With a reputation for the sunniest weather in San Francisco and plenty of happening nightlife spots, the Mission District is popular with many home buyers. The Mission has transformed numerous times during its lifespan, and is currently home to a flourishing Hispanic and Latin population. The neighborhood is a city-wide focus point for issues around affordability and housing.
Sheltered by the fog because of Twin Peaks, you’ll often find citrus and avocado trees in the backyards of homes, flourishing and creating plenty of fruit to share with your neighbors. The BART subway system bisects the Mission, offering stops at 16th and 24th Street, making it a convenient location for downtown and East Bbay commuters. There are also numerous Muni bus lines that serve the Mission District.
The streets of the Mission tend to be mixed use, with residential housing above stores on streets like Mission, Valencia, and South Van Ness. The neighborhood is filled with a wonderfully diverse assortment of restaurants, and you could eat out for several weeks before eating the same style of cuisine. Some home buyers feel that the Mission is still too edgy and “transitional” for their tastes, and the neighborhood can have a dramatically different feel from block to block.
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The Inner Mission Neighborhood Vibe
Sheltered by fog from Twin Peaks, look for flourishing citrus and avocado trees in the backyards of homes, a great gift for your new neighbors. The Inner Mission has transformed numerous times during its existence, and is currently home to many Hispanic and Latin cultural organizations dedicated to “neighborhood preservation.” The neighborhood is a city-wide flash-point for issues around affordability and housing.
Popular Home Styles
Housing in the Inner Mission is typically mid-rise wood-framed multi-family, with single-family homes being somewhat rare on the north end of the neighborhood and more common on the south end. There are plenty of condos in smaller and mid-size buildings with construction and new development still occurring, although the topic of construction in the Inner Mission is extremely politically charged and controversial.
Getting Around in the Inner Mission
BART bisects the Mission, offering stops at 16th and 24th Street, making it a convenient location for downtown and East Bay commuters. Numerous Muni bus lines also traverse the Mission.
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Median sales price is calculated based on sold data and doesn’t account for seller concessions. Median price represents the point at which half of the homes sold for more and half sold for less. In smaller neighborhoods like many of those found in San Francisco, this metric is less likely to be influenced by extremely high or low sales prices that don’t represent the typical neighborhood home.
Days on Market indicates how quickly or slowly homes are selling in the neighborhood. The lower the days on market (DOM), the stronger the market is for sellers, all other things being equal.
The number of homes available for sale in active status at the end of a given month. Fewer homes available for sale may indicate a seasonal trend or market dynamics that favor a seller more than a buyer.
In strong or balanced markets, homes in San Francisco typically sell over asking. In a buyer’s market, homes will sell at list price or slightly under. If a home has had price reductions, the calculation is based on the last listed price.
Price per square foot is most useful when the homes are almost identical in size, age, layout and other factors important to buyers. Our experience suggests it is a more valuable metric in larger condo buildings and less valuable for homes in neighborhoods built with a diverse selection of styles, sizes, and ages.
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The Inner Mission is a neighborhood in central-east San Francisco. It is bordered by Dolores Heights and Mission Dolores to the west, South of Market to the north, Potrero Hill to the east, and Bernal Heights to the south. On an SFAR (San Francisco Association of Realtors) MLS map, the Inner Mission is identified as neighborhood 9c.
As one of the oldest, if not the oldest, areas of San Francisco, the Inner Mission (often called just “the Mission”) has been home to native people, Spanish missionaries, Irish, German, Mexican and Central American immigrants, and more recent gentrifiers throughout its long history. Several areas of the Mission reflect this history through beautifully rich mural projects, including those along Balmy and Clarion Alleys, the Women’s Building, and at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts.
Other designated landmarks include the city’s oldest single-screen movie theater in the Streamline Moderne style, Grand Theater, and the San Francisco Armory, built as an arsenal for the National Guard in 1912-14 and in the Moorish Revival style. Throughout its history, the Armory has also played host to sporting events, a movie set for Star Wars, a rehearsal space for the San Francisco Opera, and a production studio for Kink.com.
Where do we even start? The Inner Mission is arguably the city’s most lively, vibrant, diverse, and chaotic neighborhood–a fascinating collision of histories, cultures, classes, and communities. One block of Mission Street can feature a Chinese donut shop, a Mexican taqueria, a movie theater, a check cashing joint, a storefront Pentecostal church, and sidewalk vendors.
One block over, Valencia Street is a hip shopping and dining corridor with all kinds of international and fusion cuisines, art galleries, coffee shops, and both first- and second-hand furniture stores. The Inner Mission offers plenty of street festivals and parades throughout the year, including for Carnaval, the largest multicultural festival in the West Coast, bringing together San Francisco’s Latino, Caribbean and African Diasporic communities.
The Inner Mission has more of a “communities” vibe than many San Francisco neighborhoods, and a new condo development on Valencia Street will feel very different from a single-family Victorian-style home on, say, Alabama and 24th Streets. Quiet and sedate, it’s not. People move to the Inner Mission to be near the pulsing heart of urban San Francisco, within walking distance of every conceivable cultural attraction, restaurant, and public transit option, while enjoying some of the city’s sunniest weather (and flattest streets).
As an “already built” neighborhood, the Inner Mission is not a neighborhood where you should expect to find substantial new construction projects. Smaller developers may renovate/flip existing properties, or may take advantage of recent housing laws to add additional units to already existing housing. Transit corridors and major neighborhood streets are the most likely areas for new construction buildings in already built neighborhoods with existing housing stock.
You can scroll up to see our market charts showing current neighborhood prices and other real estate trends for the Inner Mission. We update these charts dynamically as new data becomes available. Reach out to us to learn more about prices, trends, and possibilities in the Inner Mission.
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