Notable names: Jerry Garcia, Joe Cronin and coulda’ been a contender Pat Valentino. Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were killed by Dan White, the City Supervisor representing the area at the time. The times, they change.
McLaren Park is your enormous public forest/park to the northeast while to the southeast the Crocker Amazon playground offers more sporting fields and playgrounds than you can count on one hand.
Streets named for world capitals bisect streets named after countries, offering an insight into the evolution and omission of place names. Streets named China, India, and Japan became Excelsior, Peru, and Avalon after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Some things stay the same?
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Excelsior Neighborhood Vibe
The Excelsior was mapped like many of the city’s southern neighborhoods in 1869, but didn’t have a population of note until displacement after the 1906 earthquake and fire rapidly accelerated neighborhood development. Mission Street is the commercial heart of the neighborhood and forms the western boundary of the neighborhood, while 280 bounds the north end of the neighborhood. I-280 increased the ambient noise level at the north end of the neighborhood, particularly when compared to homes that back up to Crocker Amazon playground or McLaren Park.
Popular Excelsior Home Styles
The Excelsior consists primarily of single-family homes with a garage on the ground floor and a living level above, built to the width of the lot which is typically 25 feet.
Getting Around in The Excelsior
The Excelsior is served by Muni bus lines, and homes on the north end of the neighborhood are about a 1/2 mile walk from the Glen Park BART station. The neighborhood offers easy access to I-280 at Ocean/Geneva. While you can certainly live in the Excelsior without a car, it’s a neighborhood that has traditionally been very car-dependent.
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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 Excelsior District is a neighborhood in the center south of San Francisco. It is bordered by Outer Mission and Mission Terrace to the east, Bernal Heights to the north, Portola and Visitacion Valley to the west, and Crocker-Amazon and Daly City to the south. On an SFAR (San Francisco Association of Realtors) MLS (add internal link) map, the Excelsior is identified as neighborhood 10C.
In 1869, the Excelsior Homestead Association filed a map with the city defining the neighborhood’s street grid and distinctive “around the world” naming pattern that includes streets like Paris, Prague, Russia and Brazil. Originally home to farmers and cottages, the urbanization of the Excelsior began after the 1906 earthquake, when displaced residents began to move in, followed by street cars and rows of Victorian homes. By World War II, the Excelsior was a lively working-class neighborhood with Italian delis, a Jewish home for the elderly, two large movie theaters, and diverse ethnic enclaves that included Maltese and Ukrainian communities. Much of the Excelsior’s most distinctive architecture, built from the 1920s through the 1950s, are social halls and commercial buildings in Art Deco and Modern styles.
The Excelsior’s main commercial stretch on Mission Street offers plenty of laid-back restaurants with food from many cultures, including Filipino, Salvadoran, Chinese, and Mexican. Check out the Ever Higher Festival every September, showcasing free local arts and music, along with food and craft beer. Or enjoy Jerry Day, an annual celebration in August of Jerry Garcia, lead singer of The Grateful Dead and the Excelsior’s most famous former resident.
“The E,” as it’s sometimes called, is a tight-knit community and one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in San Francisco. The Excelsior has a definite no-frills vibe, appreciated by those seeking refuge beyond the city’s more famous neighborhoods.
Excelsior homes, shops, and restaurants tend to be family-owned and unpretentious. Most of the houses in the Excelsior were built between 1900 and 1950 and feature architectural styles that include Mediterranean Revival and Edwardian, often painted vibrant colors by their residents. The neighborhood offers plenty of diversions for kids and adults, including McLaren Park, one of the biggest in the city, with trails, city overlooks, playgrounds, dog play areas, and a golf course among its many attractions.
As an “already built” neighborhood, the Excelsior is not a neighborhood where you should expect to find substantial new construction projects. Smaller developers may renovate/flip existing single family 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 Excelsior. We update these charts dynamically as new data becomes available. Reach out to us to learn more about prices, trends, and possibilities in the Excelsior.
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