1700 Gough: three closings this year from a $610,000 studio to a $950,000 two-bedroom, at $1,047 a foot, beside Trinity and St. Peter's

1700 Gough is where Pacific Heights starts at $610,000. Three condominiums closed between January 1 and October 15, 2026, against one in the same window of 2025; $2,280,000 of volume against $630,000. The median sale is $720,000 and the median price per square foot is $1,047, against $989 last year; the record on this site begins in 2020 and has never had five closings in a year, and the annual figure has run between $989 and $1,150 throughout.

The high sale is #404, a 980-square-foot two-bedroom at $950,000 on February 19, after 13 days. #308, a 640-square-foot one-bedroom, closed at $720,000 on January 13 after 78 days. The low is #304, a studio at $610,000 on March 30, after 26 days; it was bought in May 2023 for $560,000, so its owner gained 8.9 percent, and it is the year's one paired resale. The median listed sale took 26 days to contract, and one of three went inside two weeks. One transfer under $300,000 is left out of every median.

The building has an elevator, a roof deck and a secure garage, with dues covering water, trash, insurance and reserves; listings give its year as 1980, and one as 2002; a 580-square-foot one-bedroom at the rear, #210, was listed at $629,000 with a garage space, and a 640-square-foot one-bedroom at $749,000 (Corcoran listing, #210; listing, #308).

2026 so far, against the same window in 2025

Closings at 1700 Gough St between January 1 and October 15, 2026, set against January 1 to October 15, 2025. Days on market is median days from listing to contract on MLS-listed sales; "under 15 days" counts how many of those went into contract inside two weeks.

Year by year

Every recorded closing at 1700 Gough St since October 2020, by calendar year. 2026 runs through October 15, 2026. Days on market is available for MLS-listed sales from 2020 onward.

No year in the building's record holds five or more closings. 2026 year to date stands at $1,047 a square foot.

By bedroom count, 2025 against 2026

Every closing in 2026

All 3 closings through October 15, 2026, highest price first. Square footage and days on market are as recorded on the MLS; county-recorded transfers that never listed show no days.

Paired resales

Units that closed in 2026 and had a prior recorded sale in the same building. The change is gross, before any improvements, fees or carrying costs.

1 of these resold above the prior price, 0 below.

Gough between Bush and Pine

The building sits on the Gough block beside Trinity and St. Peter's Episcopal Church at 1620 Gough, two blocks from Lafayette Park, three from Polk Street and five from Fillmore (Trinity + St. Peter's; Corcoran listing, #210). The Fillmore blocks to the west turned over in 2025: Galerie 1900 took the old Sterling Bank corner at Fillmore and Bush, Nordstrom Local opened at Fillmore and Pine on October 9, and Byredo and Pride of the Mediterranean closed (New Fillmore). Van Ness, two blocks east, got its bus rapid transit lanes in April 2022 and lost its formula-retail ban in April 2025 (SFist; SFist).

No AI office of any size is within walking distance; the office figures in the paragraphs below describe SoMa, two miles east.

The timetable that every South of Market building now sits inside is the public-offering calendar. Anthropic filed a confidential draft registration with the SEC on June 1, 2026, a week after a funding round that set its valuation at $965 billion (TechCrunch). As of this week the Standard reports the Anthropic listing has been pushed to November, after the midterms, that OpenAI's has moved to 2027, and that Anthropic is weighing a lockup longer than the usual six months (SF Standard). The same piece carries a Redfin estimate that current and former OpenAI and Anthropic employees could in theory buy close to a third of the metro area's homes with their proceeds, and the counter-argument from UC Berkeley's Enrico Moretti and the Bay Area Council's Jeff Bellisario that the money is concentrated in fewer hands than past booms and that these firms create fewer jobs per dollar because so much goes to data centers rather than headcount. The record in this report ends on October 15. None of it reflects a single share that has been sold.

Two citywide facts frame every building figure here. First, the office recovery is lopsided: CBRE put Q3 2026 vacancy at 27.7 percent citywide, down 6.6 points in a year, but Avison Young splits that into roughly 12 percent for Class A and north of 31 percent for Class B, and a Presidio Bay executive told Bisnow the headline number is misleading for that reason (Bisnow). Second, the condo market is still digging out: the Chronicle's May analysis found that only eight Bay Area ZIP codes showed inflation-adjusted condo gains over the year, all of them in San Francisco, and that Noe Valley's typical condo remained close to $400,000 below its 2019 level in real terms (SF Chronicle).

How this was counted

Two records feed this review. The MLS layer is one row per listing and carries days on market and square footage. The county layer reaches back further and catches transfers that never listed, but records the same closing once per data source, so the two were merged on unit, date and price and each closing kept once. Below-market-rate units and transfers under $300,000 are listed but excluded from every median. "Same window" means January 1 to October 15 of each year. Nothing here is a valuation of any unit, and nothing here is advice.

Tim McMullen · CA DRE #02016832
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