1818 Broadway, the 1969 five-story at Broadway and Gough: two one-bedrooms closed this year at $1,195 a foot, one of them $2,000 over its 2021 price after 62 days

1818 Broadway's record on this site is two sales in 2021 and two in 2026, and the second pair runs 9 percent under the first per foot. Two condominiums closed between January 1 and October 15, 2026, on $1,870,000 of volume; nothing closed in 2022 through 2025, and two units closed in 2021 at a median of $1,034,000. The median sale is $935,000 and the median price per square foot is $1,195, against $1,314 in 2021.

#206, a 950-square-foot one-bedroom with Bay views, a wood-burning fireplace and a separate office, closed at $1,100,000 on April 22 after 21 days, $1,158 a foot. #201, a 625-square-foot one-bedroom, was listed at $799,000 and closed at $770,000 on September 23 after 62 days, $1,232 a foot; it sold in May 2021 for $768,000, so the paired resale is up 0.3 percent over five years (Century 21 listing; Trulia). The median listed sale took 42 days to contract, and neither went inside two weeks.

The building was completed in 1969, five stories of stucco with an elevator, a roof deck and underground parking, at Broadway and Gough; a furnished 550-square-foot one-bedroom here, #204, asked $4,500 a month (Skydb; HotPads).

2026 so far, against the same window in 2025

Closings at 1818 Broadway 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 1818 Broadway since May 2021, 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 $1,195 a square foot.

By bedroom count, 2025 against 2026

Every closing in 2026

All 2 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.

Broadway, between Gough and Octavia

The building sits on the north slope of Pacific Heights two blocks from Lafayette Park, between the Polk, Fillmore and Union corridors. Its nearest tower comparison is 1998 Broadway, the 1964, 82-unit Broadway Towers, where #1201 closed at $1,700,000 with dues of $1,633, #807 at $1,475,000 with dues of $1,594 including earthquake insurance, and #805 asked $3,000,000 in August (MLSListings, #1201; MLSListings, #807). The district's August asks also included 1650 Broadway #102 at $2,795,000, 2006 Washington #4 at $28,000,000 and 2120 Washington at $27,000,000 (RE/MAX 94109 listings).

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

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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