2542 Sacramento, the nine-unit 1964 building a block off Fillmore: one closing this year, a two-bedroom with a patio bought in June 2024 for $1,010,000 and sold at $1,200,000 in eight days

2542 Sacramento's one sale this year is the same unit that was the building's one sale in 2024, up $190,000. One condominium closed between January 1 and October 15, 2026, on $1,200,000 of volume; nothing closed in 2025, and one unit closed in 2024 at $1,010,000. The price per square foot is $1,085, against $913 in 2024 and $1,086 across the two sales of 2020, the most in any year of the record.

#103, a 1,106-square-foot rear two-bedroom with French doors to a private patio and a deeded covered parking space, was listed on February 19 at $1,175,000, went pending on February 27 and closed at $1,200,000 on March 24 after eight days; its dues run $706 a month; it was bought in June 2024 for $1,010,000, up 18.8 percent, and it is the year's one paired resale; the listing record carries the unit's whole history, $345,000 in 1998, $581,000 in 2000 and $725,000 in 2005 (Redfin).

The building dates from 1964, three floors of three units with an elevator, free laundry and deeded covered parking, on the north side of Sacramento between Fillmore and Steiner; the building record on this site lists six units and no year (Redfin; Redfin street index).

2026 so far, against the same window in 2025

Closings at 2542 Sacramento 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 2542 Sacramento St since July 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 $1,085 a square foot.

By bedroom count, 2025 against 2026

Every closing in 2026

All 1 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.

Sacramento, between Fillmore and Steiner

Fillmore is at the end of the block: the Clay Theater's restoration was endorsed by the Historic Preservation Commission on April 1, 2026, Neil Mehta's group bought 2035 to 2047 Fillmore for about $8.6 million in August, chef Pim Techamuanvivit is planning a restaurant in the former Starbucks at 2222 Fillmore, and The Snug at Fillmore and Clay closed for a time in March after a plumbing flood (New Fillmore, Apr 2026; SF Standard; New Fillmore, Aug 2026; New Fillmore, Mar 2026). Alta Plaza Park, a block north, reopened its resurfaced tennis courts on September 20, 2026, and at 2536 California, a block south, permits were filed in June 2025 for a four-story, three-unit building (Funcheap; SF YIMBY).

No AI office of any size is in Pacific Heights; the office figures in the paragraphs below describe SoMa, three 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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