SAN FRANCISCO—Home sales, both multifamily condo and single-family, are holding strong amid some bumpiness, including a pause ahead of the November election. Redfin's October research reported US median home sale prices increased 15% year-over-year to $320,625, the highest on record.

In the week ending October 18, home prices were up 16% from the same week a year earlier. Rising sales and prices, rebounding from earlier drops mirroring the pandemic, are bouncing back in counter-trend to declines reported in same-period numbers of 2018 and 2019. Condo prices rose 5.4% in August.

San Francisco echoes many US markets in the dichotomy of upper-end product versus entry-level housing. Compass research shows single-family prices rose 5.2% to $1.66 million from $1.5 million last year.

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Lisa Brown

Lisa Brown is an editor for the south and west regions of GlobeSt.com. She has 25-plus years of real estate experience, with a regional PR role at Grubb & Ellis and a national communications position at MMI. Brown also spent 10 years as executive director at NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where she led the organization to achieving its first national award honors and recognition on Capitol Hill. She has written extensively on commercial real estate topics and edited numerous pieces on the subject.