Brisbane Brisbane, CA
The whole town of Brisbane, with hillside homes on San Bruno Mountain plus condos.
Living in Brisbane
Brisbane is covered by a single MLS area: a small hillside town on the eastern slopes of San Bruno Mountain. It was first called Visitacion City in the early 1900s, took the name Brisbane in the 1920s, and incorporated in 1961; it's known as “The City of Stars” for the lighted stars residents hang each winter. Single-family homes and cottages climb the hills above Visitacion Avenue, many with bay views, plus a good number of condos. Single-family homes have a 12-month median around $1.48M with 26 sales, and 2026 sales so far have averaged about 108% of asking; condos had a 2025 median around $998K.
Parking & walkability: Many hillside homes have a garage under the house and a short driveway, and the steep, narrow streets make street parking tight on some blocks. Visitacion Avenue's shops and cafés are walkable from much of town, San Bruno Mountain's trails are right above, and Highway 101 and the Bayshore Caltrain station put San Francisco minutes away.
What homes in Brisbane are doing
Single-family homes in Brisbane sold for a median of about $875K in 2015–16 and $1.3M in 2024–25, a 49% increase, behind Brisbane as a whole (+57%). In 2025, homes here sold at a moderate pace (median 21 days on market) and usually above asking (102.9% of list price on average). So far in 2026 (21 sales through September), the median is $1.55M.
Median single-family price, 2015–2026
* 2026 covers January through September. Hollow dots mark years with fewer than 3 single-family sales; treat those medians as rough. 526 single-family sales since 2015.
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 21 | $1.55M | $814 | 14 | 108.0% |
| 2025 | 26 | $1.33M | $815 | 21 | 102.9% |
| 2024 | 21 | $1.27M | $839 | 33 | 103.3% |
| 2023 | 21 | $1.25M | $838 | 25 | 100.4% |
| 2022 | 33 | $1.3M | $880 | 14 | 103.9% |
| 2021 | 53 | $1.35M | $870 | 15 | 107.7% |
| 2020 | 49 | $1.35M | $755 | 18 | 102.5% |
| 2019 | 55 | $1.42M | $734 | 25 | 105.3% |
| 2018 | 48 | $1.2M | $618 | 16 | 104.9% |
| 2017 | 73 | $980K | $752 | 21 | 105.0% |
| 2016 | 66 | $940K | $610 | 35 | 100.2% |
| 2015 | 60 | $804K | $605 | 16 | 105.8% |
Condos & townhomes in Brisbane (290 sales since 2015)
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 9 | $800K | $632 | 42 | 98.9% |
| 2025 | 11 | $998K | $650 | 14 | 99.8% |
| 2024 | 20 | $928K | $609 | 33 | 98.7% |
| 2023 | 16 | $808K | $655 | 25 | 99.5% |
| 2022 | 19 | $1.05M | $713 | 7 | 103.4% |
| 2021 | 31 | $950K | $684 | 12 | 103.9% |
| 2020 | 26 | $960K | $643 | 16 | 100.6% |
| 2019 | 26 | $908K | $695 | 20 | 105.8% |
| 2018 | 24 | $955K | $648 | 20 | 103.7% |
| 2017 | 25 | $888K | $612 | 21 | 104.1% |
| 2016 | 38 | $810K | $567 | 22 | 104.8% |
| 2015 | 45 | $745K | $500 | 16 | 105.9% |
Brisbane on the map
Borders are built lot by lot from the county's property lines and where homes have been listed (MLS neighborhood codes), and stay inside official city limits (dashed), so a home or two along an edge may differ from official MLS lines.
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Source: MLSListings, Inc. closed sales, 2015–September 2026, summarized by Drew Lehr. Neighborhood figures combine the MLS area(s) that make up Brisbane; where there are several, yearly figures are sales-weighted. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.