Central Park Redwood City, CA
Redwood City's busiest single-family market, a large area of central Redwood City.
Living in Central Park
Central Park is the MLS area that covers a large swath of central Redwood City, including Palm Park and Woodside Plaza. It holds a piece of early California history: Union Cemetery, the state's first cemetery association, where the town's original settlers were buried. The tanneries and boardinghouses of early Redwood City gave way to rows of ranch homes and low-rise apartments, and by 1953 the Woodside Plaza shopping center at Woodside Road and Massachusetts Avenue had opened. Today it's by far the city's busiest single-family market: 114 sales in the last 12 months and more than 1,500 since 2015, with a 12-month median around $2.05M, and 2026 sales so far have averaged about 105% of asking.
Parking & walkability: Most homes have a driveway and a garage, though some older blocks have narrower lots and busier street parking. Much of the area is flat and close to El Camino Real's and Woodside Road's shops, and downtown Redwood City's restaurants and the Caltrain station are a short drive or bike ride away. Highway 101 and 280 are both easy to reach.
What homes in Central Park are doing
Single-family homes in Central Park sold for a median of about $1.21M in 2015–16 and $1.94M in 2024–25, a 60% increase, ahead of Redwood City as a whole (+55%). In 2025, homes here sold quickly (median 13 days on market) and usually above asking (101.9% of list price on average). So far in 2026 (82 sales through September), the median is $2.08M.
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. 1517 single-family sales since 2015.
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 82 | $2.08M | $1,363 | 10 | 105.3% |
| 2025 | 104 | $2M | $1,203 | 13 | 101.9% |
| 2024 | 94 | $1.88M | $1,275 | 11 | 103.0% |
| 2023 | 87 | $1.82M | $1,250 | 9 | 101.9% |
| 2022 | 129 | $1.93M | $1,350 | 10 | 106.9% |
| 2021 | 174 | $1.8M | $1,198 | 10 | 106.9% |
| 2020 | 132 | $1.52M | $1,137 | 10 | 100.5% |
| 2019 | 148 | $1.52M | $1,107 | 15 | 100.1% |
| 2018 | 131 | $1.61M | $1,050 | 12 | 106.8% |
| 2017 | 134 | $1.38M | $1,011 | 11 | 109.4% |
| 2016 | 158 | $1.28M | $859 | 12 | 104.9% |
| 2015 | 144 | $1.14M | $822 | 12 | 108.4% |
Condos & townhomes in Central Park (248 sales since 2015)
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 8 | $1.25M | $763 | 51 | 100.0% |
| 2025 | 23 | $885K | $723 | 31 | 98.6% |
| 2024 | 13 | $798K | $732 | 32 | 100.0% |
| 2023 | 20 | $1.22M | $747 | 17 | 100.0% |
| 2022 | 21 | $901K | $767 | 22 | 100.0% |
| 2021 | 27 | $950K | $756 | 13 | 100.0% |
| 2020 | 31 | $660K | $772 | 24 | 100.0% |
| 2019 | 23 | $905K | $747 | 15 | 101.1% |
| 2018 | 23 | $788K | $717 | 13 | 103.0% |
| 2017 | 23 | $840K | $642 | 13 | 108.0% |
| 2016 | 10 | $613K | $648 | 14 | 101.1% |
| 2015 | 26 | $659K | $537 | 12 | 101.6% |
Central Park 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 Central Park; where there are several, yearly figures are sales-weighted. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.