Pacific Heights & Sea Cliff San Bruno, CA
Hillside homes on San Bruno's western edge near Skyline, built from the 1950s to the 2000s.
Living in Pacific Heights & Sea Cliff
Pacific Heights, high in the hills along Sweeney Ridge and closer to Pacifica than to downtown San Bruno, was the last neighborhood built in San Bruno's postwar boom. The land was part of dairyman Richard George Sneath's “Jersey Ranch #2”; construction began in 1953, and San Francisco builder Perry Liebman developed it through the late 1950s and early '60s with spacious homes on winding roads, with the Marisol development added in 2004. It's one of the city's busier markets, with 25 sales in the last 12 months, and one of its strongest performers: the median rose about 69% from 2015–16 to 2024–25, with 2026 sales so far averaging about 113% of asking.
Parking & walkability: Most homes have a garage and a driveway, and the residential streets are generally easy to park on. It's a hilly, driving-oriented neighborhood, with Skyline Boulevard and Highway 280 close by and Pacifica just over the hill.
What homes in Pacific Heights & Sea Cliff are doing
Single-family homes in Pacific Heights & Sea Cliff sold for a median of about $907K in 2015–16 and $1.54M in 2024–25, a 69% increase, ahead of San Bruno as a whole (+59%). Prices peaked in 2024 at $1.71M. In 2025, homes here sold at a moderate pace (median 19 days on market) and close to asking (100.0% of list price on average). So far in 2026 (19 sales through September), the median is $1.5M.
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. 349 single-family sales since 2015.
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 19 | $1.5M | $940 | 12 | 112.8% |
| 2025 | 15 | $1.28M | $975 | 19 | 100.0% |
| 2024 | 22 | $1.71M | $816 | 15 | 102.7% |
| 2023 | 21 | $1.43M | $861 | 15 | 100.6% |
| 2022 | 30 | $1.62M | $1,016 | 13 | 108.6% |
| 2021 | 37 | $1.39M | $979 | 8 | 112.6% |
| 2020 | 27 | $1.18M | $921 | 12 | 103.4% |
| 2019 | 30 | $1.19M | $804 | 13 | 109.6% |
| 2018 | 35 | $1.25M | $791 | 13 | 111.8% |
| 2017 | 36 | $895K | $690 | 15 | 103.0% |
| 2016 | 37 | $916K | $665 | 17 | 103.3% |
| 2015 | 40 | $899K | $589 | 13 | 110.3% |
Pacific Heights & Sea Cliff 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 Pacific Heights & Sea Cliff; where there are several, yearly figures are sales-weighted. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.