Los Prados San Mateo, CA
East San Mateo near Foster City, with townhomes, condos and single-family homes.
Living in Los Prados
Los Prados was the last of San Mateo's eastern neighborhoods to be subdivided, near the Foster City border and built around a sizeable central park. Its streets hold modest California ranch homes, a late-1970s waterfront subdivision on Kimberly Way and, more recently, a few high-end waterfront homes, along with a larger number of townhomes and condos. Single-family homes sold for about 112% of asking on average in 2025, while the condo and townhome median has varied widely from year to year, from about $630K in 2025 to about $1.2M so far in 2026.
Parking & walkability: Townhome and condo complexes include assigned parking with more limited guest spaces, and single-family homes have driveways and garages. The flat streets make biking easy, Hillsdale's shopping is close by, and Highway 92 and 101 are a few minutes away.
What homes in Los Prados are doing
Single-family homes in Los Prados sold for a median of about $1.15M in 2015–16 and $1.82M in 2024–25, a 58% increase, behind San Mateo as a whole (+63%). Prices peaked in 2022 at $1.93M. In 2025, homes here sold quickly (median 7 days on market) and usually above asking (112.3% of list price on average).
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. 63 single-family sales since 2015.
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 2 few sales | $2.06M | $1,167 | 16 | 106.8% |
| 2025 | 6 | $1.84M | $1,297 | 7 | 112.3% |
| 2024 | 4 | $1.8M | $1,038 | 18 | 103.9% |
| 2023 | 6 | $1.72M | $1,340 | 10 | 104.4% |
| 2022 | 3 | $1.93M | $1,188 | 10 | 110.9% |
| 2021 | 1 few sales | $1.45M | $1,090 | 27 | 100.0% |
| 2020 | 8 | $1.44M | $960 | 11 | 104.7% |
| 2019 | 11 | $1.49M | $903 | 12 | 100.5% |
| 2018 | 7 | $1.36M | $1,001 | 12 | 112.4% |
| 2017 | 4 | $1.71M | $926 | 19 | 109.8% |
| 2016 | 5 | $1.23M | $768 | 12 | 106.1% |
| 2015 | 6 | $1.08M | $728 | 14 | 111.1% |
Condos & townhomes in Los Prados (173 sales since 2015)
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 7 | $1.2M | $881 | 25 | 99.1% |
| 2025 | 11 | $630K | $657 | 39 | 98.6% |
| 2024 | 16 | $705K | $838 | 14 | 103.0% |
| 2023 | 11 | $715K | $804 | 13 | 101.0% |
| 2022 | 14 | $660K | $885 | 14 | 101.9% |
| 2021 | 28 | $733K | $848 | 11 | 106.7% |
| 2020 | 9 | $1.11M | $796 | 30 | 100.2% |
| 2019 | 10 | $918K | $863 | 15 | 100.7% |
| 2018 | 14 | $740K | $833 | 9 | 109.1% |
| 2017 | 21 | $610K | $742 | 13 | 104.3% |
| 2016 | 13 | $600K | $658 | 14 | 104.4% |
| 2015 | 19 | $475K | $631 | 14 | 110.6% |
Los Prados 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.
Other San Mateo neighborhoods
- Baywood
- San Mateo Park
- Aragon
- Hayward Park
- Sugarloaf & Laurelwood
- Shoreview & Seal Point
- Beresford & Hillsdale
- 19th Avenue Park & Sunnybrae
- Baywood Knolls
- Baywood Park
- Bowie Estate
- Eastern Addition & Downtown
- Edgewater Isle
- Fiesta Gardens
- Foothill Terrace
- Harbortown
- Homestead & Husing
- Lakeshore
- Lauriedale
- Mariner's Isle
- Parkside
- San Mateo Knolls & Laurel Creek
- San Mateo Terrace
- San Mateo Village & Glendale Village
- San Mateo Woods & Bayridge
- The Highlands & Ticonderoga
- Westwood Knolls
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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 Los Prados; where there are several, yearly figures are sales-weighted. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.