Parkside San Mateo, CA
East of 101 in north San Mateo, with postwar single-family homes and very strong demand.
Living in Parkside
Parkside is a postwar neighborhood east of Highway 101 in north San Mateo, bordered on two sides by Highways 101 and 92. It was built mostly in the late 1950s and early '60s with flat-roofed ranch homes, and some owners have since expanded or rebuilt. It's one of the most competitive markets in the city: 2025 sales closed at about 117% of asking on average, and the median rose about 67% from 2015–16 to 2024–25, with a 12-month median around $1.66M.
Parking & walkability: Most homes have a driveway and a garage, and street parking is generally easy on the residential blocks. The flat streets make biking easy, everyday shopping is close by, and Highway 101 and 92 are a few minutes away, with downtown San Mateo a short drive.
What homes in Parkside are doing
Single-family homes in Parkside sold for a median of about $991K in 2015–16 and $1.66M in 2024–25, a 67% increase, ahead of San Mateo as a whole (+63%). In 2025, homes here sold quickly (median 10 days on market) and usually above asking (117.2% of list price on average). So far in 2026 (17 sales through September), the median is $1.76M.
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. 311 single-family sales since 2015.
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 17 | $1.76M | $1,248 | 10 | 112.3% |
| 2025 | 20 | $1.69M | $1,080 | 10 | 117.2% |
| 2024 | 17 | $1.63M | $1,135 | 11 | 109.7% |
| 2023 | 17 | $1.39M | $1,135 | 9 | 104.2% |
| 2022 | 36 | $1.51M | $1,099 | 11 | 107.9% |
| 2021 | 20 | $1.36M | $1,052 | 7 | 107.6% |
| 2020 | 22 | $1.27M | $1,006 | 10 | 102.3% |
| 2019 | 30 | $1.29M | $898 | 14 | 101.7% |
| 2018 | 25 | $1.37M | $973 | 12 | 115.6% |
| 2017 | 36 | $1.2M | $843 | 13 | 110.4% |
| 2016 | 37 | $1M | $719 | 14 | 106.0% |
| 2015 | 34 | $980K | $688 | 13 | 106.0% |
Parkside 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
- Los Prados
- Mariner's Isle
- 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 Parkside; where there are several, yearly figures are sales-weighted. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.