Westwood Knolls San Mateo, CA
South San Mateo single-family homes near El Camino, a busy and steady market.
Living in Westwood Knolls
Westwood Knolls is a neighborhood of single-family homes in south San Mateo, on part of the former McClellan estate. Developers began building here in 1939, and homes near El Camino Real and Hillsdale Boulevard predate 1950, mostly three- and four-bedroom single-story ranches, with homes growing larger as the neighborhood climbs south and west. It's one of the city's busier single-family markets, with 32 sales in the last 12 months at a median around $2M, and 2026 sales so far have sold in a median of 8 days at about 107% of asking.
Parking & walkability: Most homes have a driveway and a garage, and the residential streets are generally easy to park on. Hillsdale Shopping Center and El Camino Real's shops are close by, and Highway 92 and 101 are a few minutes away.
What homes in Westwood Knolls are doing
Single-family homes in Westwood Knolls sold for a median of about $1.34M in 2015–16 and $1.9M in 2024–25, a 42% increase, behind San Mateo as a whole (+63%). Prices peaked in 2022 at $2.15M. In 2025, homes here sold at a moderate pace (median 17 days on market) and close to asking (100.2% of list price on average). So far in 2026 (22 sales through September), the median is $1.98M.
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. 422 single-family sales since 2015.
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 22 | $1.98M | $1,289 | 8 | 107.2% |
| 2025 | 25 | $2M | $1,017 | 17 | 100.2% |
| 2024 | 25 | $1.8M | $1,236 | 13 | 105.3% |
| 2023 | 21 | $1.72M | $1,201 | 8 | 101.9% |
| 2022 | 37 | $2.15M | $1,314 | 10 | 114.3% |
| 2021 | 41 | $1.81M | $1,138 | 8 | 109.6% |
| 2020 | 41 | $1.65M | $1,074 | 11 | 101.4% |
| 2019 | 33 | $1.63M | $914 | 14 | 100.1% |
| 2018 | 46 | $1.6M | $1,031 | 14 | 108.9% |
| 2017 | 39 | $1.5M | $1,002 | 9 | 115.1% |
| 2016 | 46 | $1.35M | $929 | 12 | 106.0% |
| 2015 | 46 | $1.33M | $817 | 10 | 113.3% |
Westwood Knolls 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
- Parkside
- San Mateo Knolls & Laurel Creek
- San Mateo Terrace
- San Mateo Village & Glendale Village
- San Mateo Woods & Bayridge
- The Highlands & Ticonderoga
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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 Westwood Knolls; where there are several, yearly figures are sales-weighted. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.