Bayview Heights, San Francisco: Homes, Streets & Real Estate Guide
Bayview Heights is a small house neighborhood in southeast San Francisco, built on the blocks around the southern end of Third Street near Paul, Gilman, Le Conte and Jamestown Avenues. On the Assessor’s 2025 roll its subdistrict, 10K, holds about 770 parcels: roughly 550 single-family houses, about 90 condominium units and a short strip of storefront buildings on Third Street.
It is one of the smallest pieces of SF District 10. The parcel extents put Silver Terrace and Bayview to the north, Candlestick Point to the southeast and Little Hollywood to the south, with US 101 along the western side. The houses are older than the name suggests: a quarter of them carry a recorded build year before 1920.
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The streets inside subdistrict 10K
The Assessor’s house addresses fall on about eighteen streets. Hollister, Key, Ingerson, Le Conte and Jamestown Avenues hold the most houses, followed by Carr, Exeter, Gilman, Jennings and Crane. Smaller counts sit on Third Street, Paul Avenue, Gould, Wheat, Salinas, Meade, Ingalls and Le Conte Circle.
The avenue names run in alphabetical order, from Gilman through Hollister, Ingerson, Jamestown and Key to Le Conte, which makes the grid easy to read on a map. At the edges the roll lists freeway parcels (US 101 and its northbound off-ramp), a few Bayshore Boulevard addresses on the west and public parcels on Bayview Park Road to the east.
Bayview Park Road leads up Bayview Hill, the city park beside the subdistrict’s eastern edge. SF Recreation and Park calls the hill one of the city’s most important and diverse natural areas, with plants and animals found nowhere else in San Francisco. Its loop trail runs through grassland and woodland past rock outcrops and remnants of 1930s Works Progress Administration trails and stairs.
Three building waves in the house stock
Its median house was built in 1932 and has roughly 1,310 square feet of living space on a standard lot of about 2,500 square feet. That median hides a spread. The busiest single years on the roll are 1908 and 1925, with 22 houses each, and 1910 follows with 20.
| Recorded build year | Share of 10K houses |
|---|---|
| Before 1920 | About 26% |
| 1920–1939 | About 30% |
| 1940–1959 | About 16% |
| 1960–1979 | About 12% |
| 1980 and later | About 17% |
The newer houses are scattered infill rather than one tract; 1991 (14 houses), 1988 (11) and 2001 (9) are the biggest recent years. Some early records show the year 1900, which can be a placeholder, so treat the oldest dates as approximate.
Beyond the houses, the roll shows about 26 two-unit flats, 16 flat-and-store buildings, eight apartment buildings of up to four units, three of 5 to 14 units and one larger building, plus about 25 vacant residential lots.
Condominium courts from the 1990s and 2000s
Almost all of the subdistrict’s condos sit in a few small developments, each with its own association:
- Jennings Court: 46 units with recorded build years from 1992 to 1998.
- Meade Avenue: 12 units built between 1992 and 1998.
- Le Conte Avenue: 27 units from 1999 to 2006, including a nine-unit building at 1081 Le Conte dated 2006.
- Le Conte Circle: three units from 2001 and 2003.
Two of the newest buildings are rentals rather than condos: an apartment building of 15 or more units at 1075 Le Conte Avenue and a 5-to-14-unit building on Bayshore Boulevard, both recorded as built in 2013. For how small-association condos are priced and documented, see our San Francisco condos guide.
Third Street’s southern storefront blocks
The commercial part of Bayview Heights is a few blocks of Third Street in the 6200 to 6600 range. The roll lists 13 flat-and-store buildings there with build years from 1907 to 1963, seven commercial buildings from 1920 to 1976, and church parcels dated 1910 and 1925.
A point we checked at 6258 Third Street in October 2026 falls in an NC-3 (moderate-scale neighborhood commercial) district, Planning Code Section 712.1, with a 40-X height limit. Planning’s map also places it in the Third Street special use district, the Third Street alcohol restricted use district and the Fringe Financial Services restricted use district. This stretch is outside the named Bayview NCD that our Bayview neighborhood guide describes farther north.
Zoning and the Priority Equity Geographies SUD
Off Third Street the blocks are one-family. A house-block point near Third Street returned RH-1 (Section 209.1) with a 40-X height district. Planning’s map also puts it inside the quarter-mile buffer drawn around the Fringe Financial Services district, which matters for businesses rather than houses.
Both of our points also lie within Planning Code Section 249.97’s Priority Equity Geographies SUD, created by Ordinance 248-23 and in effect since January 14, 2024. Its controls are not in the section itself; they are written into Section 311 (permit review and notice) and Section 317 (loss of dwelling units). A buyer who plans a demolition, a unit merger or a large addition should read those sections for the specific lot before pricing that plan in.
Light rail, buses and the freeway
Two T Third stations carry the names of local streets: Gilman/Paul and Le Conte. The line began full service on April 7, 2007, and its trains now continue north through the Central Subway. Southbound, the next stops are Arleta, which connects to Caltrain at Bayshore, and the Sunnydale terminus.
The station list shows the 29 Sunset as a connection at Gilman/Paul. US 101 runs along the western side, with ramp parcels inside the subdistrict. Bus routings change, so confirm current service with SFMTA before relying on a particular line.
What the hazard layers show
We checked Planning’s state seismic hazard and FEMA layers at the same two points. Neither returned a mapped liquefaction or landslide zone, and both sit in FEMA Zone X (unshaded), outside the Special Flood Hazard Area on the map effective March 23, 2021.
The slopes are a different story. Querying Planning’s landslide layer across the whole subdistrict returns several earthquake-induced landslide zone polygons. The largest lies along the southern edge, in the area of the 700 to 900 blocks of Le Conte Avenue, Meade Avenue, Jennings Court and Bayview Park Road, and continues south toward Executive Park. Two small ones sit near Gould and Exeter Streets off Paul Avenue.
The polygons cover parts of blocks, not whole streets, so a house or condo on those blocks needs a parcel lookup, and a buyer may ask for a geotechnical review before planning work on a slope. The SFPUC’s separate 100-year storm flood map covers rainfall flooding that FEMA’s map does not. Look up the exact parcel with our San Francisco hazard maps guide; at sale, mapped zones appear in the natural hazard disclosure report.
Selling a home in Bayview Heights
A buyer here may be weighing a 1910 house, a 1990s condo and a 2001 infill house on the same few blocks, so the paperwork has to show which one they are looking at.
- Pre-1920 and 1920s houses: gather foundation and any seismic work records, and compare the 3R report with the rooms as they exist. Ground-floor rooms added later are the usual question; our unwarranted units guide covers how to present them.
- Condos: order the HOA packet early. In small associations such as those on Jennings Court and Le Conte Avenue, buyers read the budget, reserve study and minutes line by line.
- Flats and flat-and-store buildings: collect leases, rent history and the permit record for the commercial space. Whether the Rent Ordinance applies depends on the building; our San Francisco multifamily page explains the basics.
- Lots with project potential: note the Priority Equity Geographies SUD and the RH-1 zoning so a buyer’s architect starts from the right rules.
For the 3R report, transfer tax and the city’s energy and water rules, use our San Francisco selling requirements page. For current 10K sale figures, see the market report on this page.
Questions people ask
Where is Bayview Heights in San Francisco?
In the southeast, on the blocks around the southern end of Third Street near Paul, Gilman, Le Conte and Jamestown Avenues, with US 101 on the west side. It is subdistrict 10K of SF District 10.
Is Bayview Heights part of Bayview?
The MLS and the Assessor treat it as its own subdistrict, 10K, separate from Bayview (10A). At the points we checked, Planning’s map places it inside the Bayview Hunters Point plan area.
How old are the houses in Bayview Heights?
The median house dates from 1932. About a quarter carry build years before 1920, about 30 percent date from 1920 to 1939, and about 17 percent were built in 1980 or later.
Are there condos in Bayview Heights?
Yes, about 90 units, mostly in small developments on Jennings Court and Meade Avenue (1992 to 1998) and on Le Conte Avenue and Le Conte Circle (1999 to 2006).
Which T Third stations serve Bayview Heights?
Gilman/Paul and Le Conte, both on Third Street. Arleta, one stop south, connects to Caltrain’s Bayshore station.
Is Bayview Heights in a flood or liquefaction zone?
The two points we checked near Third Street in October 2026 were outside mapped zones and in FEMA Zone X. Planning does map earthquake-induced landslide zones on parts of the slopes, mainly along the southern edge near Le Conte Avenue, Meade Avenue and Jennings Court, so check the specific lot.
Thinking about selling in Bayview Heights, or comparing it with other District 10 neighborhoods? Request a home valuation and we will compare your home with sales of the same age and type. For the wider city, start with our San Francisco guide.
Sources & notes
- DataSF / SF Assessor-Recorder: Assessor Historical Secured Property Tax Rolls, 2025 closed roll (parcel counts by class, build years, street names and coordinates for subdistrict 10K; queried October 2026)
- San Francisco Planning: PlanningData map service (zoning, special use, height, CGS liquefaction and landslide, FEMA flood and planning area layers; point queries October 2026)
- San Francisco Planning Code (via GoCodebook): Sec. 249.97, Priority Equity Geographies Special Use District
- Wikipedia: T Third Street (service dates, station list and connections)
- San Francisco Recreation and Park Department: Bayview Hill Trails Improvement Project (natural area description)
Last reviewed October 2026 by Matthew Martinez.
