Lakeside, San Francisco: Homes, Streets & Real Estate Guide
Lakeside is a narrow, roughly mile-long neighborhood of detached houses between 19th Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard, running from Sloat Boulevard south past Ocean Avenue and Holloway Avenue. It is subdistrict 3E in the MLS’s District 3. The Assessor’s 2025 roll lists 591 parcels, 547 of them single-family houses, plus the short Ocean Avenue shopping street that Planning now maps as the Lakeside Village Neighborhood Commercial District.
Lakeside faces Stonestown Galleria and San Francisco State University across 19th Avenue and Ingleside Terrace across Junipero Serra. That position puts two Muni Metro lines at its edges and an approved project of up to 3,500 homes across the street.
Lakeside homes for sale
Lakeside market report
A strip between two boulevards
Seen on a map, Lakeside is only a few lots wide. The Assessor’s coordinates put its parcels in a band bounded by 19th Avenue on the west and Junipero Serra Boulevard on the east, from the Sloat Boulevard end in the north to Banbury Drive and the south end of Stratford Drive near the point where the two boulevards meet.
Its streets, north to south:
- Between Sloat and Ocean: Cranleigh, Lagunitas, Beachmont and Woodacre drives.
- Ocean Avenue between 19th Avenue and Junipero Serra, the commercial blocks.
- South of Ocean: Eucalyptus, Elmhurst and Rossmoor drives, then Winston, Broadmoor and Stonecrest drives.
- The southern blocks: Denslowe, Lyndhurst, Stratford and Banbury drives, crossed by Holloway Avenue.
Stratford Drive (99 parcels), Denslowe Drive (83) and Stonecrest Drive (64) carry the most houses, with about 90 more along Junipero Serra and 44 on 19th Avenue. Across 19th Avenue are Merced Manor and Stonestown; across Junipero Serra is Ingleside Terrace; to the south is Merced Heights.
Houses on the district’s largest lots
Lakeside’s median single-family lot, 4,116 square feet, is the largest of any District 3 subdistrict, and the median recorded building area is 1,916 square feet. The median build year is 1941. No house on the roll has a build year before 1930, and 115, about a fifth, were built in 1946 or later.
Nearly the whole residential area is zoned RH-1(D) on the Assessor’s roll: 558 of 591 parcels. The exceptions are a few small multi-unit buildings, including two apartment buildings on Eucalyptus Drive and a flats building on Junipero Serra in RM-1 zoning, and two condominium parcels. Planning’s map also places the residential blocks inside the Family and Senior Housing Opportunity Special Use District.
That special use district, Planning Code section 249.94, allows up to four units on a qualifying single RH lot and more on corner lots and merged lots, subject to ownership-period, tenant-protection and historic-resource limits. It is one route to added units; the state’s SB 9 is another, explained in our SB 9 lot split guide.
Lakeside Village: Ocean Avenue’s shops
The commercial heart is the stretch of Ocean Avenue between 19th Avenue and Junipero Serra, roughly the 2500 and 2600 numbers. The Assessor’s roll classifies 16 Lakeside parcels as stores, nearly all of them on these blocks, along with five offices and a bank on Ocean Avenue and a gas station at 1100 Junipero Serra.
The zoning changed with the Family Zoning Plan, which took effect January 12, 2026. The Assessor’s roll still records these frontages as NC-1, but Planning’s current zoning layer names them the Lakeside Village Neighborhood Commercial District and shows RTO-C (Residential Transit Oriented – Commercial) parcels nearby. Planning’s height layer in and around Lakeside now shows two-number designations, mostly 40//40-R-4, with a few taller ones such as 50//85-R-4 and 70//140-R-4.
For a house near Ocean Avenue, the practical question is what could be built on the commercial and RTO-C lots next door. Check the specific parcels on Planning’s Property Information Map before you buy.
Neighbors across 19th Avenue
West of Lakeside, the Stonestown Development Project was approved by the Board of Supervisors in July 2024. Planning describes about 43 privately owned acres, most of them surface parking, to be turned into a mostly residential district of up to 3,500 homes while most of the Galleria stays. Planning’s project page gives no construction schedule.
Farther south, Parkmerced’s long-approved redevelopment remains unbuilt. According to Hoodline, citing the San Francisco Standard, a lender foreclosed in July 2026 on the parcels for its first four subphases, about 1,668 entitled homes, while the rest of the 152-acre complex is in receivership. No construction date has been announced. For Lakeside owners, both projects are worth tracking for construction traffic on 19th Avenue and for what they add in shops and open space.
Institutions line the edges too. The roll lists a public library parcel at 155 Winston Drive, school parcels at 3250 19th Avenue and 300 Stonecrest Drive, and two church parcels, at 2690 Ocean Avenue and 190 Denslowe Drive.
The liquefaction band in the south
Planning’s copy of the state seismic hazard zone map draws a liquefaction zone across the southern part of Lakeside. A point check between Denslowe, Lyndhurst and Stratford drives, south of Winston Drive, fell inside the mapped zone; a check on Stonecrest Drive farther north did not. The mapped polygon reaches west across 19th Avenue toward Lake Merced and east past Junipero Serra.
No earthquake-induced landslide polygon falls within Lakeside, and the Coastal Zone is well to the west. A lot inside a mapped liquefaction zone must be disclosed at sale, and a buyer’s inspector may want to know the foundation type and whether any geotechnical work has been done. Our Natural Hazard Disclosure guide and San Francisco hazard maps page explain how to check a parcel.
Two Muni Metro lines at the edges
The M Ocean View runs in a separated right-of-way on 19th Avenue from near Eucalyptus Drive to Junipero Serra, with high-platform stations at Stonestown Galleria (Winston Drive) and San Francisco State University (Holloway Avenue). The K Ingleside uses a short dedicated median on Junipero Serra Boulevard, stops at Junipero Serra and Ocean, then runs east on Ocean Avenue to Balboa Park.
Buses on 19th Avenue include the 28 and weekday 28R to Daly City BART station, per published route lists. The 18 46th Avenue ends at 19th Avenue and Buckingham Way, the 58 Lake Merced starts at Stonestown, and the 91 Owl runs overnight from Holloway and 19th Avenue. Our bus list is dated 2022, so confirm current service with SFMTA; the K’s Ocean Avenue Rapid Project is planned for 2027 to 2029 and may change stops.
Selling a home in Lakeside
The closest comparisons for a Lakeside house are other Lakeside sales, then Merced Manor and Ingleside Terrace. Position on the strip matters as much as size: a house near the Ocean Avenue shops, one fronting 19th Avenue or Junipero Serra, and one on an interior drive are different propositions.
- Assemble the permit history and the 3R report, and reconcile any rooms or bathrooms at garage level.
- For houses on the southern streets, have the hazard disclosure and any foundation or soils reports ready, since the liquefaction mapping will come up.
- For houses near Ocean Avenue or 19th Avenue, note the zoning on neighboring lots and point buyers to Planning’s map rather than predicting what will be built.
- Review the citywide rules in our San Francisco selling requirements guide, including the transfer tax and energy requirements.
The market report on this page shows current figures for subdistrict 3E. Our San Francisco buyer’s guide covers the purchase side.
Questions people ask
Where is Lakeside in San Francisco?
Between 19th Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard, from Sloat Boulevard south past Ocean Avenue and Holloway Avenue, across 19th Avenue from Stonestown and San Francisco State.
What is Lakeside Village?
The Ocean Avenue shopping blocks between 19th Avenue and Junipero Serra. Since January 2026, Planning’s zoning map names them the Lakeside Village Neighborhood Commercial District.
Is Lakeside in a liquefaction zone?
Partly. Planning’s map shows a mapped liquefaction zone across the southern streets around Denslowe, Lyndhurst and Stratford drives; the northern blocks we checked were outside it. Check the specific parcel.
Can I add units to a Lakeside house?
Possibly. The area lies in the Family and Senior Housing Opportunity Special Use District, which can allow up to four units on a qualifying lot, and SB 9 offers another path. Both have conditions, so ask Planning about the specific lot.
Which Muni lines serve Lakeside?
The M Ocean View on 19th Avenue, with stations at Stonestown and SF State, and the K Ingleside on Junipero Serra and Ocean Avenue. Buses include the 28 and 28R.
Is the Stonestown redevelopment under construction?
Not as far as Planning’s project page shows. The plan was approved in 2024, the development agreement was recorded in July 2025, and no construction schedule is posted.
Comparing a Lakeside house with options across 19th Avenue, or getting one ready to sell? Get a home valuation based on recent subdistrict sales, or see the wider San Francisco neighborhood guide.
Sources & notes
- San Francisco Association of REALTORS: San Francisco MLS district map (Reineck & Reineck, 2001)
- DataSF (Office of the Assessor-Recorder): Assessor Historical Secured Property Tax Rolls, 2025 closed roll (parcel counts by class, build years, median lot and building area, zoning codes, street lists and coordinates for District 3 subdistricts; queried October 2026)
- San Francisco Planning: PlanningData map service (zoning districts, height districts, special use districts, Coastal Zone, seismic hazard liquefaction and landslide layers; envelope and point queries, October 2026)
- San Francisco Planning: SF Family Zoning Plan (adoption and effective dates, Coastal Zone handling)
- San Francisco Planning Code (via GoCodebook): Sec. 249.94, Family and Senior Housing Opportunity Special Use District
- San Francisco Planning: Stonestown Development Project (approvals, site description, development agreement)
- The San Francisco Standard: Parkmerced: How a long-promised billion-dollar housing project fell apart (April 18, 2025)
- Hoodline: Foreclosure Shock: Yellowstone Snaps Up Parkmerced Land In San Francisco (July 22, 2026, citing the San Francisco Standard)
- Wikipedia: M Ocean View (route, stops, history, ridership, subway concept)
- Wikipedia: K Ingleside (Junipero Serra and Ocean Avenue routing, Ocean Avenue project)
- Wikipedia: List of San Francisco Municipal Railway lines (route termini; service as of July 2022)
Last reviewed October 2026 by Matthew Martinez.
