Little Hollywood, San Francisco: Homes, Streets & Real Estate Guide
Little Hollywood is a pocket of about 400 houses at San Francisco’s southern edge, set between Bayshore Boulevard and US 101 around Blanken Avenue, with the Bayshore Caltrain station just to the south. It is subdistrict 10N of SF District 10, and the Assessor’s 2025 roll counts about 520 parcels there, most of them single-family houses from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.
The freeway separates it from Executive Park and Candlestick Point on the east, and Bayshore Boulevard from Visitacion Valley on the west. The Executive Park Subarea Plan calls Little Hollywood closely connected to that area and proposes a better connection through the Blanken Avenue tunnel under US 101.
Little Hollywood homes for sale
Little Hollywood market report
A 1920s tract between the boulevard and the freeway
Wikipedia’s history says the Crocker Estate Company laid out the area in the early 1920s as the “Bayshore Tract,” and that the first houses went up in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The same source traces the nickname to those early houses, many of which resembled homes in the Hollywood Hills.
The roll’s house addresses fall on a compact set of streets. Peninsula, Nueva, Tocoloma and Wheeler Avenues hold the most, followed by Lois Lane, Blanken, Gillette, Tunnel, Hester and Lathrop Avenues, Nibbi Court and a few Bayshore Boulevard addresses.
The neighborhood’s park is Little Hollywood Park, which SF Recreation and Park places at Lathrop and Tocoloma Avenues. Its lower section has a basketball court, a children’s play area, a lawn and benches; the upper section is a grass field with picnic tables and barbecues that is also used as a dog run.
What the house records show
Little Hollywood’s median house dates from 1938, with about 1,250 square feet of living space; the median lot is about 2,500 square feet. Half the houses carry a build year between 1920 and 1939, split almost evenly between the two decades.
| Recorded build year | Houses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Before 1920 | 6 | About 2% |
| 1920–1929 | 103 | About 26% |
| 1930–1939 | 104 | About 26% |
| 1940–1945 | 59 | About 15% |
| 1946–1979 | 73 | About 18% |
| 1980 and later | 54 | About 14% |
By single year, 1931 (30 houses), 1924 and 1941 (26 each) and 1928 (22) stand out among the older stock. The busiest year of all is 1997, for reasons described below.
Lois Lane and the newer infill
Thirty-eight houses share a 1997 build year, and every one of them is on Lois Lane or nearby Hester Avenue. They are a different product from the older grid: lots of about 940 to 1,590 square feet, but living areas of about 1,600 to 2,500 square feet. A buyer comparing them should look at the recorded subdivision map and any shared driveways or maintenance agreements in the title report.
The condominiums came a decade later. About 63 units on Megan Drive, Mary Teresa Street and Lauren Court are recorded as built in 2008, six of them coded below-market-rate. A mixed-use building at 2189 Bayshore Boulevard, recorded in 2009, adds five condos over two commercial condo units.
The rest of the roll is small: two two-unit flats, three apartment buildings (two of up to four units, one of 5 to 14), a few commercial parcels and, along Tunnel Avenue and Bayshore Boulevard, industrial buildings and vacant commercial or industrial lots.
Zoning: one-family blocks, an NC-S pocket and the Bayshore edge
We checked three points on Planning’s map in October 2026, and each returned something different:
| Point | Zoning district | Special use district |
|---|---|---|
| Tocoloma Avenue house block | RH-1 (Sec. 209.1), 40-X height | None returned |
| Lois Lane | NC-S, neighborhood commercial shopping center (Sec. 713.1), 40-X | Bayshore Hester SUD (Sec. 780.2) |
| Between Tunnel Avenue and Bayshore Boulevard | No district returned (likely a street) | Visitacion Valley/Schlage Lock SUD |
| Lathrop and Tocoloma Avenues, southern edge | PDR-2, production, distribution and repair (Sec. 210.3) | None returned |
The Lois Lane result matters because its houses sit on commercially zoned land, so additions, second units and use questions there follow NC-S rules rather than RH-1. Planning Code Section 780.2, added in 1997, covers the northern end of the NC-S block bounded by Bayshore Boulevard and the loop of Hester Avenue. It applies the NC-S controls of Section 713, except that a motel or tourist hotel is allowed as a conditional use. The Schlage Lock district along Bayshore Boulevard is explained in our Visitacion Valley guide. Neither house point fell inside the Priority Equity Geographies SUD that Planning maps over parts of nearby Bayview Heights, though lots elsewhere in the subdistrict were not checked.
Caltrain, the T Third and US 101
Caltrain’s Bayshore station, on Tunnel Avenue, is just south of the house grid. The Executive Park plan describes the T Third as running on Bayshore Boulevard with stops at the Caltrain station and at Sunnydale and Arleta Avenues.
The T Third station list shows Arleta connecting to Caltrain at Bayshore and to Muni and SamTrans buses, and Sunnydale as the line’s southern terminus. US 101 forms the eastern side, and the Blanken Avenue tunnel passes beneath it toward Executive Park. Confirm current schedules with Caltrain and SFMTA.
Flood and seismic maps
Neither house point we checked, on Tocoloma Avenue and Lois Lane, returned a mapped liquefaction or landslide zone. Both sit in FEMA Zone X (unshaded) on the flood map effective March 23, 2021, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area.
We also checked the southern edge, at an industrial parcel on Lathrop Avenue and a vacant commercial lot on Tocoloma Avenue near Tunnel Avenue. Neither returned a mapped liquefaction or landslide zone, and both are in FEMA Zone X (unshaded). Planning’s large liquefaction area lies farther south, reaching up to about the county line, so a lot at the very edge still deserves its own lookup. Our San Francisco hazard maps guide lists the layers, including the SFPUC 100-year storm flood map.
Selling a home in Little Hollywood
Most buyers here compare a 1920s or 1930s house with others on the same handful of streets, then look at Lois Lane or the 2008 condos as the newer alternatives. Prepare for each:
- Older houses: foundation and drainage records, and a 3R report checked against the floor plan. Rooms finished below the main floor raise permit questions; our unwarranted units guide covers them.
- Lois Lane houses: the subdivision map, any shared-area agreements and a clear note of the NC-S zoning.
- Condos: the HOA packet, plus resale rules for the BMR units, explained in our BMR homes guide.
- Neighbors: disclose known industrial uses on the PDR-2 blocks along Tunnel Avenue and freeway noise for homes next to US 101.
Our San Francisco selling requirements page lists what every city sale needs, including the 3R report and transfer tax.
Questions people ask
Where is Little Hollywood in San Francisco?
At the city’s southern edge, between Bayshore Boulevard and US 101 around Blanken Avenue, with Bayshore Caltrain station just south. It is subdistrict 10N of SF District 10.
Why is it called Little Hollywood?
According to Wikipedia’s history, many of the first houses, built in the late 1920s and early 1930s, looked like homes in the Hollywood Hills.
Is Little Hollywood part of Visitacion Valley?
The MLS and Assessor list it as its own subdistrict, 10N. Planning’s map puts the points we checked inside its Visitacion Valley planning area, and Bayshore Boulevard runs along the line between the two.
When were most houses in Little Hollywood built?
The median house dates from 1938, and about half were built between 1920 and 1939. A group of 38 houses on Lois Lane and Hester Avenue dates from 1997.
What is the nearest train station?
Caltrain’s Bayshore station on Tunnel Avenue. The T Third light rail also stops at Arleta, beside the Caltrain station, and at Sunnydale.
Is Little Hollywood in a flood zone?
The four points we checked, two on house blocks and two at the southern edge, were all in FEMA Zone X, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area, and none returned a mapped liquefaction or landslide zone. Check the specific lot before relying on that.
Getting ready to sell, or comparing Little Hollywood with other parts of the district? Request a home valuation and we will price your house against sales from the same streets and era. For the rest of the southeast, see our SF District 10 guide and 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, lot and building areas and coordinates for subdistrict 10N; 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, General Plan: Executive Park Subarea Plan (Little Hollywood, Blanken Avenue tunnel, T Third stops)
- Wikipedia: Little Hollywood, San Francisco (tract history, name, park, Bayshore station location; background only)
- Wikipedia: T Third Street (station list and connections)
- San Francisco Recreation and Park Department: Little Hollywood Park Improvement Project (location and features)
- San Francisco Planning Code (via GoCodebook): Sec. 780.2, Bayshore Hester Special Use District (2026-08 edition)
Last reviewed October 2026 by Matthew Martinez.
