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Miraloma Park, San Francisco: Homes, Slopes & Real Estate Guide

By Matthew Martinez, Founder, CEO & Managing Broker, Diamond Real Estate Group. California DRE #01869679.

Miraloma Park is the large neighborhood of houses on the south and east slopes of Mount Davidson, between Portola Drive and O’Shaughnessy Boulevard. It is subdistrict 4H in the MLS’s District 4. With 1,954 single-family parcels on the Assessor’s 2025 roll, it holds more houses than any other District 4 subdistrict.

Most of those houses were built from the late 1920s into the 1950s on a master plan of one-story homes over garages. The neighborhood is newer, denser and generally on smaller lots than the residence parks to the west, and parts of the hill carry mapped landslide zones.

Miraloma Park homes for sale

Miraloma Park market report

A “City in Itself” on Mount Davidson

The Miraloma Park Improvement Club’s history describes a development promoted as a “City in Itself,” built from 1926 through the 1950s largely by the Meyer Brothers, with Theodore Meyer as president. The firm bought 350 home sites from the Sutro estate and assembled about 1,650 more from Wells Fargo & Company, which held the former Stanford Heights land once owned by Leland Stanford, and from individual owners. The total came to 208 acres.

The plan called for one-story houses over garages, each with its own design, on a suburban street layout. The club describes it as the largest plan of its kind in San Francisco at the time. Today it counts about 2,200 homes on the mountain.

The Improvement Club was incorporated in 1936 and has its clubhouse at 350 O’Shaughnessy Boulevard. It publishes neighborhood design guidelines and offers memberships; ask it, and read the title report, before assuming whether any recorded restrictions or approvals apply to a particular lot.

Streets and neighbors

Teresita Boulevard runs through the middle of the neighborhood, curving south and east from Portola Drive. Around it, the Assessor’s addresses run along Myra Way, Juanita Way, Rockdale Drive, Molimo Drive, Bella Vista Way, Los Palmos Drive, Marietta Drive, Del Vale Avenue, Stanford Heights Avenue, Foerster Street and many short courts and ways, including Agua, Isola, Reposa, Evelyn and Gaviota ways and El Sereno and Encline courts.

The summit of Mount Davidson rises on the neighborhood’s western side. Around the outside, the Assessor’s outlines put Forest Hill Extension to the northwest, Sherwood Forest to the west, Westwood Highlands and Sunnyside to the south, Glen Park to the east and Diamond Heights to the northeast, with Midtown Terrace beyond Portola Drive to the north.

The houses, by the numbers

The 2025 roll confirms the master plan’s imprint. Three-quarters of the houses are recorded as one story, which in this neighborhood usually means a living floor over a street-level garage, and the build years cluster on either side of World War II:

Measure (4H, single-family parcels)	Value
Single-family parcels	1,954
Median recorded year built	1947
Recorded before 1930	227 (about 12 percent)
Recorded 1930 to 1945	697 (about 36 percent)
Recorded after 1945	1,030 (about 53 percent)
Recorded as one story	1,472 (about 75 percent)
Median lot area	2,883 sq ft
Median building area	1,385 sq ft

Other property types are rare. The roll lists about 14 condominium units, about a dozen commercial and mixed-use parcels and about 19 public parcels, against nearly 2,000 houses.

Lot sizes vary more than the median suggests. On the steeper streets a downhill lot may drop away behind a house that looks modest from the sidewalk, while an uphill lot may put the front door well above the garage.

Landslide mapping on the hill

This is the hazard to understand here. Planning’s earthquake-induced landslide layer, which carries the state’s mapped zones, shows dozens of small polygons on and around Mount Davidson. Several fall on residential blocks, including the area around Los Palmos Drive, Stanford Heights Avenue, Bella Vista Way and the 700 block of Foerster Street; the area around Rockdale Drive, Myra Way and Agua Way; the summit itself; and the eastern slope toward O’Shaughnessy Boulevard.

The polygons are narrow, and many houses on those streets sit outside them, so check the exact parcel on the map. Planning’s liquefaction layer shows no mapped zone on the neighborhood’s residential blocks; the nearest polygon lies at the northern edge near Portola Drive. The club’s own history pages include a 1942 photograph of a slide, a reminder of why buyers ask.

A lot in a mapped zone must be disclosed at sale, and a buyer planning an addition will want engineering advice first. Our guide to geotechnical reports for hillside homes explains what to order, and the San Francisco hazard maps page shows how to look up a parcel.

Zoning, Portola Drive and a small historic district

In the Assessor’s zoning field, about 1,416 parcels are RH-1 (one-family) and 556 are RH-1(D) (one-family detached). Planning’s current map shows RH-1 with a 40//40-R-4 height district at the interior point we checked, inside the Family and Senior Housing Opportunity Special Use District. That SUD can allow two to four units on a qualifying lot, but only for an owner who has held the property for at least a year (five years if it already has two or more units) and only if no tenant-occupied unit is demolished, among other conditions in Planning Code Section 249.94.

Portola Drive is the commercial edge. About 28 parcels are NC-1 (Neighborhood Commercial, Cluster) in the Assessor’s field, and at the point we checked on the 700 block Planning now maps NC-1 with a 50//85-R-4 height district, one of the corridor height changes adopted with the Family Zoning Plan, which took effect on January 12, 2026.

Historic status is limited to one corner. Planning’s records show a Miraloma Park Historic District, eligible for the California Register, credited to the Meyer Brothers with a 1926 date, mapped as a narrow strip near Juanita Way and Marne Avenue at the northwest corner. A 2023 extension adds block 2980: 20 houses on Marne Avenue, Miraloma Drive and Juanita Way, all recorded as built in 1926. Elsewhere, the neighborhood is outside any mapped Register district.

Buses and the drive downtown

The 36 Teresita is named for the neighborhood’s main street, and per published route lists from 2022 it runs from Forest Hill station, a Muni Metro stop in the Twin Peaks Tunnel, to Valencia and Mission streets. The 44 O’Shaughnessy is named for the boulevard on the eastern edge and runs between Sixth Avenue at California Street and Hudson Avenue at Third Street, and the 52 Excelsior also starts at Forest Hill station. Check SFMTA for current routes and stops.

By car, Portola Drive on the northern edge and O’Shaughnessy Boulevard on the eastern edge are the main connections to the rest of the city.

Selling a home in Miraloma Park

Most buyers here are choosing among houses built on the same basic plan, so they compare what changed afterward: whether the garage level was finished, how the kitchen and baths were updated, how the rear yard steps down the hill and what the view is from the main floor.

Ground-floor rooms: permits for any bedroom, bath or family room built into the garage level; unpermitted space is common in over-garage houses and is covered in our unwarranted units guide.
Slope records: the parcel’s landslide-zone status, plus any geotechnical, drainage or retaining-wall reports.
Systems: sewer lateral, foundation and electrical records for a house that is now 70 to 100 years old.
City sale rules: the 3R report and the city’s other sale rules, summarized in our selling requirements guide.

Diamond may refer you to partners we work with, such as inspectors and engineers; you’re free to choose any provider. Recent 4H sales and prices are summarized in the market report on this page.

Questions people ask

Where is Miraloma Park?

On the south and east slopes of Mount Davidson, between Portola Drive on the north, O’Shaughnessy Boulevard on the east, and Sunnyside and Westwood Highlands on the south.

Who built Miraloma Park?

Mostly the Meyer Brothers, from 1926 into the 1950s, on a 208-acre master plan of one-story houses over garages, according to the Miraloma Park Improvement Club.

Is Miraloma Park in a landslide zone?

Parts of it. Planning’s map shows many small mapped landslide polygons on the mountain, including some on residential blocks. Most houses are outside them, but check the specific parcel.

Does Miraloma Park have an HOA?

It has the Miraloma Park Improvement Club, incorporated in 1936, which offers memberships and publishes design guidelines. Check the title report for any recorded restrictions on a particular lot.

Is Miraloma Park a historic district?

Only a small part. Planning has found a Miraloma Park Historic District and a 20-house 2023 extension eligible for the California Register, both near Marne Avenue and Juanita Way.

Which Muni lines serve Miraloma Park?

The 36 Teresita and 44 O’Shaughnessy are named for its main streets, and the 36 and 52 connect to Forest Hill station, per published route lists. Confirm current service with SFMTA.

Thinking about selling? A home valuation from us compares your house with Miraloma Park sales from the same era and slope, and our San Francisco selling page explains the listing process. The wider San Francisco guide covers other neighborhoods.

Sources & notes

Last reviewed October 2026 by Matthew Martinez.