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Learn about living in the Central and Outer Sunset, San Francisco neighborhood real estate, home sales and price data, local features weather, transit scores, and more.
My name is Lauren Neuschel. I'm with The Krishnan Team and we are going to be exploring the unique neighborhood that is the Outer Sunset of San Francisco. People who live here love living here because there's a calmness and a peacefulness of living all the way to the western side of the city flanked by the Pacific Ocean and Ocean Beach.
The area is still in San Francisco proper but it's about a 20 to 30 minute drive to get downtown so it does have quite a residential and even suburban feel to it. People who live here love the fact that it's right up against the ocean. You have Golden Gate Park to the North and so truly it does feel like a haven of beauty and what it means to live in the Bay Area of San Francisco.
A little history lesson about the area - it used to be called Outer Lands and it was called that because it felt like an outside lands in the city. It was pretty deserted and most of the area was actually covered in sand dunes. This is in the late 1800s and the early 1900s before a lot of the building took place here. Once the building did happen it was between the 1920s and the 1960s that most of the row-style homes were built.
Another question people have about this neighborhood is what truly are the boundary lines of the Outer Sunset? So you have Sunset Boulevard on the east side Ortega on the south, on the west side you have the ocean and then on the north side you have Golden Gate Park. The area is also known for having great proximity to a lot of public and private schools. Some of them are Lowell Saint Ignatius and Clarendon.
So what's it like to live in the Outer Sunset? Most people live here because of the proximity to the ocean the calm, peacefulness of living in a more residential area and also the price point of the single family homes out here.
Other things you should know about the Sunset are that the weather is foggy. It's one of the foggiest parts of the city but I think that's actually one of the reasons the residents here like it. There's a certain charm to the fog if you can believe it and many days the fog does burn off by the latter part of the day. So you get a mix of different types of weather out here.
If you're someone who really enjoys walking out your front door and having shops and restaurants, cafes convenience stores right around you this is probably not the neighborhood for you. It's much more residential and in terms of commerce they're defined in just a few blocks of the neighborhood on Taraval, Noriega, Judah, and Irving.
As someone who used to live in the neighborhood myself you may want to know what does a typical weekend look like living in the Outer Sunset? A Saturday morning could look like a stroll to one of the coffee shops in town. There's Andytown, Gus's, Trouble Coffee, Java Beach, Devil's Teeth, those are some of my favorite coffee shops in the Outer Sunset.
After that you may take your coffee to Ocean Beach. You'll see a ton of people getting out there with their skateboards, their bikes, their roller blades or maybe for a run or a walk. The area is really nice when it's closed because there's just a lot of wide open space for recreation and for fun.
So if you were looking to be a buyer in this neighborhood what does that look like for you? Can you even afford to live here? Most of the inventory in this part of town are single family homes. There's not a lot of condos or TICs. Because the inventory is very similar in terms of similarly sized row houses it's a little bit more predictable in terms of average price point.
As of Spring 2022 the average price point for a single family home was $1.7 million dollars in this neighborhood. While price per square foot in other parts of the city where there's a lot of single family homes hover in the $1,300 a square foot range the Sunset is more along the lines of $1,100 a square foot. The median price per square foot is lower than single family homes in neighborhoods like Bernal, Glen Park, Midtown Terrace, Sunnyside, and Mira Loma but higher than areas such as Twin Peaks, Excelsior, Mission Terrace, the Richmond and then central parts of Sunset and Parkside.
The Sunset is certainly a ways out for a lot of San Franciscans but I think the people who choose to live in the Outer Sunset couldn't imagine living anywhere else. There's something truly special about waking up every morning and getting to see the Pacific Ocean.
I hope you've enjoyed this tour of this neighborhood. If you have any other questions about the Outer Sunset or any other neighborhood in San Francisco feel free to reach out to us at ruthkrishnan.com or subscribe to our KZread channel for other videos like this.
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