The Most Expensive Streets in San Mateo: Five Years of House Sales, Street by Street

Neighborhood averages hide a lot: two streets a few blocks apart can sell hundreds of thousands of dollars apart. To see where house prices are highest in San Mateo, street by street, we took the 2,497 single-family houses that sold through the MLS from October 1, 2021 to October 21, 2026, removed duplicate listings of the same sale, and grouped them by street. 158 streets had at least 6 house sales in those five years, enough for a median. Across San Mateo, the median house sold for $2.02M, or $1,233 per square foot.

The short answer

• Highest median sale price: W Poplar Ave ($4.6M, 21 sales), Clark Dr ($4.5M, 7 sales) and Occidental Ave ($4.42M, 7 sales).
• Highest price per square foot: New Brunswick Dr ($1,600, 6 sales) and Barroilhet Ave ($1,581, 6 sales).
• Most house sales: Parrott Dr, with 34 in five years.
• Lowest median among the ranked streets: E Santa Inez Ave ($1.15M) and N Delaware St ($1.15M).

The 25 highest-priced streets

Ranked by median sale price. Typical lot is the median lot size in the sold houses’ listings.

Highest price per square foot

Price per square foot evens out house size, so smaller houses on sought-after streets rise here.

The busiest streets

The streets with the most house sales in five years. Long streets that run through several neighborhoods naturally rise here.

Where houses sold for less

The ranked streets with the lowest median sale prices. Lower medians often mean smaller houses or lots, so check the price per square foot too.

How we counted

• Sales: single-family houses that closed through the MLS from October 1, 2021 to October 21, 2026. Condos, townhomes, mobile homes and land are left out. Sales that never reached the MLS aren’t included.
• Duplicates: the same sale reported by two MLS feeds is counted once.
• Streets: names are standardized (Avenue and Ave are the same street). A street needs at least 6 house sales to be ranked, so short cul-de-sacs with only a few sales don’t appear.
• Neighborhoods: each street is placed in one of our neighborhood guides by the center of its sales; streets whose sales spread over more than about 1.2 km are marked as crossing several neighborhoods, and a dash means the street sits outside our guide outlines.
• Medians, not averages, so one unusual sale moves a street less. Small samples still swing, and a street’s median reflects which houses happened to sell.
• Lot size and square footage come from the listings, which can differ from county records. Price per square foot leaves out the few listings whose size is far out of line with the city (under 30% or over three times the city’s median price per square foot), which are usually typos.

Keep going: the neighborhood ranking by price per square foot compares whole neighborhoods, the price per square foot map plots every recent sale, and the San Mateo city guide links every neighborhood guide. For one specific house, ask us for the comparable sales on its own street.

Selling? Start with selling a home in San Mateo: how we’d price, prepare and launch your sale, and the homes we’ve listed and sold in San Mateo.

The San Mateo data series: housing market by the numbers · neighborhoods ranked by price per sq ft · where homes sell over asking · ten years of prices by neighborhood · condos and townhomes · house prices by bedrooms · houses under $2M · houses at $3.5M and up · the best month to sell · lots by neighborhood

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