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The Bay Area opens on a hill in San Francisco, where Bernal Heights keeps a village main street on Cortland Avenue below a grass summit, four miles from downtown.
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Bernal Heights sets the first comparison points. Its Homes.com median sale price of $1,560,000 (last 12 months, October 2026) buys a Walk Score of 92, an average one bedroom rent of $3,612 a month (Zumper, October 2026), and downtown about four miles north. Around it, the metro brackets the range: Noe Valley trades flatter and pricier to the west, the Mission trades denser and more rental down the north slope, and Potrero Hill trades sunny and steeper across Highway 101.
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Bernal Heights
San Francisco's hilltop village: one main street on Cortland Avenue with a grocer, a butcher and a muralists' studio, cottages on lots a third smaller than the city standard below a grass summit with views in every direction, and a bedrock hill that kept its houses standing in 1906, four miles from downtown.
Median $1,560,000Walk Score 92
Photo: 9yz, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Around Bernal Heights sit its natural comparisons: Noe Valley to the west, Glen Park through the Bernal Cut, and the Mission down the north slope.