- A San Francisco mansion sold for $42 million, the city's priciest sale of 2025.
- The property on "Billionaires' Row" was built by famed architect Arthur Brown Jr.
- Luxury home sales in San Francisco surged 55% year over year.
Another mansion on San Francisco's famed Billionaires' Row has just snagged a buyer — with this property claiming the distinction of being the city's most expensive home sale so far this year.
The off-market sale of 2930 Broadway closed this week for $42 million, a price tag that smashes the city's previous 2025 high mark of $30 million for an 8,300-square-foot property at 260 Sea Cliff Ave., which also sold off market back in January.
The buyer's agents for the sale of 2930 Broadway were Joseph Lucier and Stacey Caen with Sotheby's International Realty, who declined to comment.
The 7,320-square-foot home was originally built in 1928 by famed San Francisco architect Arthur Brown Jr., known for designing San Francisco City Hall, the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building, among many other Bay Area sites.
The seller was the family trust for business and civic leader Brooks Walker Jr., who passed away in September 2024 at the age of 96. He was a third-generation Californian born in Oakland in 1928 who spent most of his career at USL Corp, formerly United States Leasing International, and served on corporate boards such as Gap, Greylock, Pope and Talbot, Dillingham Corp, Leslie Salt, Schwab Charitable, AT&T and the New England Fish Company.
The family has owned the home for approximately six decades.
The buyer is listed on the deed as HOS Pacific, a California limited liability company that also has ties to Texas. Little else is known about the mystery buyer.
The sale represents the second major transaction on Broadway this week, as less than a block away from 2930 Broadway, the sale of 2898 Broadway is now in contract after listing for $26 million. The pending buyer is currently not known and the deed has yet to post in public records with the city.
This movement on Billionaires' Row comes as San Francisco has experienced a surge in luxury sales in the past month, according to new data provided by Compass, which revealed that September sales of $5 million-plus homes spiked 55% year over year in the city.
Evidence of this uptick is also beginning to show up in high-profile sales. Another recent example was William Roth Martin, the scion of the de Young family, unloading his home at 2312 Pacific Ave. on Oct. 3 for $14 million. The buyer was listed on the deed as Vance Spencer, who shares the same name as the co-founder of Framework Ventures, a crypto VC investment firm based in the city.
A number of high-end luxury condos between $7 million and nearly $10 million have also traded hands this year in buildings such as 181 Fremont, the Four Seasons Private Residences, the Millennium Tower and One Steuart Lane.
Earlier this March, the Jewett House at 2990 Broadway sold for $26.5 million, and the former San Francisco Decorator Showcase home at 3701 Washington St. also sold off market for $26 million on Jan. 15. Other S.F. properties like "Podfather" Jon Rubinstein's renovated 2006 Washington St. co-op are still listed for upwards of $25 million.
San Francisco's all-time record for a residential real estate sale was set last year when entrepreneur and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs paid $71 million for 2840 Broadway.
Meanwhile outside of San Francisco, the most expensive Bay Area property to sell in 2025 was Green Gables in Woodside, which traded hands for a staggering $85 million in early September.
