A San Francisco house flipper just cashed in on one of the fastest, biggest paydays the city has seen in years, and it is a sign of just how hot the market has gotten at the top.

The mid-century home at 50 Cascade Walk in the Golden Gate Heights neighborhood sold for $2.31 million  in November 2025. Seven months later, after a full renovation, it closed for $5.167 million in June, nearly $1.3 million above its $3.885 million asking price.

That is more than double the sale price from less than a year earlier, on a home that started out as a modest 4-bedroom, 2-bath, 2,203 square foot house.

The listing for the reimagined property promised “unparalleled panoramic views” and “iconic San Francisco living,” with sight lines stretching to the Pacific Ocean, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marin Headlands, Ocean Beach and the downtown skyline. 

Set on a 10,000 square foot lot, described as rare for the hilly, view-driven pocket of the city, the finished home offered 5 bedrooms, 5 baths, a private office and an indoor-outdoor layout built for entertaining.

Golden Gate Heights sits between Twin Peaks and the Sunset District, and it has long been a magnet for buyers chasing wide-open views without the price tag of Pacific Heights or Presidio Heights. That reputation is now colliding with a citywide buying frenzy at the top of the market.

San Francisco’s luxury sector has come roaring back after years in the doldrums following the pandemic office exodus. High-end home sales in the city jumped 22.2 percent in March compared to a year earlier, marking five straight months of double digit gains, according to Redfin data. 

Non-luxury sales crept up just 3.8 percent over the same stretch, a gap that highlights how lopsided the recovery has become. 

The driver is not hard to find. The rapid growth of AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic has minted a fresh wave of ultra-high-earning buyers, many of them plowing outsized compensation packages straight into real estate. 

Median luxury sale prices in the city have climbed to roughly $6.8 million, a 9 percent jump from last year, with the priciest homes now moving in a median of just 12 days.

It is a stunning reversal for a city that was written off just a few years ago, when remote work emptied out office towers and depressed home values across the board. 

Citywide, the median sale price bottomed out at $625,000 in March 2012 after the housing crash, but by this March it had climbed to $1.7 million, according to Redfin, the first time the gap between trough and current price topped $1 million. 

The listing was listed by Shu Pu of Fifty Hills. The Post has reached out to Pu for comment on the sale.