{"id":509070,"date":"2026-10-27T03:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/509070\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T03:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:14:13","slug":"gavin-newsoms-childhood-home-sells-for-close-to-4000-a-square-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/509070\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom\u2019s childhood home sells for close to $4,000 a square foot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wooded upper Cole Valley home across from Sutro Forest where Gov. Gavin Newsom toddled around as a tot has sold for more than $4,000 per square foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The two-bedroom, two-bath, redwood-shingled home is smaller than 1,500 square feet but sits on two lots that are nearly 10,000 square feet combined. There\u2019s a separate studio and a Japanese soaking tub. One of those underdeveloped parcels opens onto Belgrave Avenue, where a new home fetched $22 million in 2019, and a 65-foot-wide-lot with approved plans sold in April for $5.75 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Newsom connection got a lot of eyes on the property initially, but ultimately the value component and upside rested in the land and its potential,\u201d said listing agent John DiDomenico of Compass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The property received multiple all-cash offers after it listed for $4.5 million in early October and closed for $5.85 million a mere 14 days later. Frank Nolan of Vanguard Properties, who represented the buyer, the Sutro Trust, did not reply to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The seller has lived in the home since 2019 but purchased it in an off-market \u201cintra-family sale\u201d six years later, DiDomenico said. <\/p>\n

The fact that the property sold last week for more than double its 2019 price of $2.8 million and nearly $2 million more than the in-family transfer just last year shows not only that the city is at an all-time pricing high, DiDomenico said, but that there is \u201csignificant confidence\u201d that values will continue to climb in the months ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The seller in 2020 remodeled the kitchen, both bathrooms, and the upstairs primary closet, according to city permit records, as well as removing a wood-burning fireplace, chimney, and lots of wood siding in the living room. So the current iteration of the 1951 home looks very different from when Newsom lived there in the late 1960s with his parents, sister, and first pet, Potter the Otter, who, the governor has said, (opens in new tab)<\/a> slept curled up in his childhood bed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After Newsom\u2019s parents divorced in 1972, his mother sold the home that same year, according to information available via public records preserved by the office of the assessor-recorder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The home was originally owned by Newsom\u2019s maternal grandfather (opens in new tab)<\/a>, Arthur Menzies, who was a horticulturalist at the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park. He appears to have given it to his daughter and moved to a home in Stinson Beach before his death in 1973. A native plant garden in the botanical garden is named in his honor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The owners who bought it from Newsom\u2019s mother added the redwood cladding, harvested from Marin, in 1979 and lived there for more than four decades. Their son \u201clooked like a clone of a younger Gavin\u201d in his early years, the previous listing agent, Dan Slaughter, told SFGate (opens in new tab)<\/a> when the property last hit the market in 2019. The governor\u2019s father, William Newsom, saw the likeness as well, telling the family, \u201cThere must be something in the water,\u201d whenever they ran into him at Balboa Cafe, Slaughter relayed.<\/p>\n

As Newsom wraps up his second term as governor, he and wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom bought a $9 million home in Marin<\/a> and listed their home just outside Sacramento<\/a> for $7.5 million in August. Newsom\u2019s home in the unincorporated Sacramento suburb of Fair Oaks is still on the market and would set a neighborhood record if it sells for anything close to the asking price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wooded upper Cole Valley home across from Sutro Forest where Gov. Gavin Newsom toddled around as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,13781,11853,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-509070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-luxury-real-estate","tag-residential-real-estate","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}