Median Permit in 94123: $30,006 on 48 Filings — June 2026

Start with the money. In the 30 days from May 11 – June 9, 2026, ZIP 94123 in San Francisco carried $4.6M of permitted residential work across 48 issued permits. That is the Marina District and Cow Hollow corner of the city — a tight band of flats, single-family homes, and converted Victorians where most of what gets permitted is interior work on housing that already exists, not new ground-up construction.

Every figure on this page is a slice. ZIP 94123 is one cut of the same sealed daily snapshot we keep for all of San Francisco, drawn from the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata). When the citywide file shows 952 residential permits for the window, this ZIP accounts for 48 of them.

A building permit is the public record a city creates when a property owner gets authorization to perform construction, and the dollar figure attached to it is the owner's declared cost of the work — so reading 94123 is really reading what Marina-area owners told the city they were about to spend.

Where 94123 Sits Among San Francisco ZIPs

Because this is a comparison-first read, here is the field before the narrative. The table below places ZIP 94123 next to the other most active San Francisco ZIPs in the same window, plus the citywide headline row. Every number is copied verbatim from the sealed snapshot — none of it is averaged or projected.

The shape of this table is the whole story of the Marina. ZIP 94123 sits near the bottom of these ZIPs on permit count — 48 permits — yet it carries the same $4.6M total as ZIP 94122, which pulled 99 permits over the window. Read that ratio plainly: 94123 is doing fewer jobs, but each job is worth more on average.

Where the high-volume ZIPs like 94122 and 94116 are running a deep bench of small interior permits, the Marina is running a shorter list of heavier renovations. That single comparison tells a contractor, a supplier, or an agent more about who is working in 94123 than any citywide total can.

ZIP 94123 matched ZIP 94122 on dollars — $4.6M each — with 48 permits against 94122's 99. Fewer, larger jobs.

What This Snapshot Covers

ZIP 94123 — the Marina and Cow Hollow — recorded 48 residential permits worth $4.6M in the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, with a median permit valuation of $30,006 and a top category of OTC Alterations. That median is the number to sit with: it runs well above the citywide median of $19,395, which is exactly what you would expect from a neighborhood whose dollar total holds up on a thin permit count.

This report explains what those permits actually authorize, how 94123 stacks against its sibling ZIPs, and how operators turn a slice like this into a working signal.

Residential building permits (single-family and small multi-family); commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest. This is not a count of all construction permits issued in each city. So the 48 here are homeowner-side jobs — the kitchen, the rear addition, the seismic retrofit on an older flat — not the office tenant improvements or standalone electrical pulls that move through other DBI queues.

Key Findings

• ZIP 94123 carried $4.6M of permitted residential work over the window, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• The ZIP issued 48 residential permits in the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window, per the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

• The median permit valuation in 94123 was $30,006, well above the citywide median of $19,395.

• OTC Alterations led the ZIP with 44 permits — the dominant work type in the Marina.

• Citywide, San Francisco logged 952 residential permits worth $68.9M with 100% of permits carrying a valuation, per the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

ZIP 94123 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

Here is the headline block for the ZIP on its own. The valuation total is the sum of declared job costs on permits issued inside 94123 during the window; the median is the midpoint of those same permits.

A median of $30,006 against a $4.6M total is the distribution doing its work. It says the typical Marina permit is a mid-sized interior job — bigger than a like-for-like fixture swap, smaller than a gut renovation — and that the total is propped up by a handful of larger projects sitting above that midpoint.

For context on the spread citywide, the San Francisco snapshot puts the lower-quartile permit at $8,700 and the upper-quartile permit at $48,018, with a single most-expensive permit at $6,000,000. A neighborhood whose median lands at $30,006 is clearly skewing toward the upper half of that citywide band.

The median Marina permit was $30,006 — above San Francisco's $19,395 citywide median. Heavier jobs per permit.

What Is Getting Built in 94123

The dominant category in ZIP 94123 is OTC Alterations — the friendly name for the raw source label otc alterations permit — and it accounts for 44 of the ZIP's 48 permits. That concentration is not noise; it is the defining feature of how the Marina renovates.

"OTC" is San Francisco shorthand for over the counter. An OTC alteration is a permit a property owner (or their contractor) can obtain in a single counter visit or its online equivalent, without routing the plans through a full plan-check review cycle.

It is the lane the city built for work that is real construction but standardized enough not to need a structural engineer's stamped review: a kitchen or bathroom remodel that stays within the existing footprint, new interior partitions, window-for-window replacements, electrical and mechanical upgrades, dry-rot and façade repair, deck and stair rebuilds, and the kind of seismic and weatherization work that older Marina housing constantly needs.

When 44 of 48 permits in a ZIP are OTC alterations, you are looking at a remodeling market, not a development market. Nobody is clearing a lot here. Owners are reinvesting in standing housing stock — much of it pre-war flats and single-family homes — and they are doing it through the fastest permitting lane the city offers. That has direct implications for anyone working the neighborhood:

• For remodeling contractors and trades, 94123 is a refresh-and-retrofit market. The work is interior finishes, systems upgrades, and structural repair on existing homes — repeat-able scopes, not bespoke ground-up builds.

• For building-material suppliers, the OTC concentration points at cabinetry, fixtures, windows, framing lumber, and seismic hardware moving in mid-sized lots, on the shorter lead times that counter-permitted jobs imply.

• For real estate agents, an OTC alteration is a pre-listing tell. Owners who just permitted a kitchen or a structural repair are often staging a property for sale or settling into a long hold — either way, a renovation permit is a reason to be in the conversation early.

The other categories citywide round out the picture: across all of San Francisco, the snapshot shows additions alterations or repairs at 50 permits and a generic permit bucket at 15, but in 94123 specifically the story is overwhelmingly OTC.

How 94123 Compares in San Francisco

Set the ZIP against the city and the contrast sharpens. The comparison row matters because it tells you whether the Marina is punching above or below its size on dollars.

Two reads come straight off this table. First, 94123's $30,006 median sits above the citywide $19,395 — the typical Marina job is heavier than the typical San Francisco job. Second, 94123 ties ZIP 94122 on the $4.6M total while issuing 48 permits to 94122's 99 — a roughly two-to-one gap in count that vanishes at the dollar line. Both observations point the same direction: the Marina is a higher-value-per-permit ZIP, where fewer owners are spending more per project.

That is a useful filter. A contractor chasing volume should weight the high-count ZIPs — 94122 at 99, 94116 at 95, 94110 at 84. A contractor chasing larger tickets should weight 94123 and the heavyweight valuation ZIPs like 94118 at $9.7M and 94114 at $7.2M. The sealed snapshot lets you make that call on numbers instead of instinct. For the same cut on adjacent neighborhoods, the San Francisco 94121 report and the 94114 report run the identical methodology one ZIP over.

Methodology

Every figure here is a ZIP-level cut of the same sealed daily permit snapshots kept for San Francisco, sourced from the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata). All figures are computed directly from US Tech Automations' sealed daily permit snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated. The 94123 totals are a filtered slice of the citywide file — the same permits, narrowed to one postal boundary.

This edition is strictly cross-sectional. It is a single 30-day window with no month-over-month or year-over-year comparison; we make no claim about whether 94123 is rising or falling, because the sealed history needed for that does not exist yet. Scope is residential only: single-family and small multi-family permits, with commercial and sub-trade permits excluded at ingest.

How the slice is produced:

1. Collect. Pull San Francisco's published permit records from the Socrata endpoint at data.sfgov.org each day, capturing permit type, declared valuation, and location.

2. Normalize. Map each record to a residential category, attach its ZIP, and drop commercial and sub-trade rows so the count reflects homeowner-side work only.

3. Seal daily. Content-hash each day's normalized file and append it to a tamper-evident store, so the snapshot for any date can be re-verified later against its recorded fingerprint.

4. Aggregate. Sum permits and valuations across the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, then filter to ZIP 94123 to produce every figure on this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is the $4.6M figure all construction in 94123?
A: No. It is residential permits only — single-family and small multi-family. Commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest, so the $4.6M and the 48-permit count reflect homeowner-side work, not every construction permit issued in the ZIP.

Q: Why is the median valuation $30,006 so much higher than San Francisco's $19,395?
A: Because 94123 runs fewer, larger permits. With 48 permits carrying $4.6M, the typical Marina job is a mid-sized renovation, pushing the ZIP median above the citywide midpoint of $19,395.

Q: What does an OTC Alterations permit actually cover?
A: OTC means over the counter — standardized residential work obtained without full plan-check review: kitchen and bath remodels within the existing footprint, interior partitions, window and systems replacements, dry-rot and façade repair, and seismic upgrades. It led 94123 with 44 of 48 permits.

Q: Who pulls these permits?
A: Property owners and their licensed contractors. In 94123, the heavy OTC concentration points to homeowners reinvesting in existing housing rather than developers building new — refresh-and-retrofit work on standing Marina flats and homes.

Q: How does 94123 compare to the busiest San Francisco ZIPs?
A: On count it is lighter — 48 permits against 99 in ZIP 94122 and 95 in ZIP 94116. On dollars it ties 94122 at $4.6M. Fewer jobs, more value per job. Citywide, San Francisco logged 952 permits worth $68.9M.

Put Permit Data to Work

A ZIP slice like 94123 is only useful if it reaches the person who can act on it while the permit is fresh. That is the gap we built this research desk to close. The same sealed snapshots behind this page — browsable at permits.ustechautomations.com — feed automated workflows that watch a postal boundary, flag new residential permits as they post, and route them to the right desk.

For a remodeling contractor, that means a daily list of newly permitted Marina jobs instead of a monthly trip to the DBI counter. For a supplier, it means timing inventory to the OTC-heavy mix this ZIP runs. For an agent, it means a renovation-permit alert becomes a pre-listing conversation before the sign goes up.

US Tech Automations builds the monitoring, the lead routing, and the first-draft outreach so the signal turns into a contact, not a spreadsheet that ages out. You can see how that pipeline is wired for property workflows at our real estate AI agents page. For the citywide context behind this ZIP, the San Francisco 94112 report and the 94131 report cover neighboring slices on the same sealed data.

Source: US Tech Automations Research — computed from sealed daily permit snapshots, May 11 – June 9, 2026.