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Real Estate Attorneys in San Francisco, California

Counsel for property: purchases, disputes, title, and land use. In San Francisco, that work runs through San Francisco County's courts. This directory presents real estate records from official State Bar of California data in neutral order.

San Francisco is California's only consolidated city and county; its superior court hears civil matters at the Civic Center Courthouse, and the city hosts the California Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, and the State Bar of California's headquarters. For real estate cases, venue ordinarily lies with the San Francisco County Superior Court: Civic Center Courthouse · which is why counsel who appear there regularly read the local calendar better than any brochure.

Deadlines shape these cases before merits do · three years for trespass or injury to real property; four years on written contracts (§ 337) (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(b)). Adverse possession and prescriptive easement claims require five years of qualifying use (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §§ 321–325). Seller non-disclosure claims sound in fraud: three years from discovery (§ 338(d)).

This page is the San Francisco chapter of the registry's statewide record · Real Estate Attorneys in California collects every county and city.

The clock & the court

Statute of limitations

Three years for trespass or injury to real property; four years on written contracts (§ 337).

Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(b)

Adverse possession and prescriptive easement claims require five years of qualifying use (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §§ 321–325). Seller non-disclosure claims sound in fraud: three years from discovery (§ 338(d)).

Court of record · San Francisco County

Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco.

Main courthouse: Civic Center Courthouse, 400 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

For San Francisco: San Francisco County Superior Court: Civic Center Courthouse.

Court website · Self-help center · Source: The court's official website, read 2026-09-27. Venue depends on the case; legal information, not legal advice.

Real Estate · San Francisco roster

1,289 active attorneys with an address of record in San Francisco list real estate among their practice areas on the registry, out of 17,779 active attorneys whose address of record is in San Francisco.

By count, the practice areas most often listed by San Francisco attorneys are business law (4,365), litigation (3,337), employment (1,899), intellectual property (1,774) and real estate (1,289). A count of listings, not a measure of skill.

15 of the 17,779 have claimed and verified their record here; every other listing is the official record as published.

For 1,696 of the 17,779 active attorneys in San Francisco, the registry holds a language other than English; by count, Spanish (1,145), French (836), Chinese (824) and Japanese (580). Attorneys themselves confirmed Spanish (1); the rest come from a firm website published in that language, which describes the website, not the attorney.

Reading the roster in San Francisco. Real estate disputes are document cases: bring the purchase agreement, escrow file, title report, and any disclosure statements to a first meeting. Look for attorneys who practice real property litigation in the county where the land sits; venue is fixed there by Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 392, and ask whether the matter is better resolved by negotiation, a quiet title or partition filing, or the arbitration/mediation clause most CAR purchase agreements contain.