Cow Hollow Movers for the Blocks Between Lombard and Broadway

Cow Hollow is the slice of ZIP 94123 that starts on the level ground along Lombard Street and climbs south toward the Pacific Heights ridge. Union Street runs through the middle with boutiques, cafes and restaurants, a lot of them inside converted Victorians, and Fillmore Street crosses it on the way up. The Presidio wall along Lyon Street closes the west side, Van Ness Avenue the east, and the old Octagon House on Gough Street is a reminder that this was dairy pasture before it was houses.

For a mover, the useful fact is the grade. North of Union the blocks feel like the Marina. South of Green Street they tilt hard, and some stretches of Fillmore and Webster above Vallejo are steep enough that we pick the truck spot before we pick anything else.

Flats stacked over a garage

Closest to Lombard and Greenwich, two- and three-unit buildings put the garage at sidewalk level and the flats on top. The interior stair is the real work, and a narrow turn at the landing decides whether a sofa travels whole or in pieces.

Victorians and Edwardians with front steps

On the middle blocks, older homes sit above the sidewalk behind a flight of exterior stairs. Banisters, original trim and tight halls call for slow, careful carries.

Big houses on the slope

Toward Broadway, single-family homes run three or four floors with more furniture, art and sometimes a piano. These are the homes that usually get a four-mover crew.

Union Street is lined with shoppers, delivery vans and diners most of the day, and Lombard carries US 101 traffic toward the Golden Gate Bridge. Neither is a good place to load. For homes on those streets we usually set up on the nearest quiet cross street. Garage doors every few yards leave little open curb on residential blocks, so a temporary no-parking reservation through the SFMTA is the dependable way to keep the truck close. Our SF moving permit guide walks through how that works; leave yourself a week or more. If the truck ends up double-parked and gets cited, that citation is added to the bill, which is another reason we push for a reserved spot.

Cow Hollow does not have its own count in our files, so these are citywide numbers. Between mid-July and late October 2026 we received 43 quote requests from San Francisco, not counting account work, and 28 of them booked or completed. Among requests that listed a home size, one-bedroom homes led with 13, followed by two-bedroom homes with 12 and studios with 6.

• Tell us which entry the crew will use: garage, front steps or a side gate.
• Reserve curb space on a side street if you live on Union, Fillmore or Lombard.
• Clear the garage and move cars out the night before if the crew will load through it.
• Measure the tightest stair turn for your largest piece.
• If a condo board or property manager is involved, send us their name, mailing address and email so we can issue the certificate of insurance at no charge.
• Expect a call from the crew about 30 minutes before they arrive; morning crews in the city arrive between 9 and 11 AM.

Most flats here are a three-mover job at $175 an hour. A two-mover crew at $145 makes sense only for a very small load, and a larger house up the hill, three bedrooms over 1,800 square feet or four bedrooms and up, gets four movers at $235. The rate is the same on weekends, there is a 3-hour minimum and time after that is billed in 15-minute steps. Blankets, tape, floor protection, wardrobe boxes and taking furniture apart and back together are included; packing materials are billed only as used. More detail is on our moving cost page.

Typical Cow Hollow move by home size

For a realistic sense of the total, we measured our recent local moves by the hours on the final bill, so the totals below are the hours times the rate. Nothing here binds you or us; for a firm ceiling, ask for a free on-site inspection and a not-to-exceed price; otherwise the cost is hourly.

Hours are the middle half of billed hours on our recent local moves for direct customers, July to October 2026, including the drive between homes; account and partner-billed jobs and jobs with our full packing service are left out. Packing materials are extra, and every job has a 3-hour minimum ($525 with 3 movers).

The interior stair is the real work in Cow Hollow, and with little open curb a temporary no-parking reservation keeps the truck close so every trip stays short.

Cow Hollow is about 44 miles northwest of downtown San Jose, and you are not charged for our trip up. If your new home is more than 10 minutes from the old one, California rules double the drive time between the two addresses; a hop to the Marina or Pacific Heights normally stays well under that.

• Pacific Heights: the ridge above you, with mansions and doorman buildings.
• Marina District: flat landfill streets and stucco flats over garages.
• Presidio Heights: big detached homes along the Presidio edge to the west.
• Russian Hill: stairway lanes and cable car blocks east of Van Ness.
• San Francisco: our citywide page for every other neighborhood.

Moving out of the area? See local moving or long distance.