Los Angeles is a city of neighborhoods, and its most sought-after ones each have a character of their own: the beach walks of the South Bay, the canals of Venice, the estates of the Platinum Triangle, and the historic enclaves of Hancock Park and the Hollywood Hills. These guides cover the neighborhoods buyers ask for by name, with every home for sale and the market in each.
Beach Neighborhoods
The South Bay Strand, Venice, Palos Verdes and Santa Monica.
The Strand, Manhattan Beach
The Strand is the beachfront walkway that runs the length of Manhattan Beach, and the homes that face it are some of the most valuable in Los Angeles County.
Sand Section, Manhattan Beach
The Sand Section is the part of Manhattan Beach closest to the ocean, the blocks between the beach and the hill rising inland.
Tree Section, Manhattan Beach
The Tree Section is the inland part of Manhattan Beach whose streets are named for trees, such as Elm, Oak and Pine.
The Strand, Hermosa Beach
In Hermosa Beach, The Strand is the beach walk that runs the length of town, lined with oceanfront homes that open directly onto the sand.
Hollywood Riviera, Redondo Beach
The Hollywood Riviera is a hillside neighborhood at the south end of Redondo Beach and the west edge of Torrance, where the South Bay meets the Palos Verdes hills.
Venice Canals, Venice
The Venice Canals are what remain of Abbot Kinney's Venice of America, the canal city he opened in 1905.
Silver Strand & Marina Peninsula, Venice
The Marina Peninsula is the narrow strip of Venice between the ocean and the Marina del Rey harbor, and the Silver Strand is its quieter neighbor at the harbor entrance.
Lunada Bay, Palos Verdes Estates
Lunada Bay is the western neighborhood of Palos Verdes Estates, set along bluffs above a horseshoe cove with open ocean views to Catalina.
Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes Estates
Malaga Cove is the oldest part of Palos Verdes Estates, at the north end of the peninsula where it meets the South Bay.
North of Montana, Santa Monica
North of Montana is the residential heart of Santa Monica, the blocks north of Montana Avenue up to the city line.
Westside Estates
The Platinum Triangle, the hills above Beverly Hills and Brentwood.
Bel Air
Bel Air is one corner of Los Angeles's Platinum Triangle, with Holmby Hills and Beverly Hills.
Holmby Hills
Holmby Hills is the smallest corner of the Platinum Triangle, between Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Westwood.
Beverly Hills Flats, Beverly Hills
The Beverly Hills Flats are the level streets of Beverly Hills between Sunset Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard.
Beverly Hills Post Office
Beverly Hills Post Office, often called BHPO, is the hillside area above Beverly Hills that shares its 90210 zip code but sits in the City of Los Angeles.
Bird Streets
The Bird Streets are a small hillside neighborhood above the Sunset Strip whose streets are named for birds: Oriole, Thrasher, Warbler, Nightingale, Blue Jay and others.
Brentwood Park
Brentwood Park is the estate section of Brentwood, between Sunset and San Vicente Boulevards.
Mandeville Canyon
Mandeville Canyon is a long, wooded canyon that runs north from Sunset Boulevard in Brentwood.
Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills
The hillside enclave above Beverly Hills where mid-century glamour was built for the stars.
Historic Neighborhoods
Hancock Park and the 1920s enclaves of Los Feliz and the Hollywood Hills.
Hancock Park
Hancock Park is one of Los Angeles's grand historic neighborhoods, developed in the 1920s by G. Allan Hancock on land that was once part of the Rancho La Brea.
Windsor Square
Windsor Square sits just east of Hancock Park, laid out in the 1910s with underground utilities and wide, tree-lined streets.
Fremont Place
Fremont Place is a gated enclave of historic estates beside Hancock Park, between Wilshire and Olympic Boulevards.
Laughlin Park
Laughlin Park is a small gated enclave on the hillside in Los Feliz, laid out in the 1910s.
Outpost Estates
Outpost Estates is a hillside neighborhood above Hollywood developed in the 1920s by Charles E. Toberman, who gave it Spanish Colonial Revival homes, winding streets and underground utilities, unusual for the time.
Whitley Heights
Whitley Heights is a small hillside neighborhood in Hollywood developed in the late 1910s and 1920s by H. J. Whitley, with Mediterranean homes built for the stars of the silent-film era.
Mid-Century Neighborhoods
Modern tracts and enclaves in Los Angeles and Pasadena, on the architecture pages.
Crestwood Hills, Brentwood
A postwar cooperative in the Brentwood hills, designed by A. Quincy Jones and Whitney Smith.
Mar Vista Tract, Mar Vista
Gregory Ain's 52 modern homes of 1948, now a protected historic neighborhood.
Balboa Highlands, Granada Hills
Joseph Eichler's Southern California neighborhood in Granada Hills, now a protected historic district.
Poppy Peak, Pasadena
A hillside of modernist homes in Pasadena by Neutra, Harris and Buff, Straub & Hensman.
Buying in Los Angeles
- Many Los Angeles neighborhoods sit inside other cities (Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach), and others are in the City of Los Angeles with a neighboring city’s name and zip code. The city decides the schools, services and building rules.
- Hillside homes need geology, drainage and fire review, and the city’s hillside rules limit how large a home can be.
- Historic neighborhoods such as Hancock Park, Windsor Square and Whitley Heights review exterior changes; ask about Mills Act contracts.
- Coastal permits shape rebuilds near the sand in the South Bay and Venice.
See also historic homes for sale, including Mills Act homes and Historic-Cultural Monuments, and architect-designed homes.
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