Woodland Hills
Woodland Hills runs from the towers of Warner Center to oak covered hillsides in the south, the widest housing mix and price spread in the west Valley. Here is what that looks like up close.
The housing stock
Warner Center, at the east end of Woodland Hills, is the one part of the neighborhood built vertically: mid-rise and high-rise office and residential towers, along with newer condominium and apartment construction clustered around it. Away from Warner Center, the rest of Woodland Hills runs on a flatter street grid of single-story ranch homes built mostly in the 1950s and 1960s.
South of the grid, streets climb into the Santa Monica Mountains foothills toward Mulholland Drive. Lots get larger and more irregular with the grade, and the housing mixes midcentury ranch homes with newer, larger construction built into the hillside. That range, from Warner Center towers to hillside estates, is what gives Woodland Hills its spread.
The numbers
Closings here, refreshed monthly, so you are reading this market, not last year's. These numbers come from 24 months of real closings in Woodland Hills. Zillow shows national averages.
Live market numbers are updating. Call Kurt for today's picture.
What your money buys
Each price band below shows what actually closed in Woodland Hills at that budget over the last 24 months, from bedrooms and square footage to whether the home carried an HOA fee. Bands with too few closings to be honest are left off rather than guessed at.
How fast homes move
The days on market a home carries tells you how much competition you are walking into. The chart below shows how the last 24 months of closings in Woodland Hills actually broke down.
Getting around
The 101 (Ventura Freeway) runs through Woodland Hills and is the main route east or west. Unlike Encino and Sherman Oaks, Woodland Hills is not next to the 405, so most east-west trips run on the 101 corridor. Topanga Canyon Boulevard runs north to south and, once you are past the canyon, connects to the Pacific Coast Highway and the beach cities.
Rough drive times off-peak: Downtown LA runs about 30 to 35 minutes east on the 101 to connecting freeways. Malibu and the coast run about 20 to 25 minutes south on Topanga Canyon Boulevard. The Sepulveda Pass and the Westside are closer to 30 minutes east on the 101. All of these stretch considerably during rush hour, same as anywhere else in the Valley.
Parks and daily life
Warner Center is the commercial and business hub of Woodland Hills, and Westfield Topanga and The Village sit nearby as the area's main retail center. Topanga Canyon Boulevard is a second corridor of shops and services running north to south. Serrania Park and El Camino Park both have sports fields and open lawn. The Santa Monica Mountains foothills to the south carry hiking trail access off Mulholland Drive.