What homes actually sold for in West Los Angeles
Cut to ZIP code 90025 inside Los Angeles, not to all of Los Angeles. Homes here are also listed under Sawtelle.
Every number here comes off a real closing, not an estimate. Including the one most owners get wrong: when to go live.
The median home in West Los Angeles sold for $1,057,000 over the last 90 days. Half sold for more, half sold for less. That is 67 real closings, not an estimate.
Last updated August 23, 2026 · built from closed MLS sales · recalculated weekly
The last 90 days
67 homes sold in West Los Angeles in the last 90 days, at a median of $1,057,000.
The average was $1,301,204. That runs higher than the median because a handful of large sales pull an average up. When you want to know what a normal house here is worth, use the median.
Right now against this time last year
In the last 90 days, 67 homes sold in West Los Angeles at a median of $1,057,000. In the same 90 days a year earlier, 73 sold at a median of $1,173,800.
8.2% fewer homes closed this time around. Same season, same city, and the middle of the market is lower than it was. That is a real move, not a seasonal dip, because both windows cover the same months of the year. In a market like this, the first two weeks of a listing carry more weight than they did a year ago. A home priced right from day one still finds its buyer. One that is not sits, and sitting is what a soft market punishes.
The past 12 months
The lowest sale closed at $398,000. The highest closed at $4,895,000. West Los Angeles is not one market. Homes at the bottom of that range and homes at the top are priced by completely different rules, and the areawide number sits somewhere in between.
How that compares to the year before
In the 12 months before this one, 250 homes sold in West Los Angeles at a median of $1,145,000.
In the last 12 months, 4.0% fewer homes changed hands, and the median price went down 8.6%.
Price per square foot moved the same way. It went from $744 to $696, down 6.4%.
Fewer homes sold and the middle of the market eased back. That is the combination that gives buyers room to negotiate. When a market cools, the gap between a home that is priced and marketed well and one that is not gets wider. That is an argument for doing the work right, not for waiting it out. That is a large enough move to check against your own street before you assume it applies to your house.
Either way, the areawide number is not your number. Your street, your lot, and the condition of your house move your price more than an area median does. If you want the number for your address instead of a whole zip code, have your home run against these same closed sales.
The best time to list in West Los Angeles
Closings in West Los Angeles run heaviest from March through August. July is the single busiest month, running 27% above a normal month. The quiet stretch is December through February, and January runs 46% below.
We split the record in half and checked each year on its own. The same shape turned up both times. That is what separates a pattern from one odd year.
Work backward and you get your answer. Escrow alone runs about 30 to 45 days. Add the weeks a house sits before an offer shows up, and a home that closes at the front of that busy stretch went live around January. That is the target, not the closing date. That window already passed for this year. The next one is about 5 months out.
What this does not say. It does not say you get a higher price in spring. We checked that separately and it is not in the data. Median price by month swings on which houses happened to sell, not on the season. Across these cities February averaged $1.6 million in one year and $1.33 million in the next. Same month, a swing that size, entirely from the mix of homes that closed. What the calendar actually changes is how many buyers are out looking. More buyers means more competition for your house. That is the whole edge, and it is enough.
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Homes in West Los Angeles sold for a median of $696 per square foot over the past 12 months. That is across 240 sales where the square footage was recorded.
Price per square foot is a rough tool. A 2,000 square foot house on a flat lot and a 2,000 square foot house with a view do not sell for the same number. Use it to sanity check a price. Do not use it to set one.
Which homes in West Los Angeles have buyers waiting
These are the 240 sales in the past 12 months where the bedroom count was recorded.
| Size | Sales | Share | Median price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 bedrooms | 127 | 53% | $920,000 |
| 3 bedrooms | 79 | 33% | $1,415,000 |
| 4 bedrooms | 23 | 10% | $2,300,000 |
The deepest pool is 2 bedroom homes, at 127 sales in the last 12 months and a median of $920,000. If your home sits in that group, more buyers are competing for it, and a fair price tends to find them quickly. If it sits outside that group, the pool is thinner. That does not mean less money. It means the first two weeks matter more, because you are waiting on fewer people to walk through the door.
Sell now, or wait?
Nobody knows where prices go next. Anyone who tells you they do is guessing with a straight face. So here is the part that is actually knowable, and it is enough to decide on.
Waiting moves you around the calendar. Push a spring listing into the December through February stretch and you put your house in front of the smallest group of buyers in the year. The house did not change. The number of people who will walk through it did.
Waiting also runs a meter. Every month you hold, you pay property tax, insurance, upkeep, and whatever is left on the loan. We are not going to print a monthly figure here, because your tax basis depends on when you bought and your loan is nobody's business but yours. You already know roughly what that number is. Multiply it by the months you are thinking about waiting, then ask what the delay buys you.
And sometimes waiting is the right call. If the kitchen is half torn apart, if you cannot move until a lease is up, if two months of work would put your house in front of a different kind of buyer, then wait. A ready house in a quiet month beats an unfinished house in a busy one.
The wrong reason to wait is the common one. Not knowing what the house is worth, so doing nothing. That one is free to fix.
What is the average home price in West Los Angeles?
Over the last 12 months the average sale price in West Los Angeles was $1,290,013, across 240 closed sales. The median was $1,046,500. The median is the better guide for a normal home, because a small number of very expensive sales pull an average upward.
Are West Los Angeles home prices going up or down?
The median sale price in West Los Angeles over the last 12 months was $1,046,500. That is down 8.6% from $1,145,000 in the 12 months before.
When is the best time to sell a house in West Los Angeles?
Closings in West Los Angeles run heaviest from March through August, and July is the busiest single month at 27% above a normal month. Because escrow runs about 30 to 45 days on top of the time a home spends on the market, a home closing at the front of that stretch generally went live around January. This reflects how many buyers are active, not a higher sale price. Median price by month varies with which homes happen to sell rather than with the season.
What is the median home price in 90025?
West Los Angeles covers ZIP code 90025 in Los Angeles, California. The median closed sale price there over the last 12 months was $1,046,500, across 240 closed sales. These figures are cut to the zip code rather than to Los Angeles as a whole, because a citywide figure spans neighborhoods with very different price levels.
Every figure on this page comes from closed sales recorded in the MLS for ZIP code 90025 inside Los Angeles, California. We keep our own copy of that record: 105,667 closed sales across Los Angeles and Ventura counties going back to July 26, 2024. 490 of them are in this area. We run the math ourselves.
- Closed prices only. What a buyer actually paid. Never an automated estimate.
- Each home counted once. The MLS records a listing side and a buying side for the same sale. We count the house, not the paperwork.
- Thin numbers get left out. If a figure does not have enough sales behind it to mean anything, it is not on this page.
- The read follows the numbers. Every interpretation on this page is picked by what the figures came back as. When they favor buyers, the page says so.
- Why a zip code and not a city. The MLS files Los Angeles as one city. That single label covers more than 15,000 sales a year at wildly different price levels, so a citywide median would describe nowhere. These figures are cut to 90025 only.
Last updated August 23, 2026. Recalculated every week. These are area statistics only. They are not a valuation of any individual property and not advice about one.
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