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What homes actually sold for in Westchester

Cut to ZIP code 90045 inside Los Angeles, not to all of Los Angeles. Homes here are also listed under Playa del Rey.

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 Westchester sold for $1,744,500 over the last 90 days. Half sold for more, half sold for less. That is 74 real closings, not an estimate.

Last updated August 23, 2026 · built from closed MLS sales · recalculated weekly

$1,744,500Median sale price, last 90 days
74Homes sold, last 90 days
$925Median price per square foot, past 12 months
Down 3.2%Median price against the 12 months before

The last 90 days

74 homes sold in Westchester in the last 90 days, at a median of $1,744,500.

The average was $1,879,579. 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, 74 homes sold in Westchester at a median of $1,744,500. In the same 90 days a year earlier, 64 sold at a median of $1,723,500.

15.6% more homes closed this time around. That is close enough to call flat. A gap that small comes from which homes happened to sell, not from the market changing. Flat does not mean nothing is happening here. It means the market will not make this decision for you, so how you price and present your house will.

The past 12 months

Homes sold252
Median sale price$1,680,000
Average sale price$1,815,819

The lowest sale closed at $375,000. The highest closed at $4,350,000. Westchester 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, 251 homes sold in Westchester at a median of $1,735,500.

In the last 12 months, about the same number of homes changed hands, and the median price went down 3.2%.

Price per square foot moved the other way. It went from $910 to $925, up 1.6%. When those two disagree, it is usually because the size of the homes that sold changed, not because the market did two things at once.

A move that small is not the market repricing itself. It can come from which homes happened to sell. Read it as flat and look at your own street instead.

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 Westchester

Closings in Westchester run heaviest from April through August. May is the single busiest month, running 29% above a normal month. The quiet stretch is December through February, and January runs 36% 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 February. That is the target, not the closing date. That window already passed for this year. The next one is about 6 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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Price per square foot

Homes in Westchester sold for a median of $925 per square foot over the past 12 months. That is across 252 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 Westchester have buyers waiting

These are the 252 sales in the past 12 months where the bedroom count was recorded.

SizeSalesShareMedian price
2 bedrooms2610%$962,500
3 bedrooms11746%$1,505,000
4 bedrooms6526%$1,800,000
5 or more bedrooms4116%$2,960,000

The deepest pool is 3 bedroom homes, at 117 sales in the last 12 months and a median of $1,505,000. 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.

Common questions

What is the average home price in Westchester?

Over the last 12 months the average sale price in Westchester was $1,815,819, across 252 closed sales. The median was $1,680,000. The median is the better guide for a normal home, because a small number of very expensive sales pull an average upward.

Are Westchester home prices going up or down?

The median sale price in Westchester over the last 12 months was $1,680,000. That is down 3.2% from $1,735,500 in the 12 months before.

When is the best time to sell a house in Westchester?

Closings in Westchester run heaviest from April through August, and May is the busiest single month at 29% 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 February. 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 90045?

Westchester covers ZIP code 90045 in Los Angeles, California. The median closed sale price there over the last 12 months was $1,680,000, across 252 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.

Where these numbers come from

Every figure on this page comes from closed sales recorded in the MLS for ZIP code 90045 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. 503 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 90045 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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