Brentwood

Brentwood is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles on the Westside, between the 405 and the West LA VA campus on the east and Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades on the west. The Mapping L.A. boundary runs from around Wilshire Boulevard north to Mulholland Drive and covers 15.2 square miles. It isn't a separate city, so city services, zoning and taxes are those of Los Angeles.

About $1.9 million to $70 million in asking price as of late September 2026. That month 142 houses were listed inside the Mapping L.A. boundary, the middle half asking about $4.5 million to $15.5 million, with the middle listing near $8.7 million. The Glen and the small lots south of San Vicente sit at the low end, and the canyon estates at the top.

About $389,000 to $4 million in asking price as of late September 2026, with the middle listing near $1 million. That month 71 condos and five townhouses were for sale inside the Mapping L.A. boundary, mostly in the blocks south of Sunset toward Wilshire. Read the HOA budget, reserves and any special assessments before you offer.

Yes, on its western edge. CAL FIRE's damage inspection data records 23 structures destroyed inside the Mapping L.A. Brentwood boundary in January 2025, almost all around Romany Drive, Ravoli Drive and Evans Road, which carry Pacific Palisades addresses, plus one far up Mandeville Canyon Road. The central and eastern parts of Brentwood weren't burned. CAL FIRE's damage map shows what happened on a given street.

The Getty Fire was a 745-acre brush fire in the Brentwood hills that started early on October 28, 2019, near the 405 at Getty Center Drive. The Los Angeles Fire Department found that a tree branch broke off in high winds and landed on power lines, which sparked and ignited the brush. It destroyed 10 homes and damaged 15.

Mostly, yes. On CAL FIRE's 2025 map for cities, about 89% of Brentwood's land is rated Very High, including the canyons, Crestwood Hills, Brentwood Village and parts of Brentwood Park. Brentwood Glen runs from Very High on Acari Drive to unzoned blocks by the 405, and almost everything south of San Vicente is outside the zones, so check the exact parcel. In a Very High zone the LAFD requires brush clearance within 200 feet of structures.

It depends on the address, within the Los Angeles Unified School District. In LAUSD's Resident School Identifier, every Brentwood address I checked was assigned to Paul Revere Charter Middle School; the elementary school was Kenter Canyon, Canyon Charter or Brockton Avenue depending on the address, and the high school was Palisades Charter High to the north and west or University High School Charter along San Vicente and Barrington. Run your own address before you count on any of them.

They're a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. The coral trees along the median of San Vicente Boulevard, from 26th Street to Bringham Avenue in Brentwood, were declared Historic-Cultural Monument No. 148 on March 3, 1976. They're the most recognizable street landscape in Brentwood, running past the Country Mart and the restaurants on San Vicente.

Crestwood Hills is a hillside pocket of Brentwood built by a postwar housing cooperative. The Mutual Housing Association, founded in 1946 and grown to 400 members, bought 800 acres and hired architects A. Quincy Jones and Whitney R. Smith and engineer Edgardo Contini. Twenty houses and the old site office are now city Historic-Cultural Monuments, three designated in November 2025.

Yes, admission is free with a timed-entry reservation, but parking costs $25 per car, or $15 after 3 p.m. The Getty Center is closed Mondays, open until 9 p.m. on Saturdays, and parking is free after 6 p.m. on Saturdays. It opened in 1997 on a 110-acre hilltop site in Brentwood designed by Richard Meier.

Yes. Brentwood is in the City of Los Angeles, so Measure ULA applies. For sales closing after June 30, 2026, the tax is 4% of the full price above $5.4 million and 5.5% at $10.9 million or more, on top of the city's base transfer tax. The thresholds adjust each year with inflation.

North of Sunset is hillside and canyons, and south of Sunset is mostly flat. The north has the bigger lots, Crestwood Hills and the Getty, and nearly all of it is Very High fire hazard. The south has Brentwood Park, Brentwood Glen, the Village, San Vicente's shops and most of the condos, and parts of it are outside the fire zones.

Yes, in Russian or English. For anyone relocating from abroad, the first number I'd get is a fire insurance quote on the exact address, because after the Palisades Fire that quote can reshape the whole budget.