Holmby Hills Real Estate – Los Angeles California 90024 & 90077
About Holmby Hills
Holmby Hills is an affluent neighborhood in western Los Angeles. It is bordered by the city of Beverly Hills on the east, Wilshire Boulevard on the south, Westwood on the west, and Bel-Air on the north. Sunset Boulevard is the area’s principal thoroughfare.
Holmby Hills, Bel-Air, and Beverly Hills form the “Platinum Triangle” of Los Angeles’ priciest and most exclusive neighborhoods. Many of the estates in Holmby Hills boast panoramic views of the entire Los Angeles Basin. Many high-level entertainment industry executives, such as Interscope Records founder Jimmy Lovine, television producer Aaron Spelling, movie mogul Ray Stark, and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (whose home is better known as the Playboy Mansion), currently reside or have previously resided in the area.
History of Holmby Hills
The first developer of the land that Holmby Hills, Westwood, and UCLA now occupy was Don Maximo Alanis, a Spanish soldier who obtained title to 4,438 acres under a Mexican land grant in 1843. He called it San Jose de Buenos Aires. In 1884, about 2,000 acres of this land came into the possession of a forty-niner named John Wolfskill, who paid $10 an acre for it and built a ranch house near the present-day LA Temple of the LDS Church.
The actual development of Holmby Hills began when millionaire Arthur Letts, Sr. purchased 400 acres of the original Wolfskill ranch at $100 an acre. Letts, who was born in England in 1862, had made his fortune by transforming a small, bankrupt dry goods business in Los Angeles into the Broadway Department Store empire. He was not only a shrewd businessman, but also a skilled horticulturist; the grounds of his Hollywood home were planted with a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and flowers, and his cactus collection was known across the country.
His master plan for the prime land he had purchased in west L.A. was to create a neighborhood of grandiose estates. He personally christened the development “Holmby Hills,” which was loosely derived from the name of his birthplace, a small hamlet in England called Holdenby. Letts died suddenly in 1923, before he could realize his vision.
His son-in-law, Harold Janss, took over the project, which was billed as “The Ultimate in Residential Estate Development.” Zoning for the community, which straddles Sunset Boulevard, was designed to accommodate large lot sizes (up to 4 acres). Electric and telephone lines were buried beneath the wide, tree-lined streets to preserve the landscape. Handsome, English-style street lamps, designed exclusively for Holmby Hills, were erected throughout the neighborhood.
Among the first mansions built here in the late 1920s was the Tudor-style home of the founder’s son, Arthur Letts, Jr. Thanks to its lush landscaping, enormous lot sizes, and privacy, from the beginning Holmby Hills has attracted the rich and famous. In the 1950s, Walt Disney built his dream home here, which featured a miniature steam railroad, complete with 300 feet of track and a 90-foot long tunnel. Celebrities such as Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Gary Cooper, Barbara Streisand, Hugh M. Hefner and Sonny & Cher have all called Holmby Hills their home.
The Draw
Besides grand homes, the neighborhood has two parks ringed by mature sycamore trees.
Holmby Park is south of Sunset Boulevard, and the quaint De Neve Square is to the north. Holmby Park has two playgrounds, a nine-hole putting green and classic lawn bowling. The Armand Hammer Golf Course is named for the founder of Occidental Petroleum, who lived just up the block and enjoyed the greens. The Holmby Park Bowling Club was established in 1927 and calls itself the official lawn bowling club of Los Angeles.
Holmby Hills Geographic Location
Holmby Hills Mapped Listings For Sale
Watch this video of a Holmby Hills Mansion recently SOLD and the highest sales price so far recorded in the Holmby Hills Area of Los Angeles. SOLD by the Christophe Choo Real Estate Group
Holmby Hills Real Estate
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$30,000,000 : 138 N MAPLETON DR, Los Angeles8 beds, 9.0 baths
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$29,000,000 : 730 SARBONNE RD, Los Angeles9 beds, 14.0 baths
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$24,950,000 : 107 N DELFERN DR, Los Angeles6 beds, 8 full, 3 part baths
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$21,500,000 : 457 ST PIERRE RD, Bel Air7 beds, 11.0 baths
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$17,999,000 : 243 DELFERN DR, Los Angeles7 beds, 8.0 baths
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$17,450,000 : 430 AMAPOLA LN, Los Angeles6 beds, 6.5 baths
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$16,900,000 : 10325 GREENDALE DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 7.0 baths
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$16,700,000 : 979 BEL AIR RD, Los Angeles5 beds, 6 full, 3 part baths
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$16,495,000 : 707 N FARING RD, Los Angeles8 beds, 11.0 baths
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$14,900,000 : 454 CUESTA WAY, Los Angeles7 beds, 8.0 baths
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$14,900,000 : 1001 BEL AIR RD, Los Angeles6 beds, 7.0 baths
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$13,800,000 : 345 ST PIERRE RD, Los Angeles7 beds, 12.0 baths
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$12,999,000 : 11401 CHALON RD, Los Angeles5 beds, 6.0 baths
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$12,500,000 : 3384 STONE RIDGE LN, Los Angeles6 beds, 9.0 baths
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$12,500,000 : 911 TIONE RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 4.5 baths
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$11,000,000 : 333 S MAPLETON DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 6 full, 1 part baths
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$10,995,000 : 2243 WEYBRIDGE LN, Los Angeles7 beds, 10.0 baths
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$10,395,000 : 1120 BROOKLAWN DR, Los Angeles8 beds, 7.0 baths
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$8,995,000 : 2172 STRATFORD CIR, Bel Air7 beds, 8.5 baths
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$8,995,000 : 2244 WEYBRIDGE LN, Los Angeles7 beds, 7.0 baths
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$8,950,000 : 3364 STONE RIDGE LN, Bel Air6 beds, 5 full, 3 part baths
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$8,450,000 : 3396 STONE RIDGE LN, Los Angeles6 beds, 7.5 baths
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$7,995,000 : 10930 CHALON RD, Los Angeles3 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths
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$7,550,000 : 1145 STRADELLA RD, Los Angeles5 beds, 5.5 baths
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$6,950,000 : 15433 BROWNWOOD PL, Los Angeles5 beds, 5.0 baths
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$6,900,000 : 677 NIMES RD, Los Angeles3 beds, 3.0 baths
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$6,850,000 : 10500 ROCCA PL, Los Angeles6 beds, 6.5 baths
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$6,749,000 : 15105 MULHOLLAND DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 8.0 baths
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$6,475,000 : 1297 STONE CANYON RD, Los Angeles5 beds, 7.0 baths
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$6,250,000 : 1120 STONE CANYON RD, Los Angeles5 beds, 8.0 baths
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$5,950,000 : 3051 ANTELO VIEW DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 5.0 baths
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$5,900,000 : 15501 MILLDALE DR, Los Angeles6 beds, 7.0 baths
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$5,450,000 : 2239 QUEENSBOROUGH LN, Bel Air7 beds, 7.5 baths
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$4,950,000 : 10786 CHALON RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 5.0 baths
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$4,895,000 : 1254 ROSCOMARE RD, Los Angeles6 beds, 6 full baths
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$4,550,000 : 1485 STONE CANYON RD, Los Angeles5 beds, 7.0 baths
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$4,495,000 : 3007 North Beverly Glen Circle, Bel Air7 beds, 9 full baths
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$4,195,000 : 930 CHANTILLY RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths
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$4,100,000 : 1070 SOMERA RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 4.0 baths
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Homes SOLD In Holmby Hills
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$9,000,000 : 11790 SOUTHAMPTON CT, Bel Air5 beds, 7.0 baths
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$5,000,000 : 1247 ROBERTO LN, Bel Air5 beds, 6.5 baths
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$4,600,000 : 11709 WETHERBY LN, Bel Air5 beds, 7.0 baths
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$2,230,000 : 1126 STRADELLA RD, Bel Air4 beds, 2.75 baths
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$1,425,000 : 2901 Bottlebrush Drive, Bel Air4 beds, 3 full baths
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$1,500,000 : 1330 LINDA FLORA DR, Bel Air3 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$1,250,000 : 1318 Roscomare Road, Bel Air3 beds, 3 full baths
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$1,060,000 : 2107 Stradella Road, Bel Air2 beds, 2 full baths
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