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
Holmby Hills Real Estate
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(all data current as of
3/11/2014)
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$43,000,000 : 475 BEL AIR RD, Los Angeles8 beds, 5 full, 9 part baths
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$28,000,000 : 777 SARBONNE RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 full baths
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$27,500,000 : 385 COPA DE ORO RD, Los Angeles5 beds, 7 full baths
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$26,995,000 : 10425 W REVUELTA WAY, Los Angeles13 beds, 17 full baths
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$24,750,000 : 10778 CHALON RD, Los Angeles6 beds, 8 full, 1 part baths
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$24,250,000 : 330 S MAPLETON DR, Los Angeles6 beds, 14 full baths
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$19,995,000 : 534 BARNABY RD, Los Angeles8 beds, 11 full baths
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$19,995,000 : 11459 BELLAGIO RD, Los Angeles10 beds, 12 full baths
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$19,950,000 : 10802 AMBAZAC WAY, Los Angeles5 beds, 9 full baths
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$18,500,000 : 565 PERUGIA WAY, Los Angeles5 beds, 8 full baths
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$18,495,000 : 15210 ANTELO PL, Los Angeles6 beds, 9 full baths
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$17,500,000 : 301 COPA DE ORO RD, Los Angeles8 beds, 10 full baths
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$15,500,000 : Amapola Lane, Los Angeles5 beds, 3 full, 5 part baths
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$14,950,000 : 419 ST CLOUD RD, Los Angeles5 beds, 7 full baths
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$13,900,000 : 345 ST PIERRE RD, Los Angeles7 beds, 12 full baths
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$12,950,000 : 3121 ANTELO RD, Los Angeles8 beds, 15 full baths
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$11,950,000 : 10509 VESTONE WAY, Los Angeles7 beds, 9 full baths
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$11,300,000 : 1345 MORAGA DR, Los Angeles7 beds, 6 full, 2 part baths
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$8,995,000 : 2172 STRATFORD CIR, Bel Air7 beds, 9 full baths
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$8,950,000 : 2167 SHERINGHAM LN, Bel Air6 beds, 7 full, 2 part baths
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$8,950,000 : 3364 STONE RIDGE LN, Bel Air6 beds, 5 full, 3 part baths
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$8,850,000 : 2170 STRADELLA RD, Los Angeles6 beds, 6 full, 1 part baths
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$8,500,000 : 2256 WEYBRIDGE LN, Bel Air7 beds, 8 full baths
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$7,950,000 : 3396 STONE RIDGE LN, Los Angeles6 beds, 8 full baths
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$7,695,000 : 10640 TARANTO WAY, Los Angeles5 beds, 6 full baths
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$7,250,000 : 1145 STRADELLA RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 6 full baths
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$6,280,000 : 2239 QUEENSBOROUGH LN, Los Angeles7 beds, 8 full baths
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$5,950,000 : 10888 CHALON RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$5,950,000 : 677 NIMES RD, Los Angeles3 beds, 3 full baths
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$5,200,000 : 1251 STONE CANYON RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 4 full baths
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$4,750,000 : 1116 LINDA FLORA DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 5 full baths
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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
Homes SOLD In Holmby Hills
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3/11/2014)
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$5,300,000 : 10419 LINDBROOK DR, Los Angeles7 beds, 7 full, 1 part baths
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$4,758,250 : 332 CONWAY AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 4 full baths
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$4,500,000 : 415 S BEVERLY GLEN BLVD, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 full baths
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$4,535,000 : 459 LORING AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths
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$3,621,500 : 910 HILTS AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$3,860,000 : 464 COMSTOCK AVE, Los Angeles5 beds, 3 full, 2 part baths
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$3,160,000 : 801 GLENMONT AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 full baths
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$2,995,000 : 808 GLENMONT AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths
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$2,975,000 : 633 WARNER AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 full baths
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$2,895,000 : 10715 LE CONTE AVE, Los Angeles5 beds, 4 full baths
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$2,800,000 : 925 MANNING AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 4 full baths
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$2,670,000 : 10571 WYTON DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 4 full baths
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$2,850,000 : 788 MALCOLM AVE, Los Angeles3 beds, 4 part baths
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$2,530,000 : 1021 MANNING AVE, Los Angeles2 beds, 4 full baths
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$2,389,000 : 649 WESTHOLME AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 4 full baths
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$2,250,000 : 920 WESTHOLME AVE, Los Angeles5 beds, 4 full baths
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$2,364,000 : 685 THAYER AVE, Los Angeles3 beds, 3 full baths
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$2,325,000 : 643 WESTHOLME AVE, Los Angeles3 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths
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$2,418,000 : 837 THAYER AVE, Los Angeles5 beds, 3 full baths
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$2,220,000 : 930 THAYER AVE, Los Angeles5 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$2,219,000 : 827 MALCOLM AVE, Los Angeles5 beds, 4 full baths
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$2,225,000 : 10541 STRATHMORE DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 full baths
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$1,915,000 : 1047 WESTHOLME, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 full baths
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$1,800,000 : 1015 Manning, Los Angeles3 beds, 1 full, 2 part baths
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$1,706,250 : 911 MALCOLM AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
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$1,740,000 : 10448 LINDBROOK DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 full baths
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$1,765,000 : 10798 WEYBURN AVE, Los Angeles3 beds, 3 full baths
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$1,020,000 : 500 Warner Avenue, Westwood - Century City3 beds, 3 full baths
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$1,135,000 : 10445 WILSHIRE BLVD, Unit 1402, Los Angeles2 beds, 2 full baths
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