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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7/28/2014)
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$45,000,000 : 438 N FARING RD, Los Angeles7 beds, 8 full, 1 part baths
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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 Angeles7 beds, 8 full baths
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$27,500,000 : 800 LINDA FLORA DR, Los Angeles6 beds, 9 full baths
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$27,000,000 : 1518 BEL AIR RD, Los Angeles6 beds, 6 full, 3 part baths
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$22,500,000 : 534 BARNABY RD, Los Angeles8 beds, 11 full baths
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$19,995,000 : 124 UDINE WAY, Los Angeles7 beds, 10 full baths
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$19,995,000 : 10425 W REVUELTA WAY, Los Angeles13 beds, 17 baths
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$19,750,000 : 121 UDINE WAY, Los Angeles7 beds, 9 full baths
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$18,995,000 : 11459 BELLAGIO RD, Los Angeles10 beds, 8 full, 4 part baths
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$18,500,000 : 243 DELFERN DR, Los Angeles7 beds, 7 full, 2 part baths
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$18,500,000 : 565 PERUGIA WAY, Los Angeles5 beds, 8 full baths
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$17,800,000 : 10550 FONTENELLE WAY, Los Angeles7 beds, 3 full, 4 part baths
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$16,500,000 : 15210 ANTELO PL, Los Angeles6 beds, 9 full baths
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$16,000,000 : 11607 MORAGA LN, Los Angeles6 beds, 6 full, 2 part baths
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$15,750,000 : 430 AMAPOLA LN, Los Angeles6 beds, 6 full, 1 part baths
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$14,750,000 : 10325 GREENDALE DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 7 full baths
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$13,950,000 : 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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$12,995,000 : 3130 ANTELO RD, Los Angeles6 beds, 6 full, 3 part baths
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$12,950,000 : 290 Strada Corta RD, Los Angeles6 beds, 8 full, 1 part baths
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$12,500,000 : 2251 LINDA FLORA DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 4 full baths
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$11,999,000 : 1280 STONE CANYON RD, Los Angeles6 beds, 7 full baths
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$11,950,000 : 3121 ANTELO RD, Los Angeles8 beds, 15 baths
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$10,950,000 : 10509 VESTONE WAY, Los Angeles7 beds, 9 full baths
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$10,600,000 : 1345 MORAGA DR, Los Angeles7 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths
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$8,950,000 : 453 BELLAGIO TER, Los Angeles6 beds, 7 full, 1 part baths
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$7,899,000 : 1920 RIAL LN, Los Angeles4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths
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$7,795,000 : 11766 WETHERBY LN, Los Angeles5 beds, 6 full, 1 part baths
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$7,499,000 : 3372 STONE RIDGE LN, Los Angeles7 beds, 9 full baths
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$7,250,000 : 772 SARBONNE RD, Los Angeles5 beds, 5 full baths
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$7,250,000 : 1145 STRADELLA RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 6 full baths
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$6,795,000 : 10640 TARANTO WAY, Los Angeles5 beds, 6 full, 2 part baths
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$6,795,000 : 1260 BEL AIR RD, Los Angeles5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths
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$5,995,000 : 960 LINDA FLORA DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 5 full baths
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$5,950,000 : 10888 CHALON RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$5,595,000 : 1035 STRADELLA RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 full baths
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$5,495,000 : 1120 STONE CANYON RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths
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$5,395,000 : 16677 Stone Oak, Bel Air5 beds, 6 full baths
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$5,245,000 : 10855 PORTOFINO PL, Los Angeles6 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths
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$5,200,000 : 1251 STONE CANYON RD, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$4,995,000 : 1921 BEL AIR RD, Los Angeles7 beds, 7 full, 1 part baths
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$4,750,000 : 1116 LINDA FLORA DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths
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$4,495,000 : 1984 STRADELLA RD, Los Angeles5 beds, 6 full baths
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$4,395,000 : 937 CHANTILLY RD, Los Angeles5 beds, 1 full, 6 part baths
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$4,285,000 : 2361 Nalin Drive, Bel Air5 beds, 6 full, 1 part 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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7/28/2014)
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$6,600,000 : 209 LORING AVE, Los Angeles6 beds, 5 full baths
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$6,300,999 : 215 LORING AVE, Los Angeles6 beds, 6 full baths
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$5,300,000 : 10419 LINDBROOK DR, Los Angeles7 beds, 7 full, 1 part baths
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$4,535,000 : 459 LORING AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths
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$4,500,000 : 415 S BEVERLY GLEN BLVD, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 baths
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$4,250,000 : 1001 HILTS AVE, Los Angeles5 beds, 6 full, 1 part baths
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$4,050,000 : 315 S BEVERLY GLEN BLVD, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths
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$3,775,000 : 774 MALCOLM AVE, Los Angeles5 beds, 6 full baths
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$3,600,000 : 720 HOLMBY AVE, Los Angeles5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths
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$3,508,578 : 780 MALCOLM AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$3,325,000 : 430 Dalehurst Avenue, Los Angeles4 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths
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$3,200,709 : 709 MALCOLM AVE, Los Angeles5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths
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$3,160,000 : 801 GLENMONT AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 baths
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$3,000,000 : 10560 WYTON DR, Los Angeles5 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths
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$2,975,000 : 633 WARNER AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 baths
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$2,695,000 : 10538 STRATHMORE DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$2,690,000 : 10485 LINDBROOK DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$2,670,000 : 10571 WYTON DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 4 baths
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$2,655,000 : 495 DALEHURST AVE, Los Angeles5 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$2,505,000 : 850 THAYER AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths
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$2,325,000 : 643 WESTHOLME AVE, Los Angeles3 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths
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$2,270,000 : 1015 Manning, Los Angeles3 beds, 1 full, 2 part baths
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$2,225,000 : 10541 STRATHMORE DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 5 baths
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$2,220,000 : 930 THAYER AVE, Los Angeles5 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$2,080,000 : 839 MANNING AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
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$1,900,000 : 10555 STRATHMORE DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
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$1,800,000 : 1015 Manning, Los Angeles3 beds, 1 full, 2 part baths
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$1,740,000 : 10448 LINDBROOK DR, Los Angeles4 beds, 3 baths
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$1,706,250 : 911 MALCOLM AVE, Los Angeles4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
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$1,135,000 : 10445 WILSHIRE BLVD, Unit 1402, Los Angeles2 beds, 2 baths
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$1,020,000 : 500 Warner Avenue, Westwood - Century City3 beds, 3 full baths
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