What a Palms Door Has Cost

Updated August 27, 2026

13 buildings, 337 units, $97.7M.

By year

YearClosingsMedian per unit
20151$263,889 (one sale)
20163$296,875
20181$423,529 (one sale)
20192$323,194
20203$385,714
20221$268,644 (one sale)
20241$248,750 (one sale)
20261$237,222 (one sale)

Years resting on a single closing are labeled as one sale. Palms transacts more steadily than most submarkets in this record — closings in eight separate years — which makes this table more informative than the equivalent for Santa Monica or Reseda, though still a small sample.

By building size

Building sizeClosingsMedian per unitRange
4–10 units4$357,143$237,222 – $400,000
11–25 units6$282,569$248,750 – $423,529
26–50 units2$277,188$257,500 – $296,875
51+ units1$268,644 (one sale, not a median)

Note how little the bands separate. In West Hollywood the small band prices 43% above the larger one. In Palms the gap across the main bands is far narrower, and the whole record spans under two times from cheapest door to dearest — the tightest range of the ten submarkets covered.

The single-sale bands are labeled and excluded from the machine-readable data on this page. One of them is the 118-unit property at 10751 Rose Ave, which is far larger than anything else here and should not be used as a reference for an ordinary Palms building.

Why the consistency is real and not an artifact

Three structural reasons, set out in why Palms prices more predictably than anywhere: a near-uniform postwar stock across one and a half square miles, a high-turnover tenant base that keeps rent gaps small, and a consistent Westside income-buyer pool.

None of those is a sampling accident. They are facts about the neighborhood that would produce this result on any sufficient sample.

What still moves a specific building

The retrofit position. Palms is dense with the walk-up-over-parking type the City of Los Angeles soft-story ordinance targets, and in a submarket where buildings otherwise look alike, this is one of the few genuine differentiators.

Proximity to the Metro E Line station, for the small number of sites where redevelopment economics actually work — what the Expo Line did to Palms.

And condition, which in a market of similar buildings does more work than it does where vintage varies widely.

The honest limits

Thirteen buildings across eleven years. One desk's record, not a market index, containing no cap rates, rents or income figures because the archive does not hold them.

What it is good for is unusual: in Palms, unlike most of this record, a per-door figure from these pages is a reasonable starting point for a specific building. That is worth stating plainly because it is not true anywhere else covered.

The full list is at the Palms closing record in full.

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