Updated August 27, 2026
Every West Hollywood closing from this desk, as price per residential unit. 20 buildings, 204 units, $68.4M.
| Year | Closings | Median per unit |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1 | $260,000 (one sale) |
| 2016 | 2 | $408,143 |
| 2017 | 3 | $279,545 |
| 2018 | 2 | $383,438 |
| 2019 | 1 | $525,000 (one sale) |
| 2020 | 3 | $377,222 |
| 2021 | 1 | $443,750 (one sale) |
| 2022 | 1 | $447,143 (one sale) |
| 2023 | 2 | $316,250 |
| 2024 | 1 | $347,222 (one sale) |
| 2025 | 3 | $316,667 |
The cadence here is steadier than in the other submarkets covered. Koreatown's record clusters — seven closings in a single year and several years with one. West Hollywood's spreads across almost every year in the span.
That reflects the ownership pattern. This is a small-building city where buildings change hands for ordinary individual reasons rather than in waves, so the transaction flow is more continuous and any single year carries less signal about the market than it might elsewhere. Years resting on one sale are labeled as one sale.
| Building size | Closings | Median per unit | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4–10 units | 15 | $400,000 | $230,625 – $525,000 |
| 11–25 units | 5 | $279,545 | $219,444 – $347,222 |
This is the striking table. The smaller band prices materially higher per door than the larger one — the reverse of what most owners expect and the clearest demonstration of the size effect anywhere in this record. The reasoning is in why small West Hollywood buildings cost more per door.
Note also what the bands do not include: there is no 26–50 band and no 51+ band, because West Hollywood has no buildings that size in this record. Sizes run 4 to 22.
Rent position against the city's own cap. West Hollywood runs its own rent stabilization ordinance — not the LA City RSO — adopted within a year of incorporation in 1984 and among the strictest in the country. Buyers underwrite the trajectory that ordinance permits. See West Hollywood rent stabilization, explained.
Condition and vintage. Much of the stock is 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival and Mediterranean courtyard buildings, and 1950s and 1960s walk-ups. Different capital lists, different buyers.
Whether the building is a landmark or in a designated district. West Hollywood administers its own preservation rules — the Los Angeles HPOZ program does not reach here — and designation constrains what a buyer can alter.
One desk's record in one city, not a market index. No cap rates, no rents, no income figures, because the archive does not hold them. Twenty buildings across thirteen years is a real sample for a city this size and still a small one in absolute terms.
The full list is at the West Hollywood closing record in full.
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