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The third corner of the Platinum Triangle — Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills
Holmby Hills is the smallest and arguably most exclusive of the Platinum Triangle's three neighborhoods, with fewer than 500 single-family properties anchored by Holmby Park and Sunset Boulevard. The area's signature is large, gated estates on flat parcels — atypical for the Westside — with iconic streets including Carolwood Drive, Mapleton Drive, and Charing Cross Road. Trophy compounds here include some of Los Angeles' highest-priced transactions of the past decade.
The most coveted addresses cluster along Carolwood Drive (Walt Disney's former home; multiple eight-figure trades), Mapleton Drive (the Spelling Manor corridor; record-setting recent sales), Charing Cross Road, and Faring Road. Lot sizes commonly run two to five acres — among the largest in Los Angeles outside of Bel Air's upper canyons.
Walk-time proximity to Harvard-Westlake's Holmby Hills (lower) campus, UCLA, the Los Angeles Country Club, and the Beverly Hills border at Sunset and Beverly Glen. Children typically feed into LAUSD's Warner Avenue Elementary, Emerson Middle, and University High — with the substantial majority of Holmby Hills families enrolling in private schools (Harvard-Westlake, John Thomas Dye, Marlborough).
Holmby Hills commonly trades from $15M for unrenovated parcels through $40–80M for finished estates, with named compounds (Spelling Manor, the Playboy Mansion site, and several Sunset-frontage parcels) reaching nine figures. Inventory is consistently below 10 active listings — when properties surface, they often transact privately or through a coming-soon network long before they hit the public MLS. This is one of the strongest off-market markets in the country.
For a confidential, data-driven Holmby Hills briefing, contact Patricia Blakemore directly at (844) 475-0999 or [email protected].
Patricia Blakemore advises a small, deliberate roster of luxury buyers and sellers across Los Angeles County. Every engagement begins with a private strategy call — no pressure, no scripts.
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