At $600 per square foot you are shopping about 13 percent below the Los Angeles condo median, which the live report puts at $689 per square foot as of July 30, 2026. That budget lands you in Downtown LA, Hollywood, Koreatown and Marina del Rey — and today it buys two-bedroom floor plans of 1,300 to 1,600 square feet.
Where $600 sits against the citywide number
The live report at /market-stats reads an $887,000 median sale price, $689 median per square foot, 1,988 active listings, 9.2 months of supply and 48 median days on market as of July 30, 2026, with prices up 0.9 percent year over year. A $600 target is a deliberate step under that midpoint, and at 9.2 months of supply — the common yardstick treats anything over six months as buyer-favoring — it is a step you can currently take without leaving the market.
The four neighborhoods that price near it
The neighborhood table on that report carries estimated list figures rather than live MLS data, and it puts four markets at or just above $600 per square foot: /neighborhoods/downtown-la at $590 with about 2,450 for sale and a $645,000 median, /neighborhoods/marina-del-rey at $620 with 520 for sale and $815,000, /neighborhoods/hollywood at $640 with 880 for sale and $735,000, and /neighborhoods/koreatown at $645 with 720 for sale and $640,000.
Note what that list does not include. Beverly Hills estimates at $1,450 per square foot, Century City and Venice at $1,150, /neighborhoods/santa-monica at $1,090 and Brentwood at $1,050. A $600 budget does not reach the prime Westside blocks at any unit size. It reaches the transit-rich center of the city.
What is actually on the board at that rate today
The cards below render on page one of /condos-for-sale as of July 30, 2026, quoted exactly as the page shows them. Listings move daily, so read this as a dated snapshot rather than a standing list.
312 W 5th, unit 1022, at $399,900 — $597 per square foot for a 1-bed, 1-bath of 670 square feet, carrying a price-drop badge.
1746 Garfield Place, unit 101, at $899,000 — $591 per square foot for a 2-bed, 2.5-bath of 1,520 square feet, also repriced. Four more units in the same building sit on page one between $556 and $698 per square foot.
3613 Glendon Avenue, unit 101, at $779,000 — $579 per square foot for a 2-bed, 2-bath of 1,345 square feet, badged new.
6250 Hollywood Boulevard, unit 7K, at $849,999 — $567 per square foot for a 2-bed, 2-bath of 1,500 square feet.
3827 W Avenue 41 at $745,000 — $565 per square foot for a 3-bed, 2.5-bath of 1,319 square feet.
7259 Hillside Avenue, unit 202, at $765,000 — $517 per square foot for a 2-bed, 2-bath of 1,480 square feet.
The shape of that group is the useful part. At this per-foot rate the inventory is two bedrooms and up, mostly between 1,300 and 1,600 square feet, at asking prices from the high $300,000s to about $900,000.
The same dollar on the Westside
For contrast, page one also renders 2170 E Century Parkway, unit 1805, at $995,000 — $977 per square foot for a 1-bed, 2-bath of 1,018 square feet — and 101 California, unit 1104, in Santa Monica at $2,500,000, or $1,666 per square foot for a 3-bed, 3-bath of 1,501 square feet. Same city, same day, roughly three times the rate per foot for a smaller home in the first case. Price per square foot in Los Angeles is a location measure long before it is a finish measure.
Questions LA buyers ask about price per square foot
What is the average price per square foot for an LA condo?
The median is $689 per square foot as of July 30, 2026, from the live report at /market-stats, alongside an $887,000 median sale price and 1,988 active listings.
Which LA neighborhoods are under $600 per square foot?
On our neighborhood estimates, Downtown LA is the only one below it at about $590, with Marina del Rey at $620, Hollywood at $640 and Koreatown at $645 just above. Those are estimated list figures, not live MLS medians.
How big a condo does $600 per square foot buy in LA?
On page one of our for-sale index on July 30, 2026, listings priced between $517 and $597 per square foot ran from 670 to 1,575 square feet, with most of the sub-$600 group at 1,300 square feet or larger and two bedrooms.
Is a low price per square foot a good deal?
Not on its own. It is a location and building-age signal before it is a value signal, and it says nothing about HOA dues, which are a separate monthly number entirely. Read the per-foot rate and the dues together.
Why do units in the same building show different rates per square foot?
Floor, exposure, layout efficiency and condition all move it. Five units at 1746 Garfield Place render between $556 and $698 per square foot on page one today, about a 25 percent spread inside a single address.
Using a per-foot budget without getting burned
Set the rate as a filter, not a verdict. The for-sale index offers a low-to-high sort by price per square foot, which makes the bottom of the market easy to find and easy to misread: the cheapest rate per foot in a given week is often the largest unit in the least central building, and it will still carry dues sized to that square footage.
Run three numbers together before you rank anything — the per-foot rate, the monthly dues and the association's reserve position. The full directory is at /buildings, the citywide figures stay at /market-stats, and when you want a specific building's documents pulled we will introduce you to a licensed partner agent.
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