LA Condo Rents by Neighborhood: September 2026

As of September 28, 2026, the median asking rent for a condo listed for rent in Los Angeles on /market-stats was about $4K a month, but the neighborhood reports we read that day ran from $2,500 in Koreatown to $11,500 in Century City. Downtown LA asked $3,190, Hollywood $4,123, West Hollywood $4,825 and Santa Monica $5,425. These are CRMLS asking rents, not signed leases.

Each neighborhood figure comes from its report under /market-reports, computed from the active condo rentals LA Condo HQ publishes from CRMLS. We read every report on September 28, 2026, the day the city-wide inventory was refreshed. Seven of them, for Downtown LA, Century City, Brentwood, Venice, Beverly Hills, Playa Vista and Sherman Oaks, date their most recent listing update September 27, 2026. Marina del Rey had no condos listed for rent, so it has no median.

Century City, then a cluster between $4,950 and $5,750

Century City stands apart. Its 25 condo rentals asked a median $11,500 a month for a median 1,723 square feet as of September 27, 2026, the date of its most recent listing update, per /market-reports/century-city. Fifteen of the 25 asked $10,000 or more, and asks ran from $2,950 to $95,000.

Four neighborhoods had medians between $5,000 and $6,000. Playa Vista asked $5,748 across 22 rentals, Beverly Hills $5,695 across 81, Westwood $5,495 across 95 and Santa Monica $5,425 across 140. Brentwood, at $4,995 across 31 rentals, and Venice, at $4,950 across 43, sat just under that line.

Size explains part of the spread. The median Beverly Hills rental was 1,700 square feet and the median Westwood rental 1,419, while Venice's was 1,008 and Brentwood's 1,083. At nearly the same median rent, the typical Venice or Brentwood rental on the market was a smaller unit than the typical one in Beverly Hills. In Santa Monica 21 of 140 rentals asked $10,000 or more, and in Beverly Hills 20 of 81.

The middle of the range: West Hollywood to Sherman Oaks

West Hollywood had the second-largest rental pool of any covered neighborhood, 184 listings, at a median $4,825 a month for 1,134 square feet as of September 28, 2026. Its spread is wide: 12 rentals asked under $2,500 and 71 asked $6,000 or more, per /market-reports/west-hollywood.

Mid-Wilshire and Hollywood were effectively tied. Mid-Wilshire asked a median $4,125 across 99 rentals, Hollywood $4,123 across 100, with median sizes of 1,300 and 1,260 square feet. The two pools are shaped differently. In Mid-Wilshire, 42 of the 99 asked $4,000 to $6,000 and the highest ask was $8,191. Hollywood's asks ran from $1,399 to $29,995, with 8 rentals at $10,000 or more.

Sherman Oaks, the one Valley neighborhood we cover, offered the most space for the money in this group: a median $3,850 a month for a median 1,446 square feet across 35 rentals. Twenty-one of the 35 asked between $2,500 and $4,000, and none asked more than $8,000, per /market-reports/sherman-oaks.

Where condo rents start lowest: Koreatown and Downtown LA

Koreatown had both the largest pool and the lowest median: 206 rentals at $2,500 a month for a median 910 square feet as of September 28, 2026, per /market-reports/koreatown. Of those, 101 asked under $2,500 and another 82 asked $2,500 to $4,000. The lowest ask was $1,100.

Downtown LA had 164 rentals at a median $3,190 for 1,010 square feet, with 79, or 48 percent, asking $2,500 to $4,000 and 32 asking under $2,500. It also has a top end: 29 rentals asked $6,000 or more, up to $22,845, per /market-reports/downtown-la.

For a budget under $2,500 a month, these two neighborhoods held 133 of the rentals in that band, twice as many as the other eleven reports combined. Century City and Playa Vista had none.

Rent per square foot reorders the list

The reports do not break rentals down by bedroom count; the bedroom table on each page covers for-sale listings only. So a neighborhood median mixes studios with three-bedrooms, and rent per square foot is a fairer way to compare.

Each report publishes a median asking rent per square foot, rounded to whole dollars. In the reports we read on September 28, 2026, Century City led at $7 a square foot a month. West Hollywood, Santa Monica and Venice followed at $5. Westwood, Beverly Hills, Brentwood and Playa Vista were at $4, and Downtown LA, Koreatown, Hollywood, Mid-Wilshire and Sherman Oaks at $3.

That view changes some comparisons. Beverly Hills had a higher median rent than West Hollywood but a lower rate per square foot, because its typical rental was larger. Venice and Brentwood had nearly the same median rent, but Venice ran $5 a foot to Brentwood's $4. Because the rates are rounded, treat neighborhoods on the same number as roughly level, and work out the rate for any unit you are considering from its own rent and square footage.

How long rental listings had been up

Each report also shows a median days on market for active rentals. It measures how long current listings have been up, not how quickly leases were signed.

In the reports we read on September 28, 2026, the shortest medians were Brentwood at 26 days, Sherman Oaks at 27 and Playa Vista at 29. West Hollywood, Venice and Century City were at 40 and Santa Monica at 41. The longest were Downtown LA at 64 days and Koreatown at 81. A long median can reflect a deep pool as much as a slow one. Once a particular unit has been listed for several weeks, it is reasonable to ask the owner whether the move-in date, lease length or parking terms are flexible.

Questions renters ask about condo rents in Los Angeles

Checking a neighborhood median against a real listing

A median shows where the middle of a neighborhood's listings sits, not what a particular unit should cost. Before applying, compare the listing's rent per square foot with its neighborhood's figure, and ask what the rent includes: parking spaces, storage, utilities, and any move-in or elevator fees the association charges. Ask for the building rules that bind tenants, such as pets, guests and amenity access.

Santa Monica, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills are separate cities from Los Angeles, so any local tenant rules there come from their own city governments. Inside the city of Los Angeles, ask the Los Angeles Housing Department whether a unit is covered by local rent rules. The association questions we suggest are at /condo-associations.

Current rental listings are at /condos-for-rent, the city-wide rental overview is at /rental-market, and neighborhood context is in guides such as /neighborhoods/sherman-oaks and /neighborhoods/koreatown. The figures above are fixed to their dates; the report pages are not, so reopen them before you act. For how rental counts compare with sale listings in each neighborhood, see /blog/la-condos-listed-for-rent-more-than-for-sale-september-2026.

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