Where LA Condos Are Listed for Rent More Than for Sale (September 2026)

As of September 26, 2026, six of the 14 neighborhoods on /market-stats had more condos listed for rent than for sale: Mid-Wilshire (99 rentals, 22 for sale), Venice (43 to 19), Koreatown (207 to 132), Hollywood (100 to 67), Beverly Hills (85 to 71) and West Hollywood (183 to 174). Counts are active CRMLS listings published here.

The six rent-heavy neighborhoods, from most lopsided to least

Mid-Wilshire is the outlier: /market-reports/mid-wilshire showed 99 condos for rent against 22 for sale as of September 26, 2026, about four and a half rentals per sale listing. The median asking rent was $4,095 a month and the median asking price was $765,000.

Venice comes next at a little over two to one, 43 rentals against 19 sale listings. Its report carries its own, earlier date: as of September 25, 2026, /market-reports/venice showed a median asking rent of $4,950 a month and a median asking price of $1,547,000.

Koreatown has the largest rental pool of any neighborhood we cover, 207 rentals against 132 sale listings, or roughly 1.6 to one. As of September 26, 2026, /market-reports/koreatown showed a median asking rent of $2,500 a month and a median asking price of $695,000.

Hollywood showed 100 rentals against 67 sale listings, about 1.5 to one. As of September 26, 2026, /market-reports/hollywood put the median asking rent at $4,198 a month and the median asking price at $691,200.

Beverly Hills leaned toward rentals by a smaller margin, 85 to 71, or about 1.2 to one. As of September 26, 2026, /market-reports/beverly-hills showed a median asking rent of $5,500 a month and a median asking price of $1,895,000.

West Hollywood only just qualifies, with 183 rentals against 174 sale listings. As of September 26, 2026, /market-reports/west-hollywood showed a median asking rent of $4,850 a month and a median asking price of $899,000. A margin of nine listings can reverse after one refresh, so treat it as roughly even.

Where sale listings outnumber rentals

The other seven neighborhoods with published inventory went the other way as of September 26, 2026. Downtown LA had the widest gap, 334 condos for sale against 164 for rent, about two sale listings per rental. Brentwood (77 for sale, 31 for rent) and Sherman Oaks (80 to 36) were more than two to one in favor of sale listings. Century City (44 to 25) and Playa Vista (37 to 22) leaned the same way, while Westwood (117 to 96) and Santa Monica (156 to 139) were closer to even.

Marina del Rey had no condos listed in either category that day. City-wide, /market-stats counted 2,008 published for-sale listings with a median asking price of $780K as of September 26, 2026.

What a rental listing count can and cannot tell you

A listing count is a snapshot of units offered today. It is not a count of how many condos in a neighborhood are owned by landlords or occupied by tenants; a building full of long-term renters can have nothing listed this week.

The rental and sale pools are also not the same homes, which matters when you set a median rent beside a median price. In Koreatown, the median rental listing was 900 square feet against 1,191 square feet for sale. In Venice it was 1,008 against 1,358. Mid-Wilshire ran the other way, with rentals at a median of 1,300 square feet and sale listings at 1,121. Comparing the two medians in one neighborhood compares different sets of units.

Coverage has limits too. These are the eligible, deduplicated listings LA Condo HQ publishes from CRMLS for the neighborhoods and property types we cover, not the whole Los Angeles market. Every figure is an asking price or asking rent, not a closed sale or a signed lease.

How long each side has been sitting

Each report also shows a median days on market for both sides. It measures how long the listings still on the site have been up, not how long completed deals took.

In four of the six rent-heavy neighborhoods, active rentals had been up for fewer days than sale listings. Venice showed the widest difference, 38 days against 88 as of September 25, 2026. Beverly Hills showed 45 against 73, West Hollywood 38 against 56 and Hollywood 54 against 66, all as of September 26, 2026. Mid-Wilshire was level at 45 days on both sides. Koreatown was the exception, with active rentals at a median of 79 days against 66 for sale listings.

What more rental choice means if you are renting

A deep rental pool lets you compare like with like. In Koreatown, 101 of the 207 rentals, or 49 percent, asked under $2,500 a month as of September 26, 2026, so a renter at that budget can line up several units at one price and judge them on size, parking and building. In Mid-Wilshire, 43 of the 99 rentals asked between $4,000 and $6,000 a month.

A condo rental also comes with association rules beyond the lease. Ask the owner for the rules that bind tenants, such as move-in fees, elevator reservations, parking and pets, and who handles repairs inside the unit. Ask the city's housing department, not the listing, whether any local rent rules apply. When a listing has been up for weeks, it is reasonable to ask whether the move-in date or lease length is flexible. The current rental listings are at /condos-for-rent.

What a thin for-sale side means if you are buying

Where sale listings are scarce, each one is a larger share of your options. Mid-Wilshire's 22 sale listings split into 12 two-bedrooms, 5 one-bedrooms and 5 three-bedrooms, and 16 of the 22 asked between $500,000 and $1 million as of September 26, 2026. Venice's 19 split into 6 one-bedrooms, 7 two-bedrooms and 6 three-bedrooms as of September 25, 2026. With samples that small, one or two listings can move a median.

A neighborhood's rental count says nothing about a particular building. What matters for your purchase is the building's own owner-occupancy and any leasing limits, which come from the association's records, not from listing counts. Those details can affect a lender's review of the project, covered at /blog/non-warrantable-condos-los-angeles, and your own freedom to rent the unit later, covered at /blog/la-condo-hoa-rental-restrictions-ab-3182. The questions to put to an association are gathered at /condo-associations.

Questions renters and buyers ask about LA condo rental supply

Checking the split before you act on it

The counts here are fixed to their dates; the pages behind them are not. The current table is at /market-stats, and each neighborhood report shows its own date and unit mix. Before planning a search around a rent-heavy label, reopen that report and confirm the split still holds.

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