Penthouse and High-Rise Condos in LA: Where the Towers Are and What to Check

As of October 6, 2026, /luxury-condos showed the 60 highest-priced Los Angeles condo listings at $3 million and up, asking $4.3 million to $35 million, seven of them penthouses. That tier clusters in West Hollywood, Century City, Beverly Hills and Westwood; the tallest condo towers on record are in Century City, Downtown LA and Westwood.

Every dollar figure in this post is an asking price on a CRMLS listing published on LA Condo HQ, not a closed sale. For scale, /market-stats showed 1,981 published for-sale condo listings as of October 6, 2026, at a median asking price of $789K and $677 per square foot. The 60 luxury listings asked a median $2,145 per square foot, more than three times that.

Where the $3 million listings sit, neighborhood by neighborhood

The luxury page also counts every $3 million-plus condo listing by neighborhood. As of October 6, 2026, West Hollywood had 18, Century City 16, Beverly Hills 15, Westwood 12, Santa Monica 9, Downtown LA 4, Brentwood 3 and Venice 1. That adds to 78, more than the 60 cards the page displays, because the card view is capped at 60.

The share of each neighborhood's priced listings says more than the raw count. Century City led at 33 percent, 16 of 48, and /market-reports/century-city put its median asking price at $2,195,000, about $1,166 per square foot, with asks running from $419,000 to $12,975,000 as of October 6, 2026. Beverly Hills followed at 23 percent; /market-reports/beverly-hills showed a $1,925,000 median and a top ask of $35,000,000 the same day. West Hollywood had the most $3 million listings, yet they were only 10 percent of its 172 for sale.

Downtown LA is the outlier. It has four of the ten tallest condo towers on our record, yet only 4 of its 333 for-sale condos, about 1 percent, asked $3 million or more, and its top ask on /market-reports/downtown-la was $5,880,000 as of October 6, 2026. Height alone does not put a listing in the top tier.

The ten tallest condo towers on our record

The luxury page ranks the 23 Los Angeles condo buildings whose floor count we have on record. The Century in Century City leads at 42 floors. Metropolis Tower II at 40 and Metropolis Tower I at 38 follow in Downtown, then Perla on Broadway at 35. Blair House at 29 and The Wilshire at 27 stand on the Wilshire Corridor in Westwood. Evo South, The Californian and The Wilshire Regent tie at 23, and Ten Five Sixty rounds out the ten at 22.

Robert A.M. Stern Architects describes The Century as a 42-story building with 140 apartments, from two-bedroom residences up to four-bedroom penthouses and penthouse duplexes; its profile is at /buildings/the-century. Greenland USA's 2017 opening announcement gives the first Metropolis tower, at 889 Francisco Street, 38 floors and 308 condominiums; see /buildings/metropolis-residential-tower-i. Blair House's management company describes 29 stories and 128 units built in 1989, with a detached deck reached by a bridge; the profile is /buildings/blair-house.

The older Corridor stock is a different product. Wilshire Terrace at 10375 Wilshire Boulevard, a 14-story building completed in 1958 to a Victor Gruen design, is recorded by the University of Washington's Pacific Coast Architecture Database as a cooperative. A co-op sale transfers a different interest, with its own approval and financing terms. Confirm the form of ownership before anything else; the profile is /buildings/wilshire-terrace.

Why Park Elm is missing from the ranking

The newest Century City towers show why a story count needs checking. A developer announcement dated October 9, 2023 described Park Elm at Century Plaza as twin 44-story residential towers with 268 residences, completed in October 2022. The Skyscraper Center database lists Tower II at 45 floors. Because the published figures differ, /buildings/park-elm-at-century-plaza-ii leaves the floor count blank, so the tower drops out of a ranking built on recorded heights.

Three Tower II units appeared on the luxury page as of October 6, 2026. 211 W Elm Court #28A asked $11,750,000, about $3,068 per square foot. #30A asked $10,650,000, about $2,693 per square foot. #21A asked $7,170,000, about $2,160 per square foot. The higher unit number did not carry the higher price per foot. Confirm in the condominium plan which level each unit sits on and how the building numbers its floors.

What a PH label was asking on October 6

Three penthouse cards were among the first 24 the luxury page displayed. 9900 S Santa Monica Boulevard PH E in Beverly Hills asked $35,000,000, the highest condo ask on the page, with no square footage on the card. 10727 Wilshire Boulevard PH 2 in Westwood asked $13,995,000 for 5,540 square feet, about $2,526 per square foot, the top of Westwood's asking range on /market-reports/westwood. 101 California Avenue PH in Santa Monica asked $8,950,000 for 2,771 square feet, about $3,230 per square foot.

The Santa Monica penthouse is half the size of the Westwood one and asks about $700 more per square foot. The buildings differ as well. The Los Angeles County Assessor's 2025 roll shows 1964 in the year-built field for the 91 condominium parcels at 101 California Avenue, and 2001 for the 93 parcels at 10727 Wilshire Boulevard. The profiles are /buildings/101-california-avenue and /buildings/10727-wilshire-boulevard. A top floor in a 1960s building and one in a 2001 building come with different maintenance histories, and that is where the checking starts.

Five things to verify before you pay for the top floor

Start with the floor itself. PH is how a listing or a building labels a unit. It does not tell you the floor, the ceiling height or whether the roof above belongs to you. The recorded condominium plan and declaration settle that.

Next, the roof and terraces. Ask which terraces and roof areas are part of the unit, which are common area assigned to it, and who pays to maintain the waterproofing underneath. Our research on The Century raises that question for its duplexes and penthouses.

Then the dues and what they fund. Among residences on /luxury-condos that published a fee as of October 6, 2026, the median HOA was $5,814 a month. Compare dues per square foot between buildings, and read the reserve study for roofs, facades, windows and elevators; /blog/la-condo-reserve-study-percent-funded explains how. The documents to request from an association are collected at /condo-associations.

Fourth, the view. Building marketing does not establish what one unit overlooks. Visit at the hour you would use the space, and look up proposed projects nearby.

Last, access. Ask how the elevators serving the unit are maintained, what happens during an outage and whether the reserve study funds elevator work. LA Condo HQ is a research publisher, not a brokerage; we do not list on the MLS, represent buyers or negotiate sales, so confirm every price above against the live listing.

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