West Hollywood vs. Mid-Wilshire Condos: Same Size, $149,000 Apart

As of October 22, 2026, West Hollywood condos asked a median $898,000, or about $814 a square foot, against $749,000 and $630 in Mid-Wilshire, per /market-reports/west-hollywood and /market-reports/mid-wilshire. The typical listing in each was the same size, about 1,100 square feet, so the $149,000 gap reflects price per foot, not floor area.

Every figure here is an asking price or asking rent on CRMLS condo listings published on LA Condo HQ, read on October 23, 2026 from the two reports (data as of October 22, 2026) and the citywide report at /market-stats. None is a closed sale. Differences and percentages not printed on the pages are our own arithmetic. LA Condo HQ is published by Eltherion, LLC, a research publisher, not a brokerage.

Equal-size units, a $149,000 gap

The median West Hollywood listing measured 1,099 square feet and the median Mid-Wilshire listing 1,100, as of October 22, 2026, which makes the headline medians unusually fair to compare. West Hollywood asked about 20% more at the median and about 29% more per square foot, a difference of $184 a foot.

The citywide /market-stats report showed 1,990 published for-sale condo listings on October 22, 2026, at a median asking price of $785K and $674 a square foot. West Hollywood was above both figures, Mid-Wilshire below both. On a 1,000-square-foot unit, the per-foot medians work out to roughly $814,000 in West Hollywood and $630,000 in Mid-Wilshire, before any adjustment for building, floor or condition.

How the two reports draw their borders

West Hollywood is an incorporated city, so its report counts listings by municipality: everything inside the city line and nothing outside it. Mid-Wilshire is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles, and our report identifies its listings by postal code, using 90019 and 90036.

Those ZIP codes reach well past the Miracle Mile. Our profiled building at 525 North Sycamore Avenue sits north of Beverly Boulevard, and 1333 South Orange Grove Avenue south of Olympic Boulevard. If you picture a Wilshire high-rise, filter listings by address too. The same boundary question comes up in /blog/koreatown-vs-mid-wilshire-condos.

One- and two-bedrooms side by side

Two-bedrooms are the core of both markets. As of October 22, 2026, 70 West Hollywood two-bedrooms asked a median $981,500, about $795 a square foot, against 13 in Mid-Wilshire at $699,000 and about $630. That is a $282,500 gap at the median, wider than the headline one.

One-bedrooms made up 39% of West Hollywood's for-sale listings: 67 units at a median $625,000, about $800 a foot. Mid-Wilshire had three, at a median $419,900 and about $643 a foot, a sample small enough to treat as a pointer rather than a price.

West Hollywood also had eight studios at a median $532,500 and 27 three-bedrooms at $2,980,000, about $1,155 a foot. Mid-Wilshire had no studios for sale and too few larger units for a published median.

Nine times the inventory in West Hollywood

As of October 22, 2026, West Hollywood had 173 condos for sale on LA Condo HQ and Mid-Wilshire had 19, about nine to one. Under $1 million the count was 107 to 18. West Hollywood's asks ran from $375,000 to $11,995,000, with 25 listings at $2 million or more; Mid-Wilshire's ran from $415,000 to $1,695,000, with one listing above $1 million.

Listings had been active a median of 52 days in West Hollywood and 44 in Mid-Wilshire, a measure of how long current listings have waited, not how fast sales closed.

The small pool also makes Mid-Wilshire's median jumpy. Each report records its median asking price daily. From September 27 to October 22, 2026, West Hollywood's stayed between $895K and $925K, while Mid-Wilshire's moved between $697K and $765K, a $68K swing.

What renters pay in each

As of October 22, 2026, West Hollywood had 213 condos for rent at a median $4,995 a month and Mid-Wilshire had 106 at $4,173. The $822 headline gap understates the difference, because Mid-Wilshire's rentals were larger: a median 1,330 square feet against 1,121, with 39% of them three bedrooms or more.

Layout by layout, West Hollywood asked more in every row with a published median. Studios asked $2,675 against $2,045, one-bedrooms $3,395 against $2,800, two-bedrooms $5,995 against $3,963, a $2,032 difference, and three-bedrooms $7,900 against $5,398. Current rentals are at /condos-for-rent.

If you plan to buy and rent out, the city line matters. The City of Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance generally applies to rental properties in the city first built on or before October 1, 1978; its overview lists condominiums, noting the rent amount is not regulated for tenancies that began after December 31, 1995. That ordinance stops at the city limit, so ask the City of West Hollywood about a West Hollywood unit before you write an offer.

City lines change the closing bill

The deed costs different amounts to record on each side of the line. The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder charges $0.55 for each $500 of value and lists special city rates in five cities: Culver City, Los Angeles, Pomona, Redondo Beach and Santa Monica. West Hollywood is not among them, so only the county tax applies there. Mid-Wilshire is in the City of Los Angeles, which adds $2.25 for each $500 under the rate the county shows as effective July 1, 2026.

At each neighborhood's median, that comes to $987.80 in West Hollywood against $823.90 to the county plus $3,370.50 to the city in Mid-Wilshire, $4,194.40 in all. The City of Los Angeles Office of Finance also lists Measure ULA tiers for sales closing after June 30, 2026: 4% above $5,400,000 and 5.5% at $10,900,000 or more. No Mid-Wilshire listing came near them, and West Hollywood's eight listings at $5 million and up are outside the city. The purchase contract sets who pays, so run your price through /research/closing-cost-calculator.

The buildings carrying the listings

Both reports attribute listings to profiled buildings by exact address, with sale and rental listings counted together. As of October 22, 2026, West Hollywood was led by /buildings/doheny-west-towers at 999 North Doheny Drive with 17 listings, then /buildings/1131-alta-loma-road with nine, and 8787 Shoreham Drive, 960 Larrabee Street and Plaza Towers with six each. Mid-Wilshire had three profiled buildings with listings: 1333 South Orange Grove Avenue with 14, 525 North Sycamore Avenue with three and 750 South Spaulding Avenue with two.

The Orange Grove building's profile at /buildings/1333-south-orange-grove-avenue showed all its listings were rentals, none for sale, when we read it on October 23, 2026. The county assessor's 2025 roll, as recorded on our profiles, gives year-built fields of 2019 there, 1972 at 525 North Sycamore, 1972 at 1131 Alta Loma Road and 1963 at Doheny West Towers. A tax-record year can differ from the construction date, so confirm history and reserves in the association documents listed at /condo-associations.

Questions buyers ask about West Hollywood vs. Mid-Wilshire condos

Reading the comparison before you shop

At these medians, Mid-Wilshire's lower asking price outweighs its higher transfer tax many times over: $149,000 less against $3,206.60 more in tax. West Hollywood's case is choice, with about nine times the listings. These figures are fixed to October 22, 2026, and both reports refresh hourly, so reopen them before you act.

Background is at /neighborhoods/west-hollywood and /neighborhoods/mid-wilshire, with longer guides at /blog/west-hollywood-condo-guide and /blog/mid-wilshire-condo-guide. Current listings are at /condos-for-sale. LA Condo HQ does not list on the MLS, represent buyers or close transactions.