Brentwood carries the higher price and Westwood the deeper choice. Our directory's research puts Brentwood's median condo near $1.35 million against Westwood's $935,000, but we profile 60 condo buildings in Westwood and six in Brentwood. Los Angeles overall sits at a live $875,000 median as of August 11, 2026.
The short answer, in numbers
Westwood is 90024 and Brentwood is 90049. They sit a few miles apart on the same stretch of the Westside, draw from overlapping buyer pools, and get shortlisted together constantly. They are still not the same purchase.
Start with the yardstick. Our live Los Angeles report at /market-stats shows a citywide median condo sale price of $875,000, a median $689 per square foot, 1,957 active listings, 8.7 months of supply and 43 median days on market, all as of August 11, 2026.
Against that yardstick sit our own neighborhood figures, which that same report labels as estimates rather than live MLS data: Westwood at a $935,000 median and $775 per square foot, Brentwood at $1,350,000 and $1,050 per square foot. Running the arithmetic on our published estimates, Brentwood sits about 44 percent higher at the median and about 35 percent higher per foot. Treat those as dated research, not as comparable sales, and check /market-stats for what the report shows on the day you read this.
Sixty buildings against six
The figure that actually reshapes a search is not the price. It is how much stock of the right kind exists.
Our directory profiles 60 condo buildings in Westwood and six in Brentwood. That is a count of the buildings we have researched and given a page, not a census of every structure in either zip code — but the ratio is not an artifact of our coverage. It reflects a real difference in how the two neighborhoods were built.
Westwood's condo inventory is concentrated and vertical. The Wilshire Corridor runs roughly a mile of full-service high-rises with concierge, valet and long views, and the buildings we profile along it include /buildings/the-wilshire, /buildings/ten-five-sixty at 10560 Wilshire Boulevard and /buildings/wilshire-margot. The longer read on that stretch is /blog/wilshire-corridor-condo-guide.
Brentwood was built the other way around. Our neighborhood research describes housing that skews heavily to gated single-family estates and canyon homes, with a refined but small pocket of low-rise condos and townhomes clustered along San Vicente and toward Wilshire. Among the handful we profile there are /buildings/the-landmark and /buildings/wellesley-terrace at 1165 Wellesley Avenue.
What the live board shows today
Building counts describe the standing stock. Listings describe what you can actually walk into this month — and here the gap narrows sharply.
Our for-sale board returned 96 active condo listings in Westwood and 71 in Brentwood when we checked on August 11, 2026. Brentwood is therefore showing about three-quarters as many active listings as Westwood while carrying roughly a tenth of the profiled buildings.
Read that carefully, because it cuts both ways. It means Brentwood is nothing like a closed market — there is real current choice for a neighborhood of its size. It also means those listings are spread thinly across very few buildings, so a buyer with a specific requirement — a particular floor plan, two parking spaces, an association that permits a large dog — is picking from a much shallower bench. In Westwood the same requirement can usually be satisfied in more than one building, which turns out to matter enormously the week a deal falls apart.
Both counts are what our search returned that day, and listing counts move daily. Current figures are at /condos-for-sale.
High-rise on Wilshire, low-rise on San Vicente
Price and count aside, these are two different daily lives, and our neighborhood research is explicit about the character of each.
Westwood pairs UCLA and Westwood Village with the Wilshire Corridor. It carries a walkability rare in Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum and the Geffen Playhouse just off campus, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center as a major employment anchor, and a large established Persian-American community along Westwood Boulevard. The full picture is at /neighborhoods/westwood, and the deeper guide is /blog/westwood-condo-guide.
Brentwood is the quieter proposition: the Getty Center above it, San Vicente Boulevard's coral-tree median serving as the neighborhood's running path, the Brentwood Country Mart, and the Sunday farmers market on Gretna Green. It trades density for leafy, low-key prestige. See /neighborhoods/brentwood and /blog/brentwood-condo-guide.
A blunt way to frame the choice: in Westwood you buy a floor in a tower, and in Brentwood you buy a home in a building that looks like a house.
The trade you are actually making
If your budget sits near the citywide median, Westwood is the neighborhood where that budget still has options. Our estimate puts its median about 7 percent above the live citywide figure, while Brentwood's sits roughly 54 percent above it. That is the entire difference in one sentence.
If the budget clears the Brentwood range comfortably, the question stops being price and becomes the specific association. In a six-building market the individual HOA matters far more than the neighborhood average — its reserves, its dues, its rental rules, its balcony-inspection status. Those are the questions in /blog/la-condo-hoa-fees-explained and /blog/sb-326-balcony-inspection-la-condos, and in a thin market you have fewer places to go if the answers disappoint.
One consideration lands specifically on Westwood buyers: many Wilshire Corridor towers are older, larger associations, and lender treatment varies building by building. /blog/non-warrantable-condos-los-angeles covers why financing can fail on the building rather than on the borrower.
We are a research directory, not a brokerage. We do not list on the MLS, negotiate offers or close transactions. When you want current status or the disclosure package for a specific address in either neighborhood, we introduce you to a licensed partner agent who can pull it.
Questions Westside buyers ask about Westwood and Brentwood
Is Brentwood more expensive than Westwood for condos?
Yes, by a wide margin in our research. Our directory estimates a $1,350,000 median condo price and $1,050 per square foot in Brentwood against $935,000 and $775 per square foot in Westwood, or roughly 44 percent higher at the median. Those are dated estimates rather than live MLS figures; the live citywide median was $875,000 as of August 11, 2026.
Which neighborhood has more condos to choose from?
Westwood, decisively, on standing stock — we profile 60 condo buildings there against six in Brentwood. On current listings the gap is much smaller: our board returned 96 active Westwood condo listings and 71 in Brentwood on August 11, 2026. Westwood offers more buildings to choose among; Brentwood offers very few buildings with an unusually active share of them listed.
What kind of condo buildings does each neighborhood have?
Westwood's condo stock is dominated by the Wilshire Corridor, a roughly one-mile run of full-service high-rises with concierge and valet. Brentwood's is a small pocket of low-rise condos and townhomes around San Vicente and toward Wilshire, in a neighborhood otherwise built for single-family estates and canyon homes.
Is Westwood good value compared with the rest of the Westside?
Relative to its neighbors, that is the argument for it. Our neighborhood research describes Westwood as offering proximity to Bel-Air, Brentwood and Beverly Hills at a relative discount to those zip codes, and our estimated median there sits about 7 percent above the live citywide median rather than the roughly 54 percent above it that Brentwood's does.
What should I check before buying in a small condo market like Brentwood?
The association, before the unit. With only a handful of condo buildings in the neighborhood, you have far fewer fallback options if a building's reserves, dues, rental restrictions or balcony-inspection status turn out to be problems. Ask for the budget, the reserve study and the minutes early, and expect the building itself to drive the decision more than it would in a deep market.
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