The mid century modern homes for sale in Los Angeles worth knowing right now run from Richard Neutra's 1960 Sale House and an A. Quincy Jones original in Crestwood Hills to the Thornton Abell and O'Neil Ford Adelman Residence in Beverly Hills, a Hal Levitt compound, preserved originals in Trousdale and Bel-Air, and post-and-beams from Hollywoodland to Woodland Hills.
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A curated look at the mid-century modern and modernist homes for sale across Los Angeles right now, chosen by Debbie Pisaro for pedigree, preservation, and design, not just what each one costs.
What are the most interesting mid-century modern homes for sale in Los Angeles right now?
Los Angeles holds the deepest bench of mid-century modern housing in California, and on any given week only a handful of the homes on the market are the real thing. This is a curated list of mid century modern homes for sale in Los Angeles right now that reward a second look, chosen for the architect on the record, the originality of what survives, and the quality of the design rather than square footage alone. Debbie Pisaro works as the architectural real estate agent Los Angeles buyers call for mid-century and modernist houses, and she refreshes this page as the market moves. Fourteen homes made the cut this time, nine of them with a named architect.
A quick note on how to read it. Every home named here is listed by another company. Debbie is not the listing agent for any of them, and she represents buyers on all of them, regardless of who holds a given listing. Prices and availability change, so treat this as a starting point and reach out for what is current. For the architects behind these houses, her profiles of Richard Neutra and Pierre Koenig are the place to start.
Richard Neutra's Sale House at the top of Tigertail Road
1531 N Tigertail Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90049 · 1960 · asking $4,750,000
The anchor of this list is a 1960 Richard Neutra, the Sale House, crowning the highest point of Tigertail Road on a full acre inside the Crestwood Hills enclave. Commissioned by the artist Elsa Sale and her husband Robert, it was designed to live with art, and the restoration has kept an unusual amount of the original fabric: the built-in furnishings and cabinetry, the mosaic work, and the original pool with its diving board still in place. Views run from the canyons across the city to the ocean, Catalina, and Palos Verdes. Three bedrooms across roughly 1,632 square feet, which is exactly the scale Neutra intended, and the reason this house reads as a work and not a footprint.
Worth knowing on this one: it has been on the market since early June, and an earlier listing expired in March at $5,295,000 before it returned at $4,750,000. Documented Neutras come up a few times a year at most, so time on market here says more about how specific the buyer for an intact 1,600 square foot Neutra is than about the house. The neighborhood context is on the Crestwood Hills page.
A. Quincy Jones's Goldenfeld House on Bramble Way
810 Bramble Way, Los Angeles, CA 90049 · 1950 · asking $3,295,000
A few streets away, the second Crestwood Hills offering is the Goldenfeld House, an A. Quincy Jones original from 1950, the founding years of the cooperative Jones designed with Whitney R. Smith. Single level on a rare flat lot of just over 10,000 square feet, it carries the tract's signature post-and-beam construction, soaring ceilings, walls of glass, and polished concrete floors, with three bedrooms plus an office that could serve as a fourth. Two houses from the same utopian experiment on the market at once, one by the cooperative's own architect and one by Neutra, is the kind of alignment Crestwood Hills almost never offers, and the story of why that experiment mattered is told in full on the Crestwood Hills guide.
The Adelman Residence by Thornton Abell and O'Neil Ford on Summit Drive
1035 Summit Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 · 1956 · asking $25,000,000
The collector's offering is the Adelman Residence of 1956, credited to Thornton Abell with O'Neil Ford, fresh from a multi-year restoration that returned it to original condition. The provenance runs deeper than the architecture: the land was once part of the Charlie Chaplin estate, and the original 1928 tennis court is still there. Floor-to-ceiling glass, generous room proportions rare for the period, an elevator, a guest house, and pocket gardens across nearly an acre up a gated drive. At five thousand dollars a square foot it is priced as what it is, a museum-grade restoration for a buyer who collects architecture the way others collect paintings, and it is shown only to prequalified buyers.
Edenland, a Hal Levitt compound on Eden Place
2644 Eden Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90210 · 1959 · asking $13,495,000
Hidden at the end of a gated cul-de-sac off Coldwater Canyon, Edenland is a 1959 Hal Levitt estate on 1.64 acres, and it is the one compound on this list: a six-bedroom main residence in Levitt's language of glass walls and clean modernist lines, plus two detached two-bedroom guest houses, one of them converted into a professional recording studio with its own patio and hot tub. The grounds are the other half of the argument, with an avocado grove, a zen garden, a koi pond, and a lit tennis court threaded through mature plantings. It opened in August at $15,500,000 and has since come down two million, which on an estate this specific is the market finding its buyer rather than losing one.
A William R. Stephenson original in Trousdale Estates
1058 N Hillcrest Rd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 · 1960 · asking $9,950,000
On what the marketing rightly calls the finest street in Trousdale, this 1960 house by William R. Stephenson has been meticulously maintained rather than reinvented, and that is its value. High ceilings unusual for the vintage, walls of glass, a hand-laid brick rear facade, and the original character details intact, on a near-acre parcel that is almost impossible to assemble in Trousdale today. The neighborhood is increasingly dominated by new construction, which makes a preserved single-level original of this caliber the scarce asset on the street. Five bedrooms across 4,157 square feet, with the pool and motor court the period intended.
A Paul Sterling Hoag wood-and-glass house on Riviera Ranch Road
13241 Riviera Ranch Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90049 · 1951 · asking $9,995,000
In the equestrian enclave of Sullivan Canyon, at the quiet end of a cul-de-sac, sits a 1951 wood-and-glass house credited to Paul Sterling Hoag, who came up through Richard Neutra's office. It has been held by the same family since the 1960s and is offered for the first time, on nearly two acres with the barn, tack room, and corral still in place. The house itself is a restoration canvas, and that is how a buyer should read it: an honest mid-century by a Neutra-trained hand, on land that cannot be reproduced, in a neighborhood where provenance and acreage carry the number. Homes like this are exactly where a preservation-minded buyer and a good architect can do their best work.
A Tracy Price jewel box on Casiano Road
1331 Casiano Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90049 · 1960 · asking $2,995,000
In lower Bel-Air, on a quiet road that ends at a trailhead, this 1960 house by Tracy Price has had exactly two owner families in its life, and it shows. The entrance courtyard leads to a polished terrazzo foyer and a central sky-lit atrium, the formal living room carries clerestory windows, the den holds a sugar-white dolomite rock fireplace, and the kitchen is still the period kitchen, intact and working. Views run to the Getty. Three bedrooms across 2,376 square feet, meticulously restored rather than remodeled, in genuinely move-in condition. For a buyer who wants the real article at a livable scale, this is the most intact house in its price range on this list.
A Charles Du Bois with a film credit on Manson Avenue
4301 Manson Ave, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 · 1959 · asking $2,145,000
South of Mulholland in Woodland Hills stands a 1959 Charles Du Bois that the marketing material places in the 1961 film Bachelor in Paradise, and the pedigree is visible either way: Du Bois's signature lines, exposed wood ceilings, and a single-story plan opening to a corner lot with views toward Calabasas. The restoration kept the architecture and upgraded the living, with a soapstone kitchen, Heath tile in the primary bath, and an oversized pool. Du Bois shaped whole streets of the south Valley, and why that corner of the San Fernando Valley became one of the best places in California to buy mid-century architecture at a sane number is the subject of the Valley mid-century guide.
A Yehuda Lavie on nearly an acre on Valley Meadow Road
3493 Valley Meadow Rd, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 · 1959 · asking $3,295,000
In Royal Woods, one of Sherman Oaks's quietly excellent hillside pockets, this 1959 house is credited to Yehuda Lavie, presented in the record as a protege of Richard Neutra, and the lineage reads in the walls of glass and the long, calm lines. The land is the multiplier: nearly an acre, with a Japanese zen rock garden by the landscape artist Lew Watanabe, mature ginkgo, cherry, maple, bamboo, and black pine, a pool and spa, and a detached air-conditioned studio. Five bedrooms across roughly 3,311 square feet, single level, behind a private driveway. For the money, no other house on this list pairs an architect's hand with this much ground.
A Hollywoodland modernist on Hollyridge Drive
2871 Hollyridge Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90068 · 1960 · asking $1,699,000
The entry point on this list is a 1960 post-and-beam original in historic Hollywoodland, terraced down its hillside with six decks and floor-to-ceiling glass facing the canyon, Griffith Observatory, and, in the listing's own words, Catalina on a good day. No architect appears on the record, but the original paneling and tiered plan survive, the systems have been quietly updated, and mature avocado and lime trees hold the hillside. Three bedrooms, 2,048 square feet, minutes from the Beachwood Canyon trails. These are the same hills that hold John Lautner's Chemosphere, and at this number it is the most affordable way into them on this list.
A post-and-beam with an orchard on Mandeville Canyon Road
2618 Mandeville Canyon Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90049 · 1959 · asking $5,395,000
Deeper into Mandeville Canyon, this 1959 single-story mid-century spreads across seven-tenths of an acre with vaulted ceilings, skylights, and floor-to-ceiling pocket doors that open the main rooms to the gardens. The grounds are a working piece of old canyon California: a greenhouse, vegetable beds, and an orchard that produces apricots, peaches, oranges, limes, Meyer lemons, white nectarines, and Italian plums through the year, with a spa, sauna, and a detached studio. Four bedrooms, roughly 3,509 square feet. No architect is named on the record, so the buy here is the land, the light, and a plan the period got right.
A glass pavilion in the treetops on Sky Valley Road
13044 Sky Valley Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90049 · 1957 · asking $2,749,000
In Upper Mandeville Canyon, a 1957 post-and-beam was reimagined in collaboration with the architect Richard Dodson, and the result keeps the period's bones while adding its best new idea: an upstairs pavilion wrapped in glass that floats among the treetops, usable as a bedroom suite, studio, or library annex. Below it, soaring vaulted ceilings, a sculptural stone fireplace, three fireplaces in all, a skylit library with its own balcony, and a solar-heated pool. Four bedrooms across 4,156 square feet on a 18,078 square foot lot. The original architect is not named on the record, so read it as a strong period house thoughtfully grown, not a signed original.
A three-year re-invention on Chislehurst Drive
2235 Chislehurst Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027 · 1955 · asking $5,785,000
On one of Los Feliz's premier streets, a 1955 modern has just emerged from a comprehensive three-year re-invention and expansion built around its best original feature, a two-sided 1950s mountain-rock fireplace that anchors the main rooms. Floating concrete blocks, a giant pivoting front door, an accordion glass wall to the pool, and a one-of-a-kind clamshell waterfall give it presence; nearly everything mechanical is new. One number worth understanding before pricing it: the assessor carries 2,789 square feet against the listing's 4,979, which is the expansion speaking, and verifying how that delta was permitted is exactly the homework a buyer's agent should do. The street's deeper architectural context lives at losfelizliving.com.
A studs-out mid-century ranch on Sunset Boulevard
13627 Sunset Blvd, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 · 1952 · asking $8,500,000
Behind gates near the Riviera Country Club, a 1952 mid-century ranch was taken down to the studs and rebuilt as a single-level resort, and honesty is the right frame: this is a designer's re-imagining of a mid-century, not a preservation piece. What the remodel kept is the type's great virtue, one level opening everywhere to the land, here nearly half an acre with a covered heated patio, outdoor kitchen, pool and spa, sport court, and lawn. Five en suite bedrooms across 4,761 square feet, with vaulted beamed ceilings and walls of glass. For the buyer who wants mid-century light and flow with every system new, this is that house.
What this snapshot tells you
Taken together, these fourteen homes map the whole mid-century market: two Crestwood Hills originals from the same cooperative experiment, a museum-grade restoration in Beverly Hills, preserved originals in Trousdale and Bel-Air, Neutra-lineage houses on both sides of the hill, post-and-beam canyon houses, and two full reinventions. The spread runs from under two million in Hollywoodland to twenty-five million on Summit Drive, and what moves each number is the same three things: the architect on the record, how much original fabric survives, and the land under it. That is why a mid-century is best read by someone who verifies attribution before repeating it. For the wider frame, start with the 7 iconic architectural homes in Los Angeles and the modernist hills of Silver Lake, and when the canyon itself calls, the Laurel Canyon homes for sale page runs the same watch on that market. The full collection lives in Debbie's historic and architectural homes archive.
One pattern worth naming: more than half of these homes have already taken a price cut or returned to market after an earlier listing, including the Neutra. Mid-century buyers are the most informed buyers in Los Angeles, and they do not pay for the word modern, they pay for the record. Sellers who price the architecture honestly are the ones who meet them. That discipline travels: these buyers shop the architect before the zip code, flying in from New York, Chicago, and London, and the same houses they chase in Los Angeles they chase across California, from Palm Springs to Ojai to the Bay Area, which is the market Debbie works.
If any of these catch you, or if you would rather Debbie watch for something specific, that is exactly the work she does, on-market and off, and a lot of her work is off market. Pricing an architectural home well is its own discipline, laid out in the Coastline 840 guide to pricing a one-of-a-kind home. Debbie Pisaro is a 24-year veteran, founder of Coastline 840, and an Inman Luxury Leader, representing buyers and sellers of mid-century and modernist homes across Los Angeles and California. She works as an architectural homes specialist, and the rest of the network lives at debbiepisaro.com with the historic work at losfelizliving.com. If you are choosing an agent for a mid-century house, choose the one who reads the county record before repeating the remarks.
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Mid-century modern homes for sale in Los Angeles, questions answered
What are the most interesting mid-century modern homes for sale in Los Angeles right now?
Current standouts include Richard Neutra's 1960 Sale House and an A. Quincy Jones original, both in Crestwood Hills, the Thornton Abell and O'Neil Ford Adelman Residence in Beverly Hills, a Hal Levitt compound off Coldwater Canyon, a preserved William R. Stephenson in Trousdale Estates, a Tracy Price in Bel-Air, a Charles Du Bois in Woodland Hills, and a Yehuda Lavie in Sherman Oaks.
How much do mid-century modern homes in Los Angeles cost?
The working range is wide. Unattributed post-and-beam houses in good hillside neighborhoods start around $1.7 million, architect-credited homes generally trade from roughly $2 million to $10 million depending on the name and how much original fabric survives, and museum-grade restorations with provenance can reach $25 million. The homes on this list span that entire spectrum.
Which architects have homes for sale in Los Angeles right now?
The named architects on the current list are Richard Neutra, A. Quincy Jones, Thornton Abell with O'Neil Ford, Hal Levitt, William R. Stephenson, Tracy Price, Charles Du Bois, Yehuda Lavie, and Paul Sterling Hoag. Attribution should always be verified against the county record and the archives before it carries a premium, which is part of the work Debbie Pisaro does for buyers.
Which Los Angeles neighborhoods have the most mid-century modern homes?
The deepest concentrations are Crestwood Hills in Brentwood, Trousdale Estates in Beverly Hills, the Hollywood Hills including Hollywoodland and Laurel Canyon, Silver Lake, and the San Fernando Valley south of Ventura Boulevard, where architects like Charles Du Bois shaped whole streets. Each pocket has its own market, and the same house can price very differently from one to the next.
Is an original mid-century modern home worth more than a remodeled one?
Usually, when the attribution is real. A documented architect and intact original details, such as period kitchens, built-ins, terrazzo, or an original pool, put a house on a collector's market that remodels do not reach. A sensitive restoration preserves that value; a studs-out remodel trades it for condition and convenience. Neither is wrong, but they are different purchases and should be priced as such.
How often is this list of mid-century modern homes updated?
Debbie Pisaro refreshes this page as the Los Angeles market changes, adding new standouts and removing homes that sell or leave the market. Because the best mid-century houses move quickly and some never list publicly at all, treat it as a living snapshot, and reach out for what is current and for the homes trading quietly off-market.
Can Debbie Pisaro represent me on a home listed with another company?
Yes. Debbie Pisaro represents buyers on any home in Los Angeles and across California, regardless of who holds a given listing, and she is not the listing agent for any of the homes named on this page. She also reaches off-market and pre-market modernist inventory that never appears on a public site, which is often where the best houses quietly change hands.
Who is a good real estate agent for mid-century modern homes in Los Angeles?
Debbie Pisaro of Coastline 840, California DRE #01369110, is a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles market and an Inman Luxury Leader who specializes in mid-century, architectural, and historic homes. Her responsible broker is Side, Inc., CA DRE #02014153. She verifies attribution against the record, reads what survives of the original fabric, and works the off-market channels where the best modernist houses trade.
Debbie Pisaro is a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles market, founder of Coastline 840, and an Inman Luxury Leader, representing buyers and sellers of mid-century modern, architectural, and historic homes across Los Angeles and California. Many of the homes she sells never reach the open market. Coastline 840 is a DBA of Side, Inc., CA DRE #02014153. Debbie Pisaro, DRE #01369110. She writes about California real estate at debbiepisaro.com, losfelizliving.com, and coastline840.com. Updated October 2026.