Brentwood Los Angeles is a district in the West Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California, United States. It carries a Los Angeles mailing address, although many people, including the media, often incorrectly refer to the area as Brentwood, California. (The city of Brentwood, California is in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California.)
As of 2000, there were just over 22,000 housing units in Brentwood. Most Brentwood residents reside in single-family homes, many of which—while seemingly modest in style, square footage and lot size—would rarely sell for less than $750,000 due to the area’s high housing costs. There are many spectacular mansions and multi-million-dollar estates located in the hilly areas north of Sunset. There are also large, modern apartment complexes and condominiums located on most of district’s primary and secondary thoroughfares, many of which are home to young professionals and students attending nearby UCLA. According to the Los Angeles Almanac, the median value of a single-family home in Brentwood as of 2004 was $1.4 million.
Located at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains, bounded by the San Diego Freeway on the east, the city limits of Los Angeles on the southeast, Wilshire Boulevard on the south, the Santa Monica city limits on the southwest, the border of Topanga State Park on the west, and Mulholland Drive along the ridgeline of the mountains on the north.
Nearby neighborhoods and cities include Pacific Palisades on the west, Santa Monica on the southwest, West Los Angeles on the south, Sawtelle on the southeast, Westwood on the east, Bel-Air on the northeast, and Encino on the north.