What Does It Cost to Buy a Home in Woodland Hills in 2026?

The typical Woodland Hills home is worth about $1.2 million as of July 2026, and that number has barely moved in a year. Zillow puts the neighborhood's average home value at $1,200,528, down 1.0% over the previous twelve months, with 344 homes for sale and a median list price of $1,393,333. The gap between what sellers are asking and what buyers are paying is the whole story of this market.

Woodland Hills sits in the southwest corner of the San Fernando Valley, pressed against the Santa Monica Mountains. West Hills, Canoga Park, and Winnetka are north. Tarzana is east. Calabasas and Hidden Hills are west. That geography does more work than any other factor in explaining what a house here costs.

The price bands, and why the boulevard matters

The dividing line is Ventura Boulevard, and the terrain on either side is genuinely different property.

North of the boulevard the land is flat Valley floor. Lots are wide and rectangular, the housing stock skews postwar single-story, and the streets run on a grid. This is the volume market. South of the boulevard the ground climbs into the Santa Monica Mountains, lots get irregular, driveways get steep, and inventory shifts toward larger custom houses on view parcels. Both are "Woodland Hills" on the MLS. They are not the same pricing pool, and running one set of comps across both is how sellers end up mispriced.

Redfin tracks the flatter side as ZIP 91367, where the median sale price over the three months ending June 2026 was $1,203,728, down 2.9% year over year, at $542 per square foot, down 9.1%. Homes took 47 days to sell and closed at 98.7% of list.

Here is what actually closed in that ZIP in the third week of August 2026, per Redfin:

Read that table twice. Two houses on the same street, three days apart, both took cuts. A house listed at $899,000 drew a bidding war to $1.105 million. In June, 35.6% of Woodland Hills sales closed above list and 54.1% closed below it, per Zillow. This is not a market with one direction. It punishes an aspirational list price and rewards a realistic one, and the difference is often a hundred thousand dollars.

Where Woodland Hills sits against its neighbors

The table below uses a single methodology, Zillow's Home Value Index, measured on the same date.

Source: Zillow

Woodland Hills is the hinge. Step west across the city line into Calabasas and values jump 40% to 300% depending on the pocket. Step north and they drop by a third. That two-sided demand is why the neighborhood has held roughly flat while sharper markets have swung.

One structural note at the top of the band: Woodland Hills is inside the City of Los Angeles, so Measure ULA applies in full. Calabasas and Hidden Hills, both separately incorporated, do not carry it. For closings after June 30, 2026, ULA adds 4% of the entire sale price above $5.4 million and 5.5% above $10.9 million. Few Woodland Hills transactions reach that floor, but hillside estate parcels occasionally do, and the tax is calculated on the full price, not the excess.

The streets and how they got here

Woodland Hills was invented, more or less on purpose, by Victor Girard Kleinberger, who bought 2,886 acres here in 1922 and founded a town he called Girard. He planted 120,000 trees to make the place look established before anyone lived in it. Three hundred of those pepper trees still form a canopy over Canoga Avenue between Ventura Boulevard and Saltillo Street, and in 1972 they were designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #93. The community took the name Woodland Hills in 1945.

That origin explains something you notice on the first drive through. For a Valley neighborhood, Woodland Hills is unusually shaded. The mature canopy is not incidental landscaping. It is the founding marketing plan, a hundred years matured.

Warner Center, and what is about to change

The biggest variable here over the next decade is not interest rates. It is roughly 1,100 acres in the northeast corner.

The Warner Center 2035 Plan, adopted by the City of Los Angeles in December 2013, governs the area bounded by the Los Angeles River, the Ventura Freeway, De Soto Avenue, and Topanga Canyon Boulevard. In April 2025 the Kroenke Organization announced Rams Village at Warner Center, a 52-acre project inside that plan area anchored by the Los Angeles Rams' permanent headquarters, plus two indoor performance venues, more than three million square feet of residential, and nearly two million square feet of retail, office, and hotel.

For a homeowner three miles south in the hills, that is an abstraction. For anyone buying near Topanga Canyon Boulevard, it is the defining question about the next ten years, and nobody yet knows how the construction period trades off against the finished district. Worth understanding before you commit, either way.

Fire, heat, and insurance

Two environmental facts shape underwriting here more than anywhere else in the Valley.

First, wildfire. First Street data published by Redfin shows 16,184 Woodland Hills properties, roughly 84% of the neighborhood, carrying some degree of wildfire risk over thirty years. The exposure concentrates on the mountain side; in flatter 91367 the same dataset puts the figure at 55%. CAL FIRE issued updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for Southern California in March 2025, and state law bars the City of Los Angeles from adopting anything less severe than the state recommendation. A parcel's zone designation drives defensible-space obligations, building requirements, and disclosure at sale. Pull it for the specific address before you make offer decisions, not after.

Second, heat. On September 6, 2020, the weather station at Pierce College in Woodland Hills recorded 121 degrees, the highest temperature ever measured in Los Angeles County. That was not a one-afternoon fluke. First Street projects 91367 will go from roughly 5 days over 103 degrees this year to 19 within thirty years. HVAC capacity, attic insulation, window glazing, and which direction the main living space faces are inspection items with real dollar consequences here.

Who buys in Woodland Hills

Three groups, mostly. Buyers moving up from the more affordable West Valley who want a larger lot without leaving the city. Buyers priced out of Calabasas who will take a City of Los Angeles address in exchange for keeping several hundred thousand dollars. And buyers who want a hillside parcel with a view at a fraction of what the same view costs on the other side of the mountains.

All three are trading something for space. Woodland Hills does not compete on walkability; the Walk Score for 91367 is 48, which Redfin classifies as car-dependent. It competes on square footage, lot size, and tree canopy per dollar. Our Los Angeles property search and buyer resources pages cover the rest.

Thinking about a Woodland Hills purchase? Schedule a private consultation and we will pull the comps for the specific pocket you are considering, north or south of the boulevard, before you tour anything.

What sellers should take from the 2026 numbers

Homes went pending in a median of 27 days in July, per Zillow, and 91367 sold at 98.7% of list. Both sound healthy. The number that should shape your pricing is the other one: 54.1% of June sales closed below asking, and 29.2% of listings in the ZIP took a price drop. A price drop costs you twice, once in dollars and once in attention.

If your house sits south of Ventura Boulevard, insist the comps come from south of Ventura Boulevard. Flat-lot sales north of it will not price your parcel correctly, and an appraiser working from the wrong pool is a problem you discover in escrow rather than before it. Our seller resources walk through how we build that comp set.

Considering a sale in Woodland Hills? Request a confidential valuation built on your specific block and lot type.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average home price in Woodland Hills in 2026?

The typical Woodland Hills home value is $1,200,528 as of July 31, 2026, down 1.0% year over year, according to Zillow's Home Value Index. The median sale price in June 2026 was $1,257,583, while the median list price in July was $1,393,333. In ZIP 91367, Redfin recorded a median sale price of $1,203,728 over the three months ending June 2026, at $542 per square foot.

Does Measure ULA apply to Woodland Hills?

Yes. Woodland Hills is inside the City of Los Angeles, so the Measure ULA transfer tax applies in full. For closings after June 30, 2026, the rate is 4% of the entire sale price on transactions above $5.4 million and 5.5% above $10.9 million. Neighboring Calabasas and Hidden Hills are separately incorporated cities and are not subject to it, a meaningful difference on hillside estate transactions that cross the threshold.

Is Woodland Hills in a fire hazard severity zone?

Parts of it are, particularly on the south side toward the Santa Monica Mountains. First Street data shows about 84% of Woodland Hills properties carry some wildfire risk over thirty years, compared with 55% in the flatter 91367 ZIP. CAL FIRE released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps in March 2025 and the City of Los Angeles is required to adopt them by ordinance. Zone designation is parcel-specific and drives defensible-space requirements, building standards, insurance pricing, and disclosure obligations, so verify it for the exact address.

How long do homes take to sell in Woodland Hills?

Median days to pending was 27 in July 2026 per Zillow. Redfin's measure for ZIP 91367 shows 47 days on market over the three months ending June 2026, up from 41 a year earlier. The practical read is that correctly priced homes move in under a month while overpriced ones sit for two or three.

Who should I hire to sell a home in Woodland Hills?

Ask three things. Has this agent closed transactions in your specific pocket, north or south of Ventura Boulevard, since the two behave as separate markets? Do they know the parcel's Fire Hazard Severity Zone designation and how it affects disclosure and buyer financing? Can they show which recent listings sold above asking versus which took price drops, and explain why? Those answers separate someone who works this neighborhood from someone who works a search radius. I am Paul Blair, founder and broker at Grey Square, with 22 years in the business and more than $200 million in closed transactions across Los Angeles and Dallas, working the Hollywood Hills, the Westside, and the Valley including Woodland Hills, Encino, and Sherman Oaks. For a straight assessment of where your house prices, start a conversation.

I have spent enough time on Ventura Boulevard between Topanga and Valley Circle to know the two halves of Woodland Hills are two different transactions, and the sellers who get that right are the ones who do not end up cutting their price in September.

Paul Blair is the founder and broker of Grey Square, a virtual real estate brokerage representing buyers and sellers across Dallas and Los Angeles. With 22 years in the business and more than $200 million in closed transactions, Paul works the full range of the market, from luxury homes in the Park Cities and Preston Hollow to estates in the Hollywood Hills and across the Westside. Connect with Paul and the Grey Square team at greysq.com. TX TREC #9011505 · CA DRE #01792671.