Sunset Park, Santa Monica, Block by Block: Four Pockets Between Pico and the Airport Fence
Within two blocks of each other on 22nd Street, a 1928 two-bedroom house sold for $2,680,000 this year and a six-bedroom house completed in 2026 sold for $5,500,000. That gap tells you more about Sunset Park than any average can, so this guide does not stop at one median. It walks the neighborhood in four pieces, from the Lincoln Boulevard edge to the streets that end at Santa Monica Airport, and shows what actually closed in each one.
Sunset Park is the southeast corner of Santa Monica. The Friends of Sunset Park neighborhood group, profiled by the Santa Monica Sun in June 2026, describes it as running from Pico Boulevard on the north to Lincoln Boulevard on the west, Centinela Avenue on the east and the city's southern edge near Ozone on the south. Santa Monica Airport fills much of the southeast corner. Every address is in ZIP code 90405, which it shares with Ocean Park on the other side of Lincoln.
- Lincoln Boulevard to 13th Street, from Pico down to the city line
- 14th Street to 23rd Street, north of Ocean Park Boulevard (the college side)
- 14th Street to 23rd Street, south of Ocean Park Boulevard (Hill, Ashland, Pier and Marine)
- Cloverfield Boulevard and 24th Street east to Centinela and the airport
These four pieces are my own working divisions for reading the sales data. They are not official city districts.
The whole neighborhood at a glance, by type of home
| Type | Sales | Median price | Price range | Median size | Median days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached house | 56 | $2,747,500 | $1,523,415 to $5,500,000 | 1,810 sq ft | 27 |
| Attached single-family | 5 | $3,216,000 | $1,900,000 to $5,550,000 | 1,770 sq ft | 58 |
| Condominium | 30 | $1,030,000 | $501,000 to $1,899,000 | 1,411 sq ft | 48 |
| Townhome | 3 | $1,050,000 | $856,340 to $1,500,000 | 1,332 sq ft | 64 |
| All 94 | 94 | about $2.29 million | $501,000 to $5,550,000 | 1,600 sq ft | 33 |
Source: CRMLS Matrix, Residential, City of Santa Monica, closed in the 12 months before October 2, 2026, filtered by a map outline of Pico, Lincoln, Centinela and the city line. Days are cumulative days on market. Two houses (one on 23rd Street, one on Bryn Mawr Avenue) closed twice in the period and are counted twice.
The house prices cluster tightly. Thirty of the 94 sales landed between $2 million and $3 million, 27 fell between $1 million and $2 million, 13 between $3 million and $4 million, and nine at $4 million or more. Only 15 closed under $1 million, and all 15 were condominiums or townhomes. Lots are small and uniform: the median detached house sat on 6,414 square feet.
1Lincoln Boulevard to 13th Street
This is the slice nearest the beach and the Main Street shops on the far side of Lincoln. The east-west streets here (Bay, Pacific, Grant, Pine, Cedar and Pearl north of Ocean Park Boulevard, then Marine and Ozone at the bottom) carry the oldest 800 and 900 block addresses in Sunset Park. 10th Street, 11th Street, Euclid and the two blocks of Glenn Avenue run north to south between them.
It is also where most of the small apartment-style condominium buildings sit. Twelve of the 28 sales in this pocket were condos or townhomes, many in buildings from the 1950s through the 1970s, with a median of $1,030,000 and a low of $501,000 for a one-bedroom on Bay Street. Those condos took longer to sell than anything else in the neighborhood, with a median close to 80 days.
| Pocket 1 | Sales | Median | Range | Median size | Median lot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses | 16 | $2,541,500 | $1,600,000 to $4,464,000 | 1,810 sq ft | 5,725 sq ft |
| Condos and townhomes | 12 | $1,030,000 | $501,000 to $1,825,000 | 1,368 sq ft | n/a |
The house lots run smaller here than anywhere else in the neighborhood. A detached house on the 1100 to 1300 blocks of Grant Street or Cedar Street typically sits on about 4,700 to 6,000 square feet. Two sales on Marine Street and one on Ozone Avenue, right at the city line, closed between $1,600,000 and $3,400,000, with the top of that range going to the newer, larger homes.
Lincoln Boulevard itself is a working commercial street. The Gelson's market at 2627 Lincoln sits on the Ocean Park side, and a 521-home plan for that shopping center was withdrawn by its developer in September 2025 (more on that below). Santa Monica High School is a short walk away at 601 Pico Boulevard, on the west side of Lincoln.
214th to 23rd Street, between Pico and Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica College's main campus fills the Pico frontage from about 16th Street to 20th Street, and two public schools sit inside this pocket: Will Rogers Elementary on 14th Street and John Adams Middle on 16th Street. The college opened its new Mathematics and Science Building, with a planetarium and a public observatory, and held its public celebration on November 1, 2025.
The housing is mostly 1920s to 1940s detached houses on lots close to 6,750 square feet, and this pocket had the highest price per square foot in the neighborhood: a median of $1,580 across 13 house sales. Those houses also moved fastest, with a median of 20 days on market.
| Pocket 2 | Sales | Median | Range | Median size | Median $/sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses | 13 | $2,680,000 | $1,680,000 to $5,500,000 | 1,582 sq ft | $1,580 |
| Condos | 3 | $1,893,585 | $705,000 to $1,899,000 | 1,699 sq ft | $1,000 |
The condo line is skewed by one building. Two of the three condo sales were brand-new 2025 units on 20th Street that closed at $1,893,585 and $1,899,000. The third, a 1970s two-bedroom on the same street, closed at $705,000. That spread is a reminder that "condo" covers very different products in this area.
The rebuild pattern is easy to see here. Two houses completed in 2025 and 2026 sold for $4,899,000 and $5,500,000, and a 2016 house on Pine Street sold for $4,868,000, while houses in this pocket built before 1950 sold between $1,680,000 and $3,125,000.
314th to 23rd Street, south of Ocean Park Boulevard
Below Ocean Park Boulevard the street names change to Hill, Ashland, Pier, Oak and Bryn Mawr, plus a short stretch of Linda Lane. Marine Park, at 1406 Marine Street, has a playground, a basketball court and a community garden. Walk east and the streets begin to end at the airport property.
| Pocket 3 | Sales | Median | Range | Median size | Median lot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses | 15 | $2,800,000 | $1,801,800 to $5,550,000 | 1,662 sq ft | 6,998 sq ft |
| Condos | 3 | $820,000 | $782,011 to $880,000 | 837 sq ft | n/a |
This pocket produced the highest median house price of the four and the single highest sale in Sunset Park all year, $5,550,000 for a house completed in 2026 on Ashland Avenue. Two Pier Avenue homes built in 2018 and 2019 closed at $5,275,000 and $5,300,000. At the other end, a 1940s two-bedroom of 871 square feet on Bryn Mawr Avenue sold twice, at $1,900,000 in December 2025 and $2,100,000 in February 2026.
The few condos here are small. All three were on Oak Street, from 786 to 1,146 square feet.
4Cloverfield east to Centinela and the airport
The eastern third of Sunset Park is the most mixed. It holds Clover Park, the neighborhood's largest open space at 2600 Ocean Park Boulevard (17.9 acres with lighted fields, tennis courts, two playgrounds and sand volleyball, according to the city's visitor bureau page updated July 2026). It holds Grant Elementary on Pearl Street and the Village Park townhome community, entered at Pearl Street and 27th Street. It holds a row of condominium buildings along Centinela Avenue. And it holds the numbered streets from 24th to 34th, which run south into the airport.
| Pocket 4 | Sales | Median | Range | Median size | Median days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses | 17 | $2,770,000 | $1,523,415 to $4,200,000 | 2,140 sq ft | 26 |
| Condos and townhomes | 15 | $1,185,000 | $530,000 to $1,680,000 | 1,456 sq ft | 43 |
Houses here were larger for the money. The median house in this pocket had 2,140 square feet, about 560 more than in Pocket 2, at a lower median price per square foot ($1,352). Several houses on the 28th to 34th Street blocks list build years from 1969 to 2017, newer than the neighborhood norm, which helps explain the size.
The least expensive homes in Sunset Park are also here. Two one- and two-bedroom condos in a 1958 building on Centinela closed at $530,000 and $550,000, and the Centinela buildings from 1980 and 1981 sold between $815,000 and $820,000 for two-bedrooms.
Airport Avenue, reached from the south ends of these streets, has the Museum of Flying at 3100 Airport Avenue, Barker Hangar, and artist studios at 3026 Airport Avenue run by 18th Street Arts Center since July 2019. The Museum of Flying traces the site's history to Douglas Aircraft, which built planes at Clover Field until 1975. Much of the neighborhood's original housing went up in the 1930s and 1940s, and Wikipedia's summary connects many of the small one-story houses to Douglas workers.
Old house, newer house, rebuilt house: how age changed the price
| Year built (houses) | Sales | Median price | Median size | Median $/sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before 1950 | 42 | $2,600,000 | 1,631 sq ft | $1,504 |
| 1950 to 1999 | 10 | $2,469,009 | 1,979 sq ft | $1,333 |
| 2000 and later | 9 | $4,899,000 | 3,894 sq ft | $1,269 |
Houses = detached plus attached single-family, 61 sales. Same CRMLS pull.
The pattern points one way. Buyers paid the most per square foot for the original prewar houses, which tells you much of that price is the land. Newer houses brought the highest totals, but each extra square foot cost less. Two-bedroom houses had a median of $2,100,000 for 1,292 square feet; four-bedroom houses had a median of $3,133,000.
Renting in Sunset Park: 132 leases in 12 months
CRMLS shows 132 closed residential leases inside the same outline from October 2025 through September 2026, with a median rent of $3,993 and a median of 24 days on market. On October 2, 2026, there were 22 active rental listings.
| Rental | Leases | Median monthly rent |
|---|---|---|
| One-bedroom apartment or condo | 41 | $2,750 |
| Two-bedroom apartment or condo | 40 | $3,998 |
| Three-bedroom apartment or condo | 7 | $6,000 |
| Two-bedroom house | 9 | $6,250 |
| Three-bedroom house | 15 | $7,700 |
| Four or more bedroom house | 14 | $14,025 |
Source: CRMLS Matrix, Residential Lease, City of Santa Monica, closed 0 to 365 days, pulled October 2, 2026. Rents ranged from $1,795 to $25,000. A few small guest houses are included with houses.
Many older apartment buildings in Santa Monica fall under the city's rent control law, which covers most rental units built before April 10, 1979, with exceptions. To check a specific unit, use the Rent Control Board's maximum allowable rent lookup.
Homes you can tour now
On October 2, 2026, CRMLS showed 20 active listings inside Sunset Park, 7 more under contract and 3 pending. The 10 active houses were asking $1,825,000 to $3,950,000, and the 10 active condos and townhomes were asking $715,000 to $1,749,000. These two buttons search my website using the same map outline, so the results update every day.
Want a heads-up when something new comes up? Open either search and press Save Search, or tell me what you are looking for and I will watch for it.
Plans, permits and openings around Sunset Park
Here is every notable change I could confirm in or near the neighborhood, each with its status and the date of the report I relied on.
- ApprovedSanta Monica Airport closure. A 2017 federal consent decree allows the city to close the airport at midnight on December 31, 2028, and the City Council reaffirmed that plan in September 2025. (Santa Monica Daily Press, December 5, 2025; Great Park Coalition, September 28, 2025)
- ProposedA park on the airport land. The city's draft framework covers 191.6 acres in eight districts and includes no housing. The city lists a preferred scenario for fall 2026 and a vision book for winter 2026, and it has lined up about $10.5 million in county and state grants for planning. (Santa Monica Next, February and June 2026; smacproject.com)
- ProposedHousing on part of the airport. A citizen initiative for about 3,000 affordable homes on a quarter of the land did not gather enough signatures for 2026; its backers say they are aiming for 2028. (LAist, June 15, 2026; Santa Monica Lookout, August 14, 2026)
- OpenJSX scheduled flights at the airport. Service began in January 2026, and an Oakland route was announced to start September 14, 2026. Residents filed a lawsuit under the California Environmental Quality Act in November 2025. (Santa Monica Daily Press, January 13, 2026; Local News Matters, June 26, 2026)
- Proposed2716 Ocean Park Boulevard. 456 homes in an eight-story building, 46 of them affordable, with about 6,960 square feet of retail, replacing an office building facing Clover Park. (LA YIMBY, July 8, 2026)
- Proposed3205 Ocean Park Boulevard. 102 homes in seven stories, 16 affordable, replacing a 1970s office building near the airport. (Urbanize LA, May 20, 2026)
- Proposed2929 Pico Boulevard. 59 homes in a six-story building with ground-floor commercial space. (LA YIMBY, January 11, 2026)
- Proposed1320 Pico Boulevard. Revised to 147 homes in eight stories, 24 of them below market rate. (Santa Monica Daily Press, May 29, 2025)
- ClosedThe Gelson's center housing plan, 2601 Lincoln Boulevard. A 521-home plan approved by the Architectural Review Board in 2024 was dropped by its developer, who cited the city's Measure GS transfer tax. The market itself remains open. (Santa Monica Lookout, September 10, 2025)
- OpenSanta Monica College Mathematics and Science Building. 110,000 square feet with a planetarium and observatory, celebrated November 1, 2025. (SMC, November 3, 2025)
- ProposedSanta Monica College main campus master plan update. About 265,000 square feet in five new buildings over 2025 to 2035, starting with two classroom buildings on Pico. (CEQAnet notice, January 9, 2025; Santa Monica Daily Press, January 29, 2025)
- ApprovedMemorial Park expansion north of Pico at 1401 Olympic Boulevard, from 10.3 to 13.2 acres, with construction possible in 2027. (Santa Monica Daily Press, February 4, 2026)
- OpenEast Pico street project, 27th Street to Centinela, finished with curb extensions and hardened center lines. (Santa Monica Next, February 2026)
- Approved14th Street protected bike lane from Washington Avenue to Pico, approved for design on September 8, 2026, with construction targeted for fall 2028. (Streetsblog LA, September 8, 2026)
- OpenNew places to eat. An Intelligentsia coffee drive-through opened at 3010 Pico Boulevard in March 2026, Santinos reopened at 3021 Lincoln Boulevard, and Pontu opened at 3117 Ocean Park Boulevard. (Daily Coffee News, March 10, 2026; The Infatuation, March and May 2026)
Proposals can be redesigned, delayed or abandoned at any stage, so treat anything marked proposed as a possibility, not a promise.
Public schools with Sunset Park addresses
Sunset Park is in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. Each name below links to the school's official California School Dashboard page. The list comes from the California Department of Education School Directory.
| School | Grades | Address |
|---|---|---|
| Grant Elementary | Preschool to 5 | 2368 Pearl St |
| Will Rogers Elementary | Preschool to 5 | 2401 14th St |
| John Adams Middle | 6 to 8 | 2425 16th St |
Two more serve the area from just outside it: Santa Monica High (grades 9 to 12, 601 Pico Blvd) and Ocean Park School House (grades K to 8, 2526 Sixth St, a school of choice, shown on the 2025 Dashboard under its former name, Santa Monica Alternative K-8).
The school a student is assigned to depends on the exact home address, and the district can place students elsewhere when a school is full. Check any address with the district's school locator. For addresses on the Los Angeles side of the city line, the Los Angeles Unified Resident School Identifier is the tool to use.
Costs that are specific to Santa Monica
Santa Monica charges its own documentary transfer tax on top of the county's. As reported by the law firm Hanson Bridgett in March 2023, the city rate is 0.3% of the price under $5 million, 0.6% from $5 million to $8 million, and 5.6% above $8 million under Measure GS. Four Sunset Park sales this year closed above $5 million. Ask your escrow officer to confirm the current rates and who pays them before you sign.
Nine of the 61 house sales this year were homes built since 2000, and most of the older houses are well under 2,000 square feet. Before you plan a remodel or a rebuild, check the specific lot with the City of Santa Monica's planning staff, which sets the zoning, setbacks, accessory dwelling unit rules and any historic-resource review.
Where my own work fits in
I have no closed sale or lease of my own inside Sunset Park, so every figure on this page comes from the MLS and the public sources listed below, not from my own files. The nearest place I have worked is 10th Street north of Pico, in the Pico neighborhood, where I have handled lease listings. If you want a second opinion on a Sunset Park home, I will pull the closest comparable sales block by block, the same way I built this guide.
Thinking about selling in Sunset Park? Your street matters as much as your square footage here. Start with a free estimate at my home value page, or call or text me at 818-381-9977 and I will run the sales from your own pocket of the neighborhood.
Keep reading
- Santa Monica homes for sale and city guide
- Mid-City, Santa Monica: renter's guide
- All neighborhood guides
Sources and pull dates
- CRMLS Matrix, Residential and Residential Lease searches, City of Santa Monica with a Sunset Park map outline, pulled October 2, 2026.
- Santa Monica Sun, Friends of Sunset Park profile, June 24, 2026; Wikipedia, "Sunset Park, Santa Monica, California."
- U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, City of Santa Monica boundary (used for the listing search outline).
- California Department of Education School Directory and California School Dashboard, checked October 2, 2026.
- News and agency sources as dated in the list of plans above; Museum of Flying (Douglas Aircraft history); 18th Street Arts Center; santamonica.com Clover Park page, July 10, 2026.
The information on this page was compiled from public MLS records and other public sources and is current only as of October 2026. It is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed, and it is not a representation or warranty of any kind. Prices, rents, taxes, rent control status, zoning, school assignments, project plans and neighborhood conditions change over time and can change without notice. The neighborhood outline used for the figures is an approximation. Do not rely on this page for any purchase, sale, lease or financing decision; verify everything that matters to you with the City of Santa Monica, the Rent Control Board, the school district, your own inspection, your escrow and title documents and your lender. Nothing here is legal, tax, financial, insurance or lending advice. All real estate advertised is subject to the federal Fair Housing Act and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act; we do not discriminate and do not support discrimination against any protected class.
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