Walnut Acres, Woodland Hills: Nine Things People Say, Checked Against the Records

Written by Antonio Vaziri, Realtor, Epique Realty, DRE #01927866 · Last updated September 2026

One. Out of 76 homes that closed escrow in and around Walnut Acres over the past year, exactly one sat on a full acre of land. Ask almost anyone about this corner of the West Valley and "acre lots" comes up first, so that single number is a good place to start testing what people believe about it.

Walnut Acres carries a reputation that runs ahead of its paperwork. Buyers arrive expecting an official neighborhood with fixed borders, horse rights on every parcel, prices that start in the millions and streets that have not changed in seventy years. Parts of that picture are accurate on certain blocks and plainly wrong on others. For this guide I went through closed MLS sales, the City of Los Angeles zoning layer, the Los Angeles Municipal Code, City Clerk council files and the state school directory, and I took the claims one at a time. When a record settles a question, the answer below says so. When no record does, the answer says that instead.

CRMLS Matrix, closings from September 29, 2025 through September 28, 2026 inside the working area described under claim one; pulled September 29, 2026.

A word about my own experience here. The Woodland Hills deals I have handled personally were condominium sales and leases at The Met in Warner Center, a couple of miles east. I have not closed a transaction inside Walnut Acres, so nothing on this page rests on anecdote. Every figure comes from a record you can check, and each record is named at the bottom.

Claim one: the city drew official boundaries for Walnut Acres

Walnut Acres is an official Los Angeles neighborhood, and the lines are on file downtown.

In August 2018 an application asked the City of Los Angeles to formally name the community "Walnut Acres." It became Council File 18-0832 in Council District 3 and came with a map of a proposed area dated September 2018. The file moved between Council committees three times and then, on April 6, 2022, expired under Council policy without any vote. The city never adopted a name or a line.

Private descriptions fill the gap, and they do not match. A December 2020 agent article places the "Estates" portion between Oxnard and Sylvan streets on the north, Burbank Boulevard and the Calabasas Creek wash on the south, Manton and Woodlake avenues on the west and Sale Avenue on the east. A 2019 post puts the east edge at Fallbrook Avenue instead. Other sites run the north edge all the way up to Victory Boulevard.

For every number on this page I used one working area: Victory Boulevard on the north, Burbank Boulevard on the south, Platt Avenue on the west and Sale Avenue on the east. The published versions I found fall inside it. A house outside those streets that its owner calls Walnut Acres is not being described wrongly; it simply is not part of my count.

Claim two: every lot out here is an acre

Everything in Walnut Acres sits on an acre, or close to it.

An acre is 43,560 square feet. Among the 76 closed sales, one lot cleared that mark, at 53,709 square feet. Fourteen measured half an acre (21,780 square feet) or more. Thirty-four came in under 10,000 square feet, most of them on the grid of tract streets near Victory Boulevard (Friar, Styles, Glide, Le Sage and Bessemer), where the MLS lists 1959 as the typical year built and lots of roughly 7,000 to 8,000 square feet. The large parcels sit on stretches of Hatteras, Califa, Collins, Erwin, Calvert and Oxnard streets.

Closed residential sales in the working area, September 29, 2025 through September 28, 2026. Source: CRMLS Matrix, pulled September 29, 2026. Lot sizes are as reported on each MLS record.

Look at the bottom row. One parcel of more than 38,000 square feet closed at $1,005,000, below the median for the smallest lots. In this set, land alone did not decide the price; the size, age and condition of the house carried a lot of weight.

Claim three: any property here can keep horses

Walnut Acres is horse zoning, so bring the horse trailer.

I placed each of the 76 sold addresses on the map and matched it against the City of Los Angeles zoning layer published on GeoHub (checked September 29, 2026). Five different zones turned up:

A map point can land on the wrong side of a zone line. Confirm any single parcel in ZIMAS before relying on it.

The RA zone is the one people mean when they talk about horses. Section 12.07 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code allows equines, cattle and goats in RA only on lots of 17,500 square feet or more, and caps equines or cattle at one for every 4,000 square feet of lot area. Of the 34 RA sales, 21 reported lots of at least 17,500 square feet. That puts roughly 21 of the 76 homes in the position the reputation describes. The other zones carry their own rules, and setbacks, permits and anything recorded against the title still apply. If animals are the reason for a purchase, confirm the parcel with City Planning and the Department of Building and Safety, and consult an attorney about your specific situation.

Claim four: nothing here sells below a few million dollars

You need several million just to get in.

The middle sale of the year closed at $1,347,500. Fourteen of the 76 closed under $1,000,000, the lowest at $772,500 for a 1959 three-bedroom on Victory Boulevard. Twenty closed at $2,000,000 or more, with a top of $5,900,000 for a house finished in 2024. The median home measured about 2,180 square feet, and the median price worked out to roughly $668 per square foot. Here, a three-bedroom under a million dollars and a newly built estate house can sit only a few blocks apart.

Claim five: it is all 1950s ranch houses, frozen in time

Nothing gets built in Walnut Acres; it is the same houses from the fifties.

The fifties do dominate. By MLS year built, the 76 sales break down like this: 7 from the 1940s, 39 from the 1950s, 14 from the 1960s, 6 from the 1970s, 5 from the 1980s through the 2000s, and 4 completed in 2024 or 2025 (one record listed no year). Those four new houses closed between $4,600,000 and $5,900,000 during 2026.

More replacement is lining up. The Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council's land use committee agenda for May 21, 2026 listed demolition permits for 22660 Calvert Street and 23224 Burbank Boulevard, both inside or on the edge of the working area. On streets like these, change tends to arrive one teardown at a time rather than as a single project.

Claim six: homes here sit unsold for months

Walnut Acres listings go stale; sellers wait forever.

Median time on market was 26 days. Twenty-nine of the 76 homes went under contract in 14 days or less, while 13 needed more than 90. As of September 29, 2026 the MLS showed 23 active listings, 1 coming soon, 2 active under contract and 1 pending in the working area. Active asking prices ran from $1,049,000 to $6,995,000 with a median ask of $2,250,000, well above the year's median sale. That gap says more about the mix of houses on the market right now, which leans toward larger properties, than about where values are heading.

Claim seven: nobody rents in Walnut Acres

It is all owners; there is nothing to lease.

CRMLS recorded 56 closed home leases in the working area over the same twelve months (two room or mixed-use rentals are left out of the figures below). The midpoint rent was about $5,100 a month, and the median lease took 31 days to fill. Nine of the leased units measured 750 square feet or less, and several carried a unit letter or an ADU label, which points to second units built on larger lots.

Closed residential leases, September 29, 2025 through September 28, 2026. Source: CRMLS Matrix, pulled September 29, 2026. On that date 17 lease listings were active or coming soon.

Claim eight: the walnut orchard history is documented fact

This was the Diamond Walnut orchard, the biggest in the world.

Several local real estate sites repeat that the Diamond Walnut company once grew walnuts on this land, and one calls it the largest walnut grove anywhere. I could not locate a primary record, such as a county map, a grower's archive or a dated newspaper account, that ties those orchards to these particular streets. Until one surfaces, treat the story as neighborhood lore. If you hold a document that settles it, send it over and I will add it here with credit.

Claim nine: nothing around Walnut Acres is changing

This one fails fastest. Within a few miles, the West Valley has projects in every stage, from rubble to finished towers. Next to every entry you will find a status label and the date of the report it comes from.

• ProposedRams Village at Warner Center, about a mile and a half east. The Promenade mall was demolished in 2026 to clear the site. Plans reported in August 2026 describe more than 3,100 homes, a hotel tower and two indoor entertainment venues. The project had not been approved as of that report.
• ProposedViva L.A. at Warner Center, 6400 Canoga Avenue. 3,458 affordable senior apartments in four towers of 34 to 42 stories. City Planning case filed May 7, 2026 and shown as on hold in a July 28, 2026 report.
• Approved6464 Canoga Avenue. 276 apartments by Toll Brothers, approved by the City Council on December 4, 2025 (Council File 25-1186).
• Under constructionWisteria at Warner Center, 5500 Canoga Avenue. A 647-unit senior living community, still marketed as coming soon in September 2026.
• Proposed5328 N. Topanga Canyon Boulevard. A six-story building with 50 affordable studio and one-bedroom units (Urbanize LA, January 23, 2024), listed again on the neighborhood council's land use agenda on May 21, 2026.
• Proposed6540 Shoup Avenue, just north of Victory Boulevard. A vesting tentative tract described on the May 21, 2026 land use agenda as a lot split into ten.
• Proposed22660 Calvert Street and 23224 Burbank Boulevard. Demolition permits listed on the same May 21, 2026 agenda.
• Under constructionPierce College Academic East Building. 56,000 square feet for math, psychology and computer science; ground broke in October 2024 with completion targeted for early 2026 (Urbanize LA, October 23, 2024). Check with the college for the current status.
• ClosedNeiman Marcus at Westfield Topanga closed in May 2026, and the Topanga Social food hall closed on April 14, 2026.
• ProposedSaint & Second at Topanga Village, 6220 Topanga Canyon Boulevard, reported in July 2026 as preparing to open in the former Lucille's space.
• OpenUCLA Health West Valley Medical Center, 7300 Medical Center Drive, West Hills. The former West Hills Hospital, acquired by UCLA Health on March 28, 2024 and renamed.

Proposals change, shrink, stall or disappear. Nothing on this list is a promise that it will be built, opened or finished on any particular schedule.

Public schools with addresses in and beside the working area

The California Department of Education School Directory (checked September 29, 2026) lists these active public schools at or next to the streets covered here. Each name links to its official California School Dashboard report.

A school's address and a home's assignment are two different things. Attendance follows the exact property address, and charter and magnet programs set their own enrollment rules. Enter a specific address in the LAUSD Resident School Identifier to see which schools serve it.

Parks, trails, hospitals and the freeway, located on the map

• Woodland Hills Recreation Center, 5858 Shoup Avenue, a few blocks east of Sale Avenue: a public pool, tennis and basketball courts, baseball fields, play areas and a community building, run by Los Angeles Recreation and Parks.
• Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve: its main trailhead sits at the far west end of Victory Boulevard. The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy bought the former Ahmanson Ranch land in 2003, and the preserve covers about 2,983 acres.
• Hospitals: Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills at 5601 De Soto Avenue, and UCLA Health West Valley Medical Center at 7300 Medical Center Drive in West Hills.
• Shopping: Westfield Topanga at 6600 Topanga Canyon Boulevard, with Topanga Village beside it, a few minutes east.
• Freeway: the Ventura Freeway (US 101) runs south of the area, reached from Shoup Avenue, Topanga Canyon Boulevard or Valley Circle Boulevard.

See what is for sale or for lease inside the same lines

Both searches below are drawn to the same Victory, Burbank, Platt and Sale outline used for the numbers on this page. On September 29, 2026 they returned 30 homes for sale and 23 for lease.

To hear about a new listing the day it appears, open either search and tap "Save Search." You will get an alert whenever something inside the outline comes up, or you can simply tell me what you are after and I will watch for it.

More on the surrounding area: the Woodland Hills homes for sale page, the Warner Center price guide, The Met Warner Center condo guide, selling a Woodland Hills home and the full list of neighborhood guides.

Records consulted for this page

• CRMLS Matrix: residential sales and residential leases, closed within 365 days, filtered by a map outline of Victory Blvd, Sale Ave, Burbank Blvd and Platt Ave; active, coming soon, under contract and pending counts. Pulled September 29, 2026.
• City of Los Angeles Office of the City Clerk, Council File 18-0832, Walnut Acres community naming (received August 29, 2018; expired April 6, 2022).
• City of Los Angeles GeoHub zoning polygons, checked September 29, 2026; Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 12.07, RA Suburban Zone.
• California Department of Education, California School Directory, checked September 29, 2026.
• Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council, Planning, Land Use and Mobility Committee agenda, May 21, 2026.
• Urbanize LA (January 23, 2024 and October 23, 2024); City Planning case record for 6400 Canoga Avenue as reported July 28, 2026; Council File 25-1186; local reporting on Rams Village (August 2026), Westfield Topanga and Topanga Village (April to July 2026).
• Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and public descriptions of the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve; Los Angeles County facility locator for the Woodland Hills Recreation Center.
• Agent articles describing Walnut Acres boundaries, published 2019 and December 2020, cited only to show how descriptions differ.