Winnetka, Los Angeles: Six Kinds of Homes on Old Poultry Colony Land, and What Each One Cost This Year

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

In the 1920s, families paid $1,500 apiece for one-acre poultry farms here in the colony of Charles Weeks, whose motto was "One Acre and Independence." Over the twelve months ending October 14, 2026, the median house inside the same neighborhood sold for $859,385, and the median house lot measured 7,502 square feet. In between, Winnetka filled with several distinct kinds of housing, and each one behaves like its own small market. This guide takes them one at a time.

Closed sales in the MLS residential category inside the Winnetka Neighborhood Council boundary, October 14, 2025 through October 14, 2026. CRMLS Matrix, pulled October 14, 2026. Data as of October 2026.
Kind of home Closings Middle price Middle size Middle market time (days)
Houses built 1950 to 1959 132 $839,000 1,419 sq ft 21.5
Houses built 1960 to 1976 37 $890,000 1,958 sq ft 30
Houses built 1977 to 1999 29 $910,000 2,212 sq ft 25
Houses built before 1950 or after 1999 12 see below see below see below
Condominiums and townhomes 50 $542,500 see below 42.5
Duplex listed in the residential category 1 $529,000 1,678 sq ft 28

All 210 houses together: median $859,385, from $493,750 to $1,400,000, a middle size of 1,647 square feet and a middle lot of 7,502 square feet. Market time here is the MLS cumulative count, which carries over days from earlier listings of the same home. The map search showed 263 closed sales and 262 were exported; the 261 counted here leave out one unit at an address on Community Street west of De Soto Avenue, outside the boundary.

The outline behind every number on this page

Winnetka comes with a mapped border, written into the bylaws of the Winnetka Neighborhood Council. Those bylaws, approved August 1, 2018, put the western line on De Soto Avenue for its full length and the southern line on Victory Boulevard from De Soto to Winnetka Avenue. From there the edge runs a short way north on Winnetka Avenue to the Los Angeles River channel, follows the channel east to Corbin Avenue, runs north on Corbin to Parthenia Street, jogs west on Parthenia to Winnetka Avenue, runs north on Winnetka Avenue to Nordhoff Street and closes along Nordhoff back to De Soto. I traced that outline from the city's neighborhood council map and ran every MLS search inside it.

A city name search would give a different answer. Some homes inside these lines are recorded in the MLS under Canoga Park and a few under Los Angeles. Pierce College, at 6201 Winnetka Avenue in Woodland Hills, is outside the boundary.

From acre farms to the lots that sell today

The Los Angeles City Planning Office of Historic Resources describes the Weeks Poultry Colony as the vision of Charles Weeks, who came to the region at the invitation of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce; CSUN Special Collections and Archives dates that invitation to 1920. The colony, near the town of Owensmouth that is now Canoga Park, took the name Winnetka in 1922 and had nearly 500 families by the mid-1920s. By 1932, during the Depression, most of the farms had gone bankrupt. City Planning notes that the citywide historic survey, SurveyLA, identified surviving colony ranch houses and chicken coops, citing 20303 Stagg Street as one example, though none has been formally designated.

The acre is long gone from the sales records. In this year's 210 house sales, the median lot was 7,502 square feet, only eight houses sold on lots of 12,000 square feet or more, and the largest lot measured 17,326 square feet, well short of the 43,560 square feet in an acre.

Kind one: the 1950s ranch house

Most common
  • 132 sales
  • Median $839,000
  • 1,419 sq ft
  • Lot 7,600 sq ft
  • $557 per sq ft
  • 21.5 days

Almost two of every three houses sold were built in the 1950s. The median one has three bedrooms, and this group had a shorter median time on market than the houses built before 1950, from 1960 to 1976 or from 1977 to 1999. The median was 21.5 days on market, and the middle sale closed at exactly its first asking price: 65 sold above the price they first listed at, 14 at it and 53 below.

The spread inside this group is wide, from $493,750 to $1,400,000. Lurline, Irondale, Haynes, Archwood, Schoolcraft and Sunnybrae each produced several sales from this decade.

Kind two: larger plans from the 1960s and early 1970s

More room inside
  • 37 sales
  • Median $890,000
  • 1,958 sq ft
  • Lot 5,949 sq ft
  • $452 per sq ft
  • 30 days

Houses built from 1960 through 1976 are 539 square feet larger at the median than the 1950s homes, with a median of four bedrooms, but they sit on smaller lots, 5,949 square feet at the median against 7,600. They also sold for less per square foot, $452 against $557. Across this group, 17 sold above their first asking price, 2 at it and 18 below, for a middle result of 100.0 percent. Lanark, Cantara, Lorne and Gifford each had sales from this period.

Kind three: houses from 1977 through 1999 on compact lots

More space per dollar
  • 29 sales
  • Median $910,000
  • 2,212 sq ft
  • Lot 5,652 sq ft
  • $398 per sq ft
  • 25 days

Of the three tract-era groups, houses built from 1977 to 1999 have the largest median floor plan and the smallest median lot. They cost the most in total of the three, yet the least per square foot, $159 less than the 1950s median. More of them sold below the first asking price: 19 of the 29 closed below their first asking price, 8 above and 2 at it, and the midpoint was 98.7 percent of the opening list price. Elkwood, Hemmingway, Laramie, Comanche and Stagg Street all had sales from this era.

Kind four: houses on lots of 12,000 square feet or more

Rare
  • 8 sales
  • Median $998,000
  • Median lot 14,562 sq ft
  • From $875,000 to $1,400,000

Only eight houses sold on lots of 12,000 square feet or more. Three were on Winnetka Avenue itself, and the others were on Parthenia Street, Keokuk Avenue, Comanche Avenue, Quartz Avenue and Lurline Avenue. The highest-priced house sale of the year was one of them: a six-bedroom home of 3,200 square feet on a lot of 14,298 square feet on Lurline Avenue, which closed at $1,400,000. Five of the eight sold above their first asking price.

A deep lot can open the door to an accessory dwelling unit or a small subdivision, but what a specific parcel allows depends on its zoning, setbacks, utilities and city review. Check the parcel in the city's ZIMAS system and talk with the Department of Building and Safety or a licensed professional before you pay for that potential.

The twelve houses at either end of the timeline tell their own story. Eight pre-1950 houses changed hands for a middle price of $875,500 with a middle lot of 9,110 square feet, but they took a median of 72 days and closed at a median of 95.4 percent of their first asking price. Four homes finished in 2000 or later brought a middle price of $969,000.

The 210 houses split by number of bedrooms, same period and source.
Bedroom count Closings Middle price Middle size
2 2 $852,500 1,043.5 sq ft
3 106 $830,000 1,406.5 sq ft
4 86 $902,500 1,879 sq ft
5 or more 16 $997,475 2,299 sq ft

By price, 59 houses sold under $800,000, 74 from $800,000 to $899,999, 50 from $900,000 to $999,999 and 27 at $1,000,000 or more. Across all 210, the median sale closed at 100.0 percent of the first asking price, with 94 above, 18 at and 98 below. Twenty-seven of the house sales came through a trust, a probate estate, a lender after foreclosure, or a property with a recorded notice of default.

Kind five: condominiums and townhomes

Lowest entry price
  • 50 sales
  • Median $542,500
  • From $225,000 to $930,000
  • 42.5 days
  • 98.2% of first ask

Attached and association homes made up about one in five sales. Most of the complexes date from 1971 through 1989, clustered on Keswick Street, Leadwell Street, Cohasset Street, Runnymede Street, Chase Street and Roscoe Boulevard. They took longer to sell than the houses did.

The 50 attached and association sales split by number of bedrooms.
Bedroom count Closings Middle price Middle size
Studio or 1 5 $295,000 630 sq ft
2 19 $510,000 1,133 sq ft
3 23 $575,000 1,586 sq ft
4 3 $699,000 1,889 sq ft

Seven of the 50 were detached homes inside an association rather than shared-wall units, built from 1988 to 2016, and their median was $700,000. The newest were two 2016 homes on Lila Place and Dampa Lane that closed at $775,000 and $760,000, and three sales came from a 2003 community at 20300 Vanowen Street, between $675,000 and $700,000.

Monthly dues, what they cover, reserve strength, rental rules and any special assessments differ from one association to the next and change over time, so read the association documents and the budget in the disclosure package before you commit.

Kind six: two to four units

Sales of small income properties were few inside the boundary. The MLS shows three closed sales of two-to-four-unit buildings during the year: a duplex on Penfield Avenue at $1,120,000, which was also listed as a house and is counted in the house figures above, and two triplexes on Lubao Avenue, built in 2023 and 2024, which closed at $1,700,000 and $1,750,000. A duplex on Welby also sold in the residential category for $529,000.

Leasing in Winnetka: 170 signed rentals

The CRMLS rental search on the same outline shows 170 leases closed from October 14, 2025 through October 14, 2026, at a median of $3,700 a month, ranging from $1,490 to $6,800, and a median of 36.5 days on the market.

Closed leases inside the Winnetka Neighborhood Council boundary, CRMLS Matrix, pulled October 14, 2026.
Rental Leases Median monthly rent
Studio or 1 bedroom, any kind of unit 35 $2,000
House, 3 bedrooms 42 $3,812.50
House, 4 bedrooms 34 $4,270
House, 5 or more bedrooms 7 $5,445
All 96 detached house leases 96 $3,995
Condominium or townhome, any size 10 $3,097.50

The median studio or one-bedroom rental measured 464 square feet. Owners who rent out property here should know two points from the Los Angeles Housing Department. Its Rent Stabilization Ordinance can reach rental property first built no later than October 1, 1978, and covered units may be raised by up to 3 percent between July 1, 2026 and June 30, 2027. Some properties are exempt, among them certain single-family homes, so ask the department whether a specific property is covered before you set or raise a rent.

What you can tour this week

Running the identical outline for current listings on October 14, 2026 returned 66 active, 2 coming soon, 9 active under contract and 17 pending. The 38 active houses carried a middle ask of $999,000, from $669,900 to $1,649,950, and the 28 active attached homes a middle ask of $397,000, from $229,000 to $625,000.

Both links below open the site's home search fenced to the same outline. Results update as homes are listed and sold, so they will not match the totals above. Filter by price or bedrooms, then press Save Search if you want new matches by email.

Winnetka homes for sale Winnetka homes for rent

Plans, construction and closures around Winnetka

Next to each item is its status as of the dated report I cite, and any of them can change afterward. A filed proposal may be revised or abandoned, and even an approved project may never break ground.

  • Proposed as of July 202620160 Roscoe Boulevard. A six-story mixed-use building with 113 apartments, 14 reserved as very low income units, about 2,800 square feet of commercial space and 127 parking spaces, filed with the city in July 2026. Urbanize LA, July 28, 2026.
  • Proposed as of September 20267032 Cozycroft Avenue. Five single-family homes and three junior accessory units on a lot of about 7,600 square feet, filed in September 2026 under the state's SB 1123 small-lot law. Urbanize LA, September 13, 2026.
  • Under constructionG Line bike path, Canoga Avenue to Winnetka Avenue, beside the southern boundary. Metro is improving the path with solar lighting, repaving and restriping, with cyclists detoured to the LA River Greenway through November 2026 and the overall work anticipated to continue through January 2027. Metro construction notice and community meeting presentation, September 2026.
  • Under constructionBusway crossing and signal upgrades along the G Line. Gated street crossings are tentatively scheduled for winter 2026 to 2027 and signal work for mid-2027, with bike racks planned at the De Soto and Pierce College stations. Metro, September 2026.
  • Installed 2024Roscoe Boulevard bus lanes. Bus-priority lanes, mostly in effect during weekday peak hours, were striped in August 2024 on Roscoe, which crosses the neighborhood, as part of Metro's North San Fernando Valley transit corridor, which Metro still lists as under construction with completion estimated in 2026. Streetsblog Los Angeles, August 29, 2024; Metro.
  • Under construction as of June 2026Industrial Technology Building, Pierce College, south of Victory. A single-story building of 51,000 square feet, which the college district reported as on track to open for classes in fall 2027 and, in June 2026, about 35 percent complete. Los Angeles Community College District bond program reports, May 22 and June 19, 2026.
  • Closed, temporaryCanoga Park Branch Library, 20939 Sherman Way. The branch is closed September 8 through November 3, 2026 for roof work. Los Angeles Public Library.

Public schools inside the Winnetka boundary

Eight active public schools have street addresses inside the boundary, according to the state School Directory kept by the California Department of Education. Click a name to open that school's report on the state Dashboard.

No public high school has an address inside the boundary. One nearby public high school is Canoga Park Senior High, grades 9 through 12, at 6850 Topanga Canyon Boulevard. Being close to a campus does not decide where a student is assigned. Enter the exact address in the LAUSD Resident School Identifier and confirm with the district.

Parks, transit and the freeway

Winnetka Recreation Center, 8401 Winnetka Avenue, has an indoor gym, an auditorium, a lighted baseball diamond, a children's play area and picnic tables, according to the city's Recreation and Parks department. Runnymede Park, 20200 Runnymede Street, covers about 5.93 acres with tennis courts, a play area and picnic tables, and the city finished a new playground there in its first phase of upgrades in 2023.

The Metro G Line busway has its Pierce College station at 6424 and 6425 Winnetka Avenue and its De Soto station at 20851 and 20901 Victory Boulevard. Metro bus lines 242 and 243 run on Winnetka Avenue, line 162 on Sherman Way, line 152 on Roscoe Boulevard and line 166 on Nordhoff Street. Caltrans lists Winnetka Avenue as exit 25 on the Ventura Freeway (US 101), south of the neighborhood.

My own Winnetka files

My Winnetka work covers both houses and condominiums. On Bryant Street, I represented the buyer of a house in 2015 and then listed and sold that same house for that client in 2018. On Casaba Avenue, I represented buyers in 2021. On the condominium side, I represented buyers in complexes on Leadwell Street and Cantara Street in 2013, and on Cozycroft Avenue I leased a unit for its owner in 2018 and later sold it for the same owner in 2021. Those three complexes all had resales during the past year, so I can speak to how they compare.

Selling a Winnetka house? Price it against its own kind

A 1950s ranch, a 1980s house on a compact lot and a house on a deep lot each sold on different terms this year, so a ZIP code average can mislead you. Request a home value report and I will compare your home with closed sales of the same era, size and lot type. Prefer to talk it through? Call or text 818-381-9977.

More nearby: the Winnetka homes for sale page, Canoga Park, Reseda, Northridge, the Northridge rental guide, Warner Center, Walnut Acres, the Chatsworth guide and every area on the neighborhood guides page.

Sources and the dates I checked them

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, rent rules, association dues and rules, zoning, development plans, transit service, school assignments and neighborhood boundaries change over time and can change without notice. Do not rely on this page for any purchase, sale, lease or financing decision; verify everything that matters to you through your own inspections, the disclosure package, the association documents, the preliminary title report, the county tax records, the City of Los Angeles, your insurance agent 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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