Hancock Park Real Estate
Hancock Park Real Estate
This guide to Hancock Park real estate covers a residential neighborhood in the Wilshire area of Los Angeles, part of the City of Los Angeles. Wikipedia puts its roughly 1,200 homes within the boundaries of Wilshire Boulevard on the south, Melrose Avenue on the north, Highland Avenue on the west and Rossmore Avenue on the east, and notes that other sources draw its edges a little differently.
It neighbors Larchmont, Windsor Square, Melrose and Hollywood, and its ZIP codes include 90004, 90005, 90010, 90020 and 90036. Read on for the neighborhood’s history, its historic overlay zone, and where to find parks, shopping and dining. Current prices, rents, schools and weather follow, each with its source and date. Hancock Park is one of the communities in the Central Los Angeles section of this site.
Hancock Park Real Estate By The Numbers
Hancock Park
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Schools Near Hancock Park
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The Area Score compares this community with the other Los Angeles-area communities this site covers (the San Fernando Valley, the Westside, central Los Angeles and the Santa Clarita Valley). A community with more than one ZIP code uses all of them: each ZIP code’s home values and rents count in proportion to its number of homes (the Census Bureau’s home counts), and the empty rentals and rental homes of all of them are added together. Each measure is turned into a rank from 0 to 100, then the ranks are averaged. Price Growth is the change in Zillow’s typical home value over the last 12 months. Rent Yield is a year of Zillow’s typical rent divided by the typical home value. Rental Demand is how few rental homes sit empty, from the Census Bureau’s rental vacancy rate (fewer empty rentals ranks higher). If a measure has too little data for an area, it is left out and the score says how many measures it used. The score describes housing-market numbers only. It is not a rating of the people or the neighborhood, and it is not investment advice.
A Short History Of Hancock Park
The neighborhood takes its name from developer and philanthropist George Allan Hancock, who subdivided the property in the 1920s. Housing under the Hancock Park name began around 1919, and the neighborhood surrounds the grounds of the Wilshire Country Club.
The Hancock Park Homeowners Association was established in 1948. The neighborhood also has a place in film history: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? used a McCadden Place house as its title character’s home.
The Hancock Park Historic Preservation Overlay Zone
In 2008 the Los Angeles City Council adopted the Hancock Park Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, known as an HPOZ. City Planning’s Hancock Park page lists the district’s Preservation Plan, its district ordinance, the citywide HPOZ ordinance and a map. It says the zone’s board meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at Marlborough School on South Rossmore Avenue. Read the Preservation Plan for how the overlay applies to a specific property.
Hancock Park Homes And Architecture
Wikipedia describes the homes as two-story, single-family residences in Period Revival styles, including Tudor Revival, English Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Monterey Revival and American Colonial Revival. The vast majority are set back 50 feet from the street, and side driveways generally lead through a porte cochere to a rear garage.
The area includes several Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments, among them the 1928 Queen and Washingtonia Robusta palm trees and median strip, La Casa de las Campanas on North June Street, the 1929 El Royale apartments and the 1930 Ravenswood apartments.
Getting Around Hancock Park
Wilshire Boulevard forms the neighborhood’s southern edge, Melrose Avenue its northern edge, Highland Avenue its western edge and Rossmore Avenue its eastern edge, according to Wikipedia. Larchmont Village, a half-square-mile neighborhood just to the east, lies between Melrose Avenue and Beverly Boulevard. The numbers section shows the closest rail station and its distance.
Parks And Open Space
The neighborhood surrounds the grounds of the Wilshire Country Club. Robert L. Burns Park, at 4900 Beverly Boulevard in nearby Larchmont, is a pocket park with a play area and picnic tables. The park around the La Brea Tar Pits is also called Hancock Park, but it is a separate place from the neighborhood. The numbers section also counts the parks, grocery stores, restaurants and coffee shops within one mile, using OpenStreetMap.
Shopping And Dining
Larchmont Boulevard is lined with shops and restaurants. It runs through Larchmont Village, just east of Hancock Park. Larchmont Village was developed in the late 1800s and was a streetcar suburb of Los Angeles by 1920. It was called Glenwood until it was renamed Larchmont in 1912. Chevalier’s Books, described by Wikipedia as the oldest independent bookstore in Los Angeles, is on its main boulevard.
Library, Schools And Local Groups
The Los Angeles Public Library’s Wilshire Branch is at 149 N. Saint Andrews Place (90004), with street parking, a bike rack, public computers, Wi-Fi and wireless printing. The neighborhood is part of Los Angeles City Council District 5, according to City Planning.
The numbers section lists nearby K-12 and adult schools, colleges and trade schools by distance, with links to their official pages. School attendance areas are set by the school district, so confirm them with the district for any address you are considering.
Look Up A Hancock Park Address
Free public tools from the City and County of Los Angeles let anyone check an address’s zoning and assessment details. ZIMAS is a web-based mapping tool from City Planning that provides zoning information for properties in Los Angeles, including a parcel’s land use and zoning designations. The County Office of the Assessor also has a public portal for property assessment information.
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