Original research · Los Angeles & Ventura counties

Los Angeles and Ventura County real estate statistics

Name: Los Angeles and Ventura County residential agent production and closed sale statistics
Creator: Ascension Estates
Published: 2026-08-19
License: https://ascensionestates.com/terms/

Last updated August 19, 2026. Recalculated from closed sales, not forecasts.

New, September 2026: what 51,502 homes sold for, city by city. Median price, price per square foot and the year over year change for 111 cities, from closed sales.

We keep a working archive of 206,436 transaction sides across 104,995 closed home sales in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, covering closings from July 2024 through August 2026. Most market statistics tell you what homes cost. These tell you something almost nobody publishes: who is actually selling them.

The market is shared by far more agents than it can support

In the twelve months ending August 18, 2026, 51,707 homes closed across the two counties. 30,287 different agents were named on at least one of them.

That is 1.7 sales per agent per year, and averages hide what matters. Here is the actual spread.

Transaction sides closed per agent, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, 12 months ending August 18, 2026
Sides closed	Agents	Share of agents	Share of all business
Exactly 1	13,381	44.2%	13.3%
2	5,717	18.9%	11.3%
3 to 4	5,318	17.6%	17.9%
5 to 9	3,983	13.2%	25.3%
10 to 19	1,488	4.9%	19.1%
20 or more	400	1.3%	13.1%

Source: Ascension Estates archive of CRMLS closings, n = 100,878 transaction sides, 12 months ending August 18, 2026.

The four numbers worth quoting

44.2% of active agents closed exactly one transaction in the last 12 months in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, according to the Ascension Estates archive of 100,878 CRMLS transaction sides.
63.1% closed two or fewer. That is 19,098 of 30,287 agents.
The busiest 400 agents, 1.3% of the total, handled 13.1% of all business.
The top 6.2% of agents handled 32.2% of it, meaning roughly a third of every home sold in these two counties passed through fewer than 1,900 people.

City by city: who actually sells here

The pattern gets sharper the smaller the market. In Calabasas, 274 homes changed hands last year, and 379 different agents were named on them. Three hundred and two of those agents closed exactly one.

Closed sales, agents, and one-and-done rate by city, 12 months ending August 18, 2026
City	Homes sold	Agents involved	Closed exactly one	Median sale price	Median $/sq ft
Woodland Hills	750	1,038	79.3%	$1,224,000	$601
Thousand Oaks	646	802	72.4%	$1,056,250	$539
Westlake Village	391	468	72.4%	$1,425,000	$650
Calabasas	274	379	79.7%	$1,762,500	$658
Agoura Hills	216	318	84.9%	$1,300,000	$576
Hidden Hills	15	20	80.0%	$6,000,000	$1,229

Source: Ascension Estates archive of CRMLS closings. Median price per square foot uses sales reporting a living area above 200 square feet. Hidden Hills closed 15 sales in the period, so treat that row as directional rather than statistical.

More numbers worth quoting

In Agoura Hills, 84.9% of the agents who closed a sale closed only one, the highest one-and-done rate of any city we track.
Calabasas had 1.4 agents for every home that sold in the last 12 months. 379 agents, 274 sales.
Hidden Hills carried a median sale price of $6,000,000 and a median of $1,229 per square foot, roughly double Calabasas per foot, across 15 recorded sales.
Woodland Hills was the busiest market of the six, with 750 closings and 1,038 agents named on them.

What this actually means if you are about to sell

It is not that a first-year agent cannot sell your house. It is that when you interview someone, the base rate says they closed one home last year, and that home was probably not on your street or in your price band.

Ask the two questions the numbers make obvious. How many homes did you close in the last twelve months, and how many of them were in this city? Both answers are checkable against the MLS.

Check it yourself before you pick anyone

You do not have to take our word for any of this. Every tool below runs on the same closed sales. None of them makes you hand over your email to see the answer.

What you would actually keep. Commission, taxes, closing costs, all of it, in real dollars.
Which three fixes lift your price. And which ones are money you never get back.
What you owe when you sell. Most people guess this one wrong, and it is the expensive one to be wrong about.

Want prices instead of tools? See what homes actually sold for in your city, rebuilt every week from closed records. Then read how to pick an agent in the Conejo Valley. Same numbers, one decision.

When you want the number for your own house, get your Free Equity & Exit Report. It shows what your home is worth, from real sales near you, and the exact plan we'd use to sell it. It takes about a minute to ask.

Price reports for every area we track

The numbers above are about who sells. For what homes actually sold for, every city and neighborhood below has its own report, rebuilt every week from the same closed sale records.

Los Angeles neighborhoods, cut to the zip code

A citywide figure for Los Angeles spans neighborhoods with very different price levels, so these are reported by zip code instead.

Every report above is rebuilt weekly from closed sales reported to CRMLS. See the full index of market reports.

Method, and what these numbers do not say

Every figure above comes from closed sale records reported to the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, pulled through the Trestle RESO Web API and deduplicated to one record per sale. Nothing here is modeled, forecast, or estimated.

Three limits worth stating plainly, because a statistic without its caveats is marketing:

A transaction side counts each agent named on a sale. One home with a listing agent and a buyer's agent produces two sides. An agent who represented both counts twice.
City figures measure activity in that city, not a career. An agent with one Calabasas sale may have closed twenty in Santa Monica. That is exactly the point when you are hiring for Calabasas, but it is not a judgment on the agent.
Square footage is as reported to the MLS, and off-market and pocket sales never enter these records at all.

Prepared by Ascension Estates, Cade Cashman and Kurt Mellinger, Equity Union Real Estate, 24151 Ventura Blvd #300, Calabasas, CA 91302. Updated August 19, 2026. Quote any figure on this page with a link back to this URL.