Large Home Price Differences in Hawthorne West or East of the 405 Freeway?
For realtors it’s all about location. The old saying of course is “location, location,
location.” From a real estate market perspective, the Hollyglen/Del Aire area basically consists of two distinct areas….the strip of homes west of the 405 Freeway and the homes East of the 405. Values have always been higher on the west for a number of reasons. All of the homes west of the freeway attend the Wiseburn School District while only about half of the homes east of the 405 do (rest are part of Centinela Valley district). There is less commercial around the neighrhoods on the west.
Here are the numbers for 2018 (only comparing single family homes with 3 beds and 2 baths):
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the full list of the 159 homes that sold in 2018 in Hollygle and Del Aire. The average list price for the year was a pretty impressive $821,000 with an even more impressive average sales prices of $837,000 meaning on average homes sold well higher than list price. That’s especially impressive given that many sellers listed their homes for record numbers.

interesting to consider the numbers for homes east and west of the 405 San Diego Freeway. The freeway cuts down the middle of this area and while some of the homes east of the 405 attend the