Updated November 9, 2026 | Sources checked November 9, 2026
By Anthony Baharian and Serina Humar
Fountain Avenue runs east-west through West Hollywood, a quieter parallel to Sunset Boulevard a few blocks north. This is not a San Fernando Valley neighborhood, and it is not a hillside canyon. It is a city street of apartment buildings, condominiums and small commercial corners, inside the City of West Hollywood.
At a glance
Location
Fountain Avenue runs east-west through the City of West Hollywood, a quieter parallel to Sunset Boulevard a few blocks north. This is not a San Fernando Valley neighborhood.
What “Fountainview” refers to
Public listing directories identify Fountainview as the name of a condominium community at 8455 Fountain Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90069. It is not a separately mapped neighborhood.
A public stop on the street
The Helen Albert Farmers’ Market is listed every Monday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Plummer Park north parking lot. Los Angeles County’s locator gives the address as 1200 N. Vista St. at Fountain Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90046.
Recent sales snapshot
Median home sale price of $994,526 for the three months ending September 2026, up 4.7% year over year, on Redfin’s West Hollywood city page. Those figures describe the city as a whole, not 8455 Fountain Avenue.
Neighborhood real estate report
These figures describe the City of West Hollywood, not a single building on Fountain Avenue. Redfin reports the three months ending September 2026. Realtor.com shows key indicators as of October 2026. The two sale medians do not match; both are shown, not averaged.
| Measure | Figure | Source, period and geography |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | Redfin: $994,526, up 4.7% from a year earlier. Realtor.com: median sold $1,125,000, down 13.10% year over year. |
Redfin, City of West Hollywood, three months ending September 2026 Realtor.com, West Hollywood, CA, key indicators as of October 2026 (charts through September 2026) |
| Median price per square foot | Redfin: $843, down 0.59% from a year earlier. Realtor.com: $898 per square foot, up 0.45% year over year. |
Redfin, City of West Hollywood, three months ending September 2026 Realtor.com, West Hollywood, CA, key indicators as of October 2026 (charts through September 2026) |
| Homes sold | Redfin: 85, up 13.8% from a year earlier. | Redfin, City of West Hollywood, three months ending September 2026 |
| Median days on market | Redfin: 97 days, down 6 days from a year earlier. Realtor.com: 53 days, down 7.02% year over year. |
Redfin, City of West Hollywood, three months ending September 2026 Realtor.com, West Hollywood, CA, key indicators as of October 2026 (charts through September 2026) |
| Sale-to-list ratio | Redfin: 96.5%, down 0.29 points from a year earlier. Realtor.com: 97% in October 2026. |
Redfin, City of West Hollywood, three months ending September 2026 Realtor.com, West Hollywood, CA, key indicators as of October 2026 (charts through September 2026), sale-to-list stated for October 2026 |
| Inventory | Realtor.com: 319 active listings. | Realtor.com, West Hollywood, CA, key indicators as of October 2026 (charts through September 2026) |
Redfin’s West Hollywood city median sale price for the three months ending September 2026 was $994,526, 4.7% above the same period a year earlier, with 85 sales, 97 median days on market and a sale-to-list ratio of 96.5%. Realtor.com showed a median sold price of $1,125,000, down 13.10% year over year, 53 median days on market, a sale-to-list ratio of 97% in October 2026, and 319 active listings. The pages use different methods and windows; the figures are shown separately.
What “Fountainview” refers to
Fountainview is not a separately mapped neighborhood with its own city boundaries. Public listing directories and map records identify it as the name of a condominium community at 8455 Fountain Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90069 (Map it). The building is a private residential community. It is one way to name this stretch of Fountain Avenue. It is not a public courtyard, park or visitor attraction.
The rest of this piece is about West Hollywood near Fountain Avenue: the public market that actually sits on that street, and the citywide numbers that describe West Hollywood as a whole. If a source was unclear about a smaller named pocket beyond the building itself, the honest frame is the street and the city, not a neighborhood that does not appear on an official map.
A Monday market on Fountain
The City of West Hollywood’s calendar lists the Helen Albert Farmers’ Market every Monday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., including most holidays, rain or shine, year round, at the Plummer Park north parking lot on North Vista Street. Los Angeles County’s locator gives the address as 1200 N. Vista St. at Fountain Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90046 (Map it), with the same Monday hours. The city’s calendar, checked November 9, 2026, listed upcoming dates of November 16, November 23, November 30, December 7 and December 14, each from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. One-hour parking is described as available in the north lot for customers; three-hour parking is listed in the south lot of Plummer Park.
See photos on Yelp.
Vista Street and Fountain Avenue are about a mile east of 8455 Fountain Avenue, on the same street. The market is a West Hollywood event on Fountain, not a lobby amenity at Fountainview. That is still the right test if you are comparing buildings along this corridor: can you walk or make a short drive to a Monday morning market without leaving the street you live on?
The city around that street
West Hollywood is its own city, west of Hollywood and east of Beverly Hills, south of the Hollywood Hills. Fountain Avenue is one of the residential streets that run the width of it. The feel of Fountain Avenue changes by block, especially as you move from the quieter stretches toward the busier north-south streets.
School assignments are by address. Confirm attendance boundaries with the district that serves the specific property rather than assuming a city name, or a building name, equals a particular campus.
What recent sales have looked like
Redfin’s West Hollywood city market page reports a median home sale price of $994,526 for the three months ending September 2026, up 4.7% from the comparable period a year earlier. Source: Redfin calculations of MLS and/or public-record data; checked November 9, 2026. This is the City of West Hollywood as Redfin draws it, not a price for 8455 Fountain Avenue, not a figure for a single condominium community and not a real-time reading. A citywide median mixes very different buildings. Let comparable sales in the same type of home do the pricing work.
A Monday on Fountain
The Helen Albert Farmers’ Market sets up at the Plummer Park north parking lot, 1200 N. Vista St. at Fountain Avenue (Map it), Monday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Vista Street and Fountain Avenue are about a mile east of 8455 Fountain Avenue, on the same street.
If you are comparing a Fountain Avenue building with another West Hollywood street, or trying to decide whether this part of the city fits the way you actually live, reach out to Anthony. Bring the blocks that felt walkable and the ones that felt like more traffic than you wanted.
Would your week on Fountain Avenue be about a short walk to the Monday market, or about a quieter stretch farther from the busier cross streets?
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