Question 1

How many apartments for rent are available in Brentwood, Los Angeles right now?

Accepted Answer

Nearly all of Brentwood's apartment supply was built in one place and one era: the flat corridor between Sunset and Wilshire, in mid-century low-rises and a handful of Wilshire high-rises, with the canyons above Sunset left to single-family houses. That is why roughly half the neighborhood rents while the streets look like they do not, and it is where Roomster's 25 apartments for rent around 90049 are concentrated, along Barrington Avenue, Bundy Drive, Granville Avenue, San Vicente Boulevard and out to Brentwood Glen by the 405. The construction date of a given building is the first thing to establish, because in the City of Los Angeles it determines whether the rent is stabilized.

Question 2

How much does it cost to rent an apartment in Brentwood?

Accepted Answer

Studios average about $2,250 and run from roughly $1,850 to $2,950, one-bedrooms sit near $3,000 with the range stretching from about $1,999 to $4,300 depending on whether you are in a 1960s walk-up or a Wilshire tower, two-bedrooms average close to $4,821, and three-bedrooms around $5,985. Across all sizes the neighborhood averages somewhere between $2,938 and $3,676 depending on whose sample you take, and it moved less than one percent over the past year. To come in under $2,500 a month, work the pre-1978 walk-ups on Barrington Avenue, Bundy Drive and Granville Avenue, and the blocks at the southern boundary where 90049 runs into Sawtelle and West LA.

Question 3

Is there rent control on Brentwood apartments for rent?

Accepted Answer

A great deal of it, and Brentwood produced the case that defined how far a landlord can go to get around it. The City of LA's Rent Stabilization Ordinance covers buildings of two or more units with a certificate of occupancy on or before October 1, 1978, which takes in most of the corridor's mid-century stock. In 2023 the owner of Barrington Plaza, the high-rise complex on Wilshire, invoked the Ellis Act to clear hundreds of rent-stabilized units, and in June 2024 a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled against it, finding the owner meant to renovate and re-let rather than leave the rental business as the Ellis Act requires. On a covered unit the allowable increase is 3 percent through June 30, 2027, and from February 2, 2026 the formula runs at 90 percent of average CPI within a 1 to 4 percent band. Ask for the certificate of occupancy year before you sign.

Question 4

How did the Palisades Fire affect apartments for rent in Brentwood, and is the rent cap still in place?

Accepted Answer

The cap is gone, which changes what you should ask a landlord. After the January 7, 2025 emergency declaration, California's price gouging law and the Los Angeles County ordinance capped residential rent increases at 10 percent above pre-fire levels and barred charging more than 200 percent of fair market rent on a unit that had not previously been listed. Those protections were extended repeatedly and then lapsed on May 29, 2026, sixteen months after the fires, when the county Board of Supervisors could not muster the votes. Brentwood absorbed a large share of displaced Palisades households into an already tight Westside market, so asking rents here carry that pressure. A rent-stabilized unit is still capped by the city ordinance and a newer building is still bound by the state Tenant Protection Act at 5 percent plus CPI, but a vacant market-rate unit is now priced at whatever it will bear.

Question 5

Are there apartments for rent near Brentwood's transit and commute routes?

Accepted Answer

The southern half of the neighborhood is the practical answer today and a much better one in about a year. Wilshire Boulevard carries Metro's Rapid service along the boundary, Metro Line 2 runs Sunset at the top, Big Blue Bus Route 14 covers San Vicente and Montana toward Santa Monica, and the E Line's Expo/Bundy station sits just south in West LA. Under construction now is the Westwood/VA Hospital station on the D Line subway, going in between Bonsall Avenue and the 405 immediately south of Wilshire, scheduled for fall 2027 alongside Westwood/UCLA, which will finally give this part of the Westside a one-seat rail ride to Koreatown and Downtown. If you drive, remember the Sepulveda Pass: an apartment east of the 405 in Brentwood Glen and an apartment west of it are very different commutes at 8am.

Question 6

Are there cheap apartments for rent on the Brentwood and West LA edge?

Accepted Answer

That boundary is the single best value play in this part of the Westside. As 90049 gives way to 90025 around Sawtelle and West LA, the buildings get older and smaller, the streets get denser, and the same square footage drops several hundred dollars a month, largely because the postal address stops saying Brentwood. You keep the San Vicente and Wilshire commutes, you are closer to Expo/Bundy and to the coming VA Hospital station, and Sawtelle's restaurant strip on Sawtelle Boulevard is arguably better than anything in Brentwood Village. If your budget stalls at $2,500 for a one-bedroom, stop filtering strictly on the Brentwood boundary and let the search run a few blocks south.

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