Rolling Hills Estates
Rolling Hills Estates is a city on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, California. It sits inland from the coast and carries a wider mix of housing types than the other Peninsula cities, including a substantial share of condominiums and townhomes alongside its detached homes.
What do homes cost in Rolling Hills Estates?
Over the twelve months ending August 2026, detached homes in Rolling Hills Estates sold at a median price of $2,684,000 and an average price of $2,751,710, across 56 closed sales. The median price per square foot was $856.
| Rolling Hills Estates | Twelve months ending August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Median sale price | $2,684,000 |
| Average sale price | $2,751,710 |
| Median price per square foot | $856 |
| Closed sales | 56 |
| Median days on market | 17 |
| Median share of original list price | 98.0% |
| Months of inventory | 3.1 |
These figures cover detached homes. Rolling Hills Estates carries a larger share of attached housing, condominiums and townhomes, than the other Palos Verdes cities, and that part of the market prices differently.
Average and median describe the same market differently. The average is every sale added together and divided by the number of sales, so a small number of high-value homes lifts it. The median is the middle sale, so the median stays closer to the typical home. Both are shown here. Why the two numbers differ, and which one to use.
How quickly do homes sell in Rolling Hills Estates?
Detached homes in Rolling Hills Estates sold in a median of 17 days over the twelve months ending August 2026, at a median 98.0% of original list price. Both figures are the strongest of the Palos Verdes cities tracked on this site: Palos Verdes Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes both recorded 21 days, at 96.7% and 96.9% of original price respectively. Inventory in Rolling Hills Estates stood at 3.1 months.
Why are prices so consistent in Rolling Hills Estates?
The average sale price in Rolling Hills Estates ran 2.5% above the median over the twelve months ending August 2026. That is the narrowest spread of any Palos Verdes market measured here, against 9.4% in Rancho Palos Verdes and 27.3% in Palos Verdes Estates. A gap that small means detached sales in Rolling Hills Estates cluster tightly around the middle of the market, with few outliers pulling the average away from it. For a seller, it means comparable sales in Rolling Hills Estates are unusually reliable guidance.
What MLS areas make up Rolling Hills Estates?
Rolling Hills Estates does not map cleanly onto a single MLS area. Its inventory is spread across MLS areas 165 (PV Drive North), 174 (Crest), 175 (Peninsula Center) and 176 (Silver Spur), and each of those areas also contains Rancho Palos Verdes inventory. A search fenced to any one of those areas will return homes in both cities.
MLS area 175 has its own page: Peninsula Center.
What schools serve Rolling Hills Estates?
Rolling Hills Estates is served by Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District. Attendance areas vary by address.
School attendance boundaries are subject to change and are not guaranteed. You are advised to verify current attendance areas, enrollment eligibility, and all school information directly with the school district for any specific address.
Working in Rolling Hills Estates
Chhabria Real Estate has sold the Palos Verdes Peninsula for forty years from an office at 717 Yarmouth Road. In Rolling Hills Estates the practical difficulty is that the city shares every one of its MLS areas with Rancho Palos Verdes, so pulling comparable sales requires knowing which side of a boundary a property sits on.
Source: California Regional MLS (CRMLS), via InfoSparks. Residential detached homes, rolling twelve months ending August 2026, reported by city. Refreshed quarterly. Market statistics describe cities and neighborhoods, not individual homes, and no figure here is an appraisal or opinion of value for any specific property.