About the Building
Hollywood Versailles Tower is a mid-1960s high-rise on the north side of Hollywood Boulevard, near the western end of the Walk of Fame. Public documentation of its origins is genuinely thin: no architect, developer or original owner appears in any accessible design, trade or civic record, and the building does not carry a historic designation that would have produced a survey write-up. Even the construction date is reported two ways, with one listing platform giving 1965 and two others giving 1966. It operates today as a condominium.
The building is thirteen stories and, on the figure published by one listing platform, about 196,595 square feet in total. Homes are condominiums governed by the Hollywood Versailles Tower Homeowners Association. A management directory records Ross Morgan and Company as managing agent since 2021. A tower of this height and vintage in Los Angeles is very likely a concrete-framed structure, which matters for the seismic questions set out below, but no structural description has been published and the framing type should be confirmed from the association's own engineering records.
Listing platforms consistently give 117 units, which across thirteen floors averages roughly nine homes per level. The mix is unusually broad for a single building: studios and one-bedroom homes at one end, three- and four-bedroom penthouses at the other, with published sizes running from about 727 to 3,820 square feet. Penthouses are lettered rather than numbered. Several sources note floor-to-ceiling windows in many homes, with outlook toward the Hollywood Hills to the north and downtown Los Angeles to the east, depending on floor and orientation.
The amenity set is substantial for a building of this age. Published listings describe concierge and doorman coverage, a heated pool with sun deck, a fitness room, a billiards or game room, a sauna, a clubhouse with a common kitchen, a courtyard, and a fire pit with barbecue. Parking is gated with controlled entry, with valet service, electric vehicle charging and guest spaces all reported, and between one and four spaces attaching to a home depending on the unit. One aggregator states dues include concierge, cable, water, trash and clubhouse.
The defining due-diligence issue is seismic. Los Angeles ordinance requires owners of non-ductile concrete buildings, defined as those with permit applications filed before 13 January 1977, to complete a screening checklist within three years, submit engineering or retrofit documentation within ten, and finish any retrofit within twenty-five. A mid-1960s concrete tower sits squarely inside that window. Nothing about this building's compliance status is public, so the association's checklist filing and any engineering report should be requested before an offer, since the cost falls on owners.
Amenities & Services
The Residences
Listing platforms give 117 units across thirteen stories, averaging around nine homes per floor. That is a conventional double-loaded corridor density for a Los Angeles tower of this period and footprint.
The published mix runs from studios and one-bedroom homes to three- and four-bedroom penthouses. That breadth within one association is unusual and produces a correspondingly wide spread in monthly dues between the smallest and largest homes.
Published sizes run from roughly 727 to 3,820 square feet, a more than fivefold spread. Buyers should expect the smallest and largest homes to behave as effectively different markets within the same building.
Several listing sources describe floor-to-ceiling windows in many units, with outlook toward the Hollywood Hills and downtown Los Angeles. Extensive glazing of this vintage is also a recurring maintenance and thermal performance item.
One listing platform gives 1965 and two others give 1966. No primary permit record is accessible online, so the year should be confirmed from the association's records or a title report rather than from listings.
No architect, developer or original owner appears in any accessible design, trade or civic source for this building, and it carries no historic designation that would have generated a survey record. That absence is itself worth noting.
Due Diligence
Listings describe gated parking with controlled entry, valet service, electric vehicle charging and guest spaces, with between one and four spaces attaching to a home. These figures come from aggregators, so verify assignment on the specific unit.
One platform states pets are allowed; another says to call for details on permitted types. Neither is authoritative, so the pet rules should be read directly from the CC&Rs and house rules before any pet-dependent purchase.
Rental caps and minimum terms are not documented publicly. Because the building predates 1 October 1978, the city's housing department lists condominiums among the property types its rent stabilization ordinance can reach; confirm a unit's registration status before leasing.
One aggregator states dues include concierge, cable television, water, trash and clubhouse access. That is an aggregator entry rather than an association statement, so treat it as indicative and request the current budget and disclosure package.
Los Angeles requires owners of concrete buildings permitted before 13 January 1977 to file a screening checklist, then evaluate, then retrofit on a phased timetable. A mid-1960s tower is squarely in scope. Request the association's filing status.
A building of roughly sixty years carries elevator, plumbing riser, glazing and roofing cycles, and potentially a retrofit obligation on top. One management directory rates special assessment risk as medium. Read the reserve study and several years of minutes.
Listings describe concierge and doorman coverage plus an on-site resident manager, with valet parking reported. Continuous desk coverage across 117 homes is more affordable per owner than in a small building, but it remains a major budget line.
No alteration policy is published. In a tower of this age, expect association control over anything touching plumbing risers, electrical capacity, floor assemblies and sound transmission, and expect asbestos and lead screening to be part of any permitted work.
Everything above is drawn from public records, city permit data and published sources. The association’s statutory disclosure package is the only authoritative answer on dues, rules, reserves, insurance and litigation — Ben will request it and read it with you before you remove contingencies.
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