About the Building
Villa Hamilton Park stands on South Hamilton Drive in the Beverly Hills flats below Wilshire Boulevard, in the 90211 pocket on the city's eastern side. The address is a residential street of low-rise condominium buildings, apartment houses and single-family homes, a short distance from the Wilshire commercial frontage and from the city's eastern boundary with Los Angeles. Everything that follows from being inside that boundary applies: the city's own police and fire departments, its own building and safety division issuing its own permits, and eligibility for the Beverly Hills Unified School District, subject to the district's own enrolment rules.
The building's structure in county records is worth setting out precisely, because the two street numbers cause confusion. There is one condominium tract, No. 62855, and one lot. Twenty-five residential condominium parcels sit under it, in a continuous block of assessment numbers, each legal description reading as an airspace unit together with a one twenty-fifth interest in the common area. Sixteen units carry the 225 South Hamilton address and nine carry 227. The land beneath all of it is recorded at 29,790 square feet. One association, one budget, one insurance policy, one board, two front doors.
The year built is 2011 in the county's record, both for the tract and for the individual homes checked, with no earlier effective year to suggest a conversion. That places the building in a very thin cohort. Very little condominium construction was completed in Beverly Hills in the years immediately after the 2008 crash, which is why a 2011 delivery here is unusual and why the building's code cycle is a genuine point of difference against the 1960s and 1980s stock that dominates these blocks. No architect or developer of record could be verified, and none is named here on the basis of a listing description.
Unit numbering follows the two addresses rather than a single continuous sequence, and it is not uniform. The 225 side carries a 100 series and a 300 series of eight homes each; the 227 side carries three homes each in the 100, 200 and 300 series. That leaves the 225 second floor unaccounted for in the parcel list, which normally means those homes were numbered into another series or that some residences occupy more than one level. A listing source describes the building as four storeys. The recorded condominium plan is where to resolve it.
For a buyer, the practical case for this address is age. A 2011 building was designed and inspected under a code cycle two generations newer than the neighbouring 1961 stock, with subterranean parking, modern waterproofing details, current electrical capacity and, usually, elevator equipment that is not yet at the end of its life. The offsetting consideration is scale: twenty-five owners fund everything, and post-2025 insurance renewals have moved sharply across Southern California. Both of those live in the association's financial statements, which a buyer in escrow is entitled to receive.
Amenities & Services
The Residences
The condominium map creates twenty-five units, each deed carrying a one twenty-fifth undivided interest in the common area, split sixteen at 225 and nine at 227. That split is the useful detail for a buyer: the two entrances are not two buildings with two budgets but one legal association, so a repair on either side is funded by all twenty-five owners. Ask whether the board allocates any cost by address, and read the declaration's provisions on exclusive-use common area before assuming otherwise. Voting, quorum and assessment allocation all run off that single common area interest as well.
County records for individual homes run from a two-bedroom, three-bathroom residence of 1,273 square feet to a three-bedroom, three-bathroom home of 2,309 square feet. That is a wide band for twenty-five units and it means the building is not a single repeated plan. Price per square foot across the building will therefore vary considerably by residence, and comparables drawn from the address as a whole are close to meaningless. Compare within the same size class, and confirm the area on the recorded plan. In a building this small a single unusual sale can distort every automated valuation attached to the address for a year afterwards.
Both of the homes checked in county records carry three bathrooms, on two- and three-bedroom plans. In post-2000 construction that normally means en-suite bathrooms to each bedroom plus a powder room, which is the configuration this generation of buyer expects and the 1960s buildings nearby usually cannot offer without renovation. It is also the reason plans of this vintage consume more floor area for the same bedroom count, so do not read square footage across eras as though it were like for like. A 1,600-square-foot home here and a 1,600-square-foot home from 1961 are not the same brief.
The parcel list shows 100 and 300 series at 225 and 100, 200 and 300 series at 227, with the 225 second floor absent. In a four-storey building that pattern normally indicates either two-level residences or a numbering convention that does not track levels. Establish from the recorded plan which level a given unit number sits on, and while you are there confirm the elevation and orientation of the residence, since on a site of this depth interior-facing homes and street-facing homes are quite different products in light, outlook and noise. Where a home spans two levels, ask how the stair is handled and whether it is counted in the recorded area.
No verified finish schedule exists for this building, and none is invented here. What can be said with confidence is what a 2011 Beverly Hills condominium of this size was normally built with: post-tensioned or conventional concrete podium over subterranean parking, wood or steel framing above, dual-glazed windows, central heating and cooling in each home, in-residence laundry, and fire sprinklers throughout. Verify each of those on inspection, because they set the maintenance profile for the next twenty years far more than any cabinetry does. Ask specifically about the waterproofing membrane over the garage and about how balcony drainage was detailed, the two items that generate most claims in podium buildings.
Listing sources describe subterranean parking behind an automatic gate, with controlled entry, side-by-side spaces and guest stalls, which in a twenty-five-home building of 2011 vintage is consistent with the parking ratios Beverly Hills required at the time. Confirm the count assigned to your residence and whether the spaces are deeded or assigned, then ask about electric-vehicle charging: California obliges associations to permit owner installations on reasonable conditions, but panel capacity in a 2011 garage is finite and early adopters can exhaust it. Ask how many chargers are already installed and whether the board has commissioned a load study for the garage.
Due Diligence
The single most common misunderstanding at this address is that 225 and 227 are separate properties. They are not. County records place all twenty-five units on Tract No. 62855, Lot 1, with a shared common area interest. That means shared reserves, shared master insurance, shared litigation exposure and a single board. When you request the disclosure package, request it for the whole association, and when you review minutes, read the items affecting the other address as carefully as your own.
Civil Code section 5550 requires a reserve study at least every three years with a visual inspection, reviewed annually by the board. In a building of twenty-five homes the elevator, the garage waterproofing, the roof and the exterior envelope are the components that dominate, and each of them is a six-figure item divided twenty-five ways. Ask for the current study, the percent funded figure, and whether the board has adopted the recommended funding plan or a lower one.
Civil Code section 5551 requires associations of three or more units to have exterior elevated elements with load-bearing wood components inspected by a licensed structural engineer or architect, first by 1 January 2025 and then every nine years. A 2011 building will usually pass comfortably, but the report is still the document you want, because it also establishes whether balconies are exclusive-use common area and therefore an association repair rather than an owner one.
Master policy pricing and availability across Southern California moved sharply after the January 2025 fires, and small associations have felt it disproportionately because there are fewer owners across whom to spread a premium increase. Request the current declarations page, the deductible, the loss run and the most recent renewal terms. Then check that the policy still satisfies your lender's requirements, since some carriers have reduced limits or added exclusions at renewal rather than declining the risk outright.
No published rental policy for this association could be verified. California law sets the boundaries: under Civil Code section 4741 an association cannot cap rentals below twenty-five percent of units and cannot prohibit an owner from renting outright, but it may bar tenancies of thirty days or less. Ask for the current rule, the date the board adopted it, and how many homes are presently tenanted, since the answer to the last question affects both the atmosphere and some lenders' willingness to finance.
The city administers its own building and safety function, so permit history, code enforcement records and any structural evaluation for this address sit with Beverly Hills rather than with Los Angeles. That is where to ask what was approved in 2011, whether any subsequent work was permitted, and whether anything is open. For a building this young the file should be short, and a short file is a good sign. Anything unpermitted in a residence becomes your problem on resale.
Civil Code sections 4525 and following require a seller to deliver the governing documents, the current budget, the reserve study summary, the assessment and reserve funding disclosure, insurance summaries, minutes of the last twelve months of open board meetings, and any known litigation. Read the minutes first. They tell you what the building actually argues about, and in a twenty-five-home association a single unresolved dispute can dominate the next several years of budgets.
Beverly Hills Unified serves the city, and residency is the basis of enrolment, but the district has reorganised grade configurations across its campuses more than once in recent years. Listing pages that name a specific elementary school for this address are reporting a snapshot, not a guarantee. If schooling is part of the decision, confirm the current assignment and enrolment process with the district directly, and confirm it again before you remove contingencies.
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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