About the Building
The Wilshire Thayer was completed in 1981, though at least one listing service records 1982, at the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Thayer Avenue in Westwood. It arrived a decade after the corridor's first tower wave, and it looks different from its neighbours: red brick cladding in place of the corridor's usual stucco and glass, a treatment listing sites describe as one of only two brick buildings on the corridor, often compared by brokers to New York apartment houses. The architect and developer are not publicly recorded, so the building's identity rests on its form rather than its paperwork.
The tower stands fifteen storeys by most accounts, thirteen in one aggregator's description, and holds about fifty units, an unusually low count for its height that works out to only three or four homes per floor. The main entrance sits on Thayer Avenue rather than Wilshire itself, which listing descriptions note makes arriving and leaving easier than pulling directly off the boulevard. Parking is subterranean behind a controlled entrance, with valet service documented. The structural system behind the brick is not publicly described, though the 1981 date places it outside the city's pre-1977 concrete-retrofit screening window.
Two-bedroom plans dominate the published record, with recent listings running from about 1,711 to 2,146 square feet, roughly double the unit sizes at the corridor's early-1970s towers. One brokerage source states that many units are two-storey condominiums with balconies, a townhouse-in-the-sky format that is rare on the corridor, though the number of such units is not documented. With around fifty homes in total, each floor plate carries only a few residences, and published floor plans are scarce; buyers should expect to learn the layouts building-by-building through showings rather than marketing archives.
Service runs deeper than the building's size suggests: listing services document a doorman, valet and concierge with twenty-four-hour security, plus a banquet or party room, meeting room and exercise room. There is no pool, a point one brokerage page states explicitly, which distinguishes the Thayer from most corridor towers and keeps the amenity load, and presumably its costs, focused on staff rather than facilities. Dues amounts and inclusions are not published, and neither is the master insurance position, so the disclosure package must fill in what the dues actually buy at this staffing level.
In the corridor market the Thayer occupies a distinct niche: a small-count building with large, sometimes double-height units, full front-door staffing and a brick identity that photographs unlike anything nearby. Its 1981 date also matters practically, placing it outside both the city's non-ductile concrete ordinance window and the pre-October 1978 scope of the Rent Stabilization Ordinance. With only fifty units, resale inventory is genuinely scarce, often just a listing or two per year, so buyers targeting the building specifically should expect to wait, and sellers benefit from the same scarcity when they do come to market.
Amenities & Services
The Residences
Recent listings run from roughly 1,711 to 2,146 square feet, all two-bedroom configurations. These are among the larger standard plans on this stretch of the corridor, sized closer to houses than to the 1970s towers nearby.
One brokerage source states many units are two-storey condominiums with balconies, an unusual format for the corridor. How many exist and where they sit in the tower is undocumented, so confirm the layout of any specific listing.
Fifty units across a fifteen-storey tower means only three or four residences per level. That yields short corridors, few shared walls and a quieter building than the ninety-unit slabs of the corridor's first generation.
Balconies appear in listing descriptions alongside the two-storey plans. The brick exterior frames deeper window reveals than the corridor's glass towers, and outlooks split between Wilshire frontage and the residential streets south toward Westwood's single-family blocks.
The lobby faces Thayer Avenue rather than Wilshire, which listing sites note simplifies coming and going. Guests and deliveries arrive off the side street, a practical difference from towers whose motor courts open onto the boulevard.
As a 1981 building, interiors range from original finishes to current remodels. Large plans reward renovation spending, and the double-height units in particular vary widely in how owners have treated stairs, ceilings and upper-level rooms.
Due Diligence
Subterranean parking with assigned spaces sits behind a controlled entrance, and valet service is documented by listing services. The number of stalls per unit and guest arrangements are not published; confirm both for any specific unit.
Listing services state pets are allowed. Size and count limits, and any breed rules, are not published anywhere authoritative, so request the association's current rules and CC&Rs before relying on the aggregator summary.
No rental cap or minimum lease term is publicly documented. The building's post-1978 date places rented units outside the LA Rent Stabilization Ordinance's scope. Association-level rental rules must come from the CC&Rs and a lender questionnaire.
Dues amounts and inclusions are not published. With a doorman, valet, concierge and twenty-four-hour security across only fifty units, staffing costs spread over few owners, so scrutinise the budget and reserve funding closely in disclosures.
Permitted in 1981, the building post-dates the January 13, 1977 cutoff for the city's non-ductile concrete retrofit ordinance and sits outside that program. It still predates post-Northridge code changes; no published engineering assessment exists, so ask about voluntary studies.
No capital projects are publicly documented. For a 1981 tower the standard questions are elevators, brick facade maintenance and waterproofing, roofing and risers; the reserve study and recent board minutes are the documents that answer them.
Listing services document a doorman, valet, concierge and twenty-four-hour security, a full front-of-house roster for a fifty-unit building. Whether management is on site is not published; staffing depth is the building's main service claim, so verify it.
Remodels need association approval and city permits; the Thayer's specific alteration rules are unpublished. Two-storey units add structural questions around stairs and ceilings, so any plans to reconfigure a duplex plan warrant early conversations with the board.
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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