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Julia Zonshine · Los Angeles

Meet Julia

I know how personal this decision actually is.

I’m Julia Zonshine, and before I ever sold a house in Los Angeles, I lived in about six different versions of it. Encino, Downtown, the Eastside, West Hollywood, the Westside hills near Beverly Glen, and now Sherman Oaks, where my husband, our two kids, and I have officially put down roots. That’s not a résumé line, it’s the reason I can tell you the truth about a neighborhood instead of the version that sounds good in a listing.

I’m not going to pretend buying or selling a home isn’t one of the biggest and most personal decisions you can make. I’ve done both, more than once, and I know exactly what it costs you to get it wrong. You get someone who’s already lived the decision you’re about to make, who will tell you when a house isn’t it before you fall for the photos, and who stays close for every part of it that’s harder than it looks on paper.

If that’s the kind of person you want next to you for this, I’m already in.

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In Their Words

My clients say it best.

★★★★★
“My home and all of my personal property were destroyed in the Palisades fire. In the midst of my despair, I was fortunate enough to be referred to Julia… Not only did she listen with empathy to my plight, but she made the entire process seamless… She was instrumental in making my moving forward possible.”
Susan W. · Relocation Client

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A Note from Julia

Home was never automatic for me, so I never treat it that way for you.

I work across the Valley and the Eastside with my team, and after years of living all over this city myself, I care about the details that tell you what it might actually feel like to live somewhere, not just how it photographs online.

The Houses

The stories I keep coming back to.

The homes, clients, and unexpected moments that have made this work mean something to me.

The Sycamore House · $2,820,000

I sold Christopher Lloyd’s house, and lost my mind a little.

A few months ago I sold the Sycamore House, a 1920s Spanish adobe compound in the heart of Hollywood that Christopher Lloyd lovingly transformed and made his own. He left a mould of his own face tucked into the side of the guest house like it was the most normal thing in the world, working with architect Bob DeYoung to reshape the place with organic, Gaudí-inspired lines and a dramatic glass atrium that pulls you straight through the home.

There's truly nothing comparable that's come through the market recently, and I can't recall the last time a home carried this much architectural identity and creative history while still feeling genuinely livable. None of the updates felt forced or disconnected, everything was deeply integrated into the spirit of the house. It's understated from the street, and then the second you step inside it opens completely into this immersive world of curved transitions and layered materials. The breakfast nook in the morning might be my favorite room in any house I've sold, the light pours in and the whole space just feels calm and alive.

A house this specific was never going to be about the highest offer, it was about finding the person who actually understood what they were looking at. It closed at $2.82M, to a buyer who got it completely.

East Glenoaks Boulevard · $2,000,000

A buyer's win in Glendale.

I represented the buyer on 2621 East Glenoaks Boulevard in Glendale, which closed at an even $2,000,000, and this one was genuinely a long time coming. My client saw a lot of houses before this one, more than I could count, and that's okay, because I don't think it matters whether someone sees three houses or thirty, what matters is that they end up exactly where they're supposed to, and that's what happened here.

The transaction itself was clean, and a big part of why is that my team and the listing side went back many years, so there was already trust built in, the kind that comes from already knowing the other agent runs a smooth deal and tells you the truth when something comes up. That relationship mattered more than people realize, because the real work happened after we were already in contract, when a few inspection items turned out to be more complicated than they first looked. Some of what came up was actually still under warranty, and proving that took real digging through paperwork and old records, the kind of thing that gets touch and go for a minute before it resolves. Having that existing trust on both sides is what kept it from turning into a fight instead of a fix.

Where It Started

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Glassell Park

My first house wasn't supposed to be a flip

About ten years ago, right after wrapping my sitcom in Canada, I bought my first house: an old Craftsman in Glassell Park with the beams, the fireplace, and a big front porch. That house is where my love for Craftsmans started. Two days after closing, the cast iron sewer busted, so that was my welcome to homeownership.

Everything else I told myself was just cosmetic. It turned into insulation because the place baked all summer, and a full art studio conversion in the back garage, and about a year and a half of learning what a house actually needs to become itself. None of it was really for me in the end, it was for the person who bought it and inherited all of it.

I sold it, and I never forgot that feeling: taking something that needed some love, that had so much potential, and watching it shine to its full potential. That house prepared me for exactly what I do now. My team and I take something with that same kind of potential, and we finesse it until it gets there, for someone else, every time.

(Not sponsored by Compass Concierge, I promise, but that's exactly the kind of thing it fronts for my sellers now, before they list. Back then, that attic insulation was on me.)

A glass-walled Los Angeles midcentury home with a bright swimming pool overlooking the city

Carol M. Highsmith via Unsplash

The houses I can’t stop thinking about.

I see a lot of Los Angeles homes. This is the running list of the ones that make me stop, at every price point, for reasons that have more to do with character than cost.

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