Topanga Real Estate Agents

Find Your Perfect Home in Topanga

Topanga is an incredible creative community located in the Santa Monica Mountains just minutes from world-famous Malibu beaches.  If you love art and nature, Topanga is the perfect place to call home.  The Donohoe Group can help you navigate the often complex Topanga real estate market and find your dream home in this stunning, one-of-a-kind neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Dell Miller
Dell Miller
My husband and I loved working with Nick and Shawn. We recommend the Donohoe Group to all of our friends that are looking for a new home. Nick is an expert negotiator and worked tirelessly to make sure we got the best deal. And they both were really great at communicating with us throughout every step of the transaction. They are professional, diligent, and trustworthy. A combination that is very hard to come by in Los Angeles. Hire the Donohoe Group, you won’t regret it.
Bianca Modoc
Bianca Modoc
Shawn and Nick did such a great job helping us find our first home. Through lots of indecision on our part, they were patient, kind and knowledgeable in leading us down the right path. We are so happy with our beautiful home and neighborhood and grateful for The Donohoe Group.
Maddie Cook
Maddie Cook
The Donohoe group helped me buy my first home! They are the best team to work with. Shawn and Nick are dedicated, professional and top tier negotiators. I couldn't imagine taking on this feat with anyone else by my side! i'm so glad I found my dream real estate team in LA.
Cynthia Turnbow
Cynthia Turnbow
Working with Nicolas and Shawn Donohoe of the Donohoe Group is like a dream. They are extremely knowledgeable, organized and have a high degree of professionalism and success. It is an honor and privilege to work with them!
Noushad Simno
Noushad Simno
If there is anything that you need taken care of, this is the place to go. Without a question
John Rogers
John Rogers
We loved working with the Donohoe group. They are the most professional people we have ever Worked with. Their experience and background really sets them apart. They are dedicated to excellence and has made our experience with them wonderful. The Donohoe‘s are not only superior sales people but they are Amazing people to know. They made great suggestions and led us to a wonderful And very successful selling experience. We highly recommend them!
Molly Stillman
Molly Stillman
My experience with the Donohoe Group was incredible, they are the most inviting, warm, reliable and helpful people. They are extremely knowledgable and provide an incredible service. I couldn’t recommend them more!!
Erica Arana
Erica Arana
Nick and Shawn are so helpful. We just love them. It’s a pleasure to work with them. They are so knowledgeable, attentive and efficient. Helped us achieve all of our dreams fast. Team Donohoe!
Annie Edwards
Annie Edwards
Shawn and Nick are the consummate professionals-and amazing real estate agents. They sold my house in 1 day-after another agent had it for six months. Shawn came in and gave the house a mini makeover -she has a great eye. I have used them for 5 real estate transactions -definitely my go to team!

Be Inspired Every Day in Topanga

Topanga, which is in the Santa Monica Mountains and is known for its creative community, is one of the most popular places in Los Angeles for people who like art and the outdoors. Even though LA has a vast array of entertainment options available to you, you’d be remiss to pass up the chance to check out this hidden group of state parks, cafes, and restaurants—especially since everything is located only 20 minutes outside of the city.

The best activities in Topanga right now range from a world-famous open-air theater to a charming café with breathtaking canyon views.

Hollywood celebrities began using Topanga Canyon as a weekend getaway in the 1920s as a result of the construction of several cottages there. Rolling hills and lots of plants gave rich and famous people privacy and a beautiful place to live. Topanga Canyon attracted a lot of fresh artists in the 1960s.

Wallace Berman moved there in 1965. Neil Young resided in Topanga for a while, first sharing a home with producer David Briggs and then getting his own place. He spent the majority of the 1970s After the Gold Rush album recording in his basement studio. In Topanga, where Charles Manson had previously resided, he had made brief friends with Neil Young and Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys.

For the same reason that the more free-spirited members of 1920s Hollywood braved lengthy drives over treacherous mountain roads to their weekend cottages and cabins—to get away from Los Angeles—they had come to Topanga. Early on, not many people chose to live there year-round because it was too far away to commute into the city for work, the utilities were not reliable, and there were no good restaurants.

But before returning to the grind of early filmmaking, which valued speed and volume of production above all else, it was a great place to recharge for a few days. It was far worse than the studio system that the boomers who followed them were escaping. They established a community there that reflected their beliefs in equality, peace, and individualism.

Famous musicians and artists were drawn to the scene and joined the new crop of movie stars who had settled in Topanga. Dennis Wilson and Dennis Hopper smoked marijuana together without a care in the world.

The Topanga Corral nightclub is said to have inspired Jim Morrison to write “Roadhouse Blues.” When the 1970s finally stumbled to an end, Topanga had already reached its zenith of cultural significance. Residents of the present toast the past while trading psychedelics for glasses of premium organic Cabernet in the waning afterglow, beneath strings of Edison bulbs on decks and patios across the canyon.

The 8,289-person village of Topanga has long served as Los Angeles’ bohemian Brigadoon. Topanga Canyon Boulevard winds through chaparral-covered hills and steep outcrops of rock for 12 miles from the ocean to the San Fernando Valley.

It is surrounded by Topanga State Park, the largest wilderness area within a city limit in the United States. Along this main thoroughfare, a variety of businesses have come and gone since the early 20th century, including general stores, taverns, spiritual centers, community galleries, and cozy cafes. Possibly representing the most recent generation of creatives: Topanga Fresh Market, which serves organic, locally sourced food and pressed juice, has recently opened in the former Bruno’s Dead Dog Saloon, a biker bar known as the Stop and Fight. However, some things never change.

Celebrity trackers mention Leonardo DiCaprio, Channing Tatum, and Fergie as regulars at The Inn of the Seventh Ray, a terraced creekside restaurant that opened in 1973 and advertised “angelic vibrations.” The restaurant is still festooned with fairy lights and continues to rank as a romantic destination. There was the wedding of Sylvia Chivaratanond, a curator, and Philippe Vergne, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art who is of French descent.

The McCarthy era, when Will Geer—a blacklisted actor and trained botanist—fled Hollywood and acquired a plot of canyon land, is at least as far back as the artistic roots of Topanga can be traced. Together with his family, he built a sizable, productive garden and an outdoor theater where Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Pete Seeger, and Arlo Guthrie all performed. Theatricum Botanicum was founded by the Geer family in the 1970s, when Geer found new fame as Grandpa on the popular TV series The Waltons and his children had become actors. It is now a venerable woodland venue for performances and workshops.