3160 Sepulveda Boulevard

About this home

3160 Sepulveda Blvd, behind the gates in the Royal Woods pocket of Sherman Oaks. If you've got a family, you know exactly what the LA home search feels like. You find the great neighborhood, and the house is a cramped box with no yard. You find the yard, and it's an hour from everything you actually do. You find the right school district, and the only way in seems to be buying a house and signing your next thirty years away. You've driven through Sherman Oaks for years thinking one day. Then the gates open on this one, and one day is now. It's a rare single-story home on a nearly fifteen-thousand-square-foot lot, and the moment you walk in, LA goes quiet. Light pours across the hardwood and travertine, vaulted wood-beamed ceilings open overhead, and the living spaces unfold one into the next, warm without trying, open without feeling cold. This was never a sterile flip that photographs well and feels like nothing in person. It has real warmth, and you can already picture your life in it. Kids running through the backyard while dinner's going. Friends around the oversized island long after the plates are cleared. Sunday mornings with the doors open and music through the house. The kitchen is the heart of it, Bosch double ovens, a Fisher & Paykel cooktop, granite counters, custom pull-out storage, and room to actually cook and host instead of just admire. But the backyard is what makes this one almost impossible to find in Sherman Oaks: a massive, flat, grassy lot, mature landscaping, several places to gather, real privacy, room to breathe and room for the kids to grow. The primary suite is tucked away like its own retreat, with a spa-style bath and an oversized walk-in closet, and the day-to-day is handled too, a gated circular driveway, oversized garage, EV charging, parking for five, and solar panels that help keep the electric bills low. Then there's the location, the quiet advantage. You're right off Sepulveda, so while the rest of LA is fighting traffic just to get home, you're already there. Ventura Blvd, Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, the Westside, the studios, the restaurants, the private schools, everything connects fast from here. And here's the part that actually matters. Everything families spend a fortune buying into Sherman Oaks for, the lot, the gates, the privacy, the highly regarded schools, you get all of it here on a lease, without the mortgage and without signing your life to it. Move in now and you're in the neighborhood, and the school district, this season, not someday. Available for lease, six months or longer, the kind of home you settle into and don't want to give back. Single-story homes on a lot like this almost never come up to rent in Sherman Oaks. Come see it before it's gone, and you'll understand why families spend years looking for exactly this.