Sherman Oaks homes
for sale can be found in an eight square mile district of Los Angeles in the southern
part of the San Fernando Valley.
The Sherman Oaks neighborhood is surrounded by Van Nuys to
the north, Santa Monica Mountains to the south, Encino to the west and Studio City to the
east. A relatively affluent area, Sherman Oaks homes for sale offer several high-end fashion
boutiques in the area and features many upscale restaurants.
Sherman Oaks Homes For Sale Attractions
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The
Sherman Oaks Galleria was a popular shopping mall that spawned the
"Valley Girl" image popularized in the 1980's by the movie
"Valley Girl" in 1983 and the Frank Zappa song with the same
song title. The Sherman Oaks Galleria closed in 2002 to be
developed into office buildings. Today, the popular
shopping mall in Sherman Oaks is the Westfield Fashion Square and
various restaurants and boutiques along Ventura Boulevard.
Sherman Oaks Homes For Sale
History
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Sherman
Oaks was one of the first Valley communities to heavily develop real estate
in the area. Anticipating continued heavy development of the Los
Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, Los Angeles Suburban Homes Co. purchased
forty seven thousand five hundred acres of the southeast Valley in 1910. In 1911, a
subdivision map called Tract 1000 was filed with Los Angeles County.
From that parcel, one of the partners in the company, General Moses Sherman, bought
one thousand acres for himself. In 1927,
Sherman subdivided the property and sold the land for seven hundred
and eighty dollars an acre.
Sherman Oaks
Homes For Sale Economy
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Many
corporations do business in the Sherman Oaks area, including brokerage
houses and banking institutions. Sunkist growers have been in Sherman
Oaks for over thirty years and represent one of the country's largest
and oldest agricultural cooperatives in the Country.
