Movers serving Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Holmby Hills
Beverly Hills is a small city, and several of the neighborhoods people call Beverly Hills are not in it at all. The flats run on the city’s sign rules and its 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. move window. Trousdale Estates is a hillside of long, low mid-century houses. Beverly Park answers to its guard gate, and Bel Air, like the Beverly Hills Post Office area, to the City of Los Angeles. Elite Moving & Storage starts every plan from that map.
The private walkthrough, in person or by video, opens with two local questions: is the address in Beverly Hills or Los Angeles, and which side of Santa Monica Boulevard is it on? That decides whose rules apply and whether the city’s No Parking signs are needed. We then note the pieces that need crating and the carry from the door to the truck. The itemized inventory and written estimate follow, and they guide the move until the last piece is placed. That is the core of white glove moving.
The Beverly Hills flats, the hillside and Trousdale Estates
The flats, between Sunset Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard, are the city’s classic residential streets: wide and tree-lined, with generous setbacks and long driveways, often behind a gate. Access from the street is usually straightforward, so the work is inside the house: rooms of fine furniture, stone and marble tops, chandeliers, mirrors and art on most walls. No city signs are needed on this side of Santa Monica Boulevard, so the planning goes into the crew and any crating the house needs.
North of Sunset the city climbs into the hills. Trousdale Estates, at the top of Beverly Hills, is known for its single-story mid-century homes, kept low by design to protect the views. Streets curve, some driveways are steep, and many homes hold period furniture and design pieces that deserve their own crates.
South of Santa Monica Boulevard, a move usually needs the city’s signs, posted at least 72 hours ahead. Condominium buildings anywhere in the city add their own rules: a certificate for the association, a reserved elevator and set loading hours.
Beverly Hills Post Office and Beverly Park
The Beverly Hills Post Office area, often shortened to BHPO, rises from the Beverly Hills city line toward Mulholland Drive and takes in Benedict Canyon and Coldwater Canyon. Homes there use a Beverly Hills 90210 mailing address, but they are in the City of Los Angeles, so Los Angeles rules for parking, permits and Red Flag days apply. Lots are larger than in the city below, and some homes sit at the end of long, steep or narrow drives where a full-size truck cannot turn. We stage on a wider street and shuttle with a smaller vehicle when the route calls for it.
Beverly Park, a guard-gated community of large homes split into North and South Beverly Park, sits in the hills of the BHPO area, with North Beverly Park’s main entrance on Mulholland Drive. The gate list and the association’s paperwork are settled before the crew leaves.
Bel Air and Holmby Hills moving
Bel Air rises from Sunset Boulevard into the Santa Monica Mountains, with its East Gate at Beverly Glen Boulevard and its West Gate at Bellagio Way. It is usually described in three parts: East Gate Old Bel Air, West Gate Bel Air and Upper Bel Air, in the higher hills toward Mulholland Drive. Near the 405, off Sepulveda Boulevard, is the guard-gated community of Bel Air Crest. Roads wind up canyons such as Stone Canyon, and truck size is chosen for the street, not for the house.
Holmby Hills sits between Bel Air and Beverly Hills, divided by Sunset Boulevard and running south toward Wilshire, on lots zoned for up to four acres. The terrain is gentler than Bel Air’s, but the scale is not: long motor courts, guest houses, household staff and collections built over decades. Just south, the condominium towers of the Wilshire Corridor, between Holmby Hills and Westwood, bring the opposite problem: elevator reservations, loading dock times and a certificate for building management.
Estates, high-end collections and time between homes
Large moves here rarely happen in one step. A household may be moving a principal residence while a guest house is staged, or holding furniture while a house is renovated or rebuilt. After the January 2025 Palisades Fire, demand for leased and furnished homes across the Westside rose sharply, and some families are living in a rental while their own house is rebuilt. A move into a temporary home is planned with the same care as any other, with storage for what the rental cannot hold and a clear list of what goes where when it is time to move home.
A household running a principal residence, a guest house and staff schedules at once is the core of estate moving. Paintings, sculpture and objects that need crating and handling on their own schedule are covered under fine art moving, and we can arrange storage between homes. Crews keep to the rooms and entrances agreed in the plan, and any house protocol you set at the walkthrough is written into it.
Office movers in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills is also a business address, home to talent agencies, entertainment companies and professional firms. Offices in the Golden Triangle, the business district between Wilshire Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard, and along Wilshire sit mostly in multi-tenant buildings where property management sets the dock, the elevator, the hours and the certificate it wants first. Firms here tend to move client files, reception and conference room art and executive furniture, so the inventory is kept by department and the move is usually set for a weekend. See office and commercial moving.
Moving across the city line to the east? Design studios, Sunset Strip condos and Hollywood Hills homes are covered on our page for West Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills.
