Movers serving Woodland Hills, Tarzana and West Hills
Three neighborhoods share the southwest corner of the San Fernando Valley, and each moves differently. Woodland Hills runs from the office towers of Warner Center to streets that climb south of Ventura Boulevard into the Santa Monica Mountains. Tarzana, to the east, has estates in the hills above the boulevard. West Hills, to the northwest, backs onto open space and trails. All three are part of the City of Los Angeles, while Calabasas and Hidden Hills, just west, are cities of their own, and Elite Moving & Storage checks that line before anything else.
Our private walkthrough, in person or by video, looks at the way in as closely as the rooms: the pitch of the drive, where a truck can stand, whether the curb needs signs or a gate needs a list, and which pieces need custom crating. Those answers go into the itemized inventory and written estimate, and the white glove move is run from them. Communities from North Hollywood to Porter Ranch are covered on our San Fernando Valley page.
Hillside homes south of Ventura Boulevard
Woodland Hills was founded as Girard in 1922 and took its current name in 1945. The 101 and Ventura Boulevard cross it east to west, and south of the boulevard its streets climb into the oak-covered foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, past the Woodland Hills Country Club, which opened in 1925. Higher still, the paved western stretch of Mulholland Drive winds through the hills before ending at the 101. These streets can be narrow and steep, with drives a full-size truck cannot climb or turn in, so where the walkthrough finds that, a smaller vehicle ferries loads between the house and a truck parked on a wider street.
Inside, a hillside home is handled like any estate. Floors, banisters and door frames are protected before the first carton moves, stone and glass tops get custom crates where they need them, and art is hung or set out to your plan. When the job spans a guest house, household staff or more than one property, we run it as an estate move on a single inventory.
Tarzana: hillside estates and Mulholland Park
Tarzana grew from the ranch Edgar Rice Burroughs bought in 1919 and named after his fictional hero, and it has some of the lowest population densities in the city. Reseda Boulevard climbs south from Ventura Boulevard past El Caballero Country Club and the gated Mulholland Park community to Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park in the Santa Monica Mountains. Mulholland Park has its own homeowners association, so the gate comes first: we ask the association how movers are admitted, put the crew and trucks on any list it keeps, and settle move hours and paperwork before the date.
Estates here often hold fine furniture, paintings and high-end collections. Paintings and sculpture that call for specialist handlers can be scheduled separately through fine art moving. Cases of wine travel in proper shippers, and a cellar that must wait for the new house gets a storage plan at the walkthrough. East of Tarzana, see our page for movers in Encino.
West Hills and Walnut Acres: large lots and horse property
West Hills split from Canoga Park in 1987. To the west it meets Hidden Hills and Bell Canyon, which lies across the county line in Ventura County, and the trails of the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve begin just beyond it. Back in Woodland Hills, much of Walnut Acres, between Victory and Burbank boulevards on the neighborhood’s west side, is zoned RA, the city’s suburban zone, which allows horses on lots of 17,500 square feet or more.
Moves from these properties can take in much more than the house: a barn or tack room, a workshop, a guest house and a full garage. Each goes on the inventory, and the truck plan follows the property’s drives and gates rather than the bedroom count, so nothing is left for a second trip.
Warner Center offices and towers
Warner Center, the master-planned business district that spans Woodland Hills and Canoga Park, holds a cluster of high-rise offices, among them the reflective glass towers of Warner Center Plaza, built through the 1980s and early 1990s. The City Council adopted the Warner Center 2035 Plan in December 2013, and it makes room for thousands of new homes in mixed-use and apartment buildings. A tower move is planned around the building: freight elevator and loading dock reservations, a certificate of insurance for property management and, where the building allows, hours outside the working day. Desks, files and equipment are labeled to the new floor plan. The office side is covered under office and commercial moving, and companies bringing staff into the area can pair it with corporate relocation.
Renting here during a Palisades rebuild
The January 2025 Palisades Fire left many households renting while their homes are rebuilt. If yours is renting in Woodland Hills or Tarzana, we plan the move in three pieces. Getting into the rental depends on its building or association, which sets when and how movers come in. Anything that will not fit in the rental waits in storage between homes and stays on the move’s inventory. When the builder is done, the drive back to Pacific Palisades or Malibu runs over Topanga Canyon Boulevard or down the 405, depending on the road work at the time, and everything is placed from the new floor plan. For the coast end, see movers in Malibu and Pacific Palisades; for the gated cities next door, movers in Calabasas and Hidden Hills.
