A Freshly Renovated $22.5 Million Nest Settles Into The Hills Of Los Angeles
Forbes
12/2/25
Leave it to an Englishman to write about one of the few foggy nights in Los Angeles. In August 1967, George Harrison rented a house at 1567 Blue Jay Way, high in the Bird Streets of the Hollywood Hills above the Sunset Strip. Jet-lagged after the flight from London, he started composing on a Hammond organ while waiting for his publicist to find the house along its narrow, winding roads. The murk outside became his muse: “There’s a fog upon L.A. / And my friends have lost their way.” By the time they arrived, “Blue Jay Way” was nearly finished.
Give the song a listen and you’ll hear something at odds with the real Bird Streets experience. Rock pilgrims who wind their way up the Hollywood Hills are unlikely to encounter the dreary, ominous fog the lyrics moan about. Instead, they step out onto a sun-struck ridge with wide-angle views of Los Angeles spilling to the horizon, the Pacific glinting in the distance.
Blue Jay Way sits in the heart of the Bird Streets, a collection of roads that run along the ridge north of Sunset Boulevard, with Trousdale Estates just over the hill in Beverly Hills. The neighborhood’s name is literal: Blue Jay Way, Oriole Drive, Nightingale Drive, Thrasher Avenue, Skylark, Mockingbird, Robin, Warbler… you see the pattern.
By the time Harrison wrote “Blue Jay Way,” the Bird Streets were already a magnet for the famous, transformed a decade earlier from rugged slopes with scattered houses into terraced lots and modern builds. They rose in a postwar wave that favored open plans, glass walls and pool decks angled toward that downtown-to-ocean panorama.
The template stuck. Today, the enclave remains an epicenter of the Los Angeles “view-box” phenomenon—large, flat-roofed contemporary constructions with disappearing glass walls, infinity-edge pools and club-style amenities stacked along the ridge. The celebrity traffic here has only thickened. The Bird Streets are prized as a discreet perch for entertainment-industry money, home to a rotating cast of producers, agents and music people, along with marquee names like Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Aniston and Bad Bunny.
The stubborn hillside, coupled with residents’ appetite for privacy, has kept new development in check. That mix of scarce inventory and high-wattage cachet has pushed prices into a steep climb. Over the past year, five sales have cleared $23 million, including a $26 million deal last month for 1535 Blue Jay Way, just a few doors from Harrison’s former pad.
Continue up Blue Jay Way and you arrive at 1615, a private aerie reimagined by Dahmor Studio that checks all of the Bird Street boxes. Perched on a high branch of the hillside, it frames a distinctly Los Angeles tableau. A major spread of metropolis spilling over canyons and ridgelines until it finally meets the sea.
Part of the drama is how the house sees itself. Spanning four levels along a bend in the slope, it looks down onto its own terraces. From the upper floors, the lower deck unfolds as a sequence of infinity pool, cabana and open-air dining, pushed out into the hillside rather than cut off by a sheer drop. It’s a hell of a climb. Fortunately, an elevator links all four stories.
The home’s generous scale accommodates a rich suite of spaces, from three lounges and two bars to a library, screening room, gym, dining room, two kitchens, an office and a sunroom, all unfolding with ease. The interiors strike a careful balance between craft and contemporaneity. Warm, textured finishes and soft, tonal layers are punctuated by organic materials, creating a quiet tension between the sleek and the tactile.
Glass, too, is a defining character. A central atrium channels natural light deep into the home. Walls open to the Southern California light. On most days, it’s a sun catcher. On the rare foggy one… well, let’s hope you have a Hammond organ nearby.
