West Valley · Los Angeles County
Canoga Park real estate
Sherman Way corridor · Alabama Ave · Topanga North · Owensmouth
Canoga Park is one of the Valley's oldest communities and remains one of its most attainable entry points. The housing is largely modest single-family homes from the 1940s through the 1960s, with pockets of duplexes and small multifamily. Boundaries here are genuinely messy. Canoga Park, West Hills, and Winnetka all overlap across the 91303, 91304, and 91306 ZIPs, and homes get marketed under whichever name helps. That matters when you are pulling comps.
This is the part of the West Valley where renovation math actually decides the outcome. A dated but structurally sound home and a thoughtfully updated one a block apart can trade very differently, and the gap is usually larger than the cost of the work. It is also a market where original lots are big enough that ADU potential is a live consideration rather than a talking point. Canoga Park is inside City of Los Angeles limits for transfer tax purposes.
- ZIP codes
- 91303, 91304, 91306
- County
- Los Angeles County
- City of LA
- Yes
If you're selling
What it costs to sell in Canoga Park
Canoga Park is inside City of Los Angeles limits. That means a sale here pays the Los Angeles County documentary transfer tax of $1.10 per $1,000, plus the City of Los Angeles transfer tax of $4.50 per $1,000, about 0.56% of the sale price combined.
Above $5,400,000, Measure ULA also applies, at 4% of the entire gross sale price, not just the portion above the threshold, and not reduced by your mortgage or your original purchase price.
Reading on Canoga Park
- NeighborhoodsWinnetka Estates: what the name means and what it changesThe name shows up in listings and on street signs, but it isn't a City of Los Angeles neighborhood. Here's what it covers, how to find the tract you're actually in, and which of it matters to your price and your tax bill.
- SellingSelling a house in Canoga Park: the garage, the 9A, and the costsCombined city and county transfer tax is $5.60 per $1,000. But the two things that actually blow up a Canoga Park escrow are an unpermitted garage conversion and an open order to comply on the 9A report. Here's how to handle both before you list.
- SellingSelling a house in Woodland Hills: the costs, the 9A, and the fire zoneThe 9A report, the transfer taxes, the fire zone south of the boulevard, and the unpermitted den nobody pulled a permit for in 1972. Here's what selling a Woodland Hills house actually costs, and the order to do it in.
- Taxes & Closing CostsWhat is Measure ULA in Los Angeles? The 4% transfer tax, explainedULA is the City of LA's extra transfer tax on sales above roughly $5.15 million. It's charged on the whole sale price, not your gain, and crossing the threshold by a dollar can cost you six figures. Here's how it works in the West Valley.
- NeighborhoodsWalnut Acres, Woodland Hills: the boundaries, the trees, the tax billThe orchards are gone, the name stuck, and the trees that are left are protected by city ordinance. What Walnut Acres actually is, block by block — and what it costs to sell one of these houses.
- SellingSelling a house in West Hills: the costs, the 9A report, and the west edgeTwo documentary transfer taxes, a 9A report from LADBS, and a west edge with hillside lots, septic and fire-zone disclosure. Here's the real sequence and what each piece costs you.
- SellingSelling a house in Chatsworth: paperwork, taxes and the fire zoneChatsworth sits inside the City of Los Angeles, and that decides which reports you buy, which transfer taxes come out of your proceeds, and what you owe the buyer in writing before you close.
- SellingSelling a house in Winnetka: the costs, the 9A report, and the sequenceWinnetka is inside LA city limits, which changes what you owe and what you have to hand the buyer. Two transfer taxes, a 9A report from LADBS, and a permit history that better match the house.
- NeighborhoodsCanoga Park, West Hills or Winnetka? The ZIP codes overlap, and it mattersThree West Valley neighborhoods share the same ZIP codes and get marketed interchangeably. Here is where the lines actually fall and why it changes your comps.
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