West Valley · Los Angeles County
Tarzana real estate
South of the Boulevard · Tarzana Estates · Mulholland corridor · North Tarzana
Tarzana runs from the valley floor up into the Santa Monica Mountains, and the split at Ventura Boulevard is the single most important thing to understand about its market. South of the boulevard you get hillside lots, gated pockets, custom and rebuilt homes, and a price band that reaches well into the upper tier of Valley real estate. North of the boulevard is a more conventional and more attainable suburban market.
Tarzana is one of the West Valley areas where Measure ULA genuinely comes into play. It is inside City of Los Angeles limits, and the upper end of the south-of-boulevard market can clear the ULA threshold, where the tax is assessed on the entire gross sale price, not on the gain, and not reduced by your mortgage payoff or your basis. If you are anywhere near that line, model it before pricing; the difference between just under and just over is substantial.
- ZIP codes
- 91356
- County
- Los Angeles County
- City of LA
- Yes
If you're selling
What it costs to sell in Tarzana
Tarzana 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 Tarzana
- SellingSelling a house in Encino: the ULA cliff, the 9A, and the order to do it inEncino is in the City of Los Angeles, which means $5.60 per $1,000 in combined transfer tax, a Residential Property Report before you can close, and Measure ULA sitting over every sale in the upper price band. Here's what it costs and what order to do it in.
- SellingSelling a house in Studio City: ULA, the 9A, and the hillside rulesThree things move real money when you sell in Studio City: whether your price crosses the Measure ULA threshold, what the 9A report turns up, and what the hillside rules let a buyer build. Here's the order to handle them in.
- SellingSelling a house in Sherman Oaks: the costs, ULA and the hillsSherman Oaks is City of LA, which means two transfer taxes, the 9A report, and Measure ULA if you clear the threshold. Hillside parcels south of Ventura add fire disclosures. Here's the full cost stack and the order to do things in.
- SellingSelling a house in Tarzana: the 9A report, ULA, and the hillsideTarzana sales run on City of Los Angeles rules — a 9A report from LADBS, $5.60 per $1,000 in transfer tax, and Measure ULA at the top of the market. South of Ventura Boulevard adds septic and hillside permits. Here's the real cost and the sequence.
- 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.
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