San Fernando Valley · Los Angeles County
Van Nuys real estate
Lake Balboa border · Valley Glen border · Kester Ridge · Sherman Circle
Van Nuys is central, large, and genuinely mixed. Single-family tracts, a substantial multifamily stock, and commercial and industrial corridors all inside the same boundaries. It is one of the higher-transaction-volume areas in the Valley, and one where the spread between the bottom and top of the market within a single ZIP can be wide. Adjacent identities matter: homes near the Lake Balboa and Valley Glen edges are frequently marketed under those names.
This is value-add territory. The gap between a tired property and a well-executed renovation is usually wider than the cost of the work, which is exactly why investors are active here, and why sellers of dated homes get lowball offers that are not always as unreasonable as they first look. Knowing what your home is worth both as-is and after repairs is the whole game in Van Nuys. It is inside City of Los Angeles limits for transfer tax purposes.
- ZIP codes
- 91401, 91405, 91406, 91411
- County
- Los Angeles County
- City of LA
- Yes
If you're selling
What it costs to sell in Van Nuys
Van Nuys 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 Van Nuys
- 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 Northridge: quake repairs, tenants, and the 9ATwo transfer taxes, a 9A report, 1994 repair permits, and student tenants with more protection than most owners expect. What a Northridge sale actually involves, in the order it happens.
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