West Valley · Los Angeles County
Woodland Hills real estate
Walnut Acres · Vista de Oro · Warner Center · South of the Boulevard · Carlton Terrace
Woodland Hills covers a lot of ground and behaves like several different markets at once. South of Ventura Boulevard, you get hillside lots, larger custom homes, and a meaningful price step up. North of the boulevard toward Warner Center, the stock shifts to post-war tracts, condos, and a growing base of higher-density housing around the commercial core. Walnut Acres and Vista de Oro are consistently among the most sought-after pockets, largely on school boundaries and lot size.
Because the price bands here stretch so wide, comparable selection matters more in Woodland Hills than almost anywhere else in the Valley, a comp pulled from the wrong side of the boulevard can be off badly. Woodland Hills is within City of Los Angeles limits, so both the LA City transfer tax and Measure ULA are in play at closing. At the upper end of the south-of-boulevard market, that ULA threshold is not hypothetical, and it is worth modeling before you set a list price.
- ZIP codes
- 91364, 91367
- County
- Los Angeles County
- City of LA
- Yes
If you're selling
What it costs to sell in Woodland Hills
Woodland Hills 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 Woodland Hills
- 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.
- Prop 19Should you sell before you buy? If you're 55 or older, the order mattersProp 19 lets you carry your property tax base to a new home. Buying before you sell locks in the best version of that benefit.
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