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
- 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 Calabasas: no ULA, the oak ordinance, and insuranceMeasure ULA stops at the City of Los Angeles line, and Calabasas — a general law city — hasn't adopted a transfer tax of its own. So the tax side is simple. The oak trees, the fire hazard zone, and the insurance binder are where Calabasas escrows actually get hard.
- 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 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.
- SellingSelling an inherited house in Ventura County: the real sequenceA trustee can sign the listing tomorrow. An executor waits on letters from the Ventura County Superior Court. Here's how to tell which one you are, what the step-up in basis saves you, and why Prop 19 only matters if you keep the house.
- BuyingLand for sale in Thousand Oaks: why there's so little, and what a build costsMost "land for sale" listings in Thousand Oaks aren't buildable. Here's how the three layers of open-space protection work, what to verify before your contingency runs out, and how your Prop 13 base can follow you onto a new build.
- 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 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.
- 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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