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08/28/2026

Two houses can sit on opposite sides of the same street and hand their sellers a bill that differs by $5,400.
Los Angeles County charges a documentary transfer tax of $1.10 for every $1,000 of value, under Revenue and Taxation Code section 11911. That part is the same everywhere in the county. What changes is the city. Only five cities in Los Angeles County charge a transfer tax of their own: Culver City, Los Angeles, Pomona, Redondo Beach and Santa Monica. Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena and Santa Clarita do not.
On a $1,200,000 sale that works out at $1,320 in Burbank and $6,720 inside the City of Los Angeles.
The reason is in the statute. Section 11911(b) caps a city tax at half the county rate and 11911(c) credits it back. Los Angeles charges well past that cap, so no credit applies and the county still collects in full.
Separate from all of this, the City of Los Angeles Measure ULA adds its own charge, and for closings after 30 June 2026 those thresholds moved to $5,400,000 and $10,900,000.

08/25/2026

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If you have ever looked at a Los Angeles County property tax bill and wondered what the abbreviated lines under the gene...
08/25/2026

If you have ever looked at a Los Angeles County property tax bill and wondered what the abbreviated lines under the general levy actually are, there is a county tool for exactly that.

Your bill has two halves. The top part comes from assessed value. The block underneath is direct assessments, and those are placed on the bill by other agencies: lighting districts, landscape and maintenance districts, sewer charges, school district levies. The Assessor did not put them there and cannot change them.

The Auditor-Controller keeps a searchable list that maps each printed description to the agency responsible for it, with contact details. You search the description exactly as it appears on your bill, then contact the agency it names.

California Office of Historic Preservation, перелік listed resources по LA County. Public Resources Code 5024.1(d)(2).Ne...
08/25/2026

California Office of Historic Preservation, перелік listed resources по LA County. Public Resources Code 5024.1(d)(2).

Newhall has four state historical landmarks with a Newhall place name, and two of them were designated on the same day, March 6, 1935. Oak of the Golden Dream is number 168. Pioneer Oil Refinery is number 172. Lyons Station Stagecoach Stop came later, number 688 in 1959.

Here is the part that took me a while to find. Public Resources Code 5024.1 says the California Register automatically includes state landmark number 770 and every consecutively numbered landmark after it. Anything numbered below 770 has to be reviewed separately for eligibility.

So all three of those Newhall entries sit below the automatic line. The St. Francis Dam Disaster Site in Saugus, number 919, sits above it. Same kind of plaque, different legal footing behind it.

You can check any of this yourself. The Office of Historic Preservation publishes every listed resource by county with its number and the date it was listed.

If you live in Toluca Lake, there is a quick way to work out which city actually governs your property. Look at who bill...
08/25/2026

If you live in Toluca Lake, there is a quick way to work out which city actually governs your property. Look at who bills you for electricity.

The City of Los Angeles portion of Toluca Lake stops at the Burbank city line, and addresses carrying the Toluca Lake name also sit inside Burbank city limits. Same neighbourhood name, two municipalities.

Burbank Water and Power puts the separation plainly: our water system is not connected to LADWP's system.

That shows up in practical places. On the Burbank side an electrical service upgrade needs a Burbank Water and Power meter spot before the permit closes. Burbank sweeps residential streets Monday to Friday, 6:30am to 3:30pm, on its own calendar.

To settle it for a specific address, look the parcel up in ZIMAS for Los Angeles and in Burbank's Get Property Information. Whichever system returns the parcel is the city with jurisdiction.

There is a ranch house on Moorpark Street that predates almost everything around it.Vicente de la Osa built the adobe in...
08/25/2026

There is a ranch house on Moorpark Street that predates almost everything around it.

Vicente de la Osa built the adobe in 1849, on a site where a natural spring had supported the village of Siutcanga, home to Chumash, Tongva and Tataviam people long before the Spanish named the valley El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bononia de Los Encinos.

Eugene Garnier added the two-story limestone building in 1872. The pond came two years later, fed by the same spring that drew people there in the first place.

It is California Historical Landmark No. 689, registered 31 July 1959, and it has been on the National Register since 1971 as Rancho El Encino.

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm. Entry is free, and guided tours of the adobe run by appointment if you email California State Parks about a week ahead.

A thing that catches people out here constantly: Stevenson Ranch is not in the City of Santa Clarita. Neither is Castaic...
08/23/2026

A thing that catches people out here constantly: Stevenson Ranch is not in the City of Santa Clarita. Neither is Castaic. Both are unincorporated Los Angeles County.

That is not trivia. LA County is the municipal government for unincorporated areas, which means building permits, zoning, code enforcement and law enforcement all run through the County rather than through Santa Clarita City Hall. If you are planning an addition or an ADU and you draw it to city standards, county review can send you back to the start.

The mailing address will not tell you. Neither will the school, the gym or the grocery store. The line is drawn parcel by parcel, and the city has annexed territory over the years, so two subdivisions built in the same decade can sit on opposite sides of it.

The County publishes a free parcel viewer called Z-NET that answers it in about two minutes and gives you the zoning at the same time. Worth doing before you pay anyone for plans.

There is a historic district being decided in Glendale right now, and most people on the affected streets have no idea t...
08/23/2026

There is a historic district being decided in Glendale right now, and most people on the affected streets have no idea the clock is running.

Cleveland Knoll sits east of Grand View Cemetery, south of the South Cumberland Heights district. The proposed boundary takes in 238 properties across Bruce, Cleveland, Glenwood, Graynold, Idlewood and Olmsted. Two houses on the Glendale Register are already inside it: the Cole-Carothers House from 1910 and the Taylor House from 1873.

The application went in back in May 2023. Council funded the survey in September 2024. The Historic Preservation Commission reviewed the draft survey this past May. It is now at the petition stage, which needs majority owner support by November 2026.

Worth knowing if you live there: at least 60% of homes in a proposed district have to be classified as contributing for it to qualify. The city has posted draft survey forms street by street, so you can look up your own address and see how it was classified.

Burbank's median sale price went $1,122,500 in March, $1,265,000 in April, $1,228,500 in May, $1,152,500 in June. That i...
08/22/2026

Burbank's median sale price went $1,122,500 in March, $1,265,000 in April, $1,228,500 in May, $1,152,500 in June. That is a swing of more than ten percent inside four months, and it mostly is not the market moving.

A median is the middle sale. It moves when the mix of what sold changes. Burbank closes a modest number of homes in any given month, so a handful of large hillside sales landing in the same four weeks pulls the middle number up by itself, and the next month it settles back without anything actually changing.

Two steadier reads. Compare the same month a year apart instead of month to month. And look at price per square foot inside one property type rather than across everything that closed.

The numbers above are Zillow Research's raw city file, median sale price for all homes, months ending March through June 30, 2026. It is public and free to check yourself

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