13838 Vanowen St, Van Nuys — 4-Unit Multifamily, $1.1M (May 2021)
Updated April 28, 2026
Units: 4 · Sale price: $1,150,000 · Price per unit: $287,500 · Closed: May 2021
A 4-unit small multifamily property at 13838 Vanowen St in Van Nuys, sold May 2021 for $1,150,000 — approximately $287,500 per unit.
2021 was LA multifamily's cyclical peak. Pricing compressed aggressively across submarkets. Transaction volume reached approximately 1,200 deals — the highest in over a decade.
Van Nuys LA multifamily trades bimodally — stabilized Class B and value-add Class C often trading at meaningfully different prices depending on the specific asset story.
Small multifamily properties in this range trade primarily among private investors, family offices, and 1031 exchangers.
Set against the rest of the Van Nuys record, this is the smallest of the 12 Van Nuys apartment buildings Michael Sterman has closed.
At $287,500 a unit it sits above the Van Nuys median of $171,801, which is the ordinary pattern for a building of this size: at 4 units it is smaller than the median Van Nuys closing at 34, and smaller buildings carry higher per-door pricing.
This transaction is part of the Sterman Multifamily Group closed archive — over fourteen years at Marcus & Millichap.
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Michael Sterman, Senior Managing Director Investments at Marcus & Millichap.
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