Updated August 27, 2026
Of the twelve Van Nuys buildings in this desk's closed record, nine sit on four streets: three on Vanowen Street, and two each on Haskell Avenue, Oxnard Street and Victory Boulevard.
That is the densest repeat-street concentration anywhere in this record. In Hollywood, the largest submarket here, nine of twenty-four buildings sit on four streets — the same absolute count out of twice the inventory.
A submarket median blends buildings across several square miles, different corridors, different vintages and different tenant profiles. A street comparison holds most of that constant.
For an owner on Vanowen, Haskell, Oxnard or Victory, the relevant question is not what Van Nuys averages. It is what happened to the building four blocks away — and on these four corridors that question has a documented answer. Every one of the nine closings is published with its date, size, price and price per unit at the Van Nuys closing record in full.
Vanowen, Oxnard and Victory are east–west arterials running across the Valley floor; Haskell runs north–south. All four carry the pattern that produced most of Van Nuys' apartment stock: multifamily built along the through-streets, single-family behind them.
That has consequences a buyer prices. Arterial buildings see more traffic noise and more turnover, and they also see better bus access and more visible retail. Neither is a verdict — they are simply different products from a building on a residential street, and they attract slightly different tenants.
Not as a claim about the broker. As a practical matter: a desk that has closed three buildings on one corridor knows what the tenant base there actually pays, what turnover costs, and who bid last time and did not win.
That is the difference between pricing a building from comparables and pricing it from having transacted the block.
That the buildings on any one of these streets are comparable to each other beyond what the table shows. The archive holds addresses, unit counts, prices and dates — not rent rolls, condition or construction years — and the methodology is explicit about that limit. Buildings on one street spanning several years and different sizes are a useful reference set, not a controlled experiment. The Victory Boulevard pair is the sharpest illustration: seven units and twenty-one units, six years apart. Same street, barely the same product.
The cleanest controlled comparisons in this record are elsewhere: two buildings facing each other on Lexington in West Hollywood, and two buildings on Hilda Avenue in Glendale, both same-street pairs that closed within weeks.
The comparison set is published and you can read it. The more useful conversation is which of those rows your building resembles and why — which comes down to size band, rent position against the RSO cap, and whether the soft-story retrofit is done.
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