Updated August 27, 2026
Of the seventeen Sherman Oaks buildings in this desk's closed record, three streets carry more than one: Magnolia, Murietta Avenue and Dickens Street.
Dickens Street carries three closings across two buildings, and the reason is that 14258 Dickens sold twice — April 2013 at $1,435,000, then February 2014 at $1,900,000. Eleven units both times. Ten months, up 32%.
That is worth more than any median on this site, because almost every variable is held constant. Same building, same unit count, same street, same tenancies, same regulatory position, same city. What moved was the market and whatever the owner did in between.
A submarket median cannot tell you that. It blends seventeen different buildings and reports the middle of them.
Murietta Avenue carries two buildings — twenty-four units and ten units, six years apart.
Magnolia carries two, at thirty-six units and eight units.
Both pairs span a wide size gap, which limits how far the comparison goes. Two buildings on one street that are four times apart in size are not really the same product, and the per-door figures will differ for that reason before any question of condition or rents arises.
Sherman Oaks is not one market. South of Ventura Boulevard, toward the hills, the stock is newer and better located. North of it, across the Valley floor, it is older and more ordinary. A submarket median blends the two and describes neither.
A same-street comparison holds most of that constant automatically — same side of Ventura, same corridor character, same tenant pool, often similar vintage. What is left to explain is size, condition and rent position, which is a manageable list.
That two buildings on one street are comparable beyond what the table shows. The archive holds addresses, unit counts, prices and dates. It does not hold construction years, condition or rent rolls, and closings years apart on the same street reflect different markets as much as different buildings — the methodology is explicit about that.
The Dickens repeat sale is the exception, and it is the exception precisely because the building is the same building. Even there, a 32% move over ten months is one building's story, not a Sherman Oaks index.
The full seventeen are at the Sherman Oaks closing record in full.
The comparison set already exists and is published. The conversation worth having is which of those rows your building actually resembles — which side of Ventura, which vintage, how the rents sit against the RSO cap, and whether the soft-story retrofit is done.
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