Updated August 27, 2026
North Hollywood is inside the City of Los Angeles, so the whole city stack applies.
Charged on gross sale price, not gain, above a City of Los Angeles threshold that is indexed and moves.
North Hollywood's median is $257,414 per unit, so the threshold question turns almost entirely on unit count. Mid-sized buildings here routinely clear it. Model it on the gross number before you set a price, and if a 1031 exchange is in play, model it early — ULA is charged whether or not you defer the gain.
Most of the North Hollywood inventory is the postwar walk-up over open ground-floor parking that the LA ordinance targets. Done, you pay the construction cost. Undone, the buyer discounts by reliably more than the work costs, because they are pricing both the expense and the uncertainty.
Reconcile the rent roll against the LAHD registration record and confirm registration is current before you list. A gap found in escrow costs more than a gap found in advance, every time.
Rarely relevant to an income sale. Highly relevant if a redevelopment buyer is in play — City of Los Angeles relocation assistance is set by ordinance, varies by tenant, and on a fully occupied rent-stabilized building it is a serious number.
If you think your parcel might attract that buyer, price the relocation exposure honestly rather than assuming they will absorb it. They will not. They will deduct it.
Negotiated per engagement, paid at closing.
Step-down, yield maintenance and defeasance produce very different numbers on the same balance. Establish which yours carries before you list, not during escrow.
Escrow fees, title policy, county and city transfer tax, prorations.
Federal capital gains, depreciation recapture, California income tax, and the 1031 question.
Whether your buyer is pricing the building or pricing the parcel. North Hollywood is the Valley submarket where both buyers exist — see who buys apartment buildings in North Hollywood.
It does not change the closing costs. It changes the price, and by more than every line item above combined.
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