Updated August 27, 2026
Across the submarkets in this desk's record, the usual finding is that the median is nearly useless for a specific building. Koreatown's per-door figures span more than seven times. Hollywood's span more than double.
Glendale is the exception. Strip out one outlying sale and the per-door figures cluster tightly, and the size bands barely separate:
| Building size | Closings | Median per unit | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4–10 units | 7 | $259,375 | $220,833 – $300,000 |
| 11–25 units | 3 | $247,500 | $237,895 – $358,824 |
| 26–50 units | 1 | $108,333 (one sale, not a median) | — |
| 51+ units | 1 | $263,587 (one sale, not a median) | — |
The four-to-ten band and the eleven-to-twenty-five band sit within a few percent of each other. In West Hollywood the equivalent gap is 43%. In Glendale the size effect that dominates pricing everywhere else is close to invisible.
Three things produce that.
Glendale's apartment inventory concentrates south and west of the civic center, along the Central, Brand and Colorado corridors, and it is largely postwar — 1950s through 1980s garden and courtyard walk-ups on similar lots, built by similar methods for a similar market.
Where a submarket's stock spans a 1920s courtyard building and a 1960s dingbat and a post-2010 podium, per-door figures will spread. Where most of it was built in the same three decades to the same brief, they will not.
Glendale trades predominantly to long-term local operators — buyers who already own here, know the city's rules, and are underwriting the rent roll as it stands.
That produces consistency. A submarket contested by value-add buyers, institutions, developers and private individuals will show wide per-door variation because each of those is pricing a different thing. A submarket bought mostly by one kind of buyer, for one reason, will not. See who buys apartment buildings in Glendale.
No rent cap. Glendale has a relocation threshold rather than a ceiling — the mechanism. In rent-capped submarkets, how far in-place rents sit below market creates enormous per-door variation because closing the gap is slow and uncertain. Here a below-market position is more actionable, which compresses the discount applied to it.
No Measure ULA. The City of Los Angeles transfer tax does not reach Glendale, so it does not weigh on larger transactions here the way it does a few miles south. That removes one of the forces that pushes big-building per-door figures down elsewhere.
A Glendale per-door reference is unusually likely to apply to your building. That is rare, and it is genuinely useful — an owner here can get closer to a realistic number from comparables alone than an owner in Koreatown or Hollywood can.
But "unusually likely" is not "certain." Two buildings on Hilda Avenue, ten doors apart, closed in the same month sixteen percent apart per door — that pair. Whatever explains that is a fact about the buildings, and the same will be true of yours.
And the reference set is recent, which matters here. This desk's Glendale record has a nine-year hole in the middle of it, so figures from before 2015 have had no corroboration for a very long time — the nine-year gap.
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