Koreatown Apartment Buildings

If you own a pre-1978 building in Koreatown, you own one of the most demanded and most regulated assets in Los Angeles at the same time. That is the tension every Koreatown seller has to understand before they list, because it is why the same building can attract four offers and still close ten percent below its asking price.

Jurisdiction
LA City
Rent control regime
LA City RSO (pre-1978) + Costa-Hawkins (post-1995)
Sterman closings here
21 transactions
Typical sale
With tenants in place

Koreatown apartment building sales — the closed record

Buildings closed21
Units465
Total volume$80.2 million
Median price per unit$159K
Range$58K – $423K

Median and range are drawn from the 21 Koreatown buildings in the Sterman Transaction Index — Michael Sterman's own closed book, not a market-wide estimate. Per-unit pricing tracks building size as much as location, so compare against buildings of similar unit count rather than against the submarket average.

Every Koreatown building in the record

AddressUnitsPriceClosed
944 S Park View St10$1,400,0002025-11
204 S Serrano Ave4$1,240,0002025-11
444 S Manhattan Pl12$2,530,0002024-05
839 S St Andrews Pl31$6,000,0002022-04
827 S Gramercy Dr30$8,500,0002022-03
311 S New Hampshire Ave16$3,600,0002021-01
2960 James M Wood Blvd12$1,510,0002018-11
934 Arapahoe St13$2,175,0002018-11
514 S Gramercy Pl24$6,100,0002018-06
532 S Gramercy Pl24$5,600,0002018-06
350 S Reno St36$15,215,0002018-02
220 S Commonwealth Ave24$3,815,0002015-10
1136 S Westmoreland Ave8$1,325,0002015-06
1121-1131 Washington Blvd20$1,675,0002015-06
744 Beacon Ave96$8,850,0002015-06
2743 James M Wood Blvd8$1,100,0002015-06
2960 James M Wood Blvd12$1,050,0002015-05
654 N Normandie Ave9$1,400,0002015-04
240 S Catalina St20$1,735,0002014-06
811-817 Oxford Ave26$3,605,0002014-02
2858 Leeward Avenue30$1,739,0002012-12
Selling guide

Selling an apartment building in Koreatown

Koreatown is dense. Six square miles hold more rental units per capita than almost any submarket west of downtown. Most of that inventory was built between 1950 and 1975, which means the vast majority of Koreatown multif...

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Living in town

Living in Koreatown

Koreatown is a dense neighborhood roughly three square miles west of Downtown LA, internationally recognized as the largest Korean ethnic enclave in the US. Among LA's highest residential densities and one of its most tr...

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Closings

Sterman closings in Koreatown

21 Sterman Multifamily Group closings in Koreatown. See the full transaction record.

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FAQ

Questions about selling in Koreatown

4 common questions about selling an apartment building in Koreatown — answered.

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Michael's Take
Koreatown is as active as any LA multifamily submarket — density, transit, and a 24-hour economy sustain demand through every cycle. The submarket is pre-1978-dominant, which means the July 2026 RSO rewrite lands harder here than almost anywhere else in LA City. Sellers transacting now are meeting pricing that later sellers likely will not.

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