Property Management Across Los Angeles County

Glendale is one of the densest multifamily markets in Los Angeles County, and one of the most distinct. The apartment stock in the flats — mid-century courtyard buildings and 1960s–70s walk-ups, most of them eight to thirty units — is owned largely by individuals and small partnerships rather than institutions.

Burbank is a small city that runs itself well, and it shows in the rental market. A large local employment base in media and aviation, schools people move for, and a rental stock of mostly small and mid-size buildings — fourplexes through thirty-unit walk-ups — concentrated south of Olive and around Magnolia Park.

North Hollywood has changed more in fifteen years than almost any part of the Valley. The transit hub at Lankershim and Chandler, the arts district, and a substantial wave of new podium construction now sit directly alongside a very large stock of 1950s–70s apartment buildings.

Pasadena has the oldest and most architecturally significant rental stock in the county outside the Westside: 1920s courtyard buildings, Craftsman conversions, and mid-century apartment houses through Bungalow Heaven, Madison Heights, and the streets off Lake and Colorado. It also has a substantial newer inventory around the Playhouse District and Old Pasadena.

Sherman Oaks divides sharply at Ventura Boulevard. South of it, into the hills toward Mulholland, is high-value single-family and small-property rental stock with long tenancies and demanding residents.

Studio City is a small, tightly held rental market where the interesting stock is small. Bungalow courts and 1940s–60s apartment buildings sit on the streets off Ventura, single-family rentals climb into the hills toward Mulholland and the Colfax Meadows streets, and there is comparatively little large-scale product.

Van Nuys holds one of the largest concentrations of workforce rental housing in Los Angeles: block after block of 1950s–70s apartment buildings, many of them twenty to eighty units, along Sepulveda, Van Nuys Boulevard, Victory, and the numbered streets. It is a volume market, and it is unforgiving of loose operations.

Encino runs from the high-value estate streets south of Ventura up to a dense rental corridor along Ventura Boulevard and the blocks north of it. The apartment stock there — much of it 1960s–80s, including a substantial number of larger buildings with pools and subterranean parking — serves a higher-rent applicant pool than most of the Valley.

Santa Clarita is the county’s newest large rental market and the one least like the rest of it. Valencia, Saugus, Newhall, Canyon Country and Stevenson Ranch are dominated by planned communities: single-family rentals, townhomes, and condominiums built from the 1970s onward, much of it inside homeowners associations, with a comparatively small stock of older apartment buildings.

West Hollywood is 1.9 square miles, overwhelmingly renter-occupied, and one of the most tightly regulated rental markets in California. The stock is dense and old: 1920s–60s courtyard buildings and walk-ups through the residential streets between Santa Monica and Melrose, Fountain, and the Norma Triangle, plus a smaller amount of newer product along the boulevards.