5400 Lindley Ave, Encino.What the Record Shows.
A condominium building on Lindley Avenue in Encino. Every figure below comes from the County Assessor or the City of Los Angeles, with the source and the date beside it, and everything that could not be confirmed is listed as such.
Quick Answer
What is 5400 Lindley Ave?
5400 Lindley Ave is a condominium building in Encino, CA 91316. Owners hold title to an individual home plus a share of the common areas, and pay a monthly assessment to a homeowners association that maintains the structure and grounds.
It suits a buyer who wants to be in Encino at a price single-family stock nearby does not reach, and who will do the reading a shared building asks for: the budget, the reserves, the rules, and whether a lender approves the project. Everything below is either what an authority says, with a link to it, or a plain statement that a figure could not be confirmed.
What the PublicRecord Shows.
Each line is what a named authority publishes, with the page it came from and the date it was read. Nothing is estimated, and nothing comes from a listing portal.
- Assessor parcel number
- 2162-003-001 through 2162-003-071
- A condominium is assessed one parcel at a time, so the building is a run of 71 consecutive parcel numbers, not a single one.
- Source: Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor, parcel detail · Verified September 25, 2026
- Year built
- 1970
- The Assessor gives both a year built and an effective year of 1970, on the first and last parcels in the run alike.
- Source: Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor, parcel detail · Verified September 25, 2026
- Number of units
- 71
- Counted from the Assessor’s own parcels: 71 consecutive condominium parcels carry this street address, and the next number in the sequence does not exist. That is the number of separately owned homes an association budget and a lender work from.
- Source: Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor, parcel detail · Verified September 25, 2026
- Use type
- Condominium
- Assessor use code 010C: each owner holds an individual airspace parcel plus an interest in the common areas.
- Source: Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor, parcel detail · Verified September 25, 2026
- Zoning
- LAR3
- The zoning the Assessor carries on the parcel; City building permits for this address show R3-1. Zoning governs what may be built, not what stands there. Confirm the current designation with the City before relying on it.
- Source: Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor, parcel detail · Verified September 25, 2026
- Lot size (shared parcel)
- 55,263 square feet
- The shared parcel the building sits on, reported identically on every unit parcel. Not the size of any one home.
- Source: Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor, parcel detail · Verified September 25, 2026
Not Published, and Why
Things a buyer would expect to see here that no authority confirmed on the date this page was reviewed. A number that cannot be checked is worse than no number.
How many stories the building has
The Assessor publishes no story count. One City building permit for this address records four stories, while the Assessor’s own addresses here run across three floor levels. Two public sources disagree, so neither number is stated.
The homeowners association and its corporate status
The California Secretary of State business search could not be completed: the site presented an automated security challenge, which was not bypassed. Nothing is published here until that search is run by hand.
HOA dues
No association document or statement was obtained. Dues change every year and portal figures are frequently stale, so no amount appears here. Ask the seller for the current statement.
Amenities such as a pool, elevator, gated parking or laundry
No authoritative source describes the shared facilities. City permits here include elevator, plumbing and mechanical work, which is not the same as confirming what exists today. Verify on a visit and in the documents.
Earthquake retrofit status
The building does not appear in the City of Los Angeles soft-story retrofit datasets searched. Absence from a list is not a finding that it was exempt, compliant or evaluated. Ask the association and the Department of Building and Safety.
The recorded condominium plan and original construction permit
The City’s online permit data does not reach back to the original construction, and the recorded condominium plan was not retrieved from the County Registrar-Recorder. Both can be ordered from those offices.
If you own in this building and can supply the association documents, Aryan will add what they show, attributed to the document and dated.
Have you closed a sale in this building?
I represented the buyer on a sale in this building in 2021.
The sale is recorded under MLS number SR20228660. The home is not identified and will not be: a designation like that identifies a client’s residence. The sale is listed with his role, the closing month and the price alongside every other closed sale on the closed transactions record.
What that is worth is narrow: one escrow here and one association packet read, years ago. It does not make him an authority on the association’s finances today. Confirm anything that matters against the current documents the seller must provide.
Before You Call
What to check before buying in a Encino condo building
None of this is specific to this building. It is the standard list for any shared building in Los Angeles, and it is where condo purchases go wrong when it is skipped.
- HOA reserves and the operating budgetWhat the association has saved against what the building will need. Underfunded reserves make a special assessment a question of when, not whether.
- Special assessments, past and pendingWhat has been levied, what is under discussion, what the board has deferred. Open assessing often beats keeping dues low by postponing work.
- Rental caps and minimum lease termsCaps, minimum lease lengths, waiting lists and outright bans. Decisive if you might ever let the home, and routinely discovered late.
- Pet rules and parkingGoverned by the CC&Rs and house rules, not the listing. Confirm how many spaces come with the home and whether they are deeded, assigned or leased.
- Earthquake retrofit and insuranceWhether the building has been retrofitted, what the association carries and what it excludes. Earthquake cover is usually separate and is a real carrying cost.
- Lender approval of the associationFHA, VA and conventional warrantability are project-level decisions. A building can be pleasant to own and still hard to finance, which shrinks the buyer pool later.
- The California seller disclosure packageCalifornia requires the seller to deliver the association documents. Request them early; if the association is slow to produce them, that is itself information.
This is general information, not legal, tax or lending advice. Confirm current requirements with the association, your lender and the applicable agency.
Each is covered properly elsewhere rather than repeated here: the condo and townhome guide on the four documents that decide a purchase, and the Resource Center for the agency behind each rule, with the date each link was checked.
If you own here and are thinking about selling.
Pricing here is narrower than pricing a house. The closest comparables are other homes in this building: same assessment, same rules, same lender treatment. Floor, outlook, parking and condition do the rest. A comparable from a building a street away misleads in both directions, and how many homes here are listed at once is a real variable.
Get the association paperwork moving early.
The documents California requires you to deliver take time and cost money. Ordering them when you decide to sell rather than in escrow removes the commonest source of delay, and lets you see what a buyer will see first. If something in the packet will give a buyer pause, better to know while you control the timing.
Aryan will review the association package with you and give you a written pricing and selling review built on the homes this one actually competes with.
Ask Aryan AboutThis Building.
Send the question and Aryan will tell you which agency or document decides it, and what he can and cannot confirm. If he does not know, he will say so rather than guess.
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About ThisBuilding.
How many units are at 5400 Lindley Ave?
Seventy-one. That count comes from the Los Angeles County Assessor, which assesses a condominium one ownership parcel at a time: 71 consecutive parcel numbers carry this street address, and the next number in the sequence returns no record. It is the number of separately owned homes in the building, which is the figure an association budget and a lender both work from.
When was 5400 Lindley Ave built?
In 1970, according to the Los Angeles County Assessor, which reports both a year built and an effective year of 1970 on the parcels at this address. A building of that era generally predates current seismic and energy requirements, which is why the retrofit, insurance and reserve questions below are worth asking before you write an offer.
What are the HOA dues at 5400 Lindley Ave?
This page does not say, because no association document or statement from the association was obtained. Dues change every year and figures republished on listing portals are often out of date. The seller is required to give you the current association documents in a California sale, and that packet is where the real number is. Ask for it early rather than waiting for escrow.
Is this building approved for FHA, VA or conventional financing?
Unknown from any public source, and it is not a fixed property of the building. Lender approval is a project-level decision that turns on the association’s reserves, delinquency rate, owner-occupancy ratio, pending litigation and insurance, and it can change from one year to the next. Ask your lender to check the project before you write an offer, not after.
Has the building had an earthquake retrofit?
Not established. The building does not appear in the City of Los Angeles soft-story retrofit datasets that were searched, but absence from a list is not a finding that the building was exempt or already compliant. The association and the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety are the two places that can answer it properly.
Can I rent out a unit in this building?
That is set by the association’s governing documents rather than by anything in the public record, and no copy of them was obtained for this page. Rental caps, minimum lease terms and waiting lists are common in buildings of this age and they are frequently discovered late. Read the CC&Rs and the current house rules before you assume an investment use works.
What is the building zoned?
The Assessor carries the parcel as LAR3, and City building permits filed for the address record it as R3-1. Zoning describes what may be built on a site rather than what stands there now, and designations change, so confirm the current one with the City of Los Angeles if it matters to your plans.
Have you sold in this building?
Yes. Aryan represented the buyer on a sale in this building in 2021, recorded under MLS number SR20228660. The home is not identified, because a unit designation identifies a client’s residence. The sale appears with his role, the closing month and the price on the closed transactions record with every other sale he has closed.
The OthersOn This Site.
Several of these sit on the same street or in the same neighborhood, and they are not interchangeable. Each page covers one recorded project and nothing else.
5400 Lindley Ave and 5420 Lindley Ave are two different complexes on the same street, recorded under different subdivisions three years apart: this one is 71 homes built in 1970 on a 55,263 square foot lot, and the other is part of an 81-home subdivision built in 1973. Nothing on this page describes the other, and the two should not be compared from memory.
- 5420 Lindley Ave, Encino
81 homes, built 1973. Known locally as Lindbrook.
- 18645 Hatteras St, Tarzana
213 homes, built 1973.
- 5616 Etiwanda Ave, Tarzana
16 homes, built 2000.
- 855 S Wooster St, Los Angeles
17 homes, built 1991.
Sources & Scope
Aryan Rabizadeh is a licensed California real estate salesperson, not an attorney, accountant, lender, engineer or insurance professional. Nothing on this page is legal, tax, lending, insurance or engineering advice, and nothing here substitutes for the association's current documents. Public records are recorded for assessment and permitting purposes and can be incomplete or out of date; confirm anything that matters to your decision with the association, the relevant agency and your own professionals.
Written and reviewed by Aryan Rabizadeh, Real Estate Agent · CA DRE #02077236 · Rise Real Estate Group | Real Brokerage Technologies, Inc.
Last reviewed September 25, 2026
Looking at condos more broadly rather than at this building? Condos and townhomes in Los Angeles and the Encino market page are the better places to start.