We Buy Houses in Burbank, CA

Selling in Burbank? Here is the quick answer

We can buy your Burbank property as-is, with no repairs or showings. After reviewing the property, we can typically provide a written cash offer within 24 to 48 hours. On a direct purchase from us, there is no agent commission charged by us, and we cover the standard closing costs we agree to in the contract. You choose the closing date, and requesting an offer does not obligate you to sell.

Best fit: inherited homes, tenant-occupied rentals, properties needing major repairs, vacant homes, code issues, foreclosure timelines, or sellers who value certainty over maximizing a retail list price. A traditional listing may still produce a higher price for a retail-ready home, so compare net proceeds and timing before deciding.

Want a number first? Call or text (424) 435-2326 or use the cash-offer form above.

More than 62 percent of Burbank’s housing was built before 1970, most of it in the postwar decades when the studios and Lockheed were hiring, and that age shapes how a Burbank sale goes. A 1948 bungalow in Magnolia Park with its original galvanized plumbing, a 1950s ranch below the Verdugo foothills with a room addition nobody pulled a permit for, a duplex near the Media District with a tenant who has been there twenty years: these are the typical Burbank properties, and they are exactly the ones a financed buyer’s inspector and appraiser pick apart. Burbank is also an independent city with no transfer tax of its own and no local rent control, so the rules of a sale here are simpler than across the line in Los Angeles.

Cash Home Buyers CA is a Woodland Hills company on the other side of the Valley from Burbank, and we buy houses, duplexes and condos anywhere in the city in whatever condition they are in. We make a written cash offer within 24 to 48 hours, charge no commission, ask for no repairs or showings, and close on the date you pick.

Burbank home prices and selling times, August 2026

Movoto’s August 2026 figures put the Burbank median sold price at about $1.1 million, roughly $685 per square foot, on 219 closed sales compared with 215 a year earlier. Homes took a median of 49 days to sell, up from 42 the previous August, and there were 236 active listings. That is a market that is still moving but has cooled a step: prices holding around the million-dollar mark, a week longer to find a buyer, and more choices for that buyer than a year ago.

For a seller, the shift matters most on houses with problems. In a hot market a buyer waives inspections on a dated house; in a market with 236 listings to choose from, the same buyer asks for a credit or walks. Burbank’s single-family prices sit above the conforming loan limit for many buyers, which means jumbo underwriting and a full appraisal, and an unpermitted addition or a converted garage is precisely what an appraiser flags. A cash sale removes that step entirely.

Burbank’s rules for sellers: county tax only, no rent board, hillside fire zone

• City transfer tax: none. Burbank is a charter city but does not add a city documentary transfer tax; you pay only the Los Angeles County rate of $1.10 per $1,000, about $1,210 on a $1.1 million sale. Compare that with the City of Los Angeles rate of $4.50 per $1,000 a few blocks away in Toluca Lake or Sun Valley.
• Rent control: none. Burbank voters rejected a rent-control measure in 2021 by roughly 36 to 64 percent, and the city has no local rent stabilization or just-cause ordinance. Rentals are governed by the statewide Tenant Protection Act (AB 1482) only, and there is no local rent board or registration.
• Point-of-sale requirements: we found no Burbank-specific resale inspection or retrofit certificate. The statewide detector and water-heater strapping rules are the only certifications involved.
• Fire hazard: partial. Burbank is on CAL FIRE’s list of Los Angeles County cities with Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones; the affected area is the hillside section in the Verdugo Mountains foothills, not the Valley floor. The Burbank Fire Department runs an annual fire hazard reduction program on those properties, with notices in May, a June clearance deadline and up to 200 feet of required clearance. Hillside owners should check insurance before listing.
• Coastal zone: no. Mello-Roos: none noted. HOAs: condo and townhome buildings only.

Magnolia Park, the Rancho, the Media District and the hillside

Burbank is about 17 square miles and 107,000 people, and 58 percent of its households rent, so a meaningful share of the housing is duplexes, fourplexes and mid-size apartment buildings, especially south of the 5 Freeway and around the Media District near the Warner Bros. and Disney lots. The single-family neighborhoods locals name are Magnolia Park on the west side, laid out in the early 1920s and filled with Spanish, Tudor and postwar bungalows on modest lots; the Rancho Equestrian District along the Los Angeles River edge, where residents can keep horses and lots are larger; and the hillside streets climbing into the Verdugos, with mid-century houses on sloped lots and views back across the Valley.

We buy in each of these areas, and the conditions follow the era. The 1920s to 1950s houses usually have original plumbing and electrical, low-slope roofs past their life, and some combination of enclosed porch, converted garage or back-house that was never permitted. The Rancho properties bring barns and corrals and the drainage issues of river-adjacent land. Hillside houses bring retaining walls, slope drainage and fire-zone insurance questions. Small income buildings bring long-term tenants at rents well below market. None of these stop a cash sale; all of them can stop a financed one.

Common reasons Burbank owners sell for cash

• Selling a duplex or fourplex with tenants in place. With no local rent board, the paperwork is AB 1482 and the leases; we buy subject to the tenancies and you do not need to deliver the units vacant.
• Selling a postwar house as-is rather than spending months and a six-figure budget bringing a 1950s house up to what today’s buyer expects.
• Relocating for a studio or aerospace job, where the move date is fixed and a 49-day listing plus a 30-to-45-day escrow does not fit.
• Selling during a divorce when both parties want a clean, dated close rather than months of showings.
• Stopping a foreclosure on a Burbank house before the trustee’s sale date, when there is equity worth protecting.

Our sell my house fast in Burbank page explains what a two-to-three-week close looks like, and the Burbank cash-offer process page walks through the steps.

How a Burbank cash sale closes in Los Angeles County

We open escrow with a licensed escrow company, order a preliminary title report, and record the grant deed with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk in Norwalk. In this county the seller customarily pays the county transfer tax and the owner’s title policy while escrow fees are split, though all of it is negotiable and our offer states the allocation in writing. A house with clear title and no tenants records in about two to three weeks from acceptance; a tenant-occupied building takes a little longer while we collect estoppel certificates. Probate sales go through the Los Angeles Superior Court probate department at the Superior Court for Los Angeles County downtown, and we buy from executors and trustees under either full or limited authority.

Listing a Burbank house versus taking our offer

A remodeled house in Magnolia Park or on a Rancho lot will draw multiple offers and should be listed; the retail buyer for that product is active, and a broker will earn the commission. At the California average of about 5 percent, that commission is roughly $55,000 on a $1.1 million sale, and it comes on top of prep, repairs and 49 or so days of showings before a financed escrow that can still fail at appraisal or inspection. Our offer is lower than that best case. It does not carry a commission, a repair list, an appraisal or an inspection contingency, and it closes when you say. On an original postwar house, a tenant-occupied duplex or a hillside home with insurance trouble, the net after those costs is often closer than the headline numbers suggest, and we will show you the math either way.

Burbank sellers ask us these questions

How quickly can I sell my Burbank house for cash?

We give a written offer within 24 to 48 hours of seeing the house. With clear title we can record in Norwalk in about two to three weeks, or on a later date if you need time to move.

Does Burbank have a city transfer tax like Los Angeles?

No. Burbank sales pay only the Los Angeles County documentary transfer tax of $1.10 per $1,000. The City of Los Angeles rate and the Measure ULA surcharge do not apply inside Burbank city limits.

Is Burbank a rent-control city?

No. A 2021 ballot measure failed, and Burbank has no local rent stabilization or just-cause ordinance. The statewide Tenant Protection Act applies to qualifying units. We buy tenant-occupied buildings subject to the existing leases.

Do you buy houses with unpermitted additions or converted garages in Burbank?

Yes. Unpermitted work is common in Burbank's postwar neighborhoods, and it is one of the main reasons a cash sale is simpler here than a listing. We price the property as it stands and do not require you to legalize or remove anything.

Will you buy a house in the Burbank hillside fire zone?

Yes. A lender needs the buyer to have fire insurance in place before closing, which has become difficult in the Verdugo foothills. We do not need a lender, so an insurance non-renewal does not stop our purchase.

If you own a house, duplex or condo in Burbank and want a firm number, call 424-435-2326 or read how our process works. The offer is free, written, and yours to accept or decline.

2026 local market research: See our Burbank Housing & Home Seller Report 2026 for current seller-focused housing context.

Written and reviewed by the Cash Home Buyers CA team, a Woodland Hills-based cash home buyer serving Los Angeles County. Market figures are from Movoto's August 2026 report and are updated periodically.