Off-Market REO: Boyle Heights Bungalow Court Closed All-Cash in 34 Days
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The LAAA Team of Marcus & Millichap is proud to announce the closing of 3555 Siskiyou Street, a 1929 bungalow court in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, which sold off-market for $1,100,000. In total it is a seven-unit court: five operating legacy units plus two unfinished rear ADUs that still required completion and final approvals.
We were brought in on a bank-owned disposition after the property had already been offered on the open market without finding a buyer. Bank-owned sales come with real constraints. The property was delivered strictly as-is, with limited seller representations and no operating history to lean on. Our job was to find the one buyer who could see through those constraints to the value underneath.
The asset tells you why it was complicated. Five legacy bungalow-style units, built in 1929, sit across two contiguous parcels and were occupied at rents well below market under the city's Rent Stabilization Ordinance, which is real upside for a patient owner who can re-tenant over time. Behind them, prior ownership had pursued a value-add plan and started two rear accessory dwelling units (ADUs), but that plan stalled. The two ADUs were built partway and then sat, never finished and not yet carried through final approvals, so they could not be occupied or counted as income. Most buyers see two units that produce nothing yet and move on.
Early on, we advised the seller that this was an income and value-add play, not a redevelopment land play. Rent control and replacement-unit obligations make a teardown uneconomical here, so the value was in the building, not the dirt. Rather than a retail apartment buyer, the right fit was an operator who could underwrite both the rent-up on the legacy units and the cost, timing, and execution risk of finishing the two rear units.
The deal came together off-market. An initial all-cash offer arrived at $1,000,000. The seller countered at $1,300,000. We worked both sides to a meeting point, and the deal ultimately landed at $1,100,000. The buyer, a local private investor with value-add experience, went in all-cash with no loan or appraisal contingency and took the property as-is, with full understanding that the rear units still required completion. The buyer was represented by Kian Maronde and Jason Tuvia of our Encino office.
The LAAA Team of Marcus & Millichap is proud to announce the closing of 3555 Siskiyou Street, a 1929 bungalow court in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, which sold off-market for $1,100,000. In total it is a seven-unit court: five operating legacy units plus two unfinished rear ADUs that still required completion and final approvals.
We were brought in on a bank-owned disposition after the property had already been offered on the open market without finding a buyer. Bank-owned sales come with real constraints. The property was delivered strictly as-is, with limited seller representations and no operating history to lean on. Our job was to find the one buyer who could see through those constraints to the value underneath.
The asset tells you why it was complicated. Five legacy bungalow-style units, built in 1929, sit across two contiguous parcels and were occupied at rents well below market under the city's Rent Stabilization Ordinance, which is real upside for a patient owner who can re-tenant over time. Behind them, prior ownership had pursued a value-add plan and started two rear accessory dwelling units (ADUs), but that plan stalled. The two ADUs were built partway and then sat, never finished and not yet carried through final approvals, so they could not be occupied or counted as income. Most buyers see two units that produce nothing yet and move on.
Early on, we advised the seller that this was an income and value-add play, not a redevelopment land play. Rent control and replacement-unit obligations make a teardown uneconomical here, so the value was in the building, not the dirt. Rather than a retail apartment buyer, the right fit was an operator who could underwrite both the rent-up on the legacy units and the cost, timing, and execution risk of finishing the two rear units.
