[OC] A 1.29-acre house in Los Angeles pays more property tax than the 308-acre country club across the street

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18 comments

  1. Prop 13 shouldn’t apply to businesses and country clubs aren’t not for profits. Sadly the country club is exploiting both. But the people who could fix this are the same people who are members of country clubs (or desperately want their donations) so nothing changes.

  3. What has America come to! Who’s going to stick up for the people with $36 million homes!

  4. a split roll would really fix most of California’s problems.

    actual value of the land is probably like $5 – 10 billion.

  5. Is that the playboy mansion or its neighbor? I know the mansion is back there on that side of the golf course. If its that id be suprised the tax isnt higher

  6. Both are paying 1.1% in property tax. Why are you comparing a $36 million home to a $24 million country club?

  7. The country club valuation is insane. Add 2 zeros then maybe you’re in the ballpark.

  8. It’s almost like taxes are based on value and not size.

  9. I think the valuation of the country club is probably my the bigger problem.

  10. Why is the mansion worth more or am I reading this wrong

  11. Source: Los Angeles County Assessor, current roll (parcel records via the assessor’s public portal). Boundaries from OpenStreetMap.

    Tools: Python for the parcel pull and geometry, SVG for the render.

    The gap comes from two things:

    Proposition 13 (1978) freezes assessed value at its 1975 base and caps growth at 2%/yr until a property changes hands, the club hasn’t sold, so its land is still carried on a 1975 base year.

    Then Article XIII §10 of the California Constitution (passed 1960) requires that a nonprofit golf course of 10+ acres be assessed on its use as a golf course rather than on what the land is actually worth.

    The country club allegedly charges an est. $250k initiation fee to join.

  12. Aside from Augusta National, LACC is one of the hardest country clubs to join in the USA.

    They don’t allow A-list celebrities to join.

    It’s mostly big $ blue bloods and people with a deep history in Los Angeles business.

    Just a dumb fact I learned when they hosted the US Open there.

  13. Prop 13 is bullshit, and no one can convince me otherwise. Go ahead and offer property tax relief to old folks on a needs basis but fuck off with this property tax lock at the time of purchase for everyone (including commercial real estate!) nonsense.

    This is the reason why my in laws live in a 7 bedroom house with just 3 people, when families can’t afford to buy a house.

  15. “530 S Mapleton, **A single family home**”

    With 11 bedrooms, 27 bathrooms, and a paltry 33,650 square feet of living space.

  17. Isn’t that Puff Daddy’s lube house? or is that the one next to it?

  18. Prop 13. Assessed value only resets on sale, and LACC hasn’t changed hands since 1911, so it’s taxed on a century old base growing 2% a year while the house got reassessed at market when it last sold. Golf courses also get valued as golf courses rather than as land, which is its own 1960 ballot measure.

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