The Burbank Hills
ZIP 91501

ZIP 91501 sits north and east of downtown Burbank, taking in the blocks east of the city center and the foothill streets that climb toward the Verdugo Mountains. Wildwood Canyon Park, a City of Burbank park in the Verdugos, lies inside the ZIP (City of Burbank Parks and Recreation; Google geocoding verified August 3, 2026). The terrain is the defining feature: the street grid of the flats gives way to curving hillside roads as the elevation rises.

The housing stock spans a wide band. Closed detached single family sales in the ZIP over the 12 months ending July 31, 2026 include a 1,027 square foot home on Elmwood Avenue and a 7,000 square foot estate on a 56,865 square foot lot on Skyline Drive, at close prices from $675,000 to $5,250,000 (CRMLS, pulled August 3, 2026). Streets with verified closed sales in that window include Santa Anita Avenue, Via Montana, Elmwood Avenue, and Skyline Drive. For the citywide picture, see our Burbank neighborhood guide.

A note on how we label the numbers on this page. CRMLS records carry no verified hillside designation, so Empower does not publish figures labeled as Burbank Hills specific. 91501 is the ZIP that contains the Burbank hillside streets plus adjacent flats east of downtown; the statistics below describe the whole ZIP, and every figure carries the exact scope of the query that produced it.

12 Skyline Drive, presented in its MLS listing as The Sky Terrace, is a Mediterranean estate built in 2007 with seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, 7,000 square feet of living area, garage parking for seven, and a 56,865 square foot lot, about 1.31 acres. The listing's own MLS remarks describe 150 degree panoramic views.

The property was listed at $5,999,000 and sold on June 4, 2026 for $5,250,000 after 50 days on market. It closed below the final list price, and we publish both numbers because that is the honest record. Ed Sanchez, DRE #01293683, of Empower Real Estate represented both the seller and the buyer.

Every fact in this section was verified against the live CRMLS record, MLS #BB26048227, on August 3, 2026. 12 Skyline Drive is also one of the 53 sales in the dataset below; it passed the same filters as every other record.

All five statistics below come from one merged, deduplicated set of 53 closed sales. Exact scope of every stat: closed detached single family residence (CRMLS PropertyType Residential, PropertySubType SFR) sales, City of Burbank, CRMLS PostalCode 91501, arms-length (retail) sales only, living area 50 to 9,950 sqft, close dates 2025-08-05 through 2026-07-31, pulled live from CRMLS on 2026-08-03. Condominiums, townhouses, and 2-4 unit properties are excluded by the like-kind filter. These are zip-wide 91501 figures; they are NOT hillside-only figures.

Scope for every figure above: Burbank ZIP 91501, detached single family sales, 12 months to August 2026, CRMLS. Pulled 2026-08-03.

Close price range: low was 482 Santa Anita Ave (MLS 25609437, closed 2026-03-05); high was 12 Skyline Dr (MLS BB26048227, closed 2026-06-04, the Empower sale). Median days on market is the CRMLS DaysOnMarket field; observed range 0 to 178. Price per square foot is close price divided by CRMLS LivingArea; median $872 per sqft; low was 515 Via Montana (4,442 sqft); high was 1023 Elmwood Ave (1,027 sqft). Small homes skew high and large homes skew low, so treat price per square foot as a range, never a single expected value.

Closings by month (same 53 records): Aug 2025: 7, Sep: 4, Oct: 5, Nov: 4, Dec: 2, Jan 2026: 0, Feb: 3, Mar: 6, Apr: 8, May: 2, Jun: 8, Jul: 4.

How these numbers were produced

Sales data is drawn exclusively from live CRMLS queries run on August 3, 2026. CRMLS search tools cannot filter directly by ZIP code, so Empower tiled the Google-geocoded 91501 bounding box (northeast 34.2217, negative 118.2800; southwest 34.1767, negative 118.3150; centroid 34.2039087, negative 118.2935891) with eleven serial radius searches, then kept only records whose CRMLS PostalCode field equals 91501 and whose city is Burbank. Nine of the eleven searches returned fewer than the tool's 100 candidate fetch cap, which means each was a complete census of closed sales inside its circle for the full 365 day window; together those nine circles cover the entire 91501 bounding box, so the merged set is a complete census of the window under the stated filters. Two searches (the initial 2.0 mile centroid pull and the first southwest tile) hit the 100 candidate cap and were complete only back to 2026-01-23 and 2025-11-17 respectively; they were superseded by the smaller tiles and retained only for deduplication. The tool enforced the 365 day window at closings on or after 2025-08-05 (an observed 2025-08-04 closing was rejected as outside the window). Scope filters on every query: City of Burbank, detached single family residences only (condominiums, townhouses, and multi-unit excluded), arms-length sales only (zero distressed candidates appeared in any pull, so this filter removed nothing), living area 50 to 9,950 sqft (the widest window the tool permits from a 5,000 sqft anchor at 99 percent; the largest observed sale was 7,000 sqft). Days on market is the CRMLS DaysOnMarket field as reported. Residual limits: a closed sale with no coordinates in CRMLS would be invisible to radius search (no such rejections were observed), and any sale above 9,950 sqft would be excluded.

The 53 CRMLS listing numbers behind every statistic above: 25493281, 25563473, 25564667, 25592349, 25594151, 25609437, 25621765, 26637479, 26794673, 26831951, BB25064691, BB25081979, BB25152062, BB25186860, BB25186880, BB25196899, BB25225417, BB25249829, BB25266456, BB25280844, BB26018703, BB26044143, BB26048227, BB26059156, BB26065390, BB26078593, BB26083804, BB26090546, BB26123285, BB26133042, CV25182102, CV25255968, FR26042648, GD25037705, GD25229187, GD25273118, GD26102234, GD26145704, P1-25158, P1-25581, P1-26550, PF25118001, SB26034556, SR25093955, SR25161052, SR25163618, SR25174346, SR25175006, SR25181239, SR25241244, SR26034849, SR26060918, SR26100115. The full query log (all eleven search centers, radii, and candidate counts) is preserved in Empower's internal records.