Los Angeles 2026B online auction · item 2449

3021-004-026

Single Family Residence · Palmdale · 0.17 acres

38633 LEMSFORD AVE, PALMDALE, CA 93550

Bidding runs October 17–20, 2026 on GovEase and closes at 12:00 p.m. PT on Tuesday, October 20. Registration and deposits closed October 13.

Opening bid
$105,895
County assessed
$110,183
Bid ÷ assessed
0.961
In default since
2007

Near value Opens between 60% and 100% of assessed value — little headroom.

Flags

  • Special conditions

    The county's special conditions flyer for this sale names this parcel. Its examples are easements, Coastal Commission restrictions and Mello-Roos special taxes, each a limit or a charge the sale does not remove. The flyer does not say which one applies here, so ask the Tax Collector.

  • Structure on record

    The county's records show something built here: improvement value on the assessor's roll, or a year built on its parcel map. That can be the asset or it can be the liability — a derelict building is a demolition bill, and an occupied one is a possession problem.

The county's record

Use
Single Family Residence, use code 0100
Zoning
LCRA7000*
Lot
7,248 sq ft (0.17 acres)
Year built
1956
Building
1,278 sq ft
Rooms
4 beds, 2 baths
Units
1
Land value
$27,576
Improvements
$82,607
Prop 13 base year
2000
Tax status
In default, as read October 8, 2026
Legal description
TRACT # 19966 LOT 46

Values from the 2026 roll, effective July 31, 2026.

What parcels with a building sold for at earlier Los Angeles auctions

Los Angeles publishes the price of every parcel it sells. Each dot is one of those sales, at its price divided by its own opening bid, so a dot at 1× went for the opening bid and a dot at 10× for ten times it.

one sale median, shown only where a group has 30 sales or more

The same sales as a table
Group Sold At the opening bid At 2× or more Median
April 2025 With a building 16 0 14 under 30
April 2026 With a building 6 0 5 under 30

These rows describe groups of earlier sales. None of them is an estimate of what this parcel will sell for.

Sources: the county's 2025A auction books and excess-proceeds list and its 2026A excess-proceeds list. The method is in the write-up.