Lincoln Heights homes for sale sit in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, just northeast of downtown across the Los Angeles River. The 9 Lincoln Heights homes for sale on November 2, 2026 asked a median $925,000, per CRMLS, while the 8 homes that closed in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles in the 90 days ending November 2 sold for a median $696,500 and $524 per square foot. The asking set is stale: 5 of the 9 listings had cut their price at least once, and the median listing had sat 130 days. The listings are mostly larger houses, so much of that gap is size; per square foot, Lincoln Heights sellers ask about 5% more than Lincoln Heights buyers have paid.
This page covers where Lincoln Heights sits, the housing stock and the HPOZ, its history, zoning, schools, the A Line, fire risk, prices against sold data, days on market, the buyer-or-seller read, the Boyle Heights, El Sereno and Highland Park comparisons, and how to buy here without overpaying.
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Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, is a 2.51 square mile neighborhood northeast of downtown, across the Los Angeles River, per the Los Angeles Times’ Mapping L.A. project. It is inside the City of Los Angeles and split between two council districts: Council District 1 at 124 West Avenue 30 and Council District 14 at 2700 Lincoln Park Avenue, per ZIMAS. On this site it sits under the East Los Angeles hub.
The fixed points on the map:
The sales data on this page uses a boundary drawn around the neighborhood’s residential core; 7 of the 8 sales sat in the Lincoln Heights MLS area and 1 in the Boyle Heights area.
Three things define Lincoln Heights housing stock: age, size and the zoning underneath it. 7 of the 8 homes sold between August 3 and November 2, 2026 were built between 1903 and 1920, and the eighth in 1957; the median living area was 1,179 square feet, and 4 of the 5 sales with zoning recorded sat on RD3 lots, a multi-family zone, per CRMLS. The City of Los Angeles describes the stock as Victorian-era, Arts and Crafts and Period Revival houses, most of them built by contractors or owners rather than architects, on its Lincoln Heights HPOZ page.
The 8 recent Lincoln Heights sales by feature:
Lots run a median 5,301 square feet. The middle four of the eight sit between 3,734 and 7,478. The top of the range, 3017 Minnesota Street, a 1909 hillside Craftsman, closed at $1,560,000.
The Lincoln Heights Historic Preservation Overlay Zone is a City of Los Angeles historic district adopted by the City Council in 2004. It covers part of the neighborhood, including 124 West Avenue 30, where ZIMAS shows the zone as RD3-1-HPOZ. The HPOZ board meets at the Lincoln Heights Branch Library, 2530 Workman Street, per Los Angeles City Planning. Confirm a parcel’s HPOZ status in ZIMAS before writing.
Lincoln Heights is known as the first suburb of Los Angeles. It was subdivided in 1873 as East Los Angeles, one of the city’s first residential suburbs per Los Angeles City Planning, with water pipes laid by Dr. John Strother Griffin, William H. Workman and John Gates Downey and a streetcar line to downtown from 1876. Growth took off after 1889, when the Los Angeles Cable Railway opened a viaduct over the river and the Southern Pacific tracks, per PBS SoCal. On March 26, 1917, residents voted to rename the neighborhood Lincoln Heights, and Eastlake Park became Lincoln Park that May.
The Lincoln Heights timeline:
Three more names the Times attaches to the neighborhood: the San Antonio Winery, the 23-acre Brewery Art Colony in the former Pabst Blue Ribbon brewery, and USC’s Keck School of Medicine, which with the Brewery brings students to the neighborhood.
The former Lincoln Heights Jail at 401 North Avenue 19 has been vacant since 2014. The city still has no plan for the jail building itself. Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez introduced a motion in May 2023 for an order of operations to rehabilitate the site toward affordable housing and mixed use, per Council District 1.
In November 2025 she proposed leasing the building at 401 North Avenue 19 to North East Trees for a plant nursery, while the jail building “remains uninhabitable” because of asbestos, mold and bird waste, per The Eastsider.
Lincoln Heights is zoned RD3, Restricted Density Multiple Dwelling, at both parcels checked and on 4 of the 5 recent sales with zoning recorded. ZIMAS shows [Q]RD3-1D-HCR at 2700 Lincoln Park Avenue and RD3-1-HPOZ at 124 West Avenue 30, both with a General Plan designation of Low Medium I Residential. Of the 5 recent sales that recorded zoning, 4 were LARD3 and 1 was LARE20, per CRMLS. RD3 allows one dwelling unit per 3,000 square feet of lot on a 6,000 square foot minimum lot, per the Los Angeles City Planning Zoning Code Summary.
What the zoning record says about Lincoln Heights:
Yes, but the lot size sets the count. RD3 zoning allows one dwelling unit per 3,000 square feet of lot on a 6,000 square foot minimum lot, per the Los Angeles City Planning zoning code summary, and the median lot among the last 8 Lincoln Heights sales was 5,301 square feet, so most lots carry one unit by right plus an accessory dwelling unit under state ADU law, which the California Department of Housing and Community Development administers. 2 of the 9 active listings on November 2, 2026 mentioned an ADU in their remarks, per CRMLS.
Los Angeles Unified School District schools serve Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, assigned by exact address. The 8 Lincoln Heights addresses checked fall in one high school attendance zone, three middle school zones and five elementary zones in LAUSD’s boundary layers. Abraham Lincoln Senior High, a grade 9 to 12 LAUSD school with 973 students in 2025-26 per Ed-Data, sits inside the neighborhood at 3501 North Broadway, and the Los Angeles Times counts seven public schools within the neighborhood’s boundaries, among them Albion Street, Gates Street and Griffin Avenue elementaries.
What the LAUSD attendance layers show at 8 Lincoln Heights addresses:
Yes, Lincoln Heights is near the Metro A Line. The Lincoln/Cypress station sits on the neighborhood’s northwest edge, and Metro’s Line 45 bus runs Harbor Freeway Station to Lincoln Heights via Broadway, per LA Metro. The 5 and 110 freeways border the neighborhood.
Transit and access from Lincoln Heights:
It depends on the street. 3 of the 9 Lincoln Heights addresses checked, 2818 Ashland Avenue, 2340 North Thomas Street and Lincoln High School at 3501 North Broadway, fall inside a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone on the City of Los Angeles fire hazard layer; the other 6 addresses checked, on Lincoln Park Avenue, Avenue 30, Minnesota Street, Darwin Avenue, Hancock Street and Sichel Street, do not. The zone follows the hillside rim near Lincoln Park and the Rose Hill side.
What a fire-zone address means in Lincoln Heights:
Lincoln Heights homes sold for a median $696,500 in the 90 days ending November 2, 2026, per CRMLS. That is $524 per square foot across 8 closings. The five MLS areas under TKG’s East Los Angeles hub (Lincoln Heights, Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Montecito Heights and Monterey Hills) closed at a median $775,000 and $641 per square foot over the same window (90 sales), and Los Angeles County single-family homes at $1,020,000 and $627 (8,056 sales). Comparison figures leave out off-market sales entered in CRMLS for comps only; none of the 8 Lincoln Heights sales was one. The Lincoln Heights range ran from $380,000, for a 490 square foot 1920 house on North Thomas Street, to $1,560,000 for a 1909 hillside Craftsman on Minnesota Street.
Where the 8 Lincoln Heights sales landed:
Lincoln Heights trades under both benchmarks. It sits $78,500 under the East Los Angeles hub median and $323,500 under the county median, on a sample of 8 sales that reads as directional.
Asking prices in Lincoln Heights run far above closing prices on the median, and about 5% above per square foot, $548 against $524, because 7 of the 9 homes for sale are larger than the median sale. The 9 single-family listings matched by parcel to Lincoln Heights on November 2, 2026 asked a median $925,000, per CRMLS, against the $696,500 that closed over the prior 90 days. The asks range from $549,000 for a 1900 two-bedroom bungalow on Minnesota Street, listed 6 days, to $1,110,000 for a five-bedroom 1907 house with a two-bedroom ADU on Darwin Avenue, listed 176 days. 5 of the 9 listings had already cut their price at least once, and 8 of the 9 asked under $1,000,000.
The active inventory on November 2, 2026:
Price an offer in Lincoln Heights off the closed tape, not the asking tape.
No, most Lincoln Heights homes do not sell above asking price. 3 of the 8 Lincoln Heights homes that closed in the 90 days ending November 2, 2026 sold above list price, per CRMLS, 5 of 8 closed below their original list price, and the median was 97.2% of list. The five MLS areas under TKG’s East Los Angeles hub closed at a recency-weighted 102.1% of list across 90 sales, so the pocket reads softer than the areas around it.
Lincoln Heights sells at three speeds:
5 of the 8 Lincoln Heights homes that closed in the 90 days ending November 2, 2026 sold below their original asking price, per CRMLS. 4 of the 8 sellers cut the list price at least once before closing. 3000 Darwin Avenue started at $549,000 and closed at $392,000 after 94 days, 71% of its original ask, recorded as a cash or private-financing sale. 2700 Lincoln Park Avenue started at $814,900 and closed at $705,000 after 279 days. The two sales that cleared in 14 days or less both closed well over list: 124 West Avenue 30, a 1911 Craftsman listed at $599,000, closed at $688,000, 114.9% of list, and a 1957 house on Thomas Street listed at $699,000 closed at $775,000, 110.9% of list.
Lincoln Heights homes take a median 60 days to sell, across 8 closings. That is 31 days longer than the 29-day median across the five East Los Angeles hub areas and 39 days longer than the Los Angeles County single-family median of 21, per CRMLS closings marketed on the MLS between August 3 and November 2, 2026. No Lincoln Heights sale took close to 60 days: 4 sold within 26 days and 4 took 94 days or longer. The hub areas sold 27 of their 90 homes within two weeks over that window; Lincoln Heights sold 2 of 8.
Days on market for the 8 Lincoln Heights closings:
Because the active count measures homes that have not sold yet. The 9 single-family listings matched by parcel to Lincoln Heights on November 2, 2026 had a median 130 days on market, 6 of the 9 had been listed 60 days or longer, and 5 of the 9 had cut their price, per CRMLS. The 8 homes that closed took a median 60. Two numbers, two different sets. A portal that quotes the active figure is describing the unsold inventory.
Lincoln Heights is a buyer’s market on its own 8 sales and 9 listings, while the hub areas around it read as a seller’s market. The signals through November 2, 2026, per CRMLS: 5 of 8 Lincoln Heights homes closed below their original list, 4 of 8 took 45 days or longer, and the active set is stale, per the days-on-market section above. The five East Los Angeles hub areas closed 58 of 90 homes at or above asking, against 3 of 8 in Lincoln Heights. Lincoln Heights is the soft spot inside a firmer cluster.
The four balance indicators for Lincoln Heights:
Lincoln Heights has 3.4 months of supply. The 9 single-family listings matched by parcel to Lincoln Heights on November 2, 2026, divided by the 8 sales closed over the prior three months (2.67 a month), equals 3.4 months, per CRMLS. The standard rule of thumb treats anything under six months as favoring sellers, so the buyer tilt in Lincoln Heights comes from stale listings that have already cut their price rather than from a glut of inventory.
Lincoln Heights is the cheapest of nine Eastside MLS areas per square foot, at $502, and the slowest to clear, at a median 64 days. Its MLS area closed 11 sales at a median $725,000 between August 3 and November 2, 2026, against $700,000 and $565 per square foot in Boyle Heights, $880,000 and $730 in El Sereno, and $1,175,000 and $867 in Highland Park, per CRMLS. Lincoln Heights homes took a median 64 days in that area tape, more than double Boyle Heights at 28 and El Sereno at 30. Eight of the nine areas closed above list on average, Cypress Park on a thin sample the one exception, and the Lincoln Heights MLS area’s 100.9% covers 11 sales that run past this page’s boundary, against 99.7% for the 8 sales inside it. The buyer who wants a Craftsman here pays the least per foot and gets the most time to decide.
| Eastside MLS area | Sales | Median sale | Sale-to-list | Median days | Per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Heights | 11 | $725,000 | 100.9% | 64 | $502 |
| Boyle Heights | 32 | $700,000 | 100.1% | 28 | $565 |
| El Sereno | 33 | $880,000 | 103.8% | 30 | $730 |
| Cypress Park (thin sample) | 6 | under 8 sales | 99.3% | 27 | under 8 sales |
| Montecito Heights | 10 | $1,049,500 | 101.1% | 16 | $845 |
| Highland Park | 57 | $1,175,000 | 102.3% | 20 | $867 |
| Glassell Park | 28 | $1,208,000 | 104.1% | 16 | $918 |
| Mount Washington | 30 | $1,212,250 | 109.0% | 18 | $930 |
| Eagle Rock | 48 | $1,310,000 | 104.8% | 17 | $859 |
CRMLS closings marketed on the MLS, August 3 to November 2, 2026, raw figures by MLS area; off-market sales entered for comps are left out, and no dollar levels show under 8 sales. The Lincoln Heights row uses the MLS area (11 sales); the rest of this page uses the 8 sales inside the drawn neighborhood boundary. Three reads from the table:
To buy a home in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles without overpaying, run three moves before the first offer: price the Lincoln Heights home off the 8 CRMLS closings from the last 90 days rather than the 9 asking prices, read the condition and the financing in the listing, and verify the parcel. A buyer strategy consult runs all three before the first showing.
Objective: anchor the offer to what Lincoln Heights buyers paid. Signal: $524 per square foot closed against $548 asked, per CRMLS through November 2, 2026, with 4 of 8 closings under $700,000. Risk: pricing a flats cottage against the hillside Craftsman at $1,560,000. Play: pull the closings for the same size, slope and condition as the target house, and set the opening number from that set.
Objective: know which market the listing is in. Signal: 2 of the 5 recent sales with financing recorded were cash or private financing, including the deepest discount, 3000 Darwin Avenue at 71% of original list. Risk: bidding a conventional loan against cash on a house that needs work. Play: on a fixer, write the offer around the inspection and the lender’s requirements, and do not assume a fixer sells soft: the two sales that closed in 14 days or less, at 110.9% and 114.9% of list, were both marketed as needing work or updates. On a remodeled house, price inside the range the three remodeled sales set, 88.4% to 104.3% of list. The off-market channel adds a third path where the tape has no number yet.
Objective: no surprises after acceptance. Signal: RD3 zoning on 4 of 5 recent sales with zoning recorded, an HPOZ on some blocks, a hillside overlay and a fire zone on others, and two council districts. Risk: a contingency-period discovery that should have shaped the number. Play: four checks for any Lincoln Heights address, run before the offer deadline:
9 single-family homes matched by parcel to Lincoln Heights were for sale on November 2, 2026, per CRMLS, asking $549,000 to $1,110,000 with a median of $925,000. The live grid on this page covers Rover’s own boundary and more property types, so its count can run higher.
Lincoln Heights was East Los Angeles: the neighborhood carried that name from its 1873 subdivision until residents voted to rename it in 1917, per PBS SoCal. The City of Los Angeles now places it in the Northeast Los Angeles community plan area, and TKG files Lincoln Heights under its East Los Angeles hub alongside Boyle Heights, El Sereno and Monterey Hills.
Lincoln Heights is a 2.51 square mile neighborhood with Lincoln Park, Albion Riverside Park, the Lincoln Heights Recreation Center, a branch library, an A Line station and a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. The LAPD Hollenbeck Community Police Station serves the neighborhood and publishes its crime data at lapdonline.org; this page does not rate safety.
No. None of the 8 Lincoln Heights sales that closed between August 3 and November 2, 2026, and none of the 9 active listings, mention an HOA or dues in their listing remarks, per CRMLS. Confirm on the preliminary title report for a specific property.
90031. All 8 Lincoln Heights homes that closed between August 3 and November 2, 2026 carried ZIP 90031, per CRMLS.
Yes. 4 of the 8 Lincoln Heights sales closed between August 3 and November 2, 2026 were under $700,000, per CRMLS, from $380,000 to $688,000. On November 2, 2026, 2 of the 9 active listings asked under $700,000, at $549,000 and $670,000.
This is not a conversation about touring. It is about whether the number you plan to write is anchored to the closings on this page that match the house or to 9 asking prices on mostly larger houses. Per square foot those asks run about 5% over what closed, and on houses that mostly trade under $1,000,000, that margin is where Lincoln Heights buyers either keep or give away a down payment.
The best time to run the closed tape is before the listing’s first weekend, not after the counter.
Book a buyer strategy consult and leave with a price band for the house you want, its speed read, and the four parcel checks already run. Or call 310-409-7242.
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