About the Building
Broadway Lofts is a for-sale condominium building, and the Los Angeles County Assessor settles the point rather than leaving it to a listing site. The roll carries thirty-three separately assessed parcels at 1912 Broadway on recorded condominium Tract 54215, Lot 1, each legal description reciting an airspace unit and a one thirty-third interest in the common area. The parcels were created on 25 February 2008 and run in an unbroken sequence of assessor numbers. Thirty-two of the thirty-three are coded 010C, the assessor's classification for a purpose-built condominium; the exception is unit 100.
Unit 100 is worth understanding before anything else. It is recorded as a commercial condominium under use code 2100, described on the roll as a restaurant or cocktail lounge in a single-storey configuration, with a main area of 451 square feet. It is a full member of the same association with the same one thirty-third common-area interest as every home above it. That is a normal arrangement in a mixed-use building on a commercial street, but it changes the disclosure package: a buyer should read how the declaration allocates costs between the commercial and residential units, and how the commercial owner votes.
The residential mix is uniform in a way that is unusual for a project marketed as lofts. The assessor addresses homes as 101 to 110, 201 to 211 and 301 to 311, which is ten residences on the first level and eleven on each of the two above. Sampled units on the first and second levels record 722 square feet with one bedroom and one bathroom. Third-level homes run larger, at 942 and 991 square feet, and pick up a second bathroom. Directories describe the building as four storeys, which sits comfortably with three numbered residential levels above a ground plane given over to parking and the commercial unit.
Sizes are where the public record and the marketing diverge, and the divergence is worth naming. A condominium directory publishes a range of 824 to 1,303 square feet for this building. Every unit sampled on the assessor's roll falls below that top figure, and several fall below the bottom of it. Assessor areas and the areas shown on a recorded condominium plan are measured on different conventions, so the two will rarely agree exactly, but a gap of three hundred square feet at the upper end is more than a convention difference. Work from the recorded plan and the tax record, not the directory.
Finish specification is the other thing sold on here, and it comes entirely from listing and directory sources rather than from the association or the developer. Those sources describe Boffi kitchens, engineered stone worktops, bamboo flooring, stainless appliances, video intercom, key fob entry and side-by-side parking. Read all of that as indicative of the original delivery in 2008 rather than as a description of any particular home today. Eighteen years of individual remodelling sits between the sales brochure and the present, and in a building of small one-bedroom plans the kitchen is usually the first thing an owner replaces.
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The Residences
The roll carries thirty-three separately assessed condominium parcels on Tract 54215, numbered consecutively and each holding a one thirty-third interest in the common area. Thirty-two are coded 010C as residential condominiums. The thirty-third, unit 100, is a commercial condominium. That is a verified count rather than a marketing figure, and it happens to match the thirty-three units that directories publish, though those directories do not distinguish the commercial unit. For a buyer the practical consequence is small but real: the association's budget, insurance and voting are shared with a commercial owner, and the declaration will say on what terms.
Assessor addresses run 101 to 110, then 201 to 211, then 301 to 311. That gives ten homes on the first residential level and eleven on each of the two above, which is a dense plate for a site of just over fifteen thousand square feet. Density of that order means shorter spans of exterior wall per home, more shared party walls and a longer internal corridor than a building with four or five homes to a floor. It also means a low common-area burden per unit. Check on the recorded plan which homes have a single exposure and which turn a corner.
Every home sampled on the roll is recorded as a single bedroom. The first and second-level units sampled show 722 square feet with one bathroom; the third-level units sampled show 942 and 991 square feet with two. That is a coherent picture of a project aimed at a single occupant or a couple rather than at a family, and it is consistent with the corridor, which draws college, hospital and Westside office employment. Assessor bedroom counts are drawn from historic field records and do not track later reconfiguration, so read the plan and the physical layout for anything being marketed as a second bedroom.
Loft in a Santa Monica project of this date usually means an open plan with the kitchen part of the living space, a raised or partly open sleeping area, exposed or partly exposed structure and taller than standard ceilings, rather than a converted industrial floor. Nothing in the public record confirms ceiling heights here, and no source states them, so treat any claim about them as unverified until measured. What the record does establish is the year and the construction class, which places the building squarely within modern residential code, modern fire separation and modern energy standards.
The clearest pattern in the assessor's data is that the third level carries the bigger homes: 942 and 991 square feet against 722 lower down, with a second bathroom rather than one. In a three-level building that usually means the top plate was planned differently, whether through a mezzanine, a taller volume, a terrace or simply fewer partitions. If the extra area matters to you, confirm from the recorded plan whether it is enclosed floor area or whether some of it is counted differently, and look at what the third level gives up in stair and lift dependence.
Directories describe secure gated parking with side-by-side spaces, which is a genuine advantage in a building of small homes because tandem parking is the usual compromise at this density. What no published source states is how many spaces convey with a given residence, whether they are deeded, assigned by the board or held as exclusive-use common area, and whether any storage comes with them. All three arrangements exist in Santa Monica buildings of this era and they behave very differently on resale. Read the allocation off the title report and the declaration, not off the listing.
Due Diligence
Thirty-three separately assessed parcels on recorded condominium Tract 54215, created 25 February 2008, thirty-two of them coded 010C. That is the strongest available evidence that the homes were legally subdivided and can be bought and sold individually with their own tax bills. It is worth checking for any Santa Monica building, because the city has a large stock of similar-looking blocks that were built as rentals on a single parcel and were never subdivided, and a good number of others that exist only as conversions.
Unit 100 is recorded as a restaurant or cocktail lounge use, 451 square feet, holding the same one thirty-third common-area interest as the homes. Mixed ownership of this kind is routine but it needs reading. Ask how the declaration splits maintenance and insurance between commercial and residential, whether the commercial unit has separate access and services, what use restrictions bind it, and whether it has ever generated a nuisance complaint. Extraction, refuse and hours of operation are the recurring flashpoints where a food use sits below homes.
The Los Angeles City retrofit ordinances, 183893 and 184081, have no force here. Santa Monica adopted its own mandatory programme by Ordinance 2537CCS on 28 March 2017, updated by Ordinance 2831CCS in October 2025, covering unreinforced masonry, concrete tilt-up, soft-storey, non-ductile concrete and steel moment frame buildings on a phased priority schedule. A building completed in 2008 falls outside every one of those categories on date alone. That is a useful exclusion, but it is a statement about mandatory programmes rather than about performance.
A 2008 completion means the structure was designed under a California Building Code cycle that already incorporated the post-Northridge revisions to wood-frame and concrete detailing, modern anchorage and modern diaphragm requirements. It also means Title 24 energy standards, sprinklers where required by occupancy, and current fire separation between dwellings. None of that removes the case for an engineer's walk-through, but it does mean the building is not carrying the retrofit exposure that the city's pre-1980 stock does.
Santa Monica's rent control charter amendment covers residential units built before 10 April 1979, so a 2008 building sits outside the rent ceiling provisions entirely. It does not sit outside the city's tenant framework: just-cause eviction protections extend to multi-unit buildings that are not covered by rent control. If you intend to let a home here, take advice on which protections attach before you sign a tenancy, and read Civil Code section 4741, which prevents an association setting a rental cap below twenty-five per cent of units.
Santa Monica Municipal Code Chapter 6.20 draws a hard line between home-sharing, where the resident host remains on site throughout the stay, and vacation rentals, where they do not. Vacation rentals are prohibited. Home-sharing is permitted only with a city permit and business licence, transient occupancy tax registration, at least five hundred thousand dollars of liability cover, occupancy and vehicle limits, and no more than two listings per platform. The city has litigated and settled with the major platforms, so enforcement is real. Assume the association's own rules are stricter still.
California Civil Code section 5551 requires community associations to have exterior elevated elements with wood framing, including balconies and walkways more than six feet above ground, inspected by a licensed structural engineer or architect, with the first round due by 1 January 2025 and repeats every nine years. Ask to see the report, the engineer's classification of each element, and any repair recommendations with dates. Where elements are steel or concrete the statute reads differently, so the report should say what the framing actually is.
Thirty-three parcels must fund a lift, a gated garage, controlled access, a lobby, the exterior envelope and the common systems of a four-storey building. That is a narrow assessment base for a real plant. Read the reserve study required by Civil Code section 5550, the last three years of financials and the minutes, and look specifically at the lift, the roof, waterproofing at any deck or terrace, and the garage gate. Ask directly whether a special assessment has been raised or discussed.
Everything above is drawn from public records, city permit data and published sources. The association’s statutory disclosure package is the only authoritative answer on dues, rules, reserves, insurance and litigation — Ben will request it and read it with you before you remove contingencies.
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