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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Carol Joynt checks out Evermay’s new music series…
- …and she also checks out Julia Child’s old house on Olive.
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Finishing Touches on Streets Throughout West Village
Over the weekend, work crews moved methodically around west Georgetown repaving stretches of road left rough from over a year of construction on O and P Streets.
GM was aware that the work crews were going to finally repave the O and P St. intersections once the cobblestone/streetcar track sections were done. But since the work tore up streets all over the neighborhood to remove and recover old buried streetcar tracks, the repaving was equally extensive.
Oddly, there’s still a stretch of streetcar track still getting worked on. The block of O St. from Wisconsin to 33rd is still torn up. It should be done soon, and the whole project can wrap up! Continue reading
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By Mister Furious.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Jefferson Court’s price tag was $80 million.
- That’s it. (It’s the dog days; not much is happening).
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Awesome.
- GM would have gone with “philathrobronuer”.
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Real Estate Result for First Half 2012
It’s time for Georgetown real estate number crunching for the first half of 2012! In short: they’re pretty much like they were the first half of 2011, which wasn’t too hot.
In long:
- Total Homes Sold:
- First Half 2011: 107
- First Half 2012: 105
- Average Starting Price:
- First Half 2011: $ 1,471,836
- First Half 2012: $ 1, 589,068 (without the Halcyon House price inflating this number, it would be about $1.44 million)
- Average Selling Price:
- First Half 2011: $1,307,922
- First Half 2012: $1,410,085 (again, Halcyon House’s $11 million sale price is inflating this number. Without it the average would be $1.32 million.)
- Average Drop in Price From List:
- First Half 2011: 11.1% drop
- First Half 2012: 10.7% drop
- Average $ per Square Feet:
- First Half 2011: $685.68 $/SQF
- First Half 2012: $704.95 $/SQF
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Photo by Ehpien.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Neat site lets you browse historic maps like they’re Google Maps.
- Newt Gingrich: fan of Georgetown’s Apple Store.
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