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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Discovery of WWII-era first aid kit leads to bomb scare at Tudor Place.
- Modern elegance in a Georgetown loft.
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The first real blooms burst open yesterday around town. To help them along, GM is bringing out his spring header again.
- Is this a good rental deal? (By the way, this building is notoriously bad for snow shoveling. So if you take this apartment, keep that in mind next winter).
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Georgetown Homeowner Crowdsources Paint Choice
GM received this great photo from reader Michael Kessler this weekend. It’s of a house on 33rd just north of Prospect. They’ve painted several spots on the front of their house with the six colors they’re apparently considering to use to repaint their house. They’re asking neighbors to vote on which color to use by leaving a chalk mark on their pick.
So far they’ve got a bunch of votes, but the slightly darker blue-gray is pulling ahead of the slightly darker taupe, which is far back in 2nd place. Continue reading
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Georgetown waterfront by Jgarber.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Most expensive condo bought last year was in Georgetown.
- GM mentioned this last week, by Shaun Courtney looks a bit deeper into the historic Pre-K lottery that Hyde just had.
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Been by Morso recently? It sure seems like they left town. They’ve got notes up on both doors (Morso and Morso Express) talking about being closed for “building repairs”. But mail is piling up and, more daming, there’s a note on one door letting the owners know that someone’s trying to serve them with some legal documents. GM doubts they’ll reopen.
- Isn’t $799k way too much for a one bedroom house?
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- PoP wonders whether a $2.7 million house on N St. is worth it.
- Bunch of new Q&A Cafe guests announced.
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Real Estate Results for 2010
In 2010, the Georgetown real estate market appears to have started to pull itself off the bottom. While the numbers are still down, the market is definitely finally moving upwards.
There were 215 homes sold in Georgetown in 2010. The mean price was $1,263,921.21. The median (which isn’t thrown off as much by a few large sales) was $995,000. Here’s how that compares to 2009:
| 2009 | 2010 | Change | |
| Homes Sold | 199 | 215 | 8.04% |
| Mean Price | $ 1,374,447.13 | $ 1,263,921.21 | -8.04% |
| Median Price | $ 1,050,000.00 | $ 995,000.00 | -5.24% |
So, activity was up in 2010, but the prices weren’t. (It’s just a crazy coincidence that the number of homes sold was up exactly even with the percent drop in mean price).
The more pressing question is how did sales prices fare compared with list prices. On that account 2010 was slightly better than 2009. The mean drop in price from list to sale for 2010 was $123,068.86, the median drop was $65,000. That compares with 2009’s numbers of $134,760.13 and $65,000 respectively. So the mean drop is down slightly and the median drop is exactly the same.
Here’s how the years compare graphically. Below are the two years with dots showing the price and date of every house sold. Continue reading
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Frozen Potomac by Martin Kalfatovic.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- DC Urban Turf argues that Georgetown was the place to make money on real estate over the last ten years. But GM thinks they’re being a little selective. Sure, buying a home in 2000 and selling it in 2010 will give you a good return, but plenty of Georgetown homes bought in 2005 and sold in 2010 are selling at a loss.
- DC Mud looks into plans for the Potomac waterfront just down the river from Georgetown.
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Real Estate Rebound or Simply Lowered Expectations?
Yesterday GM saw something in Georgetown he hasn’t seen in long time: a home selling above list. Granted, it was only $10,000 above the list price of $880,000 (a whopping 1% surplus), but given the way the Georgetown market has performed, it could be the beginning of a silver lining for homeowners. Or is it?
After crunching the numbers, GM found out that there has actually been a couple of such sales in Georgetown recently. Overall, the drop in sales prices from initial list prices appears to declining for Georgetown recently:
This chart shows the percentage decline in price from initial list price to sale price for Georgetown homes since the beginning of 2009 (in retrospect, GM realizes it would be easier to read if he inverted it, but hopefully you get it: the higher the dot, the bigger the drop from listing price the seller took). Continue reading
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Georgetown Real Estate Market Rebounds Somewhat
Yesterday, GM reported on the continued gradual decline crime for Georgetown, today he talks about the rebound, as it were, in the the Georgetown real estate market last quarter.
Sixty-eight homes were sold in Georgetown last quarter. That’s a jump from the prior quarter’s measly 40. That’s hardly a high standard to beat. Perhaps a better comparison is to the second quarter of 2009. Even against those numbers, though, last quarter was an improvement.
Here’s how it breaks down:
- Total homes sold:
- Q2 2009 – 55
- Q2 2010 – 68 Continue reading
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