Are these H St. NE / Capitol Hill houses priced appropriately?

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is the only new sub-$1M listing this week. Standard flip with grandiose language. Too close to Barracks Row to have no parking for my liking. I have no idea if it's priced correctly -- it's tiny at 1300 sq ft, but the location is really convenient.

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/535-10th-St-SE-20003/home/9905412

Those bedrooms are particularly tiny, but yeah it's a nice location. I'd love that house if I were rich and single.

Can’t imagine that’ll go for under a million. It seems so nicely done and 1300 sf is not all that tiny. We have 1450 (with a storage basement) and we’re a family of 4.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is the only new sub-$1M listing this week. Standard flip with grandiose language. Too close to Barracks Row to have no parking for my liking. I have no idea if it's priced correctly -- it's tiny at 1300 sq ft, but the location is really convenient.

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/535-10th-St-SE-20003/home/9905412

Those bedrooms are particularly tiny, but yeah it's a nice location. I'd love that house if I were rich and single.

Can’t imagine that’ll go for under a million. It seems so nicely done and 1300 sf is not all that tiny. We have 1450 (with a storage basement) and we’re a family of 4.

Eh, storage is a huge part of what makes a space livable or not. I'm a single person in a 1000 sq ft rowhouse, but I have no basement, no attic, and the most minimal vestiges of closets. I'm tripping all over myself and there's no way a second person could live here comfortably. I don't even have very much stuff, it's just that the layout favors floorspace over storage. It would cost thousands to get someone in here to reconfigure and build storage solutions.

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$650k for 2br/1ba in 672 sq ft: Here's your condo alternative for the week, located in an alley.
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/7-Gessford-Ct-SE-20003/home/10177557

All pending except the bolded.

Price drop to $599,900. When is the last time we saw a sub-600k house on the Hill? This is comparable to houses on Wylie and Parker (but with an arguably better location) that have been going for more. I wonder if this one can be popped up to get it closer to 1,000 sq ft.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if this one can be popped up to get it closer to 1,000 sq ft.

I don't think so—it's in the Capitol Hill Historic District. The only way it might happen is if Gessford Ct. is treated more like an alley than a street.

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Anonymous wrote:That basement is creepy AF. I wouldn't want to go down there for laundry. I also wouldn't want to store anything there without significant investment in systems to control moisture and pests.

What's creepy about it? It looks like a typical unfinished basement to me.

Evil lurks in the night. I guess I'm a finished basement kind of gal. I'd rather have no basement at all than an unfinished one.

You'd rather have 900+ feet of potential living space because you don't like the look of concrete floors and HVAC vents? Uh, ok.

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Have we really reached the point where a 1,440sf rowhome will go for $1.2 million?

3BR, 2.5BA:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/24-7th-St-SE-20003/home/9901654

It seems fairly nicely done, and it's in a great location that's close to Eastern Market without being too close. But still, that seems an awfully steep price given the amount of space (and the lack of a garage or basement for storage).

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Anonymous wrote:Have we really reached the point where a 1,440sf rowhome will go for $1.2 million?

3BR, 2.5BA:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/24-7th-St-SE-20003/home/9901654

It seems fairly nicely done, and it's in a great location that's close to Eastern Market without being too close. But still, that seems an awfully steep price given the amount of space (and the lack of a garage or basement for storage).

Wow. A similar house on our block went for $900k just a few months ago.

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Anonymous wrote:$850k for 3br/1.5ba in 1324 sq ft: Another Emerald St home. I actually have no idea of the condition because there are no pictures, and the listing just makes it sound like they put some lipstick on a pig. But it's a $100k more than the other Emerald house that is still on the market, so maybe it really is the most charming house on the street.
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1344-Emerald-St-NE-20002/home/9912966

This is pending now after 15 days (with a relisting on July 1). It'll be interesting to see what this and the other house on Emerald go for.

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Anonymous wrote:$850k for 3br/1.5ba in 1324 sq ft: Another Emerald St home. I actually have no idea of the condition because there are no pictures, and the listing just makes it sound like they put some lipstick on a pig. But it's a $100k more than the other Emerald house that is still on the market, so maybe it really is the most charming house on the street.
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1344-Emerald-St-NE-20002/home/9912966

This is pending now after 15 days (with a relisting on July 1). It'll be interesting to see what this and the other house on Emerald go for.

If this one went in 15 days, the one across the street that was 100k cheaper must have had some substantial issues.

The first floor of the more expensive one is a mess. Why so many tiny living areas in a house that's so small to begin with?

[Anonymous]

Some flipper thinks they can get $1.3 million for 2,000sf in Hill East/Kingman Park:

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/26-16th-St-SE-20003/home/9920017

I think they’re going to be disappointed. That’s too far east for that kind of money, IMO.

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Anonymous wrote:Some flipper thinks they can get $1.3 million for 2,000sf in Hill East/Kingman Park:

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/26-16th-St-SE-20003/home/9920017

I think they’re going to be disappointed. That’s too far east for that kind of money, IMO.

I bet they’ll get it. It’s not far from Lincoln Park and people love Payne.

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I was hoping to attend the open house for this home yesterday but it was canceled.
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/615-K-St-NE-20002/home/9898330

I thought the listing price was a little high but now I’m assuming the sellers will get it.

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Anonymous wrote:I was hoping to attend the open house for this home yesterday but it was canceled.
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/615-K-St-NE-20002/home/9898330

I thought the listing price was a little high but now I’m assuming the sellers will get it.

I'm not surprised. There are a lot of things about the design I don't like (those open kitchen shelves, for starters), but $1M for 2,500 square feet with a decent-sized yard (for a rowhome), finished basement, and a garage? I'd guess that could go for around $1.2M or so based on the size alone.

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Anonymous wrote:I was hoping to attend the open house for this home yesterday but it was canceled.
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/615-K-St-NE-20002/home/9898330

I thought the listing price was a little high but now I’m assuming the sellers will get it.

That kitchen sucks big time. Who wants that sort of wasted space in a kitchen?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was hoping to attend the open house for this home yesterday but it was canceled.
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/615-K-St-NE-20002/home/9898330

I thought the listing price was a little high but now I’m assuming the sellers will get it.

That kitchen sucks big time. Who wants that sort of wasted space in a kitchen?

Back of the house looks too narrow to have an island though and have it spaced to code. Maybe could have done a peninsula but even then there are clearance codes so might not be worth it. Sorta an awkward home width.