What is the market like in North Arlington?

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What is your alternative to selling?

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Anonymous wrote:What is your alternative to selling?

Not accepting the job.

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Put it on Redfin. So msny houses around us sell that way in your rsnge.

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Anonymous wrote:What is your alternative to selling?

Not accepting the job.

What? That’s lame. Of course your house will sell for that amount. Are you completely ignorant of the market? Just pull up Zillow or Trulia and look at recent sales.

[Anonymous]

The market is still going strong in that price range in N Arlington. It’s the higher priced houses (over $2m) and the more marginal neighborhoods in S Arlington that are starting to show some signs of strain.

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For 30 years, prices have steadily risen.

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Anonymous wrote:Trying to decide whether to accept a job outside of the DC area, so that would require us to sell our house. It's a well-maintained SFH and comparable homes have sold for about $1.4 million in the past two years. But with all the federal government and contractor cutbacks, we're worried about putting the house for sale and not getting any bites. Our realtor says the market remains strong, but she also wants us to sell. Interested in your thoughts.

Which schools? Bedrooms? Baths? Go to redfin, enter search filters and click on sold. North ARL market is strong for the ARL classics where the buyer might need to put in new kitchen and baths retaining the footprint and plumbing lines. They go under contract in like 1 week and have been closing over list. Elementary schools were Jamestown and Discovery - HS Yorktown.

You get buyers looking in Mclean and North Arlington but in ARL you don't get over crowded schools/trailers/potential for your kids to be present during multi year renovation if that ever happens for Mclean HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Trying to decide whether to accept a job outside of the DC area, so that would require us to sell our house. It's a well-maintained SFH and comparable homes have sold for about $1.4 million in the past two years. But with all the federal government and contractor cutbacks, we're worried about putting the house for sale and not getting any bites. Our realtor says the market remains strong, but she also wants us to sell. Interested in your thoughts.

Which schools? Bedrooms? Baths? Go to redfin, enter search filters and click on sold. North ARL market is strong for the ARL classics where the buyer might need to put in new kitchen and baths retaining the footprint and plumbing lines. They go under contract in like 1 week and have been closing over list. Elementary schools were Jamestown and Discovery - HS Yorktown.

You get buyers looking in Mclean and North Arlington but in ARL you don't get over crowded schools/trailers/potential for your kids to be present during multi year renovation if that ever happens for Mclean HS.

Won’t you net more money if you renovate the kitchen before selling?

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Anonymous wrote:For 30 years, prices have steadily risen.

Not in 2008-2009, and then it took until Covid for prices to rebound in a north Arlington house I loved but didn’t buy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trying to decide whether to accept a job outside of the DC area, so that would require us to sell our house. It's a well-maintained SFH and comparable homes have sold for about $1.4 million in the past two years. But with all the federal government and contractor cutbacks, we're worried about putting the house for sale and not getting any bites. Our realtor says the market remains strong, but she also wants us to sell. Interested in your thoughts.

Which schools? Bedrooms? Baths? Go to redfin, enter search filters and click on sold. North ARL market is strong for the ARL classics where the buyer might need to put in new kitchen and baths retaining the footprint and plumbing lines. They go under contract in like 1 week and have been closing over list. Elementary schools were Jamestown and Discovery - HS Yorktown.

You get buyers looking in Mclean and North Arlington but in ARL you don't get over crowded schools/trailers/potential for your kids to be present during multi year renovation if that ever happens for Mclean HS.

Won’t you net more money if you renovate the kitchen before selling?

No. Have you done a Reno?

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Anonymous wrote:You won't be able to get a house in North Arlington for $1.4.
Looked at a house listed at $1.275 and it went for $1.425. Floors were a disaster, no basement and smelled of smoke.

Nah, we bought a move in ready SFH in N Arlington for under $1M in 2025 (pretty big lot too). If you don’t limit yourself to 22207 there’s options under $1M.

There’s literally one for sale in 22205 under $1m now that move in ready and it’s tiny. There are more SFH under $1m in 22207 right now.

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/1008-N-Roosevelt-St-22205/home/11240592

[Anonymous]

DH and I owned one of those tear downs in Arlington. Decided we are firmly upper middle class and should be living in one of those fancy 3-4K sq ft new builds so sold our shack for like $1.2M and bounced to the burbs.

It is amazing the difference. Love living out here.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I owned one of those tear downs in Arlington. Decided we are firmly upper middle class and should be living in one of those fancy 3-4K sq ft new builds so sold our shack for like $1.2M and bounced to the burbs.

It is amazing the difference. Love living out here.

I'm assuming one or both of you don't have to commute?

OP - the only consistent time to sell fast is early spring to spring. Other times stuff can sit. Especially if you aren't priced particularly low.

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Anonymous wrote:You won't be able to get a house in North Arlington for $1.4.
Looked at a house listed at $1.275 and it went for $1.425. Floors were a disaster, no basement and smelled of smoke.

Nah, we bought a move in ready SFH in N Arlington for under $1M in 2025 (pretty big lot too). If you don’t limit yourself to 22207 there’s options under $1M.

Not in 22201. There are homes down to around 1.5 mil on busy four-lane Washington Blvd.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You won't be able to get a house in North Arlington for $1.4.
Looked at a house listed at $1.275 and it went for $1.425. Floors were a disaster, no basement and smelled of smoke.

Nah, we bought a move in ready SFH in N Arlington for under $1M in 2025 (pretty big lot too). If you don’t limit yourself to 22207 there’s options under $1M.

Not in 22201. There are homes down to around 1.5 mil on busy four-lane Washington Blvd.

i mean, duh.