Petworth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you can’t afford Cleveland park.

As I said in an earlier post, I live in Logan. I can afford Cleveland Park easily. That’s not what this is about.

Logan is a lot cheaper per sqft. Also many smaller places in Logan

CP >> Logan >> Pet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in petworth!
Both attorneys with kids at the local public. We're in our 30s and 40s. We love it here. I've been here since my 20s, so I've lived in Petworth for 15 years in all life stages.

How is the property appreciation and resale?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you can’t afford Cleveland park.

As I said in an earlier post, I live in Logan. I can afford Cleveland Park easily. That’s not what this is about.

Logan is a lot cheaper per sqft. Also many smaller places in Logan

CP >> Logan >> Pet.

I own a rowhome in the heart of Logan. It’s not cheaper than Cleveland Park per square foot. Prove me wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you can’t afford Cleveland park.

As I said in an earlier post, I live in Logan. I can afford Cleveland Park easily. That’s not what this is about.

Logan is a lot cheaper per sqft. Also many smaller places in Logan

CP >> Logan >> Pet.

I just did a quick Redfin search. There are currently two houses on the market in Cleveland Park, and both a priced hundreds of dollars lower per square foot than anything in Logan. So, yea, you’re very wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in petworth!
Both attorneys with kids at the local public. We're in our 30s and 40s. We love it here. I've been here since my 20s, so I've lived in Petworth for 15 years in all life stages.

Same here! Plenty of government attorneys/other feds with kids in the local elementary schools. Middle and high school not so much, but people figure it out.

To answer PP our house has doubled in value over the last 12 years, and the market is slowing like everywhere, but we don't plan on selling (if we moved, we'd rent it out). That said, buying a decade ago then refinancing and buying today at today's rates are apples and oranges. If my mortgage was $6-7k a month, I wouldn't want to be somewhere I'd have to "figure out" middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in petworth!
Both attorneys with kids at the local public. We're in our 30s and 40s. We love it here. I've been here since my 20s, so I've lived in Petworth for 15 years in all life stages.

How is the property appreciation and resale?

I had a couple of properties in the neighborhood. Our main one has tripled in value. The other two I've since sold doubled. I'm actively looking to buy in the neighborhood because I think there's still value to be had and much more appreciation in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, Petworth is at least another 5 years of gentrification away (more like 10) before I would even consider living in it. In it's current state (especially post covid) the current levels of crime (and therefore lack of safety) are far too difficult to ignore. Plus dearth of even half decent schools.

Where do you live and how much actual experience do you have with Petworth? From the sound of your post you’ve never lived there.

I have visited quite a few times(know a few people that live there) but yeah true never lived there myself, area does not appeal to me in the slightest. Don't have kids yet but thinking of it soon, and yeah the lack of safety and good schools, plus its distance from work and the parts of DC I frequent make it a no go for me.

I currently live in Clarendon. When I first moved to DMV lived in Georgetown (and stayed in that vicinity for a few years after graduation) before moving to Kalorama for a few years. My preference for area DC wise is very much Georgetown, closely followed by Dupont/Admo (the in-between point of those two areas ideally, so that you can walk to either one in a timely manner).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you can’t afford Cleveland park.

As I said in an earlier post, I live in Logan. I can afford Cleveland Park easily. That’s not what this is about.

Logan is a lot cheaper per sqft. Also many smaller places in Logan

CP >> Logan >> Pet.

I just did a quick Redfin search. There are currently two houses on the market in Cleveland Park, and both a priced hundreds of dollars lower per square foot than anything in Logan. So, yea, you’re very wrong.

Yeah, their information is from like 2005. Logan Circle is wildly expensive now, much more so than Cleveland Park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, Petworth is at least another 5 years of gentrification away (more like 10) before I would even consider living in it. In it's current state (especially post covid) the current levels of crime (and therefore lack of safety) are far too difficult to ignore. Plus dearth of even half decent schools.

Where do you live and how much actual experience do you have with Petworth? From the sound of your post you’ve never lived there.

I have visited quite a few times(know a few people that live there) but yeah true never lived there myself, area does not appeal to me in the slightest. Don't have kids yet but thinking of it soon, and yeah the lack of safety and good schools, plus its distance from work and the parts of DC I frequent make it a no go for me.

I currently live in Clarendon. When I first moved to DMV lived in Georgetown (and stayed in that vicinity for a few years after graduation) before moving to Kalorama for a few years. My preference for area DC wise is very much Georgetown, closely followed by Dupont/Admo (the in-between point of those two areas ideally, so that you can walk to either one in a timely manner).

If you like Clarendon and Georgetown, you will probably not like Petworth

[Anonymous]

Petworth has a lot of wonderful things going for it, but it has too many negatives currently for me to encourage anyone to move there - I left. The crime being the biggest. Even if you dont have children and schools are not a factor, it's a nicer life to not have the stress of shootings in front of your house, semi regular shootings outside your metro station, drug houses next to your daycare, and having to not walk around alone at night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you can’t afford Cleveland park.

As I said in an earlier post, I live in Logan. I can afford Cleveland Park easily. That’s not what this is about.

Logan is a lot cheaper per sqft. Also many smaller places in Logan

CP >> Logan >> Pet.

I own a rowhome in the heart of Logan. It’s not cheaper than Cleveland Park per square foot. Prove me wrong.

So to recap, you’re a 54 yr old relative newcomer * to DC who owns a $4-5 million rowhome. Who takes really long walks in the middle of the workday with some frequency


And then you come home and post your “impressions” on neighborhoods on a parenting website


* newcomer because you don’t know what Cleveland Park actually entails. So you shelled out millions of dollars on a residence without at least driving by $4-5 million comps in the all of few neighborhoods that actually have $4-5 million comps (such as CP).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you can’t afford Cleveland park.

As I said in an earlier post, I live in Logan. I can afford Cleveland Park easily. That’s not what this is about.

Logan is a lot cheaper per sqft. Also many smaller places in Logan

CP >> Logan >> Pet.

I just did a quick Redfin search. There are currently two houses on the market in Cleveland Park, and both a priced hundreds of dollars lower per square foot than anything in Logan. So, yea, you’re very wrong.

Yeah, their information is from like 2005. Logan Circle is wildly expensive now, much more so than Cleveland Park.

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[Anonymous]

Are you talking condos? Condos are a different beast in CP. You don’t have SFH (the median is $3m + for those in 2024 in CP), so TH compare as follows for the past year:

Logan median $1.2m; CP $1.6m
Logan sqft <$500; CP >>$500

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you can’t afford Cleveland park.

As I said in an earlier post, I live in Logan. I can afford Cleveland Park easily. That’s not what this is about.

Logan is a lot cheaper per sqft. Also many smaller places in Logan

CP >> Logan >> Pet.

Logan has the better market:

https://www.redfin.com/neighborhood/18558/DC/Washington-DC/Cleveland-Park/housing-market
https://www.redfin.com/neighborhood/64260/DC/Washington-DC/Logan-Circle/housing-market

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in petworth!
Both attorneys with kids at the local public. We're in our 30s and 40s. We love it here. I've been here since my 20s, so I've lived in Petworth for 15 years in all life stages.

Same here! Plenty of government attorneys/other feds with kids in the local elementary schools. Middle and high school not so much, but people figure it out.

To answer PP our house has doubled in value over the last 12 years, and the market is slowing like everywhere, but we don't plan on selling (if we moved, we'd rent it out). That said, buying a decade ago then refinancing and buying today at today's rates are apples and oranges. If my mortgage was $6-7k a month, I wouldn't want to be somewhere I'd have to "figure out" middle school.

Most people do not send their kids to the local school in Petworth. I live in Petworth and only know one neighbor that send their kids to the local elementary school. Everyone else send it to charters or private. data of where kids go to school showed a participation rate of around 35% in Petworth schools.