Can anyone tell me about Calvert Hills and University Park?

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Anonymous wrote:A new listing: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7001-Forest-Hill-Dr-University-Park-MD-20782/37545549_zpid/ $1.2M

Didn't think we lived in a 1.2m neighborhood

I don’t think you do. Look at the previous sale price. No amount of interior updates justify this price, and I don’t think there are any comps. And I really like this house. The price is ambitious for the area.

I think 1mil would be fine for it. And the house still looks old.

Under contract in under a week. I guess we do live in a 1.2mil neighborhood...

Wow! Okay then. I really thought it would have to be totally updated to fetch that asking price.

Whoa! I wonder who the buyers are

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Isn't that College Heights Estates, rather than UP? Big difference in size of lots and houses.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't that College Heights Estates, rather than UP? Big difference in size of lots and houses.

That house is in UP.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't that College Heights Estates, rather than UP? Big difference in size of lots and houses.

That house is in UP.

I think it’s both. There’s a small part of the College Heights subdivision that’s also within the incorporated UP town limits.

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College Heights Estates is neighborhood full of very grand houses. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Really, really beautiful homes set among old growth trees on gentle hills. Quite distinct from the lovely but much more modest houses in UP and Calvert Hills.

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College Heights Estates is mainly in the Hyattsville zipcode. That price is still high for CHE.

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Anonymous wrote:College Heights Estates is neighborhood full of very grand houses. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Really, really beautiful homes set among old growth trees on gentle hills. Quite distinct from the lovely but much more modest houses in UP and Calvert Hills.

$1.2M is still very high for College Height Estates.

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Anonymous wrote:College Heights Estates is mainly in the Hyattsville zipcode. That price is still high for CHE.

Yes, a Hyattsville zip code but an unincorporated area NOT in the city of Hyattsville.

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Anonymous wrote:College Heights Estates is mainly in the Hyattsville zipcode. That price is still high for CHE.

Yes, a Hyattsville zip code but an unincorporated area NOT in the city of Hyattsville.

Most of Hyattsville is incorporated.

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Anonymous wrote:College Heights Estates is mainly in the Hyattsville zipcode. That price is still high for CHE.

Yes, a Hyattsville zip code but an unincorporated area NOT in the city of Hyattsville.

Most of Hyattsville is unincorporated.

fixed my error.

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Anonymous wrote:College Heights Estates is mainly in the Hyattsville zipcode. That price is still high for CHE.

Yes, a Hyattsville zip code but an unincorporated area NOT in the city of Hyattsville.

What part of College Heights Estates isn't in 20782 (a Hyattsville zipcode)?

Also, UP isn't a big place and CHE is even smaller. It is only like two or three dozen houses. While it is true that the homes tend to be larger than most found in UP (though not all), it seem really silly to pretend like they are wildly distinct neighborhoods.

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Anonymous wrote:College Heights Estates is mainly in the Hyattsville zipcode. That price is still high for CHE.

Yes, a Hyattsville zip code but an unincorporated area NOT in the city of Hyattsville.

What part of College Heights Estates isn't in 20782 (a Hyattsville zipcode)?

Also, UP isn't a big place and CHE is even smaller. It is only like two or three dozen houses. While it is true that the homes tend to be larger than most found in UP (though not all), it seem really silly to pretend like they are wildly distinct neighborhoods.

All of CHE is in the 20782 zip code. People are confusing zip code with incorporated municipalities. The above comment about CHE vs the city of Hyattsville is relevant because property in the incorporated city of Hyattsville (zip code 20782) is taxed differently than unincorporated areas like CHE (also zip code 20782).

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Wikipedia's saying 170 contributing buildings in CHE. I walk my dogs there and it is more like 2-3 dozen streets, not houses. It's the entire area marked with those white street signs. The PP might have thought it wasn't that distinct from UP because she mistakenly believed some of the CHE houses belonged to UP.

I'm not surprised about the price given how the values in UP, Calvert Hills, and even Riverdale have increased since Whole Foods moved in and things have become more walkable. This house is one of just a few there that have sold in the past 2 years, so I'd expect it to sell for more than anything before. I hadn't heard of that neighborhood until someone I knew who lived in a really nice house in Brookland sold it in order to move to their dream home in CHE. Huge jump up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Heights_Estates_Historic_District

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Anonymous wrote:They are decent neighborhoods in otherwise meh parts of town. Schools are a problem, biggest down side is you could buy in MoCo for the price so you almost have to want to live in PG.

Or you have to want to not live with the kinds of people who insist on Montgomery County and howl about redistricting.

To be fair, the folks living in similar neighborhoods in MoCo (Silver Spring, Takoma Park) are not the ones howling about redistricting. Our kids are the ones they don't want in their schools.

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Anonymous wrote:College Heights Estates is mainly in the Hyattsville zipcode. That price is still high for CHE.

Yes, a Hyattsville zip code but an unincorporated area NOT in the city of Hyattsville.

What part of College Heights Estates isn't in 20782 (a Hyattsville zipcode)?

Also, UP isn't a big place and CHE is even smaller. It is only like two or three dozen houses. While it is true that the homes tend to be larger than most found in UP (though not all), it seem really silly to pretend like they are wildly distinct neighborhoods.

This precisely.