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Anonymous wrote:Takoma Park is basically the only quasi-affordable (roughly equivalent to the Watkins/cheap part of Maury or LT/expensive part of Miner neighborhoods) part of the Deal/Wilson catchment area assuming you're not willing to massively downsize.

Where is this magical "cheap part of Maury/Watkins"? I know their boundary expanded, but unless you want to live in far hill east, you can't find anything decent for under a million. Most of Watkins is sky-high expensive! Where is this magical "cheap" part of Capitol Hill? I'm looking to buy!!

Or are you one of those people who went to Eastern Market in 2005 twice and are therefore experts on the real estate market?

There's plenty of inventory under $1 million, between $750-900. Still pricey but not a million.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Takoma Park is basically the only quasi-affordable (roughly equivalent to the Watkins/cheap part of Maury or LT/expensive part of Miner neighborhoods) part of the Deal/Wilson catchment area assuming you're not willing to massively downsize.

Where is this magical "cheap part of Maury/Watkins"? I know their boundary expanded, but unless you want to live in far hill east, you can't find anything decent for under a million. Most of Watkins is sky-high expensive! Where is this magical "cheap" part of Capitol Hill? I'm looking to buy!!

Or are you one of those people who went to Eastern Market in 2005 twice and are therefore experts on the real estate market?

There's plenty of inventory under $1 million, between $750-900. Still pricey but not a million.

The "plenty of inventory" is only if your looking past 13th street in the Watkins boundary, or for 2 bed/1 bath type homes, or homes with crappy layouts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Takoma Park is basically the only quasi-affordable (roughly equivalent to the Watkins/cheap part of Maury or LT/expensive part of Miner neighborhoods) part of the Deal/Wilson catchment area assuming you're not willing to massively downsize.

Where is this magical "cheap part of Maury/Watkins"? I know their boundary expanded, but unless you want to live in far hill east, you can't find anything decent for under a million. Most of Watkins is sky-high expensive! Where is this magical "cheap" part of Capitol Hill? I'm looking to buy!!

Or are you one of those people who went to Eastern Market in 2005 twice and are therefore experts on the real estate market?

There's plenty of inventory under $1 million, between $750-900. Still pricey but not a million.

The "plenty of inventory" is only if your looking past 13th street in the Watkins boundary, or for 2 bed/1 bath type homes, or homes with crappy layouts.

Sorry -- the cheap part of Maury is Hill East. You can't say PP is wrong that there's a cheap part of Maury combined with "unless you want to live in far hill east." That's the cheap part. Lots of houses in the 600s if you're willing to live at 15th, e.g.

[Anonymous]

To be clear: only a small part of Maury (10th-13th or so) isn't in far hill east. The bulk of Maury (13th-21st/the river) is hill east and relatively affordable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be clear: only a small part of Maury (10th-13th or so) isn't in far hill east. The bulk of Maury (13th-21st/the river) is hill east and relatively affordable.

There is almost no inventory for this area. Secondly this area newly became part of Maury. Third, the far Hill East really begins after 17th. Finally it's not affordable if you want a larger house close to the school. I love these fantasyland real estate posts.

[Anonymous]

Maybe someone already pointed this out, but takoma park DC is not IB for Deal/Wilson. That's why the MD side is more expensive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To be clear: only a small part of Maury (10th-13th or so) isn't in far hill east. The bulk of Maury (13th-21st/the river) is hill east and relatively affordable.

There is almost no inventory for this area. Secondly this area newly became part of Maury. Third, the far Hill East really begins after 17th. Finally it's not affordable if you want a larger house close to the school. I love these fantasyland real estate posts.

So FHE (Far Hill East) consists of a few blocks bounded by 17th, Potomac, 19th and C St NE?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be clear: only a small part of Maury (10th-13th or so) isn't in far hill east. The bulk of Maury (13th-21st/the river) is hill east and relatively affordable.

There is almost no inventory for this area. Secondly this area newly became part of Maury. Third, the far Hill East really begins after 17th. Finally it's not affordable if you want a larger house close to the school. I love these fantasyland real estate posts.

So FHE (Far Hill East) consists of a few blocks bounded by 17th, Potomac, 19th and C St NE?

I'm still stumped by the "lots of inventory" part.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To be clear: only a small part of Maury (10th-13th or so) isn't in far hill east. The bulk of Maury (13th-21st/the river) is hill east and relatively affordable.

There is almost no inventory for this area. Secondly this area newly became part of Maury. Third, the far Hill East really begins after 17th. Finally it's not affordable if you want a larger house close to the school. I love these fantasyland real estate posts.

All of the Hill is a relatively tight real estate market, but that section of Maury seems to have 5 houses listed right now on Redfin, so I don't think there's uniquely little inventory there. Yes, the 15th-21st area just became part of Maury, but that still means it's part of Maury if you're looking to move now. Yes, if you want a "larger house close to the school," it's not that affordable (although it's still fairly affordable compared to a similarly high spec house in the Brent/Cluster/LT parts of the Hill), but that's partially because of how the Maury zone is shaped. The school itself is much closer to one side (the more expensive side of the zone) and there are houses less than 3 blocks away that aren't zoned to it as a result... while there are houses 8 or 9 blocks away that are. Still, if we're talking about buying a house on the Hill, PP is correct that Maury is actually not the second most expensive zone to get into although it is generally considered the second best elementary school, so is pretty good bang for your buck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe someone already pointed this out, but takoma park DC is not IB for Deal/Wilson. That's why the MD side is more expensive.

Shepherd is IB for Deal/Wilson. PP explained that's where they were talking about. There are parts of the Shepherd IB where people probably describe themselves as living in Takoma, because the neighborhood doesn't have another catchy nickname.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be clear: only a small part of Maury (10th-13th or so) isn't in far hill east. The bulk of Maury (13th-21st/the river) is hill east and relatively affordable.

There is almost no inventory for this area. Secondly this area newly became part of Maury. Third, the far Hill East really begins after 17th. Finally it's not affordable if you want a larger house close to the school. I love these fantasyland real estate posts.

So FHE (Far Hill East) consists of a few blocks bounded by 17th, Potomac, 19th and C St NE?

No. Most people consider East of 14th FHE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be clear: only a small part of Maury (10th-13th or so) isn't in far hill east. The bulk of Maury (13th-21st/the river) is hill east and relatively affordable.

There is almost no inventory for this area. Secondly this area newly became part of Maury. Third, the far Hill East really begins after 17th. Finally it's not affordable if you want a larger house close to the school. I love these fantasyland real estate posts.

So FHE (Far Hill East) consists of a few blocks bounded by 17th, Potomac, 19th and C St NE?

No. Most people consider East of 14th FHE.

I thought anything east of Lincoln Park was labeled FHE or new Hill East, or whatever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be clear: only a small part of Maury (10th-13th or so) isn't in far hill east. The bulk of Maury (13th-21st/the river) is hill east and relatively affordable.

There is almost no inventory for this area. Secondly this area newly became part of Maury. Third, the far Hill East really begins after 17th. Finally it's not affordable if you want a larger house close to the school. I love these fantasyland real estate posts.

So FHE (Far Hill East) consists of a few blocks bounded by 17th, Potomac, 19th and C St NE?

No. Most people consider East of 14th FHE.

I thought anything east of Lincoln Park was labeled FHE or new Hill East, or whatever.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be clear: only a small part of Maury (10th-13th or so) isn't in far hill east. The bulk of Maury (13th-21st/the river) is hill east and relatively affordable.

There is almost no inventory for this area. Secondly this area newly became part of Maury. Third, the far Hill East really begins after 17th. Finally it's not affordable if you want a larger house close to the school. I love these fantasyland real estate posts.

So FHE (Far Hill East) consists of a few blocks bounded by 17th, Potomac, 19th and C St NE?

No. Most people consider East of 14th FHE.

I thought anything east of Lincoln Park was labeled FHE or new Hill East, or whatever.

I've heard both 13th (east end of LP) and 14th described as the beginning of Hill East (I assume the line has sort of moved in colloquial terms as the "solidly gentrified" line has moved as over the past 5ish years from 13th to 14th). In either case, it's definitely not 17th st. as one PP claimed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be clear: only a small part of Maury (10th-13th or so) isn't in far hill east. The bulk of Maury (13th-21st/the river) is hill east and relatively affordable.

There is almost no inventory for this area. Secondly this area newly became part of Maury. Third, the far Hill East really begins after 17th. Finally it's not affordable if you want a larger house close to the school. I love these fantasyland real estate posts.

So FHE (Far Hill East) consists of a few blocks bounded by 17th, Potomac, 19th and C St NE?

No. Most people consider East of 14th FHE.

I thought anything east of Lincoln Park was labeled FHE or new Hill East, or whatever.

I've heard both 13th (east end of LP) and 14th described as the beginning of Hill East (I assume the line has sort of moved in colloquial terms as the "solidly gentrified" line has moved as over the past 5ish years from 13th to 14th). In either case, it's definitely not 17th st. as one PP claimed.

It used to be a catchall for anything outside the historic district to the east, but I've heard it used for anything east of 8th St. too. 15-20 years ago real estate agents coined the area north of the historic district 'Cap Hill North' until H St became hot and that became the more apt designation. These designation are all somewhat artificial and short change actual distinct neighborhoods like Barney Circle or Kingman Park