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

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Anonymous wrote:This is a little over the usual price range for this thread, but:

4BR/3BA, 1992 sqft, $1,100,000:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1717-A-St-SE-20003/home/9921374

I'm not sure if this is a flip or if the previous sellers decided to do a reno and relist. It was listed in April last year at $750,000, had several price changes, then the listing was eventually removed in June at $725,000—but it doesn't show a sale.

It looks fairly nice now, and that's a pretty spacious looking back yard (for a rowhome), but $1.1 million seems a tad aggressive to me for something that far east. I've pretty sure I've seen houses in the Capitol Hill Historic District with the same amount of space list at about the same price.

What do you all think?

I think the price is reasonable. It’s a very pretty house four blocks from Lincoln Park, zoned for an elementary school people like. If that were my budget in this neighborhood, I’d seriously consider it!

Still available! I love this house and wish we could afford it. I guess if we were going to make he move to Hill East for more space, we should have done it a few years ago when these places were going for closer to 700? If this really goes for $1.1m, I think I can safely say we'll never be able to move within this neighborhood again. Bummer.

Friends of mine bought something incredibly similar, but a couple hundred square feet smaller about three blocks away over on 15th street SE. Paid $1.045. I think they overpaid seeing as the property (and its twin next door) was on the market for almost 200 days when they purchased. The twin never sold and as just put on the rental market instead.

It went pending on Thursday. I was kind of hoping it would sit for a while, because if $1.1 really is the right price for a house this far east, that puts everything anywhere near the Hill out of my price range.

Oh, well. I hear some of the suburbs aren't...awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a little over the usual price range for this thread, but:

4BR/3BA, 1992 sqft, $1,100,000:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1717-A-St-SE-20003/home/9921374

I'm not sure if this is a flip or if the previous sellers decided to do a reno and relist. It was listed in April last year at $750,000, had several price changes, then the listing was eventually removed in June at $725,000—but it doesn't show a sale.

It looks fairly nice now, and that's a pretty spacious looking back yard (for a rowhome), but $1.1 million seems a tad aggressive to me for something that far east. I've pretty sure I've seen houses in the Capitol Hill Historic District with the same amount of space list at about the same price.

What do you all think?

I think the price is reasonable. It’s a very pretty house four blocks from Lincoln Park, zoned for an elementary school people like. If that were my budget in this neighborhood, I’d seriously consider it!

Still available! I love this house and wish we could afford it. I guess if we were going to make he move to Hill East for more space, we should have done it a few years ago when these places were going for closer to 700? If this really goes for $1.1m, I think I can safely say we'll never be able to move within this neighborhood again. Bummer.

Friends of mine bought something incredibly similar, but a couple hundred square feet smaller about three blocks away over on 15th street SE. Paid $1.045. I think they overpaid seeing as the property (and its twin next door) was on the market for almost 200 days when they purchased. The twin never sold and as just put on the rental market instead.

It went pending on Thursday. I was kind of hoping it would sit for a while, because if $1.1 really is the right price for a house this far east, that puts everything anywhere near the Hill out of my price range.

Oh, well. I hear some of the suburbs aren't...awful.

Fwiw, an unflipped but updated row house can still be had for well under a million. Our house is closer to 13th and is a pretty good size and I just don’t see it selling for over 850k anytime soon. There are others, though they’re fewer and further between all the time.

[Anonymous]

Finally a new listing! $779k for 2br/1ba near Seward Square. Cute as a button and at almost 1200 sq ft, it's on the larger side for a condo alternative. It's in the historic district, so any maintenance will be a colossal, expensive PITA. Especially that back sliding door. No parking and street parking is virtually impossible in that area, but you can't beat the location if you're car-free.

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/314-C-St-SE-20003/home/9894161

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Anonymous wrote:Finally a new listing! $779k for 2br/1ba near Seward Square. Cute as a button and at almost 1200 sq ft, it's on the larger side for a condo alternative. It's in the historic district, so any maintenance will be a colossal, expensive PITA. Especially that back sliding door. No parking and street parking is virtually impossible in that area, but you can't beat the location if you're car-free.

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/314-C-St-SE-20003/home/9894161

Not bad, though the grey kitchen really isn't to my taste. That should go quickly to someone who works on the hill. And it's (just) outside the CMZ (Capitol Militarized Zone).

I thought the historic preservation rules just affected what's visible from the street in front, though. I wouldn't expect them to cause much of an issue with the rear sliding doors—but I just rent in Capitol Hill, so I'm not intimately familiar with the historic preservation rules.

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^^That is super cute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Finally a new listing! $779k for 2br/1ba near Seward Square. Cute as a button and at almost 1200 sq ft, it's on the larger side for a condo alternative. It's in the historic district, so any maintenance will be a colossal, expensive PITA. Especially that back sliding door. No parking and street parking is virtually impossible in that area, but you can't beat the location if you're car-free.

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/314-C-St-SE-20003/home/9894161

This place is cute as a button.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finally a new listing! $779k for 2br/1ba near Seward Square. Cute as a button and at almost 1200 sq ft, it's on the larger side for a condo alternative. It's in the historic district, so any maintenance will be a colossal, expensive PITA. Especially that back sliding door. No parking and street parking is virtually impossible in that area, but you can't beat the location if you're car-free.

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/314-C-St-SE-20003/home/9894161

Not bad, though the grey kitchen really isn't to my taste. That should go quickly to someone who works on the hill. And it's (just) outside the CMZ (Capitol Militarized Zone).

I thought the historic preservation rules just affected what's visible from the street in front, though. I wouldn't expect them to cause much of an issue with the rear sliding doors—but I just rent in Capitol Hill, so I'm not intimately familiar with the historic preservation rules.

Good point about the back. I was thinking in terms of having to deal with a sliding door that replicates the six over six window style. Seems like an extra layer of customization that would be required.

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Ive been watching carbarn condos and they usually go pretty fast. Was wondering why this unit has been sitting? it seemed to be already priced very low compared to other units. https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/21-14th-St-NE-20002/unit-21/home/9917037

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Finally a new listing! $779k for 2br/1ba near Seward Square. Cute as a button and at almost 1200 sq ft, it's on the larger side for a condo alternative. It's in the historic district, so any maintenance will be a colossal, expensive PITA. Especially that back sliding door. No parking and street parking is virtually impossible in that area, but you can't beat the location if you're car-free.

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/314-C-St-SE-20003/home/9894161

Pending in two days.

Come on folks, put your sub $1M hill homes on the market! The demand is high and we need some armchair shopping to do.

[Anonymous]

Ask and ye shall receive.

"Small and mighty" near Potomac Ave, 2br/1.5ba for $629k:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1208-G-St-SE-20003/home/9912114

Less impressive and a little pricier, 2br/1ba for $659k:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/235-14th-Pl-NE-20002/home/9916544

And just for fun, your WTF listing for the day with a one-bedroom condo for almost $700k:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1315-E-St-SE-20003/unit-1/home/174357261

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ask and ye shall receive.

"Small and mighty" near Potomac Ave, 2br/1.5ba for $629k:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1208-G-St-SE-20003/home/9912114

Less impressive and a little pricier, 2br/1ba for $659k:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/235-14th-Pl-NE-20002/home/9916544

And just for fun, your WTF listing for the day with a one-bedroom condo for almost $700k:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1315-E-St-SE-20003/unit-1/home/174357261

Those little places are so cute! They give me a little claustrophobia, though, after spending the last year mostly in the confines of a larger Hill row house. I think that for a single person or couple, though, those houses are great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ive been watching carbarn condos and they usually go pretty fast. Was wondering why this unit has been sitting? it seemed to be already priced very low compared to other units. https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/21-14th-St-NE-20002/unit-21/home/9917037

Those places barely appreciate. We looked at one in about 2003 and the unit now sells for less than 100k more than it cost then, You could have bought a cardboard box on the Hill in 2004 and returned a better rate of return.

[Anonymous]

Here's the house that's above the under-$1-million target for this thread, but I'm curious what people think.

4BR/2.5Ba, 2332 sqft, $1,170,000:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/702-F-St-NE-20002/home/9901187

The inside looks nice (and they didn't cover everything with white paint!). It's right next to the Adams Market, though. Locals, what do you think: is that a plus or a minus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the house that's above the under-$1-million target for this thread, but I'm curious what people think.

4BR/2.5Ba, 2332 sqft, $1,170,000:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/702-F-St-NE-20002/home/9901187

The inside looks nice (and they didn't cover everything with white paint!). It's right next to the Adams Market, though. Locals, what do you think: is that a plus or a minus?

I love Adam’s Market but I’d want a leeetle more distance. Convenient, though. I think it’s a nice house. I could keep my parents in the basement!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ask and ye shall receive.

"Small and mighty" near Potomac Ave, 2br/1.5ba for $629k:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1208-G-St-SE-20003/home/9912114

Less impressive and a little pricier, 2br/1ba for $659k:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/235-14th-Pl-NE-20002/home/9916544

And just for fun, your WTF listing for the day with a one-bedroom condo for almost $700k:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1315-E-St-SE-20003/unit-1/home/174357261

I really like that first one, but boy is it small—maybe even too small even for a couple, IMO, if either of them spends any time working at home.

Is that a dishwasher under the sink? If so, that's the first time I've seen it. The sink looks like it might be really shallow to accommodate the dishwaher, but I'd still think you'd need somewhere for the sink's plumbing to go.