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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You'er delusional if you think houses in the WJ area are going to decrease by $100,000. If schools were so central to housing prices homes in Takoma Park wouldn't be selling for $1M. That's because it's about location first and foremost, and traffic is going to be much worse 3-4 years from now when Woodward opens, which is going to make location even more important. [/quote]

OK just stop. I like Takoma Park but homes are not going for 1M. There are sometimes rare, large historical houses that will occasionally get up there but the overwhelming majority of houses that are sold, sell for much, much less. In Bethesda, tear downs sell for 1M and the high unicorn sales are up in the multi millions. In WJ there are some homes at the bottom of that area's scale in the 700s.

A 10% drop for an area being rezoned from a top W school to Einstein is actually being very conservative. A family that buys a 750K house in WJ that later becomes Einstein will be lucky to get 675K for the the house. [/quote]

100% agree with this. [/quote]

Officials have said in multiple meetings that WJ kids are not going to be zoned to Einstein because of this change. And [b]e[/b][b]ven if they did rezone two elementary schools to Einstein, those would be Kensington Parkwood and Garrett Park [/b]and that would, of course, increase Einstein's test scores tremendously. And like PPs have said, the area around the Wheaton area is on its way up, not down. Development around there is booming and housing prices are following suite.[/quote]

Hopefully it doesn't happen. It's coming from a future seller in GP area.  Eisenstein will have a better test scores in scenario you are putting here, but it will be far inferior than current WJ. Everything will remain same so house prices will take hit.  [/quote]

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