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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Yes - we only care about PK3 and 4. We intend to be in DC only 3 or so years. Language immersion in not important. Since we do have the flexibility to buy almost anywhere in DC, we would love to be strategic about it with regards to schools.[/quote]

With $1.2M you really don't have the flexibility to buy "almost anywhere in DC". Houses in Brookland are going for $1 million. [/quote]

Um.... No.

There isn't even a decent grocery store for miles a round.  Maybe one house in Brookland sold that high, but nobody is seriously paying that much to live in Brookland.  Sorry.  It's a cute neighborhood, but it ain't all that, yet.   :roll: [/quote]

In the past year, 4 homes have sold for over 1 million between Kearney and Taylor Sts. NE, between the railroad tracks and 13th St. Every couple months, someone is seriously paying that much to live in Brookland.[/quote]

Keep dreaming, REALTOR.

Brookland is cute, but seriously, 1.2M will buy something in a much better neighborhood.[/quote]

+1. And I love Brookland [/quote]

Of course there are houses in the 1+ million range in-bounds for better schools than one can find in Brookland. But PP said "Maybe one house in Brookland sold that high, but nobody is seriously paying that much to live in Brookland" and someone replied with four houses this year that sold  for over a million. Nobody is saying OP should buy in Brookland (unless he enters the lottery and gets into a HRCS nearby). [/quote]

I live in and love Brookland, but there is a lot of dependency on winning the lottery.  For OP, doesn't seem the best fit (although I'm with others that not buying and not lotterying is a better approach or just buying for investment purposes).  But to the PP who questions whether homes are going over a million, facts are facts.  A bunch of homes have gone near or above $1M, with the highest over $1.4 (which was huge and beautiful).  I think that trend will continue, and if you look at the money people are putting into homes here many others do too (two homes on Kearny are being totally renovated and look like they will be 3500+ sq ft each, which would probably put them at $1.2 at least based on previously sales).  Schools are still a sigbiciant concern, but there's a lot of reasons to be excited about a neighborhood that has a lot of amenities, has single family homes with yards, is metro accessible, and is closer and closer to downtown as the center of downtown leeps moving east (not to mention how much development is going on and planned for NE, including in Ivy City).  [/quote]

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