Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 21:02     Subject: Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This guessing game is a bit silly. It's a sample size of one buyer (or one couple). Buyers have different idiosyncrasies and preferences. It's not as though a poll was taken of 500 prospective buyers, and then someone had to buy the house that the poll dictated. It's just one person and their preferences.

If you're genuinely curious about the preferences of this one particular buyer, send them a letter and ask, or call their agent (whose name is provided in the listing) and maybe the agent will remember.


OP here, I am building a new house on my own lot for resale, and want to understand what today's buyers are looking for


Apparently black and white behemoths that look like all the other black and white behemoths
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 13:43     Subject: Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:The sold one is much more attractive. The unsold one is kind of fugly.


They look the exact same
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 13:37     Subject: Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This guessing game is a bit silly. It's a sample size of one buyer (or one couple). Buyers have different idiosyncrasies and preferences. It's not as though a poll was taken of 500 prospective buyers, and then someone had to buy the house that the poll dictated. It's just one person and their preferences.

If you're genuinely curious about the preferences of this one particular buyer, send them a letter and ask, or call their agent (whose name is provided in the listing) and maybe the agent will remember.


OP here, I am building a new house on my own lot for resale, and want to understand what today's buyers are looking for


Woosh. The entire point the PP was making was that you can't figure that out from one sale. That's representative of just one person's preferences, not the preferences of all potential buyers.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 10:38     Subject: Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:This guessing game is a bit silly. It's a sample size of one buyer (or one couple). Buyers have different idiosyncrasies and preferences. It's not as though a poll was taken of 500 prospective buyers, and then someone had to buy the house that the poll dictated. It's just one person and their preferences.

If you're genuinely curious about the preferences of this one particular buyer, send them a letter and ask, or call their agent (whose name is provided in the listing) and maybe the agent will remember.


OP here, I am building a new house on my own lot for resale, and want to understand what today's buyers are looking for
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 21:35     Subject: Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
This guessing game is a bit silly. It's a sample size of one buyer (or one couple). Buyers have different idiosyncrasies and preferences. It's not as though a poll was taken of 500 prospective buyers, and then someone had to buy the house that the poll dictated. It's just one person and their preferences.

If you're genuinely curious about the preferences of this one particular buyer, send them a letter and ask, or call their agent (whose name is provided in the listing) and maybe the agent will remember.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 19:13     Subject: Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:Sold one ij adjacent to parkland. Unsold surrounded by ugly houses too,


Behind parkland, it is route 267. So the sold one is much closer to 267. Isn’t the noise an issue?
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 18:34     Subject: Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
Sold one ij adjacent to parkland. Unsold surrounded by ugly houses too,
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 18:09     Subject: Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
The sold one is much more attractive. The unsold one is kind of fugly.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 17:24     Subject: Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
Both have 8 bathrooms.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 17:13     Subject: Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
Hard to find photos on the sold one, but from what's available, I would have chosen the sold one as well.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 17:04     Subject: Re:Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The one that sold has a nice flat backyard. The other one does not.


But the not sold one has 7,487 sf, the sold one has 6918 sf, both lots are 0.3 acre


In a house that size what's a few hundred square feet? A smaller wine cellar?
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 16:59     Subject: Re:Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:The one that sold has a nice flat backyard. The other one does not.


But the not sold one has 7,487 sf, the sold one has 6918 sf, both lots are 0.3 acre
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 16:57     Subject: Re:Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
The one that sold has a nice flat backyard. The other one does not.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 16:46     Subject: Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
So they are finally scraping the Hamlet.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 16:33     Subject: Help me understand these two new houses in the same McLean neighborhood
These two houses are only a few doors apart. Why has one already sold while the other has had to reduce its price?

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7925-Falstaff-Rd-Mc-Lean-VA-22102/51747777_zpid/
Sold: $3.6M

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1324-Titania-Ln-Mc-Lean-VA-22102/51747714_zpid/
Sale: $3.29M