Since the land lease expires in less than 30 years, it’s basically impossible to get a standard mortgage on these units, so the buyer pool now is almost exclusively investors who will rent units out.

Every year from here on out the sales prices will likely continue a slow steady decline towards zero.

I wonder if these buildings will start having bigger problems in the next decade as it stops making sense to do big capital improvement projects and repairs, or increase dues to fund such things as the end is in sight.

Anonymous wrote:Any updates as to what may happen when the lease is up?

Spotted a good explainer on this today
https://ghostsofdc.org/2026/06/15/river-place-rosslyn-arlington-towers/?fbclid=IwdGRleAScz-RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEebp9lgZG1pE4N-1SHsTEhGDXqOHtnpmadm5YnOOE4FasxY2ucTHuAEMiJLhw_aem_bw3LOOMNdHxmlNO0bMV7Rg

What do you mean updates? Everything reverts to the land owner. Nothing is going to change that. The land is worth $100M+. At ~1700 co-op units, every share holder would need to come up with a minimum of $60,000 AND there would need to be a sell interest on the land owner's behalf to even tilt the odds into retaining ownership. Bottom line, that's not going to happen. The ground lease document is explicit: when the lease expires, all the improvements revert to the land owner. No renewals and no other rights given. The Nordheimer brothers should never have turned it into a residential co-op that had ~70 years left on a ground lease.

Any updates as to what may happen when the lease is up?