Anonymous
02/09/2026 16:26
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
Anonymous wrote:It costs 700k+ to buy a move in ready sfh near Glenmont metro now. I'm not surprised prices are this high in Gaithersburg.
Right? We bought a house for about that much near Forest Glen metro recently. It was renovated but smaller, older and schools aren't as good. But it is a great neighborhood and more convenient location wise. And my wife and I both make respectable salaries but you have to make some sacrifices with a limited budget around here.
If you want something more in that ~$700-800K range up that way I think you have to look more on the other side of 270, which obviously isn't as desirable but there were some solid houses and the neighborhoods seemed nice enough (not talking Montgomery Village which I understand has a bit of a bad reputation).
Anonymous
02/09/2026 16:13
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's a really nice house. OP, you seem to have strange hangups about Gaithersburg, but if you do a streetview, you'll see that this is a beautiful neighborhood.
It is far out from DC and Nova and when I was house hunting in 2017 Gaithersburg, Rockville were the cheaper areas due to longer commute and non-w schools, now the prices are getting nuts out there.
If you work at Astra Zeneca, you’ve got a 5 minute commute. Some people don’t work in DC.
My neighbor in Potomac works at Astra Zeneca and last kid graduated HS was going to sell home last fall and move to Gaithersburg to be closwer to work and he no longer need a W school.
In the end he bought another home in Potomac as he said I am not paying Potomac prices in Gaithersburg.
Here is a townhome in Gaithersburg for $1,150,000. With 13k taxes and $157 a month HOA. Great location but no land and attached.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/606-Crown-Park-Ave-Gaithersburg-MD-20878/119331492_zpid/
meanwhile I could buy a single family home in Potomac for that price
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10104-Colebrook-Ave-Potomac-MD-20854/37260379_zpid/
I am one comparing 2017 prices and back then you got ALOT for your money in Gaithersburg. the last 9 years it has flipped.
Potomac is so intensely unwalkable. It would drive me insane.
I love being able to walk to 3 grocery stores, haircut places for the entire family, my dentist’s office, multiple locally owned restaurants, my kid’s dance studio, etc.
I love that we have a Christmas tree/menorah lighting right in our town square.
I love our summer festival, with food trucks and bands.
I love that we get thousands of kids for Halloween.
Reducing it to just “Potomac vs Gaithersburg” is really minimizing what Kentlands/Lakelands is. We’re basically a small town.
Except did you see the traffic today? When an accident happens like this morning (I work in NOVA) nearly everyone in Germantown and Gaithersburg who drives to work in DC or NOVA that extra drive is a killer. Pre 2020 that was a huger issue.
However, since 2020 more people are either remote or 2-3 days a week in office so it blew up out there.
However, MoCo has a way of PUNISHING high home prices. By 2030 you will see 15K-18K property tax in the Kentlands/Lakelands as rising assessments kick in. The new Crown HS and new retail is making it even more desirable. But that also brings higher prices and higher property taxes.
I like it there, just they will be a victim of their own success.
So few people commute like that anymore though.
Anonymous
02/09/2026 16:12
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
Anonymous wrote:https://www.redfin.com/MD/North-Potomac/12629-High-Meadow-Rd-20878/home/10626319
this might break this sales record
Are people posting here even familiar with 20878?
There are plenty of homes in excess of 2 million that have sold.
Anonymous
02/09/2026 16:08
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
It costs 700k+ to buy a move in ready sfh near Glenmont metro now. I'm not surprised prices are this high in Gaithersburg.
Anonymous
02/09/2026 15:22
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
https://www.redfin.com/MD/North-Potomac/12629-High-Meadow-Rd-20878/home/10626319
this might break this sales record
this might break this sales record
Anonymous
02/09/2026 14:59
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
Anonymous wrote:That house is appropriately priced. It's clean and well staged and clearly sold quickly. This is not a surprise for 20878. That's the prices now.
Yep. If my Lakelands townhouse can go for $900K or so, then I’m not surprised a SFH in probably the nicest part of Lakelands would go for $1.5.
Anonymous
02/09/2026 14:42
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
That house is appropriately priced. It's clean and well staged and clearly sold quickly. This is not a surprise for 20878. That's the prices now.
Anonymous
02/09/2026 13:36
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's a really nice house. OP, you seem to have strange hangups about Gaithersburg, but if you do a streetview, you'll see that this is a beautiful neighborhood.
It is far out from DC and Nova and when I was house hunting in 2017 Gaithersburg, Rockville were the cheaper areas due to longer commute and non-w schools, now the prices are getting nuts out there.
If you work at Astra Zeneca, you’ve got a 5 minute commute. Some people don’t work in DC.
My neighbor in Potomac works at Astra Zeneca and last kid graduated HS was going to sell home last fall and move to Gaithersburg to be closwer to work and he no longer need a W school.
In the end he bought another home in Potomac as he said I am not paying Potomac prices in Gaithersburg.
Here is a townhome in Gaithersburg for $1,150,000. With 13k taxes and $157 a month HOA. Great location but no land and attached.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/606-Crown-Park-Ave-Gaithersburg-MD-20878/119331492_zpid/
meanwhile I could buy a single family home in Potomac for that price
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10104-Colebrook-Ave-Potomac-MD-20854/37260379_zpid/
I am one comparing 2017 prices and back then you got ALOT for your money in Gaithersburg. the last 9 years it has flipped.
Potomac is so intensely unwalkable. It would drive me insane.
I love being able to walk to 3 grocery stores, haircut places for the entire family, my dentist’s office, multiple locally owned restaurants, my kid’s dance studio, etc.
I love that we have a Christmas tree/menorah lighting right in our town square.
I love our summer festival, with food trucks and bands.
I love that we get thousands of kids for Halloween.
Reducing it to just “Potomac vs Gaithersburg” is really minimizing what Kentlands/Lakelands is. We’re basically a small town.
Except did you see the traffic today? When an accident happens like this morning (I work in NOVA) nearly everyone in Germantown and Gaithersburg who drives to work in DC or NOVA that extra drive is a killer. Pre 2020 that was a huger issue.
However, since 2020 more people are either remote or 2-3 days a week in office so it blew up out there.
However, MoCo has a way of PUNISHING high home prices. By 2030 you will see 15K-18K property tax in the Kentlands/Lakelands as rising assessments kick in. The new Crown HS and new retail is making it even more desirable. But that also brings higher prices and higher property taxes.
I like it there, just they will be a victim of their own success.
Eh, traffic in this area is bad no matter what.
I did a Gaithersburg-NoVA commute for 8 years. It was terrible at times, but I survived.
Now I WFH but drive my kid to school in Potomac every morning. It’s 25-30 minutes each way.
Our house will be fully paid off when our kid goes to college in 9 years. We’ll sell and move out of this area. So I’m not too concerned.
Anonymous
02/09/2026 13:25
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's a really nice house. OP, you seem to have strange hangups about Gaithersburg, but if you do a streetview, you'll see that this is a beautiful neighborhood.
It is far out from DC and Nova and when I was house hunting in 2017 Gaithersburg, Rockville were the cheaper areas due to longer commute and non-w schools, now the prices are getting nuts out there.
If you work at Astra Zeneca, you’ve got a 5 minute commute. Some people don’t work in DC.
My neighbor in Potomac works at Astra Zeneca and last kid graduated HS was going to sell home last fall and move to Gaithersburg to be closwer to work and he no longer need a W school.
In the end he bought another home in Potomac as he said I am not paying Potomac prices in Gaithersburg.
Here is a townhome in Gaithersburg for $1,150,000. With 13k taxes and $157 a month HOA. Great location but no land and attached.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/606-Crown-Park-Ave-Gaithersburg-MD-20878/119331492_zpid/
meanwhile I could buy a single family home in Potomac for that price
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10104-Colebrook-Ave-Potomac-MD-20854/37260379_zpid/
I am one comparing 2017 prices and back then you got ALOT for your money in Gaithersburg. the last 9 years it has flipped.
Potomac is so intensely unwalkable. It would drive me insane.
I love being able to walk to 3 grocery stores, haircut places for the entire family, my dentist’s office, multiple locally owned restaurants, my kid’s dance studio, etc.
I love that we have a Christmas tree/menorah lighting right in our town square.
I love our summer festival, with food trucks and bands.
I love that we get thousands of kids for Halloween.
Reducing it to just “Potomac vs Gaithersburg” is really minimizing what Kentlands/Lakelands is. We’re basically a small town.
Except did you see the traffic today? When an accident happens like this morning (I work in NOVA) nearly everyone in Germantown and Gaithersburg who drives to work in DC or NOVA that extra drive is a killer. Pre 2020 that was a huger issue.
However, since 2020 more people are either remote or 2-3 days a week in office so it blew up out there.
However, MoCo has a way of PUNISHING high home prices. By 2030 you will see 15K-18K property tax in the Kentlands/Lakelands as rising assessments kick in. The new Crown HS and new retail is making it even more desirable. But that also brings higher prices and higher property taxes.
I like it there, just they will be a victim of their own success.
Anonymous
02/09/2026 12:58
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's a really nice house. OP, you seem to have strange hangups about Gaithersburg, but if you do a streetview, you'll see that this is a beautiful neighborhood.
It is far out from DC and Nova and when I was house hunting in 2017 Gaithersburg, Rockville were the cheaper areas due to longer commute and non-w schools, now the prices are getting nuts out there.
If you work at Astra Zeneca, you’ve got a 5 minute commute. Some people don’t work in DC.
My neighbor in Potomac works at Astra Zeneca and last kid graduated HS was going to sell home last fall and move to Gaithersburg to be closwer to work and he no longer need a W school.
In the end he bought another home in Potomac as he said I am not paying Potomac prices in Gaithersburg.
Here is a townhome in Gaithersburg for $1,150,000. With 13k taxes and $157 a month HOA. Great location but no land and attached.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/606-Crown-Park-Ave-Gaithersburg-MD-20878/119331492_zpid/
meanwhile I could buy a single family home in Potomac for that price
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10104-Colebrook-Ave-Potomac-MD-20854/37260379_zpid/
I am one comparing 2017 prices and back then you got ALOT for your money in Gaithersburg. the last 9 years it has flipped.
Potomac is so intensely unwalkable. It would drive me insane.
I love being able to walk to 3 grocery stores, haircut places for the entire family, my dentist’s office, multiple locally owned restaurants, my kid’s dance studio, etc.
I love that we have a Christmas tree/menorah lighting right in our town square.
I love our summer festival, with food trucks and bands.
I love that we get thousands of kids for Halloween.
Reducing it to just “Potomac vs Gaithersburg” is really minimizing what Kentlands/Lakelands is. We’re basically a small town.
Anonymous
02/09/2026 12:54
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
Anonymous wrote:Never got the Kentlands/Lakelands hype but some people clearly like that style of housing
What style of housing does Kentlands/Lakelands have that’s so different from anywhere else?
We have condos, townhouses, and SFHs.
What makes us different is the walkability, and the foundations for each neighborhood, which gives us a different feel than other neighborhoods. We were one of the first experiments with New Urbanism.
But as far as style of housing is concerned, I’m not sure we have anything hugely different than other places.
Anonymous
02/09/2026 12:49
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's a really nice house. OP, you seem to have strange hangups about Gaithersburg, but if you do a streetview, you'll see that this is a beautiful neighborhood.
It is far out from DC and Nova and when I was house hunting in 2017 Gaithersburg, Rockville were the cheaper areas due to longer commute and non-w schools, now the prices are getting nuts out there.
If you work at Astra Zeneca, you’ve got a 5 minute commute. Some people don’t work in DC.
My neighbor in Potomac works at Astra Zeneca and last kid graduated HS was going to sell home last fall and move to Gaithersburg to be closwer to work and he no longer need a W school.
In the end he bought another home in Potomac as he said I am not paying Potomac prices in Gaithersburg.
Here is a townhome in Gaithersburg for $1,150,000. With 13k taxes and $157 a month HOA. Great location but no land and attached.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/606-Crown-Park-Ave-Gaithersburg-MD-20878/119331492_zpid/
meanwhile I could buy a single family home in Potomac for that price
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10104-Colebrook-Ave-Potomac-MD-20854/37260379_zpid/
I am one comparing 2017 prices and back then you got ALOT for your money in Gaithersburg. the last 9 years it has flipped.
Anonymous
02/09/2026 12:46
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
Never got the Kentlands/Lakelands hype but some people clearly like that style of housing
Anonymous
02/09/2026 12:42
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
Kentlands and Lakelands are great communities. Many people, especially with kids, want the community feel and amenities. Also, lots of people are not commuting to DC. 270 had a ton of industry.
Anonymous
02/09/2026 12:11
Subject: $1,565,000 million in Gaithersburg
That might be the priciest house ever sold in the Kentlands/Lakelands. There are lots of more affordable options in these neighborhoods.