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Anonymous wrote:Sorry sv seems nice but is too far out and not in the beltway. Last I checked there are quite a few million dollar plus homes in 22182 marshall district under contract or sold. This isn't 1993 where living far out in a car dependent neighborhood is acceptable, traffic has gotten much worse. The difference between the mclean vs marshall pyramids are nothing but the name. In fact the last scores put the middle schools on par at perfect 10s

If you live in that area, I don't care what HS you are zoned for, your lifestyle will be car dependent even if you live walking distance to metro.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry sv seems nice but is too far out and not in the beltway. Last I checked there are quite a few million dollar plus homes in 22182 marshall district under contract or sold. This isn't 1993 where living far out in a car dependent neighborhood is acceptable, traffic has gotten much worse. The difference between the mclean vs marshall pyramids are nothing but the name. In fact the last scores put the middle schools on par at perfect 10s

Anonymous wrote:
Listing one in sv soon?.bahhhhaaaaaa.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry sv seems nice but is too far out and not in the beltway. Last I checked there are quite a few million dollar plus homes in 22182 marshall district under contract or sold. This isn't 1993 where living far out in a car dependent neighborhood is acceptable, traffic has gotten much worse. The difference between the mclean vs marshall pyramids are nothing but the name. In fact the last scores put the middle schools on par at perfect 10s

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Anonymous wrote:
Sounds like someone is trying to hype up their neighborhood. Must be the realtor. I've never heard of SV at all and DH is from DC area, grew up here. Our friends all grew up here too and have never heard of this place. It's not like everyone in DC area is aspiring to buy a house there, come on. It's probably the demographics of the area tend to be younger families, and not as much turn around as in areas where old people are cashing in and selling their old houses to developers for tear down.

This is 8:17, and I am not 7:29, a realtor, or a current or past resident of SV. Given the anonymity of DCUM, you could spend half your time on this forum claiming that everyone is a sock puppet if you want, so feel free to do so here.

Your post makes virtually no sense. The DC area is a large one. If you grew up here, the odds that you'll be familiar with most area neighborhoods by name is very slight, even if you are a realtor. So your lack of familiarity with SV doesn't mean much, and the idea that you'd go out and poll your friends to find out whether they'd heard of SV is, on its face, ridiculous.

On the other hand, if you're looking in the McLean/Tysons/Vienna area, and you have a budget under $1 M, the odds that you've heard of SV are pretty good. If you've ever been to Wolf Trap, and wondered what the name of the residential neighborhood outside Wolf Trap where the streets have names like "Trombone Court" and "Tuba Court," the odds that you've heard of SV are also good. The homes themselves aren't much different from those in many other parts of NoVa. But the neighborhood has a community pool, it's close to Wolf Trap, it's more affordable than some of the nearby areas in Vienna and Great Falls, and it happens to be in a more sought-after school pyramid (Colvin Run/Longfellow/McLean) than the adjacent communities in Vienna zoned for Marshall (sorry, but still true). Put it together, and you end up with a neighborhood where some homes will usually - but not always - sell quickly when they go on the market.

Of course that doesn't mean that everyone in the DC area is aspiring to buy a house there, but that was never the question.

Anonymous wrote:
Sounds like someone is trying to hype up their neighborhood. Must be the realtor. I've never heard of SV at all and DH is from DC area, grew up here. Our friends all grew up here too and have never heard of this place. It's not like everyone in DC area is aspiring to buy a house there, come on. It's probably the demographics of the area tend to be younger families, and not as much turn around as in areas where old people are cashing in and selling their old houses to developers for tear down.

Anonymous wrote:I live in Vienna and agree that SV is a nice area. It has a pool club which as has been posted here before, are hard to get into in Vienna, so that is a big plus, as are the schools if you aren't happy with Madison/Marshall. Its also close to Wolf Trap which can be nice.

Anonymous wrote: Sounds like someone is trying to hype up their neighborhood. Must be the realtor. I've never heard of SV at all and DH is from DC area, grew up here. Our friends all grew up here too and have never heard of this place. It's not like everyone in DC area is aspiring to buy a house there, come on.

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Anonymous wrote:We wound up in McLean Hamlet and it is "OK". DH and I had our sights on Shouse Village but a home never came on the market. (Rumor from our realtor was that many SV homes sell before hitting the MLS in person-to-person deals due to their high demand.) I still drive through sometimes to visit a former coworker who lives there. I wish we had held out for a home there.
(also, the idea of structural issue for an entire neighborhod is bogus. Your realtor just wanted to redirect you and/or couldn't get you a home there.)

...Says the homeowner in Shouse Village.

There have been about 20 properties sold in that neighborhood in the last 2 years. I wouldn't call that 'rarely' coming on the market.

Grow up. MH and SV are similar. I don't find it surprising that some might prefer one neighborhood, and others might prefer the other.

As to relative scarcity in SV, there aren't any houses in that neighborhood for sale now, and it is the case that some, but certainly not all, houses in that area are already under contract when they are first listed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We wound up in McLean Hamlet and it is "OK". DH and I had our sights on Shouse Village but a home never came on the market. (Rumor from our realtor was that many SV homes sell before hitting the MLS in person-to-person deals due to their high demand.) I still drive through sometimes to visit a former coworker who lives there. I wish we had held out for a home there.
(also, the idea of structural issue for an entire neighborhod is bogus. Your realtor just wanted to redirect you and/or couldn't get you a home there.)

...Says the homeowner in Shouse Village.

There have been about 20 properties sold in that neighborhood in the last 2 years. I wouldn't call that 'rarely' coming on the market.

Anonymous wrote:We wound up in McLean Hamlet and it is "OK". DH and I had our sights on Shouse Village but a home never came on the market. (Rumor from our realtor was that many SV homes sell before hitting the MLS in person-to-person deals due to their high demand.) I still drive through sometimes to visit a former coworker who lives there. I wish we had held out for a home there.
(also, the idea of structural issue for an entire neighborhod is bogus. Your realtor just wanted to redirect you and/or couldn't get you a home there.)