This is the Brookland, DC Real Estate blog category for SellingDC.com. Here you'll find news and opinions about living in Brookland, insight about the real estate market and information about condo buildings, neighborhoods and homes for sale.

 The Grand House of Brookland

Open House Sunday 1-4
1314 Kearny Street NE
Washington, DC
in Beautiful Brookland
Floor plan and virtual tour here

Rear covered screened porch with translucent roof 1314 Kearny Street ne DC. Brookland


                                                                                                                                                                                                  
This house was built around 1910 by Ludwig Luebkert, a house builder from southern Germany who lived across the street. He built the house for his sister, and though it is an example of the simpler Edwardian style, he recycled a few architectural elements from the earlier Victorian era: the front porch balustrade, the wainscoting and stairway in the foyer, and the fireplace mantle in the dining room, were all reused…

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1018 Kearny St NE, Washington DC. 4 Bedrooms * 2 full bathrooms * Large yard *
Walk-up attic  * Full basement with side door *

Virtual Tour with floor plan                                 YouTube video   1018 Kearny ST NE DC. Brookland Porch   Lest anyone doubts that Brookland has been "discovered", simply pay notice to this recent sale.  We listed the house on Thursday with a Broker open and had the Public Open house with over 100 groups of buyers coming through.  Demand for the house was so great that the sellers set a deadline of Tuesday 5:00 pm to look at all the offers.  We got 16 (sixteen!) good offers from very excited buyers and a few great offers.  The house sale closed today for $710,000.  This was an outrageously awesome house, and buyers clearly loved it.   Want to…

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We had a early evening shoot this weekend of an amazing house in Brookland we have coming up soon.  Here is a sneak preview of one of my favorite shots.
Stay tuned for more...

Brookland garden
Picture by William Leak- a Brookland resident and an amazing professional photographer

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Brookland House and Garden Tour
14th Year
Sunday June 8th, 2014
Sponsored by the Greater Brookland Garden Club
Brookland Home and Garden Tour 2014 poster

The wildly popular and fun Brookland House and Garden Tour will take place this year on June 8th from 1-5 with after party from 5-7.  Join with your neighbors for a day of celebrating the old and the new in Brookland.  An historic neighborhood of mostly single family homes, Brookland is a collection of distinctive and varied living arrangements admired by all who visit.  The neighborhood is filled with mansions and tiny houses; there are colonials and victorians; we have federal style and international style as well as bungalows and row houses.  Eight or nine houses and gardens will be open and, unlike in other neighborhoods, the home owners will…

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Open Sunday 1-4
4537 South Dakota Ave NE, Washington DC.
3 large bedrooms, 2 sunrooms, fireplace, hoardwood floors, 2 car garage

4537 South Dakota Ave, NE DC. Brookland

Virtual tour here

Welcome Home.
Enter through the foyer and into the light-filled living room where the wood-burning fireplace is perfectly positioned for relaxing and entertaining.  A bright screened-in front porch off the living room is the perfect setting for your morning cup of coffee.  The large formal dining room invites you to be the entertainer your friends love you for, sharing your home and culinary adventures with your friends and family.  The newly renovated kitchen, with walk-in pantry, is perfectly designed to showcase your talents.
Upstairs, you'll find three very large bedrooms, including a master bedroom with…

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1018 Kearny St NE, Washington DC.
$639,000
Open house Sunday March 30th 1-4

4 Bedrooms * 2 full bathrooms * Large yard * Walk-up attic  * Full basement with side door *
Virtual Tour with floor plan                                 YouTube video   1018 Kearny ST NE DC. Brookland Porch

Welcome to this meticulously-renovated and deeply-loved Brookland home!
Enter through the tall foyer and into the light-filled living room perfectly set up for relaxing and entertaining. A large formal dining room invites you to be the entertainer you've always wanted to be, sharing your home and culinary exploits with your friends and family. The modern, large kitchen was perfectly designed to showcase your talents and make your guests feel at home.
Upstairs, you’ll find 4 (four!) bedrooms. Really: four…

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2013 was a record breaking year for Brookland. 

It all began in January with the roundest house ever sold in DC, 1001 Irving Street, listed by Abbott Klar Real Estate Group, selling for $760,000, which almost broke the record for the highest priced houses in Brookland.  Not to worry, we quickly followed that by selling 1335 Lawrence for $790,000 which broke the record for the highest priced Brookland house to ever sale!  But, alas, this record did not last for long and just a few months later we sold 3714 13th St NE for $957,983- which remains the record holder as the most expensive house ever sold in Brookland.  We are proud members of the Brookland community.  We live here and are constantly working to improve the neighborhood and shine the spotlight…

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Dec 2013 Brookland Real Estate Market update.

Rbi just released their data set for Real Estate Market activity in Brookland for November 2013.  Here is the data for zipcode 20017 for single family detached houses:

That's right!  In zipcode 20018, there was a 60% increase in listings, and an amazing 77.8% in new pendings of single family detached houses in November 2013 compared with November 2012!   This means that nearly all single family houses that come on the market in November in Brookland went under contract.  Simply amazing.  Of course this level of demand for Brookland houses resulted in an increase of 7.8% in the median sold price.

For zipcode 20017, the numbers are similar.


In zipcode 20017 in Brookland, there was a 20% increase in listings,…

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