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.

Mary house is a volunteer organization, based in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington DC,  working directly with homeless and refugee families.  Managing 9 houses and 40 apartments for over 50 families.  Providing shelter, transitional and long term supportive housing, food, clothing and furniture.  (They are a very well run charity organization and spend only 3.7% on administrative costs)  Jake actually came to DC as an Americorp volenteer and worked with Mary House for 2 years. We continue to support their efforts through Charity Golf tornement and helping with their annual "help the Homeless" Walkathon.

Please consider donating to this great cause.  You can also contribute through CFC (#33368)

Mary House was recently honored and featured in the…

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Brookland is a diverse, thriving community in the Northeast quadrant of Washington, DC. It's streets are lined with trees and gorgeous Victorian beauties standing tall with relaxing wrap-around porches. Sounds pretty idylic, huh? Well, in our opinion, it is! For most of it's historical existance, Brookland was farmland owned predominantly by two families, the Queens and the Middletons. In the 1820s Jehiel Brooks (the same Jehiel Brooks from the former, beloved, Colonel Brooks' Tavern) married Ann Queen and built the Brooks Mansion located on Newton Street. (The building is currently being used by the DC government, but go down and take a walk by it sometime, it is a beautiful Greek-revival style building.)  In the 1880s, their son sold the family's home…

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DC BRAU beer The Corruption
Beer. Ale. Cold Ones. Brewskies. Cervezas. Libations. Delicious golden brew of the Gods. The drink of choice since ancient times, our ancestors did something right! Sorry various Wonders of the World. Most of you don't exist anymore. Beer does, and it's thriving. Our Founding Fathers couldn't get enough of it. President James Madison wanted to create a National Brewery (we already had a national bank, so why not?) complete with a Secretary of Beer (seriously, best job ever!?). Congress said no. Always ruining the fun that Congress. Shame on them. Oh well. With their resurgance in populairty, home and craft brews have taken a bite out of the monopoly of brewing giants like Budweiser (thank God). Microbrews allow for more experimentation of flavors and the…

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Brookland Real Estate Market Update November 2013
Here are some of the more interesting data points for October sales from Rbintel.com and MRIS.com for Beautiful Brookland.
For 20017 zipcode

The inventory of homes for sale in Brookland in October is significatly below the 5 year average.  This reflects the fact that the majority of homes that came on the market went under contract in October. Properly priced and presented homes in Brookland are selling fast. Median sold price increaded 49.31% year over year.  This is more a reflection of the clearing of the short sale market in Brookland.  Last year there were many more short sales closing which dragged down the enitire Brookland Market.  Now that most of those houses have been sold (purchased mostly by…

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Once again Ditto Residential delivers visionary development to Brookland.

3714 13th ST NE Washington DC in Beautiful Brookland.
Check out the virtual Tour HERE

This lot was originally part of 3710  13th Street Ne.  The owner of the property contacted us to find a buyer for the additional lot.  We contacted many of the areas finest Urban home builders and after some serious consideration and entertaining offers from several developers, the owner of the lot decided to work with Ditto Residential on developing the lot.  Part of the consideration is deciding to work with Ditto Residential was the amazing work that they did on The Roundhouse.  Ditto Residential purchased the lot in 2012 and immediately started design and site work.

There were a quite a…

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Abbott-Klar Real Estate group is excited to announce that they represented the seller of 3714 13th St NE DC, in Beautiful Brookland.  This new construction home just sold for $958,000
Check out the virtual Tour HERE

Brookland washington dc.


That is the most a house in Brookland has EVER sold for!

This is the 3rd time the Abbott Klar Real Estate Group has broken the record for highest price house sold in Brookland.  Starting with the Roundhouse

which we sold in January 2013 for $760,000,

and on to 1335 Lawrence St NE

(under contract, listed at $799,000)
and now 3714 13th street at nearly a millon dollars.

We sell Brookland houses for MORE!

Call us today to find out how our local knowledge, our dedicated and experienced team and our comittment to the Brookland…

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1335 Lawrence ST NE Washington DC 20017.
$799,000

Exceptional Renovation  to Historic Brookland Arts & Crafts Home
Brookland Homes for sale, Washington DC
1335 Lawrence Street NE, in Beautiful Brookland, is a historic four-bedroom, two full and two half bath detached home that has been renovated with a large rear addition and a slew of high-end updates.  

Virtual tour        Youtube Video Tour

This level of renovation is rare and includes:
* 4 bedrooms * 2 full plus 2 half bathroom * Workshop * 16'X25'two-story addition *
9'x20' rear deck * Luxurious Owner's suite with walk in closet and radiant floor heating *Walk-up attic * Two zone Central AC * Tall basement with side and rear exits * Butler's Pantry * 

In 2005, the current owners built the two-story rear addition, going to great lengths…

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 The 13th Annual Greater Brookland House and Garden Tour
 is on June 2nd, 2013 from 12:00 -5:00 pm with a reception from 5:00-7:00 pm

 Buy tickets online at GBGC.org
or in person at Petals. Ribbons and Beyond (3906 12th ST NE). 
Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 day of tour.

Brookland house and garden tour official poster

Mary Pat Rowan, President, Greater Brookland Garden Club, in annoucing this tour, noted  that:
"there are two Washingtons: one is the world capital, the stage of the mighty and powerful (and sometimes silly), marble columns and majestic beauty. But there is another Washington, hometown Washington, an alliance of communities as small as a single block, some with 10,000 or more residents. Brookland is one of these Hometowns, D.C.  Institutions make communities, and communities make…

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 Washington DC Real Estate Market Update

 Need more proof that the DC Real Estate market is in the beginning of a a very hot seller's market? 
Let's take a  look at a few charts from RBi.

First Chart: Number of listing in to number of sold houses.  In 2010 we had nearly 3,000 houses for sale in DC.  Today... under 1,000!

Second Chart: Median Sales Price:
In 2010 the median sales price was about $385,000.  Today it is close to $460,000. 


Hottest  two zipcodes:
20011 had a 39.62% year over year increase in Median sold price.  This zipcode inscludes red-hot Petworth which accounts for most of the metoric rise in prices. 
20017 had a 37.19% year over year increase in Median sold price.  This zipcode  covers a large part of Beautiful Brookland. …

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