DC House Smarts

Homes For Sale Category

And Yet Another NEW: Bethesda MCM House Designed By Ken Freeman – Sunday 1-4 pm

What an exciting weekend! Marcie is going to hold our second new listing open. It's a cool mid-century modern house with tons of space (5 bedrooms, 3 full baths, huge family room and screened porch) in Bradley Park. Come see - we just prepared some pretty cool handouts... If this is your style, you will just love it!  Listed for $799,000.Continue Reading!

NEW! Open Sunday, April 21st 1 – 4 pm

$1,295,000 , 6 bedrooms, 5 full baths, 1 half baths, 4,335 square feet It's an exciting weekend for the House Smarts! We have two great new listings coming on the market. Here is number one - stay tuned for the other, as well as a little more info! Catarina Bannier | Evers & Co. | (202) 487-7177 7818 Stable Way, Potomac, MD Sophisticated Suburban Living With An Easy Commute And GloriousViews Of the Woods 6BR/5+1BA Single Family House offered at $1,295,000 Year Built 2000 Sq Footage 4,335 Bedrooms 6 Bathrooms 5 full, 1 partial Floors 3 Parking Unspecified Lot Size 7,638 sqft HOA/Maint $270 per month DESCRIPTION Classy brick colonial with an abundance of space and sweeping private views of parkland. The large home,...Continue Reading!

Fullerland Or Wooderton? A Case Of Hybrid Sears House

  There's a lot of discussion in the historic kit house community about custom built kit houses, and the difficulty they pose when it comes to authenticating a mail-order home. "Custom kit" sounds like a misnomer, but it actually isn't. The customization was done not on site by the builder but before shipment by a Sears (or Lewis or Wardway, etc.) staff architect, and the kit was then cut, sorted and packaged according to those changed specifications. All the major mail-order house companies, including Sears and Lewis, the  most popular brands in the DC area, offered such options to the consumer. In fact, national kit...Continue Reading!

Perfect House, Perfect Sunday — And It’s Open 1-4

Today, we are putting an exciting new listing in Marcie's own East Bethesda neighborhood on the market -- a cute, meticulously maintained and beautifully expanded brick colonial on Highland Avenue with a "WalkScore" of 78!! Get more of the details and pictures here, and make sure you stop by for the open house on Sunday from 1 -4 pm. The weather on this first autumn weekend promises to be beautiful!      Continue Reading!

This Is A Videolicious Test!!!

Continue Reading!

Sears From The Palisades To Silver Spring — A Couple Of Neat New Kit House Listings

No matter how busy we are, we always seem to make time to feed our kit house addiction. This week, the scouting produced  two fun early 20th century Sears mail-order houses that hit the market for sale. One of them is a 1925 "Rodessa" in the Kent neighborhood of upper Washington DC  priced at $759,000 which Marcie visited. The other -- a listing from our own Evers & Co. office -- is a fabulous, updated 1936s "Colchester"/"Lewiston" (pictured left) with 6 bedrooms and 3 full baths in Washington's Silver Spring suburb, priced at $489,000.  We'll post more pictures and some...Continue Reading!

The Cheapest House In Chevy Chase

After you got a glimpse at the "lower end" of listings in Bethesda, here is a new bargain in Chevy Chase, MD (zip code 20815): This house at 2701 Ross Road in the Rock Creek Forest neighborhood just hit the market a couple of days ago. It's offered at a sweet price of $499,900 -- about a third of both the current average ($1,553,736) and median ($1,550,000) list price of houses on the market in Chevy Chase (on the MD side). Of course, with its 3 bedrooms and 1.5 baths it's a smaller house as well, and it's in need of some updates....Continue Reading!

4 Cheapest Houses in Bethesda MD 20817

You'll find a lot of blogs out there promoting the most expensive, luxurious and exclusive listings in Bethesda, Maryland... but not too many agents focus in on the least expensive offerings.  We are the exception! Not surprisingly, most of these homes are pretty close to 495.  You'll find that properties close to large arteries or highways are often priced about 10-15% less than their quieter counterparts. #4:  6206 Hollins Drive, $649,000 Big house.  You get lots of space for your money.  4 bedrooms and 4 full baths, in fact.  It's got a lovely screened porch.  The house is dated.  There's parquet flooring on...Continue Reading!

3 Cheapest Houses in Chevy Chase DC 20015

There are currently 17 active detached, single-family listings in Chevy Chase, DC 20015.  They range in price from $725,000 all the way up to $2,250,000.  We're here to talk about the three cheapest listings.  So, here's the skinny: 7037 Wyndale Street NW.  Currently listed at $767,000 with Prudential PenFed Realty.  Days on market:  466. Originally listed at $819,900.  While not exactly close to the Connecticut corridor, this house has a lot of good things going for it.  Pretty hardwood floors, an eat-in kitchen with granite counter tops.  Screened porch.  Huge walk-out basement with high ceilings and good light.  It doesn't have...Continue Reading!

3 Cheapest Houses in Bethesda MD 20816

Bethesda MD 20816 is home to a lot of pricey neighborhoods.  In 2011, the average sales price for homes in the 20816 zip code was $859,135 with a total of 213 sales.  Popular neighborhoods within 20816 include: Glen Echo Heights, Woodacre, Westmoreland Hills, Sumner, Westhaven, Brookdale, Greenacres, Springfield, Brookmont, & Tulip Hill.  Check out the map of 20816. As of August 1, 2012, the top three CHEAPEST single family homes within the area are.... 5204 Sangamore Road.  Brick cape on a somewhat busy corridor.  Big lot at 12,000 s.f.  2-car garage with breezeway to house.  Screened porch (gotta love that!).  Older kitchen. ...Continue Reading!