$377,500 Or Less: DC's Most Affordable Neighborhoods In 2026

• July 17th

by UrbanTurf Staff

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Today, we highlight the five DC neighborhoods that have been the most affordable to homebuyers this year.

For this article, we looked at the advertised subdivisions in the city with the lowest median home prices so far in 2026, only counting neighborhoods with at least 10 home sales. Most of the neighborhoods below are familiar entries on this list, although for a place like Foggy Bottom, that affordability is largely a function of a housing stock dominated by condos and co-ops.

Foggy Bottom led the way again this year with a median price of $305,000, thanks to the fact that condos and co-ops accounted for nearly all of the neighborhood's 43 sales. Notably, Foggy Bottom is the only neighborhood on the list where the median rose compared to last year, and cash was king: roughly 70% of buyers in the neighborhood paid cash. Homes there are also taking their time to sell, sitting on the market for 100 days on average, up from 83 a year ago.

The rest of the list is made up of four neighborhoods in Wards 7 and 8, where prices fell across the board and buyers gained leverage. Randle Heights posted the largest drop, with the median price falling nearly 10% year-over-year to $339,900, as homes took 79 days to sell on average — up from 53 a year ago. Deanwood was by far the most active market of the group, with 73 sales in the first half of the year, the same total as this time last year, even as its median slipped below $375,000. The composition of what sold there shifted noticeably: detached home sales jumped 35% while the average detached price fell 10%, a sign that it is the neighborhood's smaller, more modest houses that are moving.

Lily Ponds, which just cleared the 10-sale threshold, saw sales volume drop by nearly a third and marketing times more than double compared to the first half of 2025, when homes were selling in about a month. Anacostia rounds out the list and is arguably the healthiest market of the Wards 7 and 8 group: its median dipped, but the average price edged up 2%, homes sold 11 days faster than a year ago, and detached houses — which made up a growing share of sales — commanded nearly 10% more than they did last year.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/377500_or_less_dcs_most_affordable_neighborhoods_in_2026/24821.