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At $20 Million, The Most Expensive Home In DC Finds A Buyer

  • June 25th 2025

by UrbanTurf Staff

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3030 Chain Bridge Road NW

The priciest home on the market in DC has gone under contract, UrbanTurf has learned. 

Located at the site of the former Cafritz mansion in Kent, the eight-bedroom estate built by Banks Development at 3030 Chain Bridge Road NW (map) found a buyer earlier this week at a list price of $19.95 million. Daniel Heider of TTR Sotheby's International Realty is representing the seller. 

The listing is located at the site of the home once owned by DC luminary Peggy Cooper Cafritz. Cafritz's home, which contained one of the largest known private collections of African American art, was destroyed by a fire in 2009. 

The house along Chain Bridge Road, which has 11 bathrooms and sits on a 35,000 square-foot lot, was designed by Jones/Boer Architects and Arentz Landscape Architects. The listing has many of the trappings of a home carrying this price tag, including a billiards room, wine cellar, lap pool and its own motor court. 

Banks Development is no stranger to high-priced homes in the city. The firm built the 16,250 square-foot home along Foxhall Road NW owned by Fox News anchor Bret Baier that sold for the record price of $25 million back in December. 

Photo by Derek & Vee.

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