The 8 DC Neighborhoods Where You Paid Above Asking in 2017

A home that sold in North Cleveland Park this year.
While DC’s housing market became less of a seller’s market in 2017, with inventory steadily increasing and prices leveling off, homes still aren’t spending very much time on the market in certain areas and competition is still fierce.
In a balanced market, home buyers would be able to purchase homes at or slightly below 100 percent of the property’s asking price. In competitive sub-markets, buyers often either engage in bidding wars or feel obligated to offer above list price in order to close the deal. Here are the eight neighborhoods in the District where a high level of competition meant that you likely paid above asking price in 2017.

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As the table above shows, North Cleveland Park is by far the most competitive neighborhood, with buyers paying, on average, 4 percent above listing price. Unsurprisingly, the median price in the neighborhood also increased by nearly 14.5 percent over the past year, the second-highest price jump among the eight neighborhoods highlighted.
The small Northeast DC neighborhood of Lily Ponds is a surprising entrant at second place considering how affordable the neighborhood is, with a median price of $276,800 that has increased only 4.45 percent since 2016. Buyers have also been taking notice of Glover Park’s reasonably-priced condominium units, as those represented over two-thirds of the homes sold in the neighborhood this year where buyers paid 100.73 percent of list price.
Burleith has the fourth-highest sales price to original listing price ratio, yet is also the only neighborhood highlighted that saw the median prices drop over the past year.
Photo courtesy of HomeVisit.
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