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Under Contract: Eight Days or Less From Silver Spring to Brookland

  • May 6th 2019

by Nena Perry-Brown

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This edition of Under Contract is a Best New Listings déjà vu, revisiting three houses which were listed on the same day and each went under contract in eight days or less. 


Six Days on the Market for the Library Loft House

This Friendship Heights four-bedroom offers an abundance of shelving space, making it an ideal house for a bibliophile. Shelving surrounds the entryway to the living room. The nearly double-sized third bedroom has a wall of built-ins and also has balcony access. The uppermost level has a loft-like aesthetic and wedges several series of built-in shelving partitions beneath a vaulted ceiling with exposed beams, also taking advantage of an archtop window and a skylit office nook. The house also features a detached garage, a spacious rear brick patio and an angular porch, which wraps around toward an octagonal screened-in porch that creates a balcony for the owner's bedroom above. It found a buyer less than a week after hitting the market. 

  • Full Listing: 4206 Ingomar Street NW (map)
  • Price: $1,595,000
  • Bedrooms: Four
  • Bathrooms: 4.5
  • Square Feet: 3,313
  • Year Built: 1936
  • Days on Market: Six
  • Listing Agent: Susan Van Nostrand, Compass

Photo courtesy of Homevisit. 


A Bay-Filled Brookland Victorian

Over in Brookland, this detached Victorian went under contract in just over a week. The living room gains bonus space from a bay window, a feature prominent in the adjacent formal dining room, which also has a painted brick fireplace on the opposite wall. The C-shaped kitchen nook is attached to a breakfast room, leading out to a screened-in porch. The upstairs landing has a bay window nook abutting the staircase, and the spacious carpeted basement has white-painted brick walls, exposed beams and utilities, a full bath, and a separate laundry and storage room. The house also has a 930 square-foot attic and a deep backyard with garden areas and a 250 square-foot detached garage at the back of the lot. 

  • Full Listing: 1620 Hamlin Street NE (map)
  • Price: $799,000
  • Bedrooms: Three
  • Bathrooms: 2.5
  • Square Feet: 2,880
  • Year Built: 1900
  • Days on Market: Eight
  • Listing Agent: Kevin Poist, Evers & Co. Real Estate

Five Days for Montgomery County Mid-Century Modern

Out of the three listings, this mid-century modern Cape Cod in Silver Spring went under contract the quickest, with an offer accepted in five days. An open-concept living and dining area introduces the main level, while the family room is accessible via a pass-through window and a pair of steps. This room has an exposed red brick wall, a wood-burning freestanding fireplace, and a slanted ceiling with exposed beams and clerestory windows. A series of oversized windows span the family room as well as the adjacent, skylit kitchen, separated by a breakfast bar peninsula island. The screened-in porch beyond opens onto a landing with a spiral stair winding down to the sloped backyard. 

  • Full Listing: 9207 Wendell Street (map)
  • Price: $625,000
  • Bedrooms: Four
  • Bathrooms: Two
  • Square Feet: 2,500
  • Year Built: 1951
  • Days on Market: Five
  • Listing Agents: Susan Kirn, Natalie Perez, Donna Kerr Group

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This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/under-contract-from-five-days-in-silver-spring-to-eight-days-in-brookland/15355.

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