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

• May 6th 2019

by Nena Perry-Brown

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. 

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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. 

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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

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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

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.