UrbanTurf Week in Review
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In case you were out of town or busy at work, here is a quick rundown of some of the stories that UrbanTurf ran over the past week.
- Metro turned the ripe old age of 35.
- Our resident housing market guru analyzed housing statistics for the zip code that includes portions of Georgetown, Burleith and Glover Park.
- DC area home prices rose 3.6 percent over the last year, but only incrementally between December 2010 and January 2011.
- Mortgage rates inched up again for the second week in a row.
- We took a closer look at getting in “on the ground floor” in Southwest.
- We took a look to see what $850,000 buys in the DC area.
- We profiled a very cool house in Capitol Hill.
- A couple of properties that UrbanTurf has featured went under contract recently.
- We wondered how long Columbia Heights will remain one of DC’s most diverse neighborhoods.
- And we celebrated our favorite holiday.
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