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What Around $1 Million Buys You in the DC Area

  • January 8th 2014

by UrbanTurf Staff

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In What X Buys You this week, UrbanTurf takes a look at properties on the market priced in the $1 million range to give readers an idea of what type of homes are available in this price point in the DC area.


What Around $1 Million Buys You in the DC Area: Figure 1

Five-Bedroom Townhouse Right in U Street Corridor

This townhouse near the intersection of 13th and U Street NW is essentially two sections. Upstairs is a three-bedroom, two-bath home with a living room, dining room, kitchen set-up on the first level and three bedrooms on the second. Downstairs is a two-bedroom, two-bath in-law suite. The listing also has secured parking in the back that, depending on the size, may be able to fit two cars.

  • Full Listing: 2011 13th Street NW (map)
  • Price: $1.08 million
  • Bedrooms: Five
  • Bathrooms: Four
  • Year Built: 1906
  • Listing Agent: Elizabeth Blakeslee, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage


What Around $1 Million Buys You in the DC Area: Figure 2

A Rental Income Producer in Mount Pleasant

Like the listing above, this semi-detached home in Mount Pleasant that hit the market earlier this week is split up into two sections: a three-bedroom home upstairs and a legal two-bedroom, two-bath rental unit downstairs that pulls in $2,400 a month currently. With a 20 percent down payment (at the listing price), the monthly payments would come out to around $2,000-$2,200 when you take into account the rental income. The home also has a front porch and a rear deck, and there is the potential to add parking.

  • Full Listing: 1700 Hobart Street NW (map)
  • Price: $987,000
  • Bedrooms: Five
  • Bathrooms: 4.5
  • Year Built: 1927
  • Listing Agent: Claudia Donovan, TTR Sotheby’s International Realty


What Around $1 Million Buys You in the DC Area: Figure 3

A Northern Virginia Bachelor Pad

For the well-to-do bachelors out there, this loft-like unit is located in the Wooster and Mercer Lofts, an 87-unit project on Queen Street where Rosslyn and Courthouse meet. The owner has put over half a million dollars into the 1,644 square-foot loft, which among other features, has a large outdoor terrace and a Savant home system controlled by an iPad.

Photos courtesy of HomeVisit.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/what_around_1_million_buys_you_in_the_dc_area/7969.

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