The D.C. Real Estate Guide

If you are about to close on the sale or purchase of your property, you will need to let the utility companies know when you need the utilities transferred. If you don’t do this (from a sellers perspective), you will be paying for another parties utilities and your own. If you don’t do this (from a purchasers prospective), your utilities will get turned off once the sellers stop paying for their old utilities. So, when and how should do you transfer your utilities in Washington, D.C? Keep reading →

The D.C. Neighborhood Spotlight provides the geographic location, location of shops and restaurants, public services, and real estate statistics for a specific neighborhood.

Originally known as Jenkins Hill, Capitol Hill is the home of The US Capitol Building, The Supreme Court, and The Library of Congress. Located within walking distance to five metro stations (Union Station-Red Line, Capitol South-Blue and Orange Lines, Eastern Market-Blue and Orange Lines, and Stadium-Armory-Blue and Orange Lines,) residents have quick, affordable access to the rest of the city. Eastern Market, one of the cities only remaining public markets, can be found at 7th Street and North Carolina Avenue SE. It has been in continuous operation since 1873, and its Market Lunch boasts the best crab cakes in DC. Most of the 19th and 20th century townhouses located  “on the hill” are just steps from one of the many corner shops found here. Keep reading →

Have you ever mulled over stacks of color options only to realize you picked the wrong color several coats too late for that room in your place? I have a hard time putting on matching socks in the morning, let alone picking out the color scheme of a room. Not to worry, there is a paint preview tool I learned about through the RealCentralVA blog designed help people preview what rooms would look like with thousands of different colors. Visit the Personal Color Viewer on the Benjamin Moore site to upload photos of your rooms and apply paint schemes that will help prevent you from making those mistakes before its too late.

Check out the local and national real estate trends and headlines that made the news this week.

The real estate headlines from the Washington Post, RealEstateJournal.com, CNN Money, and Bankrate.com dove into the following topics: D.C. planning commission, new appraisal models, 2007 market forecast and gauging housing trends, the risk of candles in homes, second-home markets, winter preparedness, and tips for successful closings. Keep reading →

One of my favorite aspects of Washington, D.C. real estate is the variety of housing styles found all over the city. The hard part is being able to identify these styles by their name, so I searched high and low for definitions, characteristics, and examples of many of the housing styles that influence the real estate in our nation’s capital. Keep reading →

The D.C. Neighborhood Spotlight provides the geographic location, location of shops and restaurants, public services, and real estate statistics for a specific neighborhood.

Brookland, named after the Colonel Jehiel Brooks family estate, is known for all of the religious institutions that surround it. The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (shown above,) Catholic University, Trinity College, and the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center surround this Northeast Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Served by the Brookland-CUA Metrorail Station, residents are only a 10-minute ride downtown. Col. Brooks’ Tavern and Kelly’s Ellis Island Pub offer residents a place to grab a drink and a bite to eat, and 12th Street NE provides the neighborhood with a strip of pharmacies, hardware stores and eateries. Architecturally, Brookland has every style found in D.C., including Victorians, bungalows, Queen Annes, and Georgians. Keep reading →