Oh, what thrill it was! The one-hundred-percent, doubt-free identification that we so rarely get to see! But just wait; we will get to that later. This week's historic kit home is actually a rare find, at least for Washington, DC (correct me, if I'm wrong--I'm always looking to make new discoveri
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01/13/2012
(Modified version of original source: Good School, Good Neighbors, Bad School, Bad Neighbors?) Last week, my first contribution to Where We Live, the Washington Post's new buzzing real estate blog, dealt with a stormy issue: neighborhood involvement in the site selection process for the planned M
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01/09/2012
This is going to be so exciting! Yesterday, the Post started its new real estate blog, Where We Live, and it looks great--lots of interesting features and series, and hopefully a very lively discussion are coming up. Apart from the Post's own editors and reporters, there will be a bunch of real e
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01/04/2012
Seeing the house in person was a bit like an encounter with a vampire: A once charming creature, full of life, adventures and stories, had turned into a bloodless, lifeless shell, generic, functional, and ... dead. Not that I ever have encountered a vampire, but you will get my point here very so
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12/19/2011
Following our look at the state of the market in Colonial Village, here comes the third quarter comparison for its twin neighborhood, Shepherd Park. And that turned out somewhat more interesting. When it comes to listing activity, the trends are almost the opposite of those in Colonial Village: w
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12/18/2011
Last year, I took at special look at some neighborhood statistics for the third quarter. I’ll do the same now. Why? Because the third quarter is a vulnerable time where trends show up in a more pronounced way. The market typically isn’t as slow as it is at the end of the year, but late summer/ear
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12/14/2011
Well, turns out that--at least in Washington--the average middle class guy in the early 20th century might not have known that much more about house building after all. But we'll get to that later. Yesterday, I promised more on kit homes. Here we go. The next amazing discovery I made when I was b
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12/12/2011
Original Source: The House In The Post 1917 Sears mail order bungalow in Washington DC's Shepherd Park neighborhood. Photo: Piers Lamb/Evers & Co. Last week, my business partner, Marcie Sandalow, and I had a listing appointment at a great old house. The owner mentioned it had been a mail order
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12/10/2011
Original source: DChouseCat--Over And Over Again It's no fun, and one of those endlessly repeating things a homeowner has to put up with. But it’s so important that I will preach it here again: Clean out your gutters! If the gutters on your house look like the one on my garage here in the pict
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11/30/2011
"What?!," asked my pre-teen daughter, "we are what?" "Getting up a bit earlier and walking to school," I said. "October 5th is National Walk-To-School Day." "You've got to be kidding." My daughter normally takes the bus to a magnet school that is--according to Google--2.7 miles from our house.
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10/05/2011
