Neighborhood Pulse: Cleveland Park Jumps 5.5% to Near-Flat, Navy Yard Narrows to -5.0%, Two Neighborhoods Flip Positive

This Week's Pulse

Forty-three row home settlements closed across the tracked DC neighborhoods this week, and the correction that has run red since April finally gave some ground. Cleveland Park is the clearest turn. The rolling 12-month median jumped 5.5% to $1.35M, and the year-over-year reading climbed from -5.8% to -0.7%, within a rounding error of flat. The sample is thin at nine sales, so read it as a signal, not a verdict. But it points the same direction as four other neighborhoods this week, and that is the story.

Navy Yard cut its annual decline almost in half, from -11.3% to -5.0%, on eight trailing sales, with DOM easing to 25 days. Burleith-Hillandale narrowed too, from -27.2% to -22.7%, still the deepest hole on the board but climbing out of it. These are not new buyers bidding prices up. The trailing window is shedding last spring's weak comps, and the annual math is catching up to a market that has been clearing fine all along.

Two neighborhoods crossed from negative to positive. Southwest Waterfront moved to +1.4% from -2.3%, though its DOM stretched to 18 days from 11 as a couple of slower closings aged into a thin 24-sale window. Chevy Chase flipped to +1.0% from -5.7%, holding an 8-day DOM and a 100% list-to-sale ratio the whole way. Neither is a boom. Both are neighborhoods where the annual comparison stopped working against the seller.

The neighborhoods that have carried the green all spring did not flinch. Hill East widened again to +22.0% on 48 sales, the strongest large-sample positive in the dataset and now its fourth straight week of expansion. Shaw held at +9.0% on 52 sales. Friendship Heights pushed to +16.0%, on a lighter 11-sale base. Supply-constrained blocks keep printing the same number, and the eastside discount keeps closing.

Not everything moved one way. North Cleveland Park cooled to +2.3% from +8.8%, and Mount Pleasant eased to +3.6% from +5.4%, both giving back a strong 2025 comp. Truxton Circle, last week's headline, settled in: the median held at $710K and the annual reading stayed at -8.4%, but the list-to-sale firmed to 93.4% from 92.0% and DOM ticked down to 40. The bounce did not extend. It also did not unwind.

Top Movers

Cleveland Park $1.35M, -0.7% YoY, +5.5% MoM. DOM 16, L2S 96.8%. 9 trailing sales. The biggest weekly price move on the board and the cleanest recovery: the annual reading went from -5.8% to within a hair of flat in seven days. Nine sales is a small window, so treat the level as provisional. The direction is not. Cleveland Park trades on walkability and Connecticut Avenue access, not speculation, and the data just stopped pricing it like a loser.

Navy Yard $1.08M, -5.0% YoY, +1.5% MoM. DOM 25, L2S 98.3%. 8 trailing sales. The annual decline shrank from -11.3% in a single week as the trailing window aged past last spring's softest waterfront comps. This is a recalibration finishing, not reversing. The Metro, the ballpark, and the river were never the problem. The 2024 pricing was, and the market has mostly worked through it.

Southwest Waterfront $1.05M, +1.4% YoY, flat MoM. DOM 18, L2S 99.0%. 24 trailing sales. Crossed into positive territory from -2.3%, its first green annual reading since winter. The DOM stretched to 18 days from 11, but that is a handful of slower closings in a thin window, not a demand problem at 99% of ask. A neighborhood still writing its history, now with a year of appreciation behind it.

Hill East $1.02M, +22.0% YoY, +1.5% MoM. DOM 14, L2S 98.7%. 48 trailing sales. Widened for the fourth week running and still the strongest large-sample positive in DC. Capitol Hill at $1.10M keeps sending priced-out buyers east, and Hill East clears them in two weeks at almost full ask. Forty-eight sales removes the small-sample excuse. The bid is real, and the discount feeding it gets thinner every week.

Chevy Chase $1.21M, +1.0% YoY, flat MoM. DOM 8, L2S 100.0%. 20 trailing sales. Flipped positive from -5.7% without ever breaking stride: eight days to contract and a full 100% of ask through the whole swing. The annual number was always lagging the velocity here. This week it caught up. School-zone demand does not show up in the YoY line until the comps allow it.

Market Snapshot: June 29, 2026

Neighborhood	Median Price	MoM	DOM	$/sqft	L2S	YoY	Sales
Kalorama Heights	$2.60M	—	51	$721	94.3%	-13.3%	25
Georgetown	$1.81M	-1.4%	15	$1039	98.1%	-13.7%	122
Dupont Circle	$1.80M	+2.1%	15	$749	97.6%	+4.3%	59
Kalorama Triangle	$1.71M	—	51	$761	95.1%	-3.0%	8
Woodley Park	$1.70M	—	13	$812	100.0%	-19.2%	17
Lanier Heights **	$1.60M	—	20	$718	97.2%	-0.2%	5
N Cleveland Park	$1.53M	-1.0%	10	$767	98.5%	+2.3%	12
Mount Pleasant	$1.48M	—	6	$697	100.0%	+3.6%	53
Burleith-Hillandale	$1.45M	—	7	$946	99.0%	-22.7%	34
Logan Circle	$1.45M	+0.3%	22	$776	97.4%	-12.7%	39
Cathedral Heights	$1.36M	—	29	$715	96.0%	-8.1%	17
Cleveland Park	$1.35M	+5.5%	16	$747	96.8%	-0.7%	9
Foxhall Village	$1.34M	-0.7%	7	$782	100.0%	-1.5%	20
Glover Park	$1.25M	+0.4%	11	$856	98.3%	-3.5%	42
Friendship Heights	$1.23M	+4.2%	7	$716	100.0%	+16.0%	11
Chevy Chase	$1.21M	—	8	$686	100.0%	+1.0%	20
Shaw	$1.17M	—	26	$667	98.9%	+9.0%	52
Capitol Hill	$1.10M	—	10	$714	98.7%	-4.3%	333
Navy Yard	$1.08M	+1.5%	25	$575	98.3%	-5.0%	8
American Univ Park **	$1.06M	—	7	$796	100.0%	-12.0%	5
Southwest Waterfront	$1.05M	—	18	$522	99.0%	+1.4%	24
Hill East	$1.02M	+1.5%	14	$681	98.7%	+22.0%	48
16th St Heights	$1.01M	+0.6%	23	$538	96.4%	-7.4%	36
Adams Morgan	$999K	—	23	$702	96.8%	-24.5%	13
U Street	$997K	-0.2%	20	$695	97.9%	-17.8%	50
Bloomingdale	$989K	-0.3%	31	$573	98.5%	-8.8%	40
Foggy Bottom	$910K	—	33	$878	97.0%	-7.1%	6
LeDroit Park	$883K	—	21	$567	98.3%	-7.0%	23
Near NE / NoMa / H St	$875K	—	18	$594	97.4%	-6.9%	88
Columbia Heights	$865K	+0.6%	13	$522	97.4%	-12.4%	90
Petworth	$797K	-0.1%	32	$518	96.2%	-6.7%	149
Eckington	$727K	+0.3%	34	$487	96.9%	+6.2%	60
Park View	$725K	—	36	$508	97.0%	-7.9%	48
Truxton Circle	$710K	—	40	$476	93.4%	-8.4%	30
Brightwood Park	$685K	+0.2%	33	$496	96.7%	+7.9%	81
Kingman Park	$625K	-0.4%	25	$551	97.6%	-7.3%	66
Wakefield	$615K	—	27	$423	100.0%	+1.2%	15
Brookland	$614K	-1.8%	21	$479	98.6%	+2.3%	102
Brightwood	$605K	—	26	$448	94.5%	-4.0%	91
Trinidad	$566K	-1.9%	49	$399	93.8%	-19.0%	60
West End *	$1.28M	—	35	$717	98.3%	+94.7%	2
Forest Hills *	$1.23M	—	8	$751	98.9%	-12.1%	2
Crestwood *	$990K	—	0	$377	100.0%	-30.5%	1
Mt Vernon Sq *	$977K	—	31	$392	85.8%	-36.4%	2

Source: BrightMLS via Compass, closed row home sales trailing 12 months as of 6/29/2026. MoM = change from 6/22/2026. Structure type filter: Interior Row/Townhouse, End of Row/Townhouse, Twin/Semi-Detached only. * Small sample (n<5): figures directional only. ** n=5: small sample.

Notable Sales

761 10th St SE (Capitol Hill): $2,750,000. 29 days on market. 5BR, 4,292 sqft. The week's top row home sale closed at 93.2% of its $2.95M ask, a $200,000 cut, on conventional financing after a month. Last week the ceiling held: a $2.85M Kalorama row home took full ask in cash. This week the top took a haircut and a wait. One closing is not a trend, but the high end looked less certain than it did seven days ago.

1421 Crittenden St NW (16th Street Heights): $1,114,000. 5 days on market. 3BR, 2,068 sqft. Sold at 111.5% of a $999,000 list, $115,000 over ask, in under a week. Sixteenth Street Heights carries a $1.01M median and a 96.4% list-to-sale ratio, which makes this the exception, not the rule. Price a renovated, right-sized home just under a round number on a strong block and the bids still stack. The fundamentals reward accuracy, not optimism.

1656 33rd St NW (Georgetown): $1,025,000. 195 days on market. 2BR, 1,400 sqft. Sold at 70.7% of its $1,450,000 original list, a $425,000 cut, after half a year. Georgetown's median DOM is 15 days. This one took thirteen times that and surrendered six figures to do it. The address does not save a price the market has already rejected. Even in the most expensive row home neighborhood in the city, the listing that ignores the comps pays for it in time and in dollars.

Bottom Line

The correction did not deepen this week. It thawed at the edges. Cleveland Park back to flat, Navy Yard's decline cut in half, Southwest Waterfront and Chevy Chase turning positive: four neighborhoods where the year-over-year line stopped punishing sellers, all of it driven by the trailing window aging past last spring rather than by any new rush of buyers. Underneath, the structural split held. Hill East at +22.0% on 48 sales and Shaw at +9.0% on 52 keep proving that supply-constrained blocks set their own terms. A Capitol Hill trophy took a $200,000 cut the same week a 16th Street Heights rowhouse cleared $115,000 over ask. The spread between the disciplined seller and the hopeful one is still the only number that pays, and this week it favored the ones who priced to the comps.