Neighborhood Pulse: Burleith Drops 15%, Friendship Heights Surges, and Truxton Circle Finds a New Floor

This Week's Pulse

Thirty row home sales closed across DC this week. The headline is not the volume. It is the direction. Fifteen neighborhoods saw days on market stretch while only eight saw compression. That ratio tells you the spring market is not accelerating. It is distributing unevenly.

Burleith dropped 15.5% month over month on median price. Truxton Circle fell 7.5%. Navy Yard continued its slide at 6.8%. These are not small rounding errors. They are neighborhoods repricing to meet buyers who have options and patience.

The counterweight: Friendship Heights surged 9.8%, and Hill East climbed 2.3% with a 19.5% year-over-year gain. The pattern is consistent. Supply-constrained neighborhoods with owner-occupant demand hold or rise. Neighborhoods with active construction, investor inventory, or condo-heavy stock soften. Price discipline is the dividing line this spring.

Top Movers

Burleith-Hillandale: Median price dropped 15.5% over the past month to $1.6M from $1.9M. DOM compressed to 6 days, which means correctly priced homes are still moving fast. The year-over-year decline of 14.4% reflects Georgetown-adjacent pricing pressure as buyers recalibrate what they will pay outside the core. The $956 price per square foot is still premium territory, but the direction is down.

Truxton Circle: Down 7.5% month over month to $570K. DOM stretched to 37 days, the longest in this cycle. Year over year, prices are down 28.5%. That is not a soft landing. That is a market finding a new floor. For buyers with renovation capital and a five-year hold thesis, the entry point is more honest than it has been in years. For sellers, pricing accuracy is the only strategy that works.

Navy Yard: Median fell 6.8% month over month to $960K. DOM tightened to 33 days, a modest improvement, but the 15.8% year-over-year decline tells the real story. The early-adopter premium has unwound. Buyers now have genuine negotiating leverage in a corridor that did not offer it two years ago.

Friendship Heights: The outlier. Up 9.8% month over month to $1.2M with a 4-day DOM and 100% list-to-sale ratio. Year over year, prices are up 7.7%. This is what a supply-constrained seller's market looks like. Correctly priced homes do not sit long enough for a second showing. Buyers who hesitate lose.

Wakefield: DOM stretched 12 days to 44, the largest pace increase of any neighborhood this week. Price per square foot fell to $429. This is a neighborhood where patience is the buyer's best tool and pricing discipline is the seller's only one.

Notable Sales

2460 Ontario Rd NW (Mount Pleasant): Closed at $2,200,000 after 87 days on market. 5BR/5BA, $846/sqft. The highest-priced row home sale of the week sat nearly three months. Even at the top of the market, overpricing costs time.

920 South Carolina Ave SE (Capitol Hill): Closed at $1,360,000 with 0 days on market. 3BR/2BA, $856/sqft. Pre-market deal. This is what Capitol Hill demand looks like when supply is this tight. Buyers who are not connected to inventory before it lists are competing for leftovers.

15 T St NE (Eckington): Closed at $490,000, 34.7% below original list, after 62 days. $270/sqft. This is a project buy at project pricing. Eckington is down 19.5% year over year. Buyers with capital and a realistic renovation budget can find real value at these levels.

Full Market Snapshot

All 44 tracked neighborhoods. Median price and DOM reflect rolling 12-month closed sales. MoM compares against the 2026-03-18 snapshot. YoY is year-over-year price change. Click any neighborhood name to see the full page.

Data sourced from BrightMLS via Compass. Median figures reflect rolling 12-month closed sales of row homes in Washington, DC. Month-over-month changes compare against the snapshot from 2026-03-18. This is market commentary, not investment advice. Verify all figures independently before making purchase decisions.