The median cost of renting an apartment in Arlington has likely hit its high point for 2026 after increasing 3.5% since the start of the year.
The county’s $2,611 median rent in July — $2,459 for one-bedroom units, $2,975 for two-bedroom units — was down 1.1% year-over-year but remains among the priciest in the nation.
County Board members went into their two-month summer break after 15 minutes of verbal fireworks over Missing Middle housing policies currently tied up in litigation.
Three Board members — Maureen Coffey, Julius “JD” Spain, Sr., and Takis Karantonis — castigated colleague Susan Cunningham for a proposal made without much advance notice at the tail end of the Board’s July 21 meeting.
Falls Church may be the Little City, but it posted big real estate numbers during the first half of the year.
At $1,125,435, the locality’s average home-sales price from January to June was the highest across the metro area and across the Mid-Atlantic, according to figures reported July 10 by MarketStats by ShowingTime.
Arlington home sales and prices trended higher year-over-year during the first six months of 2026, according to new data.
A total of 1,169 residential properties went to closing between Jan. 1 and June 30, according to figures reported July 10 by MarketStats by ShowingTime. That’s up 1.3% from the 1,154 transactions during the same period in 2025.
The Planning Commission has unanimously supported a plan to convert two vacant, 1980s-era office buildings in Pentagon City into a major residential project.
The 8-0 vote on July 6 paves the way for July 18 County Board consideration of the plan by JM Zell Partners and Lincoln Equities Group for 601 and 701 12th Street S. The team seeks to create 607 residential units, plus nearly 30,000 square feet of retail space and ancillary office use.
A proposal to replace two vacant office buildings in Rosslyn with about 830 residential units and retail has the support of the Arlington Planning Commission.
Planning Commission members on July 6 unanimously backed a Monday Properties plan for two 27-story mixed-use towers on 1400 Key Blvd and 1401 Wilson Blvd, a 2.1-acre site near Turnberry Tower. The plan comes with 29,000 square feet of retail, likely including a grocery store.
Despite year-over-year declines, Arlington’s median apartment rent is now up 16% from the immediate pre-Covid era and almost 37% from its pandemic low, according to new data.
The median apartment rent in June was $2,601 — $2,449 for one-bedroom units, $2,959 for two bedrooms — according to data released June 30 by Apartment List.
Design plans for a future townhouse community along Wilson Blvd at the border of Arlington and Fairfax counties near Seven Corners may be taking shape.
During a June 24 Fairfax County Planning Commission meeting, the development consortium of EYA and Southern Management suggested that their planned townhouses on the Arlington (eastern) side of the boundary could be patterned after EYA’s Sutton Heights community in the City of Fairfax.
Those with $1,500 to spend monthly on apartment rent in Arlington can expect either a tight squeeze or, more likely, finding roommates to share the burden.
A new national survey finds that $1,500 will result in an average 478 square feet of rentable apartment space in the county, the equivalent of a studio apartment.
After months of buildup, County Board members have rejected a request to provide historic status to portions of a site approved for an affordable housing project.
In a 4-0 vote last night (Wednesday), with one abstention, the County Board paved the way for development partners Melwood and Wesley Housing to move forward with plans for construction of a five-story, 105-unit mixed-use affordable-housing project in place of the former Nelly Custis School.
In lieu of moving, some homeowners in Northern Virginia appear to be opting for larger home addition projects amid a challenging housing market.
Some local construction firms have reported seeing demand shift in favor of certain kinds of home additions over the past few years. While the number of home addition projects in Arlington may not actually be increasing — in fact, according to county data, it appears to have declined since 2024 — firms report a heightened demand for large-scale projects.
David Sisson has become the second independent to qualify for the County Board election in November.
Sisson — a member of the county’s Transit Advisory Committee and executive vice chair at the Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance (NVAHA) — joins perennial protest candidate Audrey Clement in having filed paperwork and the requisite 125 petition signatures.
