Each week, “Just Reduced” spotlights properties in Arlington County whose price have been cut over the previous week. The market summary is crafted by Arlington Realty, Inc. Maximize your real estate investment with the team by visiting www.arlingtonrealtyinc.com or calling 703-836-6000 today!

Please note: While Arlington Realty, Inc. provides this information for the community, it may not be the listing company of these homes.

As of October 2, there are 139 detached homes, 30 townhouses and 169 condos for sale throughout Arlington County. In total, 33 homes experienced a price reduction in the past week, including:

• 5119 Yorktown Blvd., 22207 — NOW: $2,395,880 (Reduced: $3,000 on 10/1)

• 3515 14th Street N., 22201 — NOW: $2,025,000 (Reduced: $25,000 on 10/1)

• 1925 N. Madison Street, 22205 — NOW: $1,937,000 (Reduced: $50,000 on 9/28)

• 1527 13th Road S., 22204 — NOW: $830,000 (Reduced; $19,000 on 9/28)

• 1530 Key Blvd. #416, 22209 — NOW: $614,900 (Reduced; $10,000 on 9/29)

• 2230 S. Randolph Street #1, 22204 — NOW: $550,000 (Reduced $15,000 on 9/30)

• 4600 S. Four Mile Run Drive #808, 22204 — NOW: $249,900 (Reduced $9,000 on 9/29)

Please note that this is solely a selection of Just Reduced properties available in Arlington County. For a complete list of properties within your target budget and specifications, contact Arlington Realty, Inc.

Here in Arlington, real estate is a spectator sport. Let’s take a look at some of the smallest and largest homes sold last month (August 2023).

Largest homes sold

1. 3133 N Piedmont St — Bellevue Forest — $2,850,000 (5 beds | 8 baths | 9,004 sq. ft.)
2. 5407 36th St N — Williamsburg — $2,695,000 (7 beds | 7.5 baths | 6,580 sq. ft.)
3. 4A N Ridgeview Rd — Dover Crystal — $3,608,356 (5 beds | 6.5 baths | 6,404 sq. ft.)

Smallest homes sold*

1. 1804 S Stafford St — Douglas Park — $950,000 (4 beds | 3 baths | 1,950 sq. ft.)
2. 409 N Oxford St — Ashton Heights — $1,059,000 (3 beds | 2 baths | 1,950 sq. ft.)
3. 112 N Highland St — Lyon Park — $1,100,000 (3 beds | 1.5 baths | 1,958 sq. ft.)

*Minimum home value of $200,000 set to exclude certain land sales, retirement condos, properties with expiring ground leases, etc.

Arlington resident Hung Do has big hopes for a curiously shaped lot he owns in Green Valley.

This month, he was on the brink of closing on a deal to sell the triangular land plot at the corner of S. Monroe Street and the S. Four Mile Run Drive access road, next to a sizable townhouse development.

The buyer, however, had second thoughts, citing high costs to obtain a variance to build on the 1,381-square-foot lot.

Property records indicate Do bought the land for $1,900 in 1988 from the state of Virginia. The Commonwealth had obtained it a year prior by escheat, a common law process by which land reverts to the state on the death of an heirless owner. Its assessed value is now $113,200, per 2023 assessment records.

The owner withdrew the listing this week and says in his retirement, he plans to spend more time figuring out next steps himself.

He expressed optimism the Board of Zoning Appeals may be amenable to allowing a variance to build on the lot, which is too small for by-right construction of a home, per the zoning code.

“I do like the idea of using it to build low-income housing to sell outright or as rental,” he says. “It seems like, maybe, now is the chance to do something with the land.”

Do acknowledges the configuration of the lot makes designing a home more difficult, and he would need ”a creative architect” to devise a solution.

In the listing, he called the property “an architect’s dream.”

“You can be creative and let your imagination come up with a plan for a beautiful home,” the listing said.

Do says his ultimate goal is to “help someone less fortunate stay in the area and [find] good employment.”

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Each week, “Just Reduced” spotlights properties in Arlington County whose price have been cut over the previous week. The market summary is crafted by Arlington Realty, Inc. Maximize your real estate investment with the team by visiting www.arlingtonrealtyinc.com or calling 703-836-6000 today!

Please note: While Arlington Realty, Inc. provides this information for the community, it may not be the listing company of these homes.

As of September 25, there are 156 detached homes, 30 townhouses and 173 condos for sale throughout Arlington County. In total, 28 homes experienced a price reduction in the past week, including:

• 5119 Yorktown Blvd., 22207 — NOW: $2,398,880 (Reduced: $61,000 on 9/22)

• 1700 Clarendon Blvd. #117, 22209 – NOW: $1,825,000 (Reduced: $74,000 on 9/19)

• 3207 19th Street N., 22201 – NOW: $1,699,900 (Reduced: $50,000 on 9/21)

• 2621 S. Inge Street, 22202 – NOW: $1,275,000 (Reduced: $50,000 on 9/20)

• 6200 26th Road N., 22207 – NOW: $1,099,000 (Reduced: $50,000 on 9/20)

• 1500 N. Scott Street #TH-1, 22209 – NOW: $824,900 (Reduced: $24,000 on 9/19)

• 2230 S. Randolph Street #1, 22204 – NOW: $565,000 (Reduced: $10,000 on 9/22)

Please note that this is solely a selection of Just Reduced properties available in Arlington County. For a complete list of properties within your target budget and specifications, contact Arlington Realty, Inc.

Here in Arlington, real estate is a spectator sport. Let’s take a look at some of the most and least expensive townhouses sold last month (August 2023).

Most expensive townhouses sold

1. 2172 21st Ct N — North Highland — $1,720,000 (3 beds | 4.5 baths | 3,790 sq. ft.)
2. 1731 22nd Ct N — North Highland — $1,705,000 (3 beds | 4.5 baths | 2,462 sq. ft.)
3. 431 N George Mason Dr — Ballston — $1,325,000 (5 beds | 4.5 baths | 3,223 sq. ft.)

Least expensive townhouses sold*

1. 901 S Rolfe St Unit 1 — Penrose — $440,000 (2 beds | 1 baths | 1,224 sq. ft.)
2. 2701 16th St S Unit 640 — Arlington Village — $455,000 (2 beds | 1 baths | 994 sq. ft.)
3. 1400 S Barton St Unit 431 — Arlington Village — $465,000 (2 beds | 1 baths | 1,086 sq. ft.)

*Minimum home value of $200,000 set to exclude certain land sales, retirement condos, properties with expiring ground leases, etc.

Each week, “Just Reduced” spotlights properties in Arlington County whose price have been cut over the previous week. The market summary is crafted by Arlington Realty, Inc. Maximize your real estate investment with the team by visiting www.arlingtonrealtyinc.com or calling 703-836-6000 today!

Please note: While Arlington Realty, Inc. provides this information for the community, it may not be the listing company of these homes.

As of September 18, there are 145 detached homes, 29 townhouses and 157 condos for sale throughout Arlington County. In total, 37 homes experienced a price reduction in the past week, including:

• 4765 33rd Street N., 22207 — NOW: $4,445,000 (Reduced $5,000 on 9/15)

• 5643 6th Street N., 22205 — NOW: $1,975,000 (Reduced $20,000 on 9/15)

• 1018 19th Street S., 22202 — NOW: $1,949,900 (Reduced $45,000 on 9/15)

• 3812 N. Richmond Street, 22207 – NOW: $1,390,000 (Reduced $60,000 on 9/14)

• 1300 Crystal Drive #905S, 22202 – NOW: $825,000 (Reduced $15,000 on 9/16)

• 3650 S. Glebe Road #465, 22202 – NOW: $639,000 (Reduced $21,000 on 9/15)

• 2301 25th Street S. #4-404, 22206 – NOW: $423,000 (Reduced $12,000 on 9/15)

Please note that this is solely a selection of Just Reduced properties available in Arlington County. For a complete list of properties within your target budget and specifications, contact Arlington Realty, Inc.

Here in Arlington, real estate is a spectator sport. Let’s take a look at some of the most and least expensive condos sold last month (August 2023).

Most expensive condos sold

1. 1781 N Pierce St Unit 2601 — Rosslyn — $3,800,000 (3 beds | 2.5 baths | 2,564 sq. ft.)
2. 1615 N Queen St Unit M502 — Rosslyn — $1,200,000 (2 beds | 2 baths | 1,691 sq. ft.)
3. 1418 N Rhodes St Unit 128 — Clarendon/Courthouse — $925,000 (2 beds | 2.5 baths | 1,832 sq. ft.)
4. 1201 N Garfield St Unit 609 — Clarendon/Courthouse — $835,000 (2 beds | 2.5 baths | 1,487 sq. ft.)
5. 1805 Crystal Dr Unit 606S — — $765,000 (3 beds | 2 baths | 1,515 sq. ft.)

Least expensive condos sold*

1. 4501 Arlington Blvd Unit 615 — Buckingham — $215,000 (1 beds | 1 baths | 533 sq. ft.)
2. 1200 N Nash St Unit 508 — Rosslyn — $215,000 (– beds | 1 baths | 485 sq. ft.)
3. 4306 N Pershing Dr Unit 3 — Buckingham — $220,000 (1 beds | 1 baths | 699 sq. ft.)

*Minimum home value of $200,000 set to exclude certain land sales, retirement condos, properties with expiring ground leases, etc.

Each week, “Just Reduced” spotlights properties in Arlington County whose price have been cut over the previous week. The market summary is crafted by Arlington Realty, Inc. Maximize your real estate investment with the team by visiting www.arlingtonrealtyinc.com or calling 703-836-6000 today!

Please note: While Arlington Realty, Inc. provides this information for the community, it may not be the listing company of these homes.

As of September 11, there are 147 detached homes, 27 townhouses and 1596condos for sale throughout Arlington County. In total, 27 homes experienced a price reduction in the past week, including:

• 3114 1st Street N., 22201 — NOW: $2,595,000 (Reduced $50,000 on 9/6)

• 1508 N. Ohio Street, 22205 — NOW: $1,490,000 (Reduced $59,900 on 9/9)

• 1306 S. Kenmore Circle, 22204 — NOW: $1,349,900 (Reduced $50,000 on 9/9)

• 2200 N. Pollard Street, 22207 — NOW: $1,199,000 (Reduced $51,000 on 9/8)

• 900 N. Madison Street, 22205 — NOW: $1,070,000 (Reduced $110,000 on 9/8)

• 5943 2nd Street S., 22204 — NOW: $755,000 (Reduced $20,000 on 9/8)

• 900 N. Stafford Street #22225, 22203 — NOW: $739,000 (Reduced $36,000 on 9/6)

Please note that this is solely a selection of Just Reduced properties available in Arlington County. For a complete list of properties within your target budget and specifications, contact Arlington Realty, Inc.

Using a restrictive covenant in a 1938 deed, neighbors in the Tara-Leeway Heights neighborhood convinced a developer to build a single-family home instead of a duplex.

The home, 1313 N. Harrison Street, is not far from a wall that separated the historically Black neighborhood of Hall’s Hill from single-family-home subdivisions originally built exclusively for white people.  In addition to specifying that only one home can be built on the lot, a second provision in the deed bars owners from selling to people who are not white.

This second provision came to light this week after ARLnow and Patch reported on the neighbors convincing the developer to back down from building a two-family home. A copy of the deed circulated on social media shortly after and ARLnow obtained a copy from Arlington County Land Records Division to confirm its authenticity. 

While racially restrictive covenants were rendered unenforceable by a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court ruling and illegal by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, many homeowners never scrubbed them from their deeds, according to local researchers who are mapping racially restrictive covenants in Arlington. Thus, in some cases, they exist alongside separate covenants restricting multifamily construction.

Using the covenant against multifamily housing appears to be a valid workaround for neighbors and Arlington County says it has no legal role in how these covenants are used between private parties. The county began approving 2-6 unit homes in previously single-family-only neighborhoods two months ago, but this is the first instance ARLnow knows of where such a document was used in this way. 

Their use, however, resituates one of the initial reasons Arlington County said it embarked on the housing policy changes in the first place: to right historical wrongs caused by racism. It provoked the ire of some Missing Middle advocates, including the Arlington branch of the NAACP, which is calling on the county to address the issue.

“The whites-only restriction can’t be disentangled from the one-house restriction; they were meant to work together, with the purpose and effect of excluding people of color,” said Wells Harrell, the chair of the housing committee of the NAACP, in a statement. “It is profoundly disappointing to see restrictive covenants from the Jim Crow era being invoked to block new housing and exclude families today.” 

Several months ago, Arlington resident Stephanie Derrig identified these covenants as a way property owners could block Missing Middle-type housing from being built in their neighborhood.

She told ARLnow this week that she does not support the racist elements of restrictive covenants. At the same time, she sticks by her belief that a “restricted deed is a land use tool… to protect your largest investment, in many cases.” 

YIMBYs of Northern Virginia leader Jane Green and Former Planning Commissioner Daniel Weir, both supportive of Missing Middle, take the view of the local NAACP that the two restrictions are part of one legal document, written with exclusionary intent. 

Whether these provisions can be separated is a legal question — and a thorny one, at that, according to Venable land-use attorney Kedrick Whitmore. 

When a court rules part of an agreement is unenforceable, the court does not rewrite the agreement to be legal, he said. This principle might affirm the initial view of the developer, BeaconCrest, which argued — before backing down and deciding to build a single-family home — that the document seems unenforceable. 

On the other hand, courts do not want to remove other rights and obligations for which two parties negotiated. This means the court could uphold the rest of the agreement, giving credence to the arguments made by the neighbors. 

“This is not exactly cut and dry,” Whitmore said. “You could make arguments either way. If you went to court, the stronger argument is for the non-racially restrictive elements to remain valid. But again, that’s a question.” 

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Here in Arlington, real estate is a spectator sport. Let’s take a look at some of the most and least expensive single-family homes sold last month (August 2023).

Most expensive single-family homes sold

1. 4A N Ridgeview Rd — Dover Crystal — $3,608,356 (5 beds | 6.5 baths | 6,404 sq. ft.)
2. 3133 N Piedmont St — Bellevue Forest — $2,850,000 (5 beds | 8 baths | 9,004 sq. ft.)
3. 135 N Edgewood St — Lyon Park — $2,800,000 (5 beds | 7 baths | 5,544 sq. ft.)
4. 4101 N Richmond St — Old Glebe — $2,725,000 (5 beds | 5.5 baths | 6,279 sq. ft.)
5. 5407 36th St N — Williamsburg — $2,695,000 (7 beds | 7.5 baths | 6,580 sq. ft.)

Least expensive single-family homes sold*

1. 2714 S Troy St — Long Branch Creek — $683,000 (3 beds | 2 baths | 1,653 sq. ft.)
2. 3519 17th St S — Douglas Park — $685,000 (2 beds | 1 baths | 990 sq. ft.)
3. 1955 S Kenmore St — Green Valley — $690,000 (4 beds | 2 baths | 1,864 sq. ft.)

*Minimum home value of $200,000 set to exclude certain land sales, retirement condos, properties with expiring ground leases, etc.

Each week, “Just Reduced” spotlights properties in Arlington County whose price have been cut over the previous week. The market summary is crafted by Arlington Realty, Inc. Maximize your real estate investment with the team by visiting www.arlingtonrealtyinc.com or calling 703-836-6000 today!

Please note: While Arlington Realty, Inc. provides this information for the community, it may not be the listing company of these homes.

As of September 4, there are 42 detached homes, 24 townhouses and 159 condos for sale throughout Arlington County. In total, 11 homes experienced a price reduction in the past week, including:

• 4004 N. Tazewell Street, 22207 – NOW: $2,149,000 (Reduced: $48,000 on 8/29)

• 3515 14th Street N., 22201 – NOW: $2,050,000 (Reduced: $125,000 on 8/29)

• 1005 17th Street S., 22202 – NOW: $1,924,000 (Reduced: $25,000 on 8/28)

• 900 N. Madison Street, 22205 – NOW: $1,180,000 (Reduced: $110,000 on 8/31)

• 1527 13th Road S., 22204 – NOW: $850,000 (Reduced: $19,000 on 8/31)

• 1610 N. Queen Street #214, 22209 – NOW: $845,000 (Reduced: $4,000 on 8/30)

• 2422 S. Oakland Street, 22206 – NOW: $575,000 (Reduced: $5,000 on 8/31)

Please note that this is solely a selection of Just Reduced properties available in Arlington County. For a complete list of properties within your target budget and specifications, contact Arlington Realty, Inc.