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Homes

What homes in Brightwood sell for, from the deeds DC's Office of Tax and Revenue records. Medians compare the last 12 months with the 12 months before.

Houses

Steady
$750Kmedian house price, last 12 months, from 103 sales
−$30K (−4%)vs $780K from 100 sales the 12 months before
Last 12 months$750K
12 months before$780K
Sales, last 12103
Sales, before100

Row houses, semi-detached and detached houses. Within 5% either way reads as steady.

Condos

Easing
$300Kmedian condo price, last 12 months, from 19 sales
−$59Kvs $359K from 36 sales the 12 months before
Last 12 months$300K
12 months before$359K
Sales, last 1219
Sales, before36

Fewer than 100 condo sales in a window, so no percentage: a few sales can move this median a long way.

Median house price by month

Bar label: sales that month
Monthly figures
MonthMedianSales
Dec 2025$680K11
Jan 2026$740K5
Feb 2026$1.02M3
Mar 2026$844K10
Apr 2026$675K17
May 2026$765K9
Jun 2026$709K10
Jul 2026$785K7
Aug 2026$799K6
Sep 2026$925K7
Oct 2026$675K9
Nov 2026—0

Basis: houses only; calendar months, the last one in progress; median null when under 3 sales. The paler last bar is the month still in progress.

Last 60 days

Houses and condos
$725K
median sale price
15
market sales
$535
median price per sq ft

Deeds reach DC's records a few weeks after closing, so the newest weeks undercount.

Sold above assessment

Last 12 months
63of 122 sales closed above DC's assessed value
  • Above assessment63
  • At or below59

"Assessed" is OTR's current total assessment, which may be newer than the sale.

Recent sales

15 newest market sales
DateAddressTypePriceAssessedBedsSq ft
Oct 21, 20264609 9th St NWHouse$675K$660K ▲31,476
Oct 19, 2026729 Roxboro Pl NWHouse$642K$675K31,054
Oct 16, 20266420 Luzon Ave NWHouse$703K$695K ▲31,356
Oct 15, 20265226 7th St NWHouse$440K$591K21,336
Oct 14, 20266617 13th Pl NWHouse$870K$967K41,421
Oct 14, 20265011 Illinois Ave NWHouse$410K$669K31,640
Oct 9, 2026701 Longfellow St NWHouse$550K$719K31,496
Oct 7, 20264917 9th St NWHouse$725K$774K31,630
Oct 6, 2026706 Longfellow St NWHouse$700K$641K ▲31,488
Sep 29, 2026822 Madison St NWHouse$1.13M$1.11M ▲51,260
Sep 29, 20264840 Kansas Ave NWHouse$945K$984K31,640
Sep 25, 20261507 Underwood St NWHouse$1.48M$757K ▲31,966
Sep 14, 2026813 Delafield Pl NWHouse$789K$947K41,476
Sep 10, 2026810 Madison St NWHouse$725K$653K ▲31,260
Sep 4, 20264928 5th St NWHouse$925K$739K ▲31,728

▲ marks a sale above its current assessment (7 of these 15). Bedrooms and floor area come from DC's appraisal records and are listed for houses only. Owner and buyer names are never shown.

Which sales count as Brightwood

54%
of the 4,640 tax-area homes sit on squares inside the Brightwood boundary
78%
of homes on in-boundary squares fall in the tax area
76
tax squares checked against the boundary

Sales are tied to Brightwood through OTR assessment sub-areas Brightwood A and C and Petworth B in OTR's Integrated Tax System Public Extract, not through the DC Health planning-area boundary used elsewhere on this site, because the tax extract has no coordinates. The two areas overlap but do not match exactly. Fit with the Brightwood boundary, measured this run by tax square (a square counts as inside if any DC address point on it falls inside the DC Health polygon, so edge squares make these upper bounds; measured 2026-11-03): 54% of the 4,640 house and condo parcels in the OTR area(s) sit on squares inside the boundary, and 78% of house and condo parcels on in-boundary squares belong to the OTR area(s).

Appeal your assessment

If your home's assessed value looks higher than what it would sell for, you can ask DC to review it. Recent sales of similar homes nearby, like the ones above, are the kind of evidence an appeal uses.

  • Check your assessment and its notice date on the Office of Tax and Revenue site.
  • File the first-level appeal with OTR before the deadline printed on your notice.
  • If you disagree with that result, further appeal levels are explained on the same site.
How to appeal a property assessment DC OTR ↗

How sales are counted

Only deeds OTR codes "Market Sale" at $75,000 or more are counted (same filter as the prototypes); foreclosures, buyer=seller transfers, speculative, tax-deed, unusual and multi-parcel sales are excluded. "house" = row, semi-detached and detached (use codes 011-013); "condo" = use codes 016-017. Dates are deed sale dates; deeds reach the extract a few weeks after closing, so the newest weeks undercount. The extract keeps only each parcel's most recent sale, so a home that resold within 24 months counts once, in its later window. "Assessed" is OTR's current total assessment (NEWTOTAL), which may postdate the sale. Building area and bedrooms are from CAMA Residential (houses only).

Sources

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Home data refreshed Nov 3.