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20016, 20007 zipcodes) If you have questions about the following data or want more information, contact us at 202-965-3715. If you would like to be included in periodic e-mail updates on this or other neighborhoods, send your name and e-mail address to info@hananhomes.com. In 2009, 15 single-family homes sold in Wesley Heights for an average sale price of $1,592,476. The average list price was $1,662,853. This represents a 12% decrease in the number of sales and a 3% increase in the average sale price from 2008. Homes were on the market in 2009 for an average of 43 days. By the end of 2009, there were 10 single-family homes on the market and 4 houses under contract, including a property listed at $8 million that was on the market for over 580 days. The average sale price in Wesley Heights in 2008 was $1,550,148. This compares to $1,451,270 and $1,315,536 in 2007 and 2006, respectively. The average list price was $1,656,876 in 2008, $1,496,820 in 2007, and $1,328,897 in 2006. Listed below are the sales of single-family homes by price range for the past four years.
In 2009, 46 condo and coop units sold in Wesley Heights for an average sale price of $433,858 and an average list price of $448,503. This represents a 12% increase in the number of sales and a 14% increase in the average sale price from 2008. The condo and coop units were on the market for an average of 87 days. By the end of 2009, there were 9 condos or coops on the market and 5 under contract. The average sales price was $382,043 in Wesley Heights in 2008, $461,952 in 2007, and $433,564 in 2006. Listed below are the sales of condos and coops by price range for the past four years.
Wesley Heights is home to some of the largest Colonials in Washington. Other luxury homes are stylized Cape Cods, New Orleans, and Georgians as well as a few split levels, bungalows, and Tudors. Most homes have sizeable, manicured front lawns and stately trees. Part of the neighborhood is on rolling hills and yards seem to disappear into the woods. Wesley Heights also have several townhouse communities. Much of Wesley Heights looks as if homes and lawns were dropped into woodland. The eastern border of the neighborhood is Glover-Archbold Park and part of the western border is Battery Kemble Park. Deer can occasionally be seen venturing out of the parks. Yet, Wesley Heights has two shopping centers side-by-side on New Mexico Avenue. One is home to Balducci's, formerly Sutton Place Gourmet, and a popular restaurant with outdoor seating. Foxhall Square, in addition to numerous medical offices, has upscale shops, a pharmacy, bank, and Starbucks. (Randall Hagner had an office in Foxhall Square until it moved to a larger location on Wisconsin Avenue). Mann Elementary School is located across the street from Foxhall Square. Until the 1920s, Wesley Heights was farmland. By the turn of the century, as Washingtonians began to spend their summers west of the city, they often traveled through the area to reach their destinations in Kent and Palisades and into Bethesda, Maryland. (see history of Kent and Palisades). John F. Waggaman bought much of the area that is now Wesley Heights in 1890. By the panic of 1893, however, he was ready to sell. Over the next 30 years, the area had several owners until H. Roger Dulany bought it. W.C. and A.N. Miller, who built their first development in Cleveland Park (see history of Cleveland Park) purchased the land in the mid 1920s from Dulany. Their first homes were built along Klingle Street, near New Mexico Avenue. The houses were built on rectangular lots with varied motifs and materials. All styles of homes were "revival" - Colonial, Georgian, Dutch Colonial, Spanish Colonial, Tudor, and a few hybrids of each. In their advertising brochures Wesley Heights was described as the "Garden Spot of Washington." The Millers planned Wesley Heights with a community club house and shuttle service to and from the streetcar on Wisconsin Avenue. In 1925, the community newsletter called "The Leaves of Wesley Heights" began. The neighborhood was developed over the next 30 years.
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