Megamansion Skews Arlington Real Estate Stats

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Oh, THIS place. Fabulous location.

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Megamansion Skews Arlington Real Estate Stats — The average sale price of a single-family home in Arlington was more than $2 million, though that figure was skewed by the nearly $45 million sale of an estate along the Potomac River, the priciest home sale ever in the D.C. area. [InsideNova]

WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE | PRIVATE PROPERTIES
AOL Co-founder’s Riverfront Estate Becomes Priciest-Ever Home to Sell in the D.C. Area
The 3-acre property, which includes a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, sold for $45 million

By Katherine Clarke
Jan. 27, 2020 11:02 am ET

A Northern Virginia estate that was owned by the late AOL co-founder James V. Kimsey has sold for about $45 million, according to a person familiar with the deal.

Although it listed for $62.95 million in May 2018, the sale is still the most expensive residential sale on record in the Washington , D.C., area, real estate veterans said. The prior record was a $43 million sale in 2018 for Merrywood, a nearby estate that was a childhood home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Merrywood was sold by Steve Case, one of the other co-founders...

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Previously at DU, this article about a house located just down the street:

Tuesday, August 16, 2016: Residents of $24 Million Arlington Mansion are Frequent Flyers with the Police

There goes the neighborhood.

[angstlessk]

1. This is a compound...NOT a house

These sort of 'homes' should never be deemed 'houses', they are compounds, and should stand only in that category..leaving the rest of the city/town to REAL personal dwellings.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. The aerial photograph shows the house down the street, not the one that was

just sold. It's in a pretty remote location, though convenient to DC.