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Featured Property: 34 Sherman Circle NW
Legal Subdivision: Petworth
Advertised Subdivision per Listing: Petworth
Original List Price: $639,900.
List Price at Contract: $639,900.
List Date: 07/27/2012
Days on Market: 16
Settled Sales Price: $639,900.
Seller Subsidy: $12,798.
List to Net Sales Price Ratio: 98%
Settlement Date: 09/19/2012
Bank Owned?: No Short Sale? No
Type Of Financing: Conventional
Original GDoN post is: here.
The listing can be seen: here. To see pics, click on the camera icon after opening the link.

In 2011, Walnut Street Development (WSD), an experienced developer known for skillfully rebuilding a property inside, completed the renovation of 27 Sherman Circle NW. In November 2011, that property sold below the listed price for a net of $463,000. That was the highest sale price (ever) on Sherman Circle until the sale of the subject property.

In relation, it is quite a hardy leap to a September 2012 settlement of the subject property at a net of $627,102.

For some arbitrary reason, the number $600,000. strikes me as a pivotal point in the perception of a particular sub-market’s value. Petworth has seen $600,000.+ prices before, starting in 2005, when there were a total of five sales over $600k. That number dropped back to three in 2006, then one in 2007. There were no sales above $600,000. in all of Petworth in 2008, 2009, and 2010. In 2011, there were four. Since the beginning of 2012, including the subject property, there have been a total of 17 sales above $600,000. in the Petworth neighborhood.

As I mentioned in a recent post, there are still homes to be purchased in Petworth for fairly reasonable prices. The average sold price in the neighborhood for September 2012 was actually $332,657 (which is even lower than the September 2011 average of $378,048.)

The listing agent for 34 Sherman Circle NW was Mark Meyerdirk with Urban Brokers, LLC. Nelson Marban with Washington Fine Properties represented the buyer.