Georgetown Real Estate: A New Dimension

WEDNESDAY EVENING THERE WAS A PARTY FOR THE CENTER HOUSE; YOU CAN OWN IT BECAUSE IT'S FOR SALE

A first for me: a party for a house. As with most people I receive invitations to various parties. Some are interesting, some not. But the majority fall into a kind of type. This invitation, however, was completely different: a party for an unoccupied house. It will go on the market this weekend. That was the reason for the party, that and to celebrate the "staging" by Kelly Proxmire. Gotta hand it to realtor Nancy Taylor Bubes for coming up with this new dimension tactic in marketing Georgetown real estate.

 PLEASE COME TO A PARTY FOR A HOUSE, AND WHY NOT?

Handsome invitations arrived a week or so ago. We were invited for "an early preview" of the home at 3020 Dumbarton, recently renovated, "before it comes on the market." There would be cocktails and canapes, plus Georgetown Cupcakes. Swag, too, including M&M's for the humans and milk bones for the dogs.

Of course I went, feeling like the Sylvia Miles of East Georgetown, though there were no blinds. But I wasn't alone. There were many others. 

It nudged what I'm feeling at the moment: new house envy. I feel new car envy and new computer envy, too, which are natural I guess with no income. But to be in a home that had absolutely no clutter was stunning. Buffed floors, fresh paint, the cleanest ecru walls, lots of windows and light, white marble bathrooms, a lot of big empty rooms, at least those that had not been "staged." The house is huge. Big public rooms on the ground floor, including a spacious kitchen, modest (easily maintained) garden, a second floor of three bedrooms plus a sizable master suite, and then a top floor with another bedroom and a party room and full open deck. Back down in the basement there's another acre of wide open space in two different carpeted rooms, plus a back bedroom with bathroom. 

I wish the owners luck. They want, like, $3.5 million, and Nancy says there is a market in Georgetown for that price range, "especially on the East side." God, what must it be like to be able to afford that kind of house flesh? Does it mean having $10 or $20 million in the bank. Wow. Maybe you are that very buyer. Alas, if it sells, I don't get a cut! I don't get a cut of this post, either. Just seemed like a choice Georgetown moment worth mentioning. 

Comments

[Old Georgetowner]

Good luck to them, but it doesn't seem to me as if the renovations reflect a $1.5 million improvement over the same house that was on the market a year ago.

P.S. I am especially impressed by the spanking new roof deck. Something that's almost impossible to obtain permits for in this benighted era.

P.P.S. Perhaps "West Georgetowners" should look for a different listing agent.(Anyone who's paying attention knows that there's more expensive houses on the west side than the east. That's been true a long, long time. Not average prices, but expensive houses.)