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DC area’s most expensive home sold for $4.2M in September

By Jeff Clabaugh
This colonial style home in McClean, Virginia, was built in 1989. It has 6 full baths and 7 bedrooms and was sold for $4,175,000 on Sept. 5. It went on the market back in January. (Courtesy Bright MLS)

WASHINGTON — A brick and stone mansion on 1.5 acres in McLean, Virginia, topped September’s list of the nine most-expensive residential real estate sales.

The seven-bedroom, 11,000-square-foot home with pool, spa, theater and wine cellar, sold for $4.175 million, after being on the market for 7 1/2 months.

The home was originally listed for $4.4 million.

The nine most-expensive sales in the Washington region ranged from $2.6 million to just shy of $4.2 million, and had a total sales volume of $32.4 million, according to data provided by listing service Bright MLS.

See a slideshow of September’s nine most-expensive residential sales in the Washington region, courtesy of Bright MLS.

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Prison to posh: DC’s Lorton Reformatory transforms into stylish suburban development

By Neal Augenstein
If those walls could talk, the bricks of the former Lorton Reformatory would likely express surprise. What was once an overcrowded, violent penitentiary for prisoners from the District is now a desirable suburban development — and in the midst of becoming a thriving urban village.
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