Anacostia

News, events and what's changing in Anacostia

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Homes

What homes in Anacostia sell for, from the deeds DC's Office of Tax and Revenue records. Medians compare the last 12 months with the 12 months before.

Houses

Rising
$515Kmedian house price, last 12 months, from 31 sales
+$35Kvs $480K from 34 sales the 12 months before
Last 12 months$515K
12 months before$480K
Sales, last 1231
Sales, before34

Row houses, semi-detached and detached houses. Within 5% either way reads as steady. Fewer than 100 house sales in a window, so no percentage: a few sales can move this median a long way.

Condos

Easing
$134Kmedian condo price, last 12 months, from 6 sales
−$21Kvs $154K from 19 sales the 12 months before
Last 12 months$134K
12 months before$154K
Sales, last 126
Sales, before19

Fewer than 100 condo sales in a window, so no percentage: a few sales can move this median a long way.

Median house price by month

Bar label: sales that month
Monthly figures
MonthMedianSales
Dec 2025—2
Jan 2026—1
Feb 2026$528K4
Mar 2026—2
Apr 2026$735K3
May 2026—2
Jun 2026—2
Jul 2026$530K5
Aug 2026$465K3
Sep 2026$517K4
Oct 2026$375K3
Nov 2026—0

Basis: houses only; calendar months, the last one in progress; median null when under 3 sales. The paler last bar is the month still in progress.

Last 60 days

Houses and condos
$450K
median sale price
7
market sales
$361
median price per sq ft

Deeds reach DC's records a few weeks after closing, so the newest weeks undercount.

Sold above assessment

Last 12 months
16of 37 sales closed above DC's assessed value
  • Above assessment16
  • At or below21

"Assessed" is OTR's current total assessment, which may be newer than the sale.

Recent sales

7 newest market sales
DateAddressTypePriceAssessedBedsSq ft
Oct 21, 20261366 Valley Pl SEHouse$375K$312K ▲31,040
Oct 19, 20262408 24th St SEHouse$299K$442K31,659
Oct 1, 20262321 High St SEHouse$450K$649K41,824
Sep 30, 20262553 Alabama Ave SEHouse$650K$291K ▲41,296
Sep 29, 20262305 16th St SEHouse$171K$295K2884
Sep 23, 20261495 Howard Rd SEHouse$450K$483K31,216
Sep 16, 20261032 Howard Rd SEHouse$585K$579K ▲31,252

▲ marks a sale above its current assessment (3 of these 7). Bedrooms and floor area come from DC's appraisal records and are listed for houses only. Owner and buyer names are never shown.

Which sales count as Anacostia

77%
of the 2,603 tax-area homes sit on squares inside the Anacostia boundary
78%
of homes on in-boundary squares fall in the tax area
74
tax squares checked against the boundary

Sales are tied to Anacostia through OTR assessment sub-areas Anacostia A and Randle Heights B, and Barry Farms in OTR's Integrated Tax System Public Extract, not through the DC Health planning-area boundary used elsewhere on this site, because the tax extract has no coordinates. The two areas overlap but do not match exactly. Fit with the Anacostia boundary, measured this run by tax square (a square counts as inside if any DC address point on it falls inside the DC Health polygon, so edge squares make these upper bounds; measured 2026-11-01): 77% of the 2,603 house and condo parcels in the OTR area(s) sit on squares inside the boundary, and 78% of house and condo parcels on in-boundary squares belong to the OTR area(s).

Appeal your assessment

If your home's assessed value looks higher than what it would sell for, you can ask DC to review it. Recent sales of similar homes nearby, like the ones above, are the kind of evidence an appeal uses.

  • Check your assessment and its notice date on the Office of Tax and Revenue site.
  • File the first-level appeal with OTR before the deadline printed on your notice.
  • If you disagree with that result, further appeal levels are explained on the same site.
How to appeal a property assessment DC OTR ↗

How sales are counted

Only deeds OTR codes "Market Sale" at $75,000 or more are counted (same filter as the prototypes); foreclosures, buyer=seller transfers, speculative, tax-deed, unusual and multi-parcel sales are excluded. "house" = row, semi-detached and detached (use codes 011-013); "condo" = use codes 016-017. Dates are deed sale dates; deeds reach the extract a few weeks after closing, so the newest weeks undercount. The extract keeps only each parcel's most recent sale, so a home that resold within 24 months counts once, in its later window. "Assessed" is OTR's current total assessment (NEWTOTAL), which may postdate the sale. Building area and bedrooms are from CAMA Residential (houses only).

Home data refreshed Oct 31.