Georgetown

Georgetown DC real estate offers some of the city’s most sought-after Federal rowhouses, cobblestone streets, and waterfront access along the C&O Canal and M Street corridor. Georgetown is one of the most established neighborhoods within the Upper Northwest DC real estate market, known for its historic architecture, limited inventory, and consistently strong demand.

Where Georgetown Starts and Stops

Georgetown runs from the Potomac River and the Georgetown Waterfront on the south to roughly Whitehaven Street, Whitehaven Parkway and Reservoir Road on the north, near the northern edge of Dumbarton Oaks Park. Rock Creek and the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway form its eastern edge, and the Georgetown University campus and Archbold Parkway its western edge. Burleith and Glover Park lie just to the north. M Street and Wisconsin Avenue are its two commercial spines. All of Georgetown is in ZIP code 20007.

The Homes

Most Georgetown houses are attached rowhouses: Federal-style homes from the late 1700s and early 1800s, and Victorian rowhouses from the later 1800s, many only one or two rooms wide and deeper than they look from the street. Larger detached houses on bigger lots sit mostly in the northern part of the neighborhood, near Dumbarton Oaks and the parks along its edge.

Condominiums and a small number of co-ops sit mainly along Q Street, 31st Street and Wisconsin Avenue, and in the newer buildings near the waterfront.

Buying in a Historic District

Georgetown is a historic district, and changes to a house go through two layers of review. Exterior work visible from a public street or alley, such as windows, doors, additions, roofs and fences, is reviewed by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts on the advice of its Old Georgetown Board. The DC Historic Preservation Office files and processes those applications and reviews work the Commission does not cover, such as changes not visible from the street, sending the larger of those projects to the DC Historic Preservation Review Board. Buyers planning an addition or exterior changes should build that review time into their plans.

What Homes Cost in Georgetown

In the 12 months through September 2026, 196 homes sold in Georgetown, according to Bright MLS closed sales records.

• Houses: median sale price about $2.06 million, with the middle half of sales between about $1.6 million and $3.3 million; median 13 days on market; median 98% of list price.
• Condominiums and co-ops: median sale price about $720,000, with the middle half between about $495,000 and $935,000; median 34 days on market; median 98% of list price.

House prices climb steeply with size. Two-bedroom houses sold at a median of about $1.2 million, three-bedroom houses about $1.8 million, four-bedroom houses about $2.9 million, and houses with five or more bedrooms about $4.1 million.

For sellers, that spread means pricing depends on the specific house: its width, its garden, parking and how much of it has been updated. Well-prepared houses have been going under contract in about two weeks.

Homes Near Georgetown University

Georgetown University sits at the western end of the neighborhood. The rowhouse streets of West Georgetown, roughly between 34th Street and the campus, put homes within a few minutes' walk of the university's main gates and of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

Getting Around

Georgetown has no Metro station. The closest are Foggy Bottom–GWU in DC and Rosslyn in Virginia, just across Key Bridge; both carry the Blue, Orange and Silver lines and are about a 15 to 20 minute walk from central Georgetown. Buses run along M Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The Capital Crescent Trail and the C&O Canal towpath both start at the Georgetown waterfront. If you are relocating, see what to know before moving to Washington DC.

Parks and Everyday Life

Georgetown Waterfront Park runs along the Potomac below K Street. The Dumbarton Oaks gardens, Montrose Park and Rose Park sit on the neighborhood's northern and eastern edges. M Street and Wisconsin Avenue carry most of the shopping and dining, and the galleries and shops of Book Hill line upper Wisconsin Avenue.

Buying or Selling in Georgetown

Sherine Monir is a Realtor with Compass and also a licensed Interior Designer in DC, and she has worked in Upper Northwest DC since 2013. In a neighborhood of narrow historic rowhouses, her design background shapes how a house is prepared and presented before it goes on the market. For buyers, she reads recent Georgetown sales house by house, because two homes on the same block can differ by a million dollars. If you are weighing a move, start with whether it is the right time to sell your house in Washington DC.

Browse Georgetown homes for sale or call or text Sherine directly at 202.536.4043. Sherine also works in Chevy Chase MD, Chevy Chase DC, Upper Northwest DC, Arlington, Alexandria, and McLean.

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