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What is your block actually selling for?
Not an estimate. A record. Every closed sale on your block in the last 24 months: sold prices, days on market, dollars per square foot, set against your neighborhood's numbers. One page, built by Brian from 25 years of DC MLS data.
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The Asset Class
DC's historic row houses are not a category. They are a discipline.
Two Victorian rowhouses on the same block can be different assets. One is fee simple: you own the land and the structure. The other has been split into condo units: you own one unit and a share of the building. Different financing, different renovation limits, different appreciation. That difference usually surfaces under contract. It belongs in the first conversation.
Historic district designation, HPRB approval requirements, fee simple land ownership, co-op share structures, party wall agreements: these are not footnotes. They are the variables that determine what a property is actually worth and what it will cost to own over time.
I track row house sales across 44 DC neighborhoods: median price, days on market, list-to-sale ratio, and price per square foot, split by ownership type. The data refreshes on a schedule. The analysis goes into every transaction.
44
Neighborhoods Tracked
row house market data, updated regularly
5,767
Capitol Hill Row Houses
DC's largest historic rowhouse district
2
Ownership Types Analyzed
fee simple and rowhouse condo, separately
6+
Metrics Per Neighborhood
price, DOM, PPSF, list-to-sale, YoY, inventory
Live Data · Row Houses
DC Market Pulse
Fee simple & rowhouse condo · Medians across tracked DC neighborhoods
Median Sale Price
$1.1M
Median Days on Market
19 days
Median List-to-Sale
97.9%
Neighborhoods Tracked
44
Row homes only (fee simple & rowhouse condo) · Median of medians across 44 tracked neighborhoods · Last 12 months · BrightMLS via Compass · Updated periodically
Brian's Take
"A DC row house is not like other houses. The city has not built them at scale in a century. Historic districts keep whole blocks of them as they were. And the same house can be owned outright, land and all, or split into condo units, which changes how it is financed, renovated and valued.
Nothing else in American housing works quite like that. It is enough to fill a practice, so that is what I do, and the people who own them deserve someone who treats it that way."
· Brian R. Hill · Full market data in The (Brian) Hill Report →
Coverage Area
DC Neighborhoods, Deeply Covered
How I Work
The Selling Process
01
Pricing Strategy
Pricing a row house is not the same as pricing a condo. Fee simple versus rowhouse condo, historic district designation, block-level premiums, condition: every variable is modeled against real closed data before we set a number.
02
Market Preparation
Row home buyers are buying architecture as much as square footage. Presentation is calibrated to that. We assess what improvements move the needle, coordinate vendors, and position the property for the buyer profile most likely to compete.
03
Negotiation and Close
From first offer to settlement, nothing falls through the cracks. Every term evaluated, every contingency managed, every timeline held. You stay focused on what comes next.
How I Work
The Buying Process
01
Market Intelligence
Before we look at a single property, we map the row house market in your target neighborhoods. Median price by ownership type. Days on market. List-to-sale. Fee simple against condo, per square foot. The numbers tell you whether to push or wait.
02
Strategic Offer
Row home offers require structural knowledge, not just price. Fee simple or condo? Historic district restrictions? Party wall conditions? We model the offer to win based on comparable data and the specific seller in front of us.
03
Precise Execution
From accepted offer to close, nothing falls through the cracks. Timelines managed, inspectors coordinated, lenders held accountable. Historic preservation considerations flagged before they become surprises. You focus on the decision. I handle everything else.
About Me
Agent. Developer. Operator.
Before residential real estate I spent a decade building and running startups, then earned a Master of Real Estate Development at Georgetown. I have worked retail brokerage, co-managed a development project, and run a business with payroll. Every one of those sits behind how I price a house.
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The (Brian) Hill Report
A monthly deep-dive into DC row home data. Prices, trends, and what the numbers actually mean for buyers and sellers.
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Short, sourced analysis of DC housing policy, development, and neighborhood history. Published as it happens.
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Why Wardman Residential
Wardman Residential at Compass has closed $775M+ across 1,550+ transactions in the DMV, with 103 years of collective team experience. The name is not incidental: Harry Wardman built more of DC's historic row houses than any developer in the city's history. That is the market Wardman was built to serve, and it is Brian's deepest area of expertise.
Compass is the #1 residential brokerage in the United States, with 34,000+ agents and $186B+ in annual home sales. That platform, the 1,800+ DMV agent network, private exclusive inventory, and full marketing infrastructure, sits behind every transaction I run. Georgetown Master of Real Estate. A decade building and scaling companies. Nearly two decades in this market. You work with me directly, from first conversation through closing.
No generalists. No handoffs. One of the most analytically rigorous agents in the city, with the platform to match.
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Closed Volume
$775M+
DMV transactions
Transactions
1,550+
across DC, MD, VA
Team Experience
103 yrs
collective
Monthly · Free
The (Brian) Hill Report
I am not sure if it is for you, but once a month I publish a DC row home market report broken down by neighborhood, not city-wide averages. 44 neighborhoods tracked. No listings. Just the data. If you own, rent, or plan to buy a row home in DC, the Hill Report was built for you.
Median prices, days on market, and list-to-sale ratios across 44 DC neighborhoods. Once a month, free.