Neighborhood Pulse: Spring Inventory Floods DC, Shaw Pushes Higher, Dupont Holds at +16%

This Week's Pulse

52 row home sales closed in DC in the week ending June 1. The supply side is the story. 31 of 44 tracked neighborhoods added active listings this week. Capitol Hill gained 58 new listings and now has 102 active row homes on market. Petworth gained 60 and now sits at 87. Trinidad gained 44. Near NE gained 40. Park View gained 40. Columbia Heights gained 38. Brightwood Park gained 51.

These are not marginal changes. A single neighborhood gaining 51 or 60 listings in seven days is a seasonal shift. Buyers in the corridor neighborhoods now have more choices than at any point since early 2024. The question is whether demand can absorb this volume at current pricing. The year-over-year numbers suggest it cannot, at least not in the corridors where prices are already running negative.

The constrained neighborhoods moved in the other direction. Mount Pleasant lost 2 listings. Cleveland Park lost 8. The neighborhoods with structural supply limits are not participating in this flood. They do not have the inventory to release.

Two signals running in opposite directions simultaneously: Shaw at +5.3% month over month on 48 sales, and SW Waterfront at -6.7% on 21 sales. Both are credible sample sizes. Both are real. The market is not one thing right now.

Top Movers

Shaw $1.1M, +5.3% MoM on 48 trailing sales. DOM 23, L2S 98.5%, YoY +4.3%. Shaw gained 27 active listings this week and the rolling median moved up anyway. That is the definition of a market with real underlying demand. 48 trailing sales is large enough to trust. Shaw is one of the few corridor neighborhoods where supply and price are both rising.

Truxton Circle $710K, +9.1% MoM on 28 sales. DOM 40, L2S 92.0%, YoY -8.4%. Price is moving up while the list-to-sale ratio stays at 92% and DOM holds at 40 days. Sellers are setting new ceilings. Buyers are taking time to decide whether to meet them. This pattern has held for two weeks. It resolves one way or the other in the next 30 days.

LeDroit Park $892K, +1.0% MoM on 24 sales. DOM compressed from 34 to 24 in one week, a 10-day drop, and YoY turned positive at +3.2%. Howard University adjacency provides institutional stability most corridor neighborhoods lack. Faster absorption usually precedes price gains. Worth watching.

Dupont Circle $1.8M, YoY +16.1% on 56 sales. DOM 21, L2S 96.9%. The strongest large-sample YoY reading in the dataset this week. No correction is in progress here. None has been in progress all spring. Supply constraint does what supply constraint does.

SW Waterfront $942K, -6.7% MoM on 21 sales. DOM 35, YoY -12.3%. Moving further from Navy Yard's stabilization story one corridor over. The two waterfront neighborhoods are now on separate trajectories. Navy Yard has found a floor. SW Waterfront has not.

Market Snapshot: June 1, 2026

Neighborhood	Median Price	MoM	DOM	$/sqft	L2S	YoY	Sales
Kalorama Heights	$2.6M	-4.6%	53	$720	94.3%	-9.6%	24
Georgetown	$1.8M	-0.6%	15	$1060	97.9%	-7.9%	122
Dupont Circle	$1.8M	—	21	$769	96.9%	+16.1%	56
Kalorama Triangle	$1.7M	—	51	$773	95.1%	-4.9%	8
Woodley Park	$1.7M	-1.7%	13	$812	100.0%	-8.2%	17
Lanier Heights	$1.5M	—	20	$686	97.1%	+37.9%	4
Mount Pleasant	$1.5M	+0.7%	5	$703	100.0%	+6.9%	52
N Cleveland Park	$1.5M	—	12	$761	98.2%	+3.9%	9
Burleith-Hillandale	$1.4M	—	6	$969	100.0%	-27.2%	30
Logan Circle	$1.4M	—	22	$769	97.3%	-11.1%	32
Foxhall Village	$1.4M	-0.5%	7	$766	99.5%	+4.8%	16
Cathedral Heights	$1.4M	—	28	$709	96.0%	-9.0%	17
Cleveland Park	$1.4M	+1.9%	19	$747	96.1%	-0.7%	7
Glover Park	$1.3M	—	11	$856	98.6%	-3.5%	38
Chevy Chase	$1.2M	-0.7%	8	$673	100.0%	-6.3%	21
Friendship Heights	$1.2M	+2.4%	7	$737	100.0%	+10.3%	11
Shaw	$1.1M	+5.3%	23	$662	98.5%	+4.3%	48
Capitol Hill	$1.1M	—	12	$708	98.6%	-4.4%	332
Navy Yard	$1.1M	+5.3%	23	$686	98.0%	-3.2%	9
American Univ Park	$1.0M	+3.0%	7	$754	100.5%	-15.2%	6
Bloomingdale	$1.0M	—	25	$604	98.8%	-6.0%	42
U Street	$1M	+1.0%	23	$686	97.4%	-14.5%	47
16th St Heights	$1M	—	24	$526	96.3%	-8.5%	35
Adams Morgan	$999K	—	21	$706	97.2%	-24.5%	12
Hill East	$982K	-0.5%	18	$681	98.3%	+17.2%	48
SW Waterfront	$942K	-6.7%	35	$508	97.4%	-12.3%	21
Foggy Bottom	$920K	—	54	$883	95.8%	-0.9%	7
LeDroit Park	$892K	+1.0%	24	$570	98.2%	+3.2%	24
Columbia Heights	$860K	-0.6%	24	$497	96.8%	-14.0%	85
Near NE / NoMa / H St	$859K	+1.2%	22	$592	97.0%	-10.3%	87
Petworth	$816K	—	30	$528	96.5%	-5.1%	147
Truxton Circle	$710K	+9.1%	40	$466	92.0%	-8.4%	28
Park View	$700K	—	37	$511	97.0%	-12.1%	47
Eckington	$700K	+3.7%	36	$487	96.8%	-3.4%	53
Brightwood Park	$683K	—	34	$493	96.2%	+0.7%	84
Trinidad	$675K	+1.5%	46	$400	94.6%	+1.8%	51
Kingman Park	$645K	+2.0%	24	$564	97.7%	-2.6%	71
Brookland	$635K	—	23	$480	98.3%	+5.8%	104
Wakefield	$607K	+1.3%	32	$429	98.2%	-1.6%	14
Brightwood	$605K	—	31	$449	94.4%	-3.9%	85
Mt Vernon Sq *	$977K	—	31	$392	85.8%	-36.4%	2
West End *	$626K	+20.8%	59	$639	95.0%	-4.4%	1
Crestwood *	$990K	-17.2%	0	$377	100.0%	-30.5%	1

Source: BrightMLS via Compass, closed row home sales trailing 12 months as of 6/1/2026. MoM = change from 5/11/2026. Structure type filter: Interior Row/Townhouse, End of Row/Townhouse, Twin/Semi-Detached only. * West End n=1, Crestwood n=1, Mt Vernon Sq n=2: figures unreliable. Lanier Heights n=4: small sample.

Notable Sales

3322 Dent Pl NW (Georgetown): $3,050,000. 104 days on market. 4BR/3BA. $888/sqft. The week's highest-priced row home sale. Georgetown's rolling median is $1.8M on 122 trailing sales. A $3.05M transaction at $888/sqft after 104 days tells you the top of Georgetown's market exists — it just requires time and the right buyer. Premium pricing at premium addresses is not immune to market time.

324 5th St SE (Capitol Hill): $1,830,000. 2 days on market. 4BR/4BA. $982/sqft. Capitol Hill now has 102 active row homes. This one sold in 2 days at $982/sqft, roughly 38% above the neighborhood's rolling $708/sqft median. Premium condition and location produce premium outcomes regardless of inventory levels. The aggregate number does not protect individual listings from being wrong in either direction.

Bottom Line

102 active row homes in Capitol Hill. 87 in Petworth. 76 in Columbia Heights. 65 in Brightwood Park. These numbers arrived in a single week during a period when year-over-year prices in those same neighborhoods are running negative. The market now needs buyers to show up at volumes it has not seen. Shaw and Truxton Circle moving up while supply floods the adjacent corridors is the interesting tension: buyers with capital and conviction are finding neighborhood-specific reasons to compete. The rest of the market is waiting to see whether sellers will adjust or hold. The next 30 days will tell you which half is right.