Neighborhood Pulse: Truxton Circle Rebounds to -8.4%, Hill East Pushes to +21.2%, a Kalorama Sale Clears 81% After 536 Days

This Week's Pulse

Forty-one row home settlements closed across the tracked DC neighborhoods in the week ending June 22. Truxton Circle is the turn. The rolling 12-month median jumped from $640K to $710K, up 10.9% in a single week on 28 trailing sales, and the year-over-year reading narrowed from -17.4% to -8.4% at the same time. For three straight weeks the neighborhood read deep red, -18.2%, then -17.4%. The bounce is not new demand. It is the trailing window shedding the sub-$500K closings that dragged the median down through May. DOM held at 42 and the list-to-sale ratio is 92.0%, still the softest negotiating posture on the board. The correction has not reversed. The arithmetic just stopped compounding against it.

Hill East kept climbing. The median holds at $1.0M with a year-over-year reading of +21.2%, up from +18.5% last week, on 50 trailing sales. DOM is 15 days and the list-to-sale ratio is 98.7%. This is the strongest large-sample positive in the dataset, and it has widened every week this month. Buyers who want Capitol Hill's blocks without the $1.1M entry keep crossing the line east and closing inside two weeks. The discount that drives them is real, and it is shrinking.

The deep annual corrections held or extended. Woodley Park dropped from -9.8% to -19.2% year over year as a strong 2025 week aged into the comparison, though the median sits at $1.7M with a 13-day DOM and a 100% list-to-sale ratio. Burleith-Hillandale is still the strangest line on the board: off 27.2% year over year on 34 sales, clearing in 7 days at 99.6% of ask. Navy Yard deepened to -11.3% from -5.0%, and U Street slid to -17.2%. Where the trailing window now compares against last spring's peak, the annual number runs negative even when homes move fast.

The fixed-supply neighborhoods stayed green. Mount Pleasant sits at +5.4% year over year with a 5-day DOM and a 100% list-to-sale ratio. Shaw pushed to +9.3% on 52 sales, its strongest reading of the spring. Dupont Circle held positive at +4.6% with a 15-day DOM. Where inventory cannot accumulate, prices hold or rise. Where it can, the year-over-year line bends down. The data has sorted DC into those two groups for two months, and this week did not blur the line.

Top Movers

Truxton Circle $710K, -8.4% YoY, +10.9% MoM. DOM 42, L2S 92.0%. 28 trailing sales. The biggest weekly move in the dataset, and a reversal: the neighborhood read -18.2% two weeks ago. The rolling median did not rise because demand returned. It rose because the sub-$500K closings that defined May fell out of the trailing window. At 92 cents on the dollar and 42 days to contract, the leverage still sits with the buyer. Renovation budgets should price the exit off the softer comps, not this week's median.

Hill East $1.0M, +21.2% YoY. DOM 15, L2S 98.7%. 50 trailing sales. The strongest large-sample positive on the board, wider again from +18.5% last week. The eastside bid does not quit. Capitol Hill at $1.1M keeps routing priced-out buyers a few blocks east, and Hill East takes them at a gap that has shrunk every week this month. Fifty sales is not a fluke. It is a trend with a sample size.

Burleith-Hillandale $1.4M, -27.2% YoY. DOM 7, L2S 99.6%. 34 trailing sales. The deepest annual decline at a credible sample, and the fastest-clearing market in the upper tier in the same breath. Once the neighborhood repriced off last year's numbers, demand returned inside a week. A 7-day DOM at 99.6% of ask is a corrected market doing what a corrected market should: clearing at the new price.

Woodley Park $1.7M, -19.2% YoY. DOM 13, L2S 100.0%. 17 trailing sales. The annual reading nearly doubled its decline from -9.8% as a high 2025 comp rolled into the window. The velocity says the opposite: 13 days to contract and a full 100% of ask. The correction lives in the year-over-year math, not in how fast a well-priced home moves.

Shaw $1.2M, +9.3% YoY. DOM 26, L2S 98.9%. 52 trailing sales. The strongest spring reading for a neighborhood that turned positive in May and kept going. Shaw is supply-constrained on the blocks buyers actually want, and the annual number now reflects it. The 26-day DOM is the one soft note, longer than the eastside comps, but the price direction is not in question.

Market Snapshot: June 22, 2026

Neighborhood	Median Price	MoM	DOM	$/sqft	L2S	YoY	Sales
Kalorama Heights	$2.60M	+1.0%	51	$721	94.3%	-13.3%	25
Georgetown	$1.84M	—	15	$1049	98.0%	-10.3%	120
Dupont Circle	$1.76M	+1.5%	15	$747	97.6%	+4.6%	57
Kalorama Triangle	$1.71M	+3.6%	51	$761	95.1%	-3.0%	8
Woodley Park	$1.70M	—	13	$812	100.0%	-19.2%	17
Lanier Heights **	$1.60M	—	20	$718	97.2%	+30.5%	5
N Cleveland Park	$1.55M	+2.0%	12	$773	98.7%	+8.8%	13
Mount Pleasant	$1.48M	—	5	$704	100.0%	+5.4%	55
Burleith-Hillandale	$1.45M	—	7	$956	99.6%	-27.2%	34
Logan Circle	$1.45M	+1.2%	22	$776	97.5%	-11.1%	38
Cathedral Heights	$1.36M	—	29	$715	96.0%	-8.1%	17
Foxhall Village	$1.35M	-1.3%	8	$776	100.0%	-0.4%	19
Cleveland Park	$1.28M	-5.2%	17	$742	96.4%	-5.8%	8
Glover Park	$1.25M	-0.4%	12	$862	98.2%	-3.8%	41
Chevy Chase	$1.21M	—	8	$686	100.0%	-5.7%	20
Friendship Heights	$1.18M	—	7	$737	100.0%	+10.3%	11
Shaw	$1.17M	+1.7%	26	$667	98.9%	+9.3%	52
Capitol Hill	$1.10M	—	10	$714	98.8%	-5.6%	337
Navy Yard	$1.07M	-1.5%	27	$578	98.0%	-11.3%	9
American Univ Park **	$1.06M	—	7	$796	100.0%	-12.0%	5
Southwest Waterfront	$1.05M	—	11	$536	98.9%	-2.3%	23
Hill East	$1.01M	+0.8%	15	$681	98.7%	+21.2%	50
16th St Heights	$1.00M	—	24	$531	96.2%	-8.0%	36
U Street	$1.00M	-1.2%	21	$712	97.7%	-17.2%	49
Adams Morgan	$999K	—	23	$702	96.8%	-24.5%	13
Bloomingdale	$992K	-0.3%	31	$573	98.5%	-8.5%	42
Foggy Bottom	$910K	—	33	$878	97.0%	-4.8%	6
LeDroit Park	$883K	-1.0%	21	$567	98.3%	-7.0%	23
Near NE / NoMa / H St	$875K	+0.4%	18	$594	97.5%	-7.4%	92
Columbia Heights	$860K	-0.6%	16	$510	96.9%	-13.5%	91
Petworth	$798K	-0.1%	32	$519	96.1%	-7.2%	148
Eckington	$725K	-0.7%	35	$482	96.8%	+5.8%	59
Park View	$725K	—	36	$517	97.0%	-9.0%	48
Truxton Circle	$710K	+10.9%	42	$466	92.0%	-8.4%	28
Brightwood Park	$683K	+0.4%	32	$485	96.6%	+3.6%	82
Kingman Park	$627K	—	25	$559	97.6%	-6.9%	68
Brookland	$625K	-1.6%	22	$479	98.4%	+4.2%	106
Wakefield	$615K	—	27	$423	100.0%	+1.2%	15
Brightwood	$605K	—	29	$449	94.5%	-4.0%	89
Trinidad	$577K	-1.9%	46	$400	94.2%	-17.5%	59
West End *	$1.28M	—	35	$717	98.3%	+94.7%	2
Forest Hills *	$1.23M	—	8	$751	98.9%	-12.1%	2
Crestwood *	$990K	—	0	$377	100.0%	-30.5%	1
Mt Vernon Sq *	$977K	—	31	$392	85.8%	-36.4%	2

Source: BrightMLS via Compass, closed row home sales trailing 12 months as of 6/22/2026. MoM = change from 6/15/2026. Structure type filter: Interior Row/Townhouse, End of Row/Townhouse, Twin/Semi-Detached only. * Small sample (n<5): figures directional only. ** n=5: small sample.

Notable Sales

2118 S St NW (Kalorama): $2,850,000. Cash. 9 days on market. 4BR, 3,108 sqft. The week's highest row home sale closed at exactly 100% of its $2.85M ask, all cash, in nine days. Last week the top of the market told a softer story: a $4.25M Georgetown trophy at 88% of ask. This week the ceiling held. When a buyer pays full freight in cash at the top of Kalorama, the high end is not panicking. It is selective.

1641 Monroe St NW (Mount Pleasant): $1,016,000. 7 days on market. 3BR, 900 sqft. Sold at 116.1% of a $875,000 list, $141,000 above ask, in a week. Nine hundred square feet cleared a million dollars because the block and the neighborhood carried it. Mount Pleasant runs +5.4% year over year with a 5-day median DOM and a 100% list-to-sale ratio. For the second week running, the strongest over-ask outcome in DC came out of the same neighborhood. That is not noise.

1810 Belmont Rd NW (Kalorama Triangle): $1,310,000. 536 days on market. 5BR, 2,813 sqft. Sold at 80.6% of its $1,625,000 original list, a $315,000 cut, after a year and a half. This single closing is why Kalorama Triangle's median DOM jumped to 51 days from 41 this week. One stale listing finally capitulated. The lesson is old and keeps getting re-taught: a price the market rejects does not improve by waiting. It earns a 536-day timeline and a six-figure discount.

Bottom Line

The split that has defined DC all spring did not close this week. It rearranged. Truxton Circle's 10.9% jump and Woodley Park's slide to -19.2% are the same rolling-window mechanic pointing opposite directions, and neither is about this week's buyers. The signal sits in the large samples: Hill East at +21.2% on 50 sales, Shaw at +9.3% on 52, Mount Pleasant at +5.4% with a 5-day DOM, every one of them supply-constrained and green. Against them, Burleith at -27.2% and Navy Yard at -11.3%, where inventory or buyer demand gave way. A $2.85M Kalorama row home cleared at full ask in cash the same week a Kalorama Triangle listing took 80 cents after 536 days. Same city, same seven days. The distance between the two markets is the only number worth watching, and it did not shrink.