Housing

It’s not cheap to live in D.C. Whether you rent or hope to own, finding a place to live has become more expensive over the years because the population growth seen in the city this century has far outpaced the housing that’s available.

A Maryland realtor and a North Carolina-based FBI agent are facing federal bribery charges for allegedly working with a D.C. official to get inside information on pending D.C. home sales in which tenants would have the legal right to…

The buyer that set a D.C. record five years ago with its acquisition of a Northwest D.C. apartment building is now looking to sell the property.

From coast to coast, booming American cities and suburbs are looking for ways to preserve homes for an increasingly cash-strapped middle class.

An 18-unit residential project will be constructed on the site of the recently-shuttered gay bar Cobalt in Dupont Circle. Plans for the new development at 1637-1641 R Street NW (map) were recently filed with the Board of Zoning Adjustment.…

Earlier this month, UrbanTurf reported on a study which examined how DC and its neighborhoods changed demographically since 2000. Now, a new analysis has joined the fray, offering a more detailed look at how new homebuyers since 2012 have…

A new senior living community is on the boards for DC.

The growing demand for senior housing in D.C. continues to push developers to pursue new projects, with the latest community planned for Ward 7.

A D.C.-area realtor and developer and an FBI agent are charged with bribing a D.C. employee to get confidential information, and using it to make lucrative real estate deals in the nation’s capital.

I was disappointed by the April 17 front-page article “Housing vouchers roil a pricey D.C. building.” The article’s characterization of an increase in tenants with housing vouchers at a Northwest D.C. apartment building as a “high-stakes…

The building's owners want to raise rents by as much as 60 percent over four years.

Under new changes, fines for housing code violations would be levied more quickly than now

To understand how a limestone-and-glass building on 14th and R streets NW ended up with same name as your high school best friend, it helps to know the origin myth.

The 1700 block of Corcoran Street in Dupont Circle is a microcosm for the current climate of the DC housing market.

A recent National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) study confirms what everyone living here can feel: Washington, DC, has gentrified more intensely than any other city.

The developer of a Dupont Circle church redevelopment has brought on a corporate housing startup to fill its newly completed units with short-term renters, upsetting some neighborhood residents who have long opposed the project.

If you passed by the pulsating intersection of Park and 14th Streets Northwest in Columbia Heights on April 5, you would have thought there was a block party. People with smiling faces were shouting and clapping to the sounds of…

Founded in 1958 by an interracial group of Manor Park residents after their neighborhood citizens association refused to admit black members, Neighbors, Inc. opposed blockbusting and sought to foster stable, integrated, middle-class…