There’s always some churn in residential real estate following a presidential election, as a new administration arrives and the old one flees town, but this year the transition has been especially bumpy. First came DOGE and its cuts to the federal workforce, then the deployment of the National Guard to DC, and now the government shutdown.

All have served to muddy the local real-estate picture. Buyers have grown more deliberative, with properties in the region sitting on the market a median of 21 days in September, an increase of ten days compared with last year. Even as the market has softened, the median sales price has been rising—$629,660 this year, an increase of almost $20,000 versus last year—in part because more single-family houses and townhouses are selling than condos, and also

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