SAVE your GAS! and Walk everywhere from this building that has a very high Walkabilty Score.  Walking Distance to Silver Spring Metro/Red Line, Rock Creek Park hiking biking trails and all the ammenities of Downtown Silver Spring.

This market report is for the last 6 month period begining January 1, through July 6th 2008.  All units are resales reported in the Metropolitan Regional Information Service (MRIS)

4 Active For Sale Listings
1)  1 Bedroom 1 Bath  2nd Floor
     (820 sq ft)  Asking -$285,000 
     Days on Market – 57
2)  1 Bedroom – 1 Bath 5th Floor  
     (820 sq ft) Asking – $315,000 
     Days on Market – 267
3)  1 Bedroom  1 Bath 2nd Floor  
     (900 sq ft)
     Asking $347,500  
     Days on Market - 6

 1 Listing Under Contract
1)  2 Bedroom – 2 Bath 3rd Floor (1,255 Sq ft) – Asking $410,000  Days on Market – 7

4 Sold Listings
1)  0 Bedroom 1 Bath Efficiency Unit 2nd Floor Unit (569 sq ft)
     Asking Price – $108,746   Sold Price  - $108,746  Seller Subsidy -$3,469
     Days on Market – 5
2)  0 Bedroom 1 Bath   Efficiency Unit (569 sq ft)  4th Floor   
     Asking Price – $109,658   Sold Price – $109,658   Seller Subsidy $3,498
     Days on Market – 3
3)  1 Bedroom - 1 Bath  5th Floor (820 sq ft)
     Asking Price – $285,000   Sold Price – $285,000   Days on Market – 21
4)  1 Bedroom – 1 Bath and Den  (935 sq ft) 3rd Floor Unit
     Asking – $320,000 Sold – $320,00  Seller Subsidy – $10,000  Days on Market – 85

Thinking about Selling or Buying a Silver Spring Condominium? – Contact  Debbie Cook (301) 587-3528 for your current, No Obligation Market Report on the Silver Spring Condominium Market.

This New Eco- Friendly and Energy Efficient Home is located in Downtown Silver Spring in a beautiful, mature established Silver Spring neighborhood with quiet, shady tree lined streets.  An easy walk to the METRO, shops, restaurants, theaters and many wonderful parks.  
Every inch of this beautiful home and yard has been carefully designed, restored and remodeled from top to bottom! The original charm and character of the House and Neighborhood remain. Move in Ready with 3 Bedrooms, 2 1/2 Baths, all New Luxury Kitchen, Dining Room, Breakfast Nook, Living Room with Fireplace, Mud room, Full Finished Basement, Utility Room and Attic.

This home provides a high level of quality, balances environmental impact, energy use, maintenance, comfort and convenience.

WHAT”S NEW? – A redesigned open floor plan including left side addition and roof, dual HVAC system, electrical system, plumbing system, brand new (granite, cherry and stainless steel) kitchen, master bath and all other baths, all porches, windows, exterior doors, patio, driveway and landscaping.

Many Many Photos and more details @  www.8208Cedar.com 

Most of East Silver Spring still has “normal sized” older houses.  The few McMansions or new infill construction that we do have REALLY stand out. 

One example on Easley street is the “McMansion with no windows”  It started out as a small bungalow home built in 1928 between 2 other similar houses.  The home had a larger and deeper than average lot size of 12,180 sq ft. 

It was torn down sometime ago and remained a big watery mud hole with trash and debris in it for a few years.  I once walked by the lot and noticed they were still getting junk and other mail delivered to 701 Easley, it was strewn all over the front of the mud hole. While it was still just a hole, it caused a lot of concern and complaints from the adjoining neighbors and the neighborhood in general. 
I though they’d never build anything there.  Then all of a sudden a huge foundation went up this past year.  The picture does not do it justice – it is ENORMOUS.  Can’t wait to see what it will look like when it’s finished.  It will certainly stand out amongst the small old bungalows on that street. 

A tasteful newly constructed infill home was completed recently just down the way at 608 Deerfield in East Silver Spring – McNeills Subdivision. The lot was a little over 7,000 square feet and an old garage at the back of the vacant lot was the only thing torn down to build the house.

This house sold for $1,191,064.00 ( one million, one hundred ninety one thousand and sixty four dollars ) and settled less than 3 months ago.  I think this NEW house just “nails it” for a perfect fit with the neighborhood character of East Silver Spring.
Check out the Listing and Interior Photos Link for 608 Deerfield Avenue, Silver Spring, Md 20910.

Some Gigantic Monster Houses have gone up or are going up in some older Silver Spring neighborhoods, for instance this one on Randolph Road.  There is a Monster Palace on New Hamphire Avenue in Hillandale and a Giant House going up in Woodmoor just past the Woodmoor Shopping Center going North on Colesville that you just can’t miss when driving out that way.  Sligo from Silver Spring Singular has posted a few blogs about McMansions in Silver Spring.  I liked this post about Mc Mansions by a local blogger.  Dan Reed (Our future architect/Urban Planner) from Just Up the Pike writes about them all the time and Silver Spring Daily Photo has a lot of photos of McMansions in and around Silver Spring.

So, How do you feel about McMansions in Silver Spring?  What’s your opinion?  Want more? Want less? Want Larger? Smaller? or just don’t care?

Proposed Condo/Apartment Building at 814 Thayer Avenue

For the February meeting the East Silver Spring Citizens Association will hear from the Attorney for the developers of the site on the southeast corner of Silver Spring Avenue and Fenton Street. (currently a Parking Lot – Just a block away from the 814 Thayer Ave Site)  There is a  94 Unit Residential Project proposed.  This project will be either Condominiums or Apartments.  Residents in East Silver Spring have some valid concerns about traffic and parking, in and around an already busy, crowded, way too narrow Fenton Street.

Legal Descrition of the property is: Parcel C Section 7 Woodside Park,Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, 20910. Tax records show that it is owned by a Mary E Checchi. Records are not reporting the new owners or the purchasers names yet. The Square footage of the house is reported as 2,764 sq feet and a lot size of 1.43 acres or 62,251 square feet. Property Taxes are $4,677 The proposed Subdivision will be reviewed on Monday, November 6th, 2006 at the Park and Planning Office at 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Md 20910. The phone number for more information is (301) 495-4610