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Georgetown’s Decatur house lists for $7.9 million wapo.st/3qL78D6

Georgetown’s Decatur house lists for $7.9 million

HOUSE OF THE WEEK | The six-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 7,400-square-foot house takes its name from Susan Decatur, who was the widow of Commodore Stephen Decatur Jr.

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1927 stone house in Chevy Chase, Md., offered at $5 million wapo.st/3LnFgOX

1927 stone house in Chevy Chase, Md., offered at $5 million

HOUSE OF THE WEEK | The six-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 7.900-square-foot house was updated by architect David Jones.

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Mortgage rates surpass 6 percent for the first time since 2008 wapo.st/3BFk7g2

Mortgage rates surpass 6 percent for the first time since 2008

The 30-year fixed-rate average hit 6.02 percent this week, reaching its highest level in 14 years.

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Home prices are expected to fall but not crash wapo.st/3Blxeld

Perspective | Home prices are expected to fall but not crash

Housing prices are poised to correct. But they are highly unlikely to plummet.

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Barnaby Woods is the best of both worlds wapo.st/3DpXI7J

Barnaby Woods is the best of both worlds

WHERE WE LIVE | The Northwest Washington community has "all the advantages of living in the city, with all the advantages of living in the suburbs."

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Not much changes in Fairfax Villa, and residents like it that way wapo.st/3S3mH4N

Not much changes in Fairfax Villa, and residents like it that way

WHERE WE LIVE | The community in Fairfax County, Va., has 422 houses on 166 acres northwest of the George Mason University campus.

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How does a mortgage rate buydown work? wapo.st/3eRZyUs

How does a mortgage rate buy-down work?

A temporary buydown is a cash payment that lowers the borrower’s interest rate for a limited period, allowing borrowers to reduce their monthly payments.

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A welcome cooling to the hot D.C.-area housing market wapo.st/3RJn0lD
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Townhouses rising near Fredericksburg, Va. wapo.st/3eLvwSD

Townhouses rising near Fredericksburg, Va.

BUYING NEW | Sixty-eight are planned; 14 have been built; six are available at Foxcroft, a community in the Cosner’s Corner area.

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Home-buying strategies in a changing market wapo.st/3Dm0v1x

Home-buying strategies in a changing market

If a house is overpriced, it might sit on the market longer. That’s when you could try to get it for less.

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Should you cancel your contract to buy a home? wapo.st/3xlAvzA

Should you cancel your contract to buy a home?

Buyers should make sure the contract is written so their earnest money deposit is protected and that their right to get out is as indisputable as possible.

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Steps to take to obtain property of loved one who died without a will wapo.st/3RCyEP8

Advice | Steps to take to obtain property of loved one who died without a will

REAL ESTATE MATTERS | The first step is to find a probate attorney.

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Georgian house in Woodland Normanstone on market for $10.9 million wapo.st/3x783kP

Georgian house in Woodland Normanstone on market for $10.9 million

HOUSE OF THE WEEK | The eight-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 10,100-square-foot house was built in 1929.

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Distinguished homes for sale in the D.C. region wapo.st/3xaBOBt
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Solution for a growing family: Make two townhouses into one home wapo.st/3B2Jwi6

Solution for a growing family: Make two townhouses into one home

The design challenge was how to combine two side-by-side structures — one that had been renovated some years before and the other that was in bad shape.

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Mortgage rates hit 14-year highs after bond market sell-off wapo.st/3B0Bsyz

Mortgage rates hit 14-year highs after bond market sell-off

The 30-year fixed-rate average rose to 5.89 percent, jumping three percentage points in one year.

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New England displaces South among hottest housing markets wapo.st/3L0bK1O

New England displaces South among hottest housing markets

TOWN SQUARE | More than half of the hottest Zip Codes for home buyers are in New England.

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Fair Lakes has almost everything its residents need wapo.st/3TJzaMR
How to get the best result when painting exterior wood wapo.st/3KULbL3

Perspective | How to get the best result when painting exterior wood

Builder Tim Carter provides time-tested exterior-painting secrets.

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Wildewood Landing offers new townhouses in St. Mary’s County, Md. wapo.st/3AKr0La

Wildewood Landing offers new townhouses in St. Mary’s County, Md.

BUYING NEW | The community, part of the Wildewood master planned neighborhood, is near where the Patuxent River meets the Chesapeake Bay.

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