Click on the link to read the entire Urban Turf post. I have copied in the section on Truxton Circle.
The Neighborhoods of 2015 Revisited
Five years ago, UrbanTurf reached out to a selection of bloggers, journalists, real estate professionals and developers to give us their thoughts on the unsung DC area neighborhood that would be attracting homebuyers in 2015. It only seems fitting to look back at those selections this year.
Below please find the choices of those we reached out to in 2010, and here you can see their own revisiting of the picks when we contacted them in 2012 to re-examine their choices.
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Truxton Circle
By Suzanne Des Marais, real estate agent with Keller Williams
I live in Bloomingdale and when I started working over here more than nine years ago, it was definitely considered fringy. Now, I often have buyers come to my open houses or call me with specific interest in the neighborhood, but find that they are priced out. A lot of these folks are ending up in the adjacent neighborhoods of either Truxton Circle (south of Florida Avenue, north of New York Avenue), or NE Eckington (directly to the east across North Capitol Street). Given that a few years ago people bought in Bloomingdale because it was affordable, but now people actually seek the area out, I see the expansion to the close-by neighborhoods as having the same effect in a few years.
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Bates Area Civic Association 