The District far outshone its suburban neighbors in housing prices in 2007.
As median sales prices fell in Northern Virginia and grew by only a smidgen in suburban Maryland, the price of single-family houses and townhouses in Washington rose 7 percent.
In 2007, the median price was $480,000, up $30,000 from the year before.
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Source: Barbara Ruben, Special to The Washington Post