A Look at Old Town Alexandria Real Estate Last Year, by the Numbers

Here's a look at how Old Town and some surrounding Alexandria ZIP codes fared in the real estate market last year, the Washington Post recently reported, with data from MRIS.

22314:

• Number of homes sold in 2013: 742
• Median sale price: $565,000
• Price per square foot: $446
• Median days on market: 16
• Average sale price to original list price: 97.4 percent (a measure of how much a home sold above or below its original price)

• Number of homes sold in 2013: 266 
• Median sale price: $647,028 
• Price per square foot: $493
• Median days on market: 8 days
• Average sale price to original list price: 98.1 percent (a measure of how much a home sold above or below its original price)

• Number of homes sold in 2013: 180
• Median sale price: $500,000
• Price per square foot: $396
• Median days on market: 10
• Average sale price to original list price: 97.8 percent (a measure of how much a home sold above or below its original price)

• The highest median sale price in the region was in Great Falls, where it was $1,040,000.
• The shortest median days on market — 6 — was in the 22151 ZIP code, Springfield. 
• Two locations tied for highest average sale price to original list price, at 100.9 percent: 20010, Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights in D.C., and 20783, Hyattsville, Md.
• Highest price per square foot: $650 in 22307, D.C.'s West End.