Relocating to Washington, DC, Maryland, or Northern Virginia
A government appointment, diplomatic posting, military assignment, or new role can leave little time to find a home. We help you plan the search around your work location and moving date.
This page is the honest answer, drawn from our neighborhood work rather than from listings. Four kinds of arrival, four different maps, and one discipline for all of them: compress the learning curve, tour with candour, move at the speed your calendar demands.
Commute and privacy at home
Appointees and senior staff optimise for two things: nearness to the office and discretion at home. The classic answers sit in Northwest, Kalorama and Georgetown for history and gravity, Kent and Spring Valley for quiet and a driveway.
Transitions compress the search, and the best houses in these neighborhoods often change hands before a listing appears. That is precisely the situation our off-market work exists for.
Buying for the length of your posting
A defined tour changes the calculus: how readily the home could sell or rent when your posting ends matters as much as the house itself. Embassy proximity draws many postings to Kalorama and its surroundings; families weighing international schools look across the river to McLean.
Buying from abroad, or through an entity, raises questions, tax treatment, financing, closing in absentia, that deserve counsel beyond brokerage. We coordinate the home purchase with your legal, tax, and financing advisers.
Orders, report dates, school calendars.
A change of station into the Pentagon or the surrounding commands usually means Virginia: Arlington for the commute, Old Town Alexandria for the walkable historic alternative, Vienna and McLean when the assignment is long enough to justify more house.
We plan the home search around your permanent change of station (PCS) dates.
Housing for your household and commute
Arrivals for the World Bank, the IMF, and the region’s universities and health systems tend to want the city itself: Logan Circle for energy, The Palisades and Chevy Chase when the arrival comes with a family.
Bethesda earns its reputation as the pragmatic middle: close in, well served, easy to resell.
Plan the search before you arrive
Before you arrive, we narrow the search using your commute, timetable, and school requirements. During your visit, we tour and compare homes with you. When you choose a property, we help you prepare the offer and coordinate the purchase through settlement.
Weighing neighborhoods from a distance? The guides are written to be read from abroad.
Tools & Research
Plan a purchase, a sale, or a move.