In Northwest DC, Burleith, Glover Park and Cathedral Heights sit just north of Georgetown, off Wisconsin Avenue. As a result, buyers who start a search in Georgetown often end up comparing all four. To see what the trade really is, I pulled every Bright MLS closed sale inside each neighborhood’s boundary from October 2025 through September 2026 and split them by home type.
Rowhouses: Glover Park, DC and Burleith vs. Georgetown
First, most of the house market here is attached homes: 115 of Georgetown’s 128 house sales, 38 of Burleith’s 39 and 35 of Glover Park’s 36 were rowhouses or townhouses.
| Neighborhood | Home type | Sales | Median price | Median $/sq ft | Median days on market | Sale price vs. original list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgetown | Rowhouse/townhouse | 115 | $2,000,000 | $948 | 14 | 97.9% |
| Georgetown | Detached | 13 | $5,200,888 | $1,082 | 9 | 97.4% |
| Burleith | Rowhouse/townhouse | 38 | $1,580,000 | $708 | 8.5 | 97.3% |
| Glover Park | Rowhouse/townhouse | 35 | $1,325,000 | $705 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Cathedral Heights | All houses* | 11 | $2,175,000 | $566 | 27 | 96.0% |
*Cathedral Heights had 11 house sales (8 attached, 3 detached), a thin sample. Over 24 months, its 22 house sales had a median of $1,767,500.
Above all, the headline is price per square foot. Burleith rowhouses sold for about 25% less per square foot than Georgetown rowhouses, and Glover Park for about 26% less. In other words, at Georgetown’s median rowhouse price of $2,000,000, the median price per square foot buys about 2,110 square feet in Georgetown, about 2,820 in Burleith and about 2,840 in Glover Park. Overall, that’s roughly a third more house for the same money.
Days on market
However, lower prices didn’t mean slower sales. Burleith rowhouses spent a median 8.5 days on the market and Glover Park rowhouses 10, versus 14 in Georgetown. In Glover Park, 54% of rowhouses sold at or above their original list price. As a result, expect a well-presented rowhouse to draw competing offers; you can follow current listings on the Burleith neighborhood market page and the Glover Park neighborhood page.
Condos and co-ops: where the gap is widest
For apartment-style homes, however, the difference is larger. That’s partly because Georgetown’s condo sales include newer and waterfront buildings. By contrast, north of Reservoir Road, the stock is mostly older mid-rise buildings and larger condo and co-op towers.
| Neighborhood | Home type | Sales | Median price | Median $/sq ft | Median days on market | Sale price vs. original list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgetown | Condo and co-op | 58 | $735,000 | $826 | 27.5 | 96.8% |
| Glover Park | Condo | 54 | $416,250 | $478 | 40 | 96.6% |
| Glover Park | Co-op | 7 | Too few to report (24 months: 13 sales, median $200,000) | |||
| Cathedral Heights | Condo | 72 | $337,500 | $391 | 36 | 96.4% |
| Cathedral Heights | Co-op | 41 | $460,000 | $322 | 86 | 93.9% |
| Burleith | Condo and co-op | 1 | One sale; Burleith is almost entirely rowhouses | |||
Glover Park condos sold for about 42% less per square foot than Georgetown condos and co-ops, and Cathedral Heights condos for about 53% less. Specifically, Glover Park’s condo sales cluster on Tunlaw Road and 41st Street, including the 4000 Tunlaw condominium and the smaller Archbold building on 39th Street. In Cathedral Heights, the busiest addresses were the towers along Cathedral Avenue, among them the Cathedral Avenue Cooperative at 4101 Cathedral.
Co-op paperwork and time on market
The trade-off, however, is time and paperwork. Glover Park condos spent a median 40 days on the market, and Cathedral Heights co-ops 86 days, closing at a median 93.9% of original list price. In addition, co-ops add a board application, not every lender finances co-op shares, and monthly fees often include property taxes, so compare monthly cost, not just price. You can see Cathedral Heights condos and co-ops for sale side by side.
