Between Plaza Midwood and Elizabeth, a little suburb in the city.
GENEVIEVE WILLIAMS CREEPS ALONG in her Audi SUV, westbound on Bay Street, her street—wide, devoid of traffic, dappled with the mottled pattern of sunlight through the oak limbs above. It’s a hot afternoon in early July, which may explain the quiet of the streets, unusual for a neighborhood so close to uptown. Then again, she says, it’s usually like this.
For 10 years, the 35-year-old realtor has lived in Chantilly with her husband and two young sons. Chantilly is a neighborhood where the homeowners who aren’t renovating, as the Williamses just did, are razing and rebuilding. “This one just got torn down,” Williams says, pointing left to a vacant lot cordoned off by orange safety fencing. “This one next door, they moved in a month ago. They were clients of mine.” It’s a two-story, four-bedroom, Craftsman-style home with a pair of crape myrtles in front.
“These houses would sell for about 800,” she says— as in thousand. That kind of price was unheard of five years ago. “There’ll be million-dollar houses in Chantilly in the next five years,” she says with astonishment. “Literally every year, prices jump $100,000. It’s crazy.”
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