Stephanopoulos paid $5.2 million for this five-bedroom Georgian in 2006.

ABC announced that its chief Washington correspondent and host of This Week George Stephanopoulos will take Diane Sawyer’s spot as anchor of Good Morning America.

This could be good news for the New York real estate market—every time Stephanopolous gets a big promotion, he upgrades to a more expensive house.

While working in the Clinton White House, Stephanopoulos lived on two floors of a Dupont Circle townhouse on Connecticut Avenue, above what is now Marvelous Market. He bought the three-story townhouse for $835,000 and rented the ground-level retail space to a now-defunct eyeglass store called Eye Gotcha.

In 1997, the same year he joined ABC as a news analyst for This Week, he sold the townhouse for $1,050,000. In 2002, the year Stephanopoulos began anchoring This Week, he bought a 4,400-square-foot townhouse on 28th Street in Georgetown for $2 million.

After more than two decades in New York, TV journalist Connie Chung and talk-show host Maury Povich are moving back to Washington. The pair bought a seven-bedroom, 11-bath Tudor-style home bordering Rock Creek Park in Northwest DC. Says Povich: “It’s like a new adventure in an old neighborhood.”

Chung and Povich, whose father was legendary Washington Post sportswriter Shirley Povich, both grew up in Washington and launched their journalism careers here. Chung went on to co-anchor The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, Povich to host the popular newsmagazine A Current Affair.

“Maury thinks I kidnapped him and held him hostage in New York for the last 25 years,” Chung says. “He’s been angling to move back to Washington for years.”

When Barack Obama moved into the White House, he brought with him lots of experts, strategists, and friends. Some were insiders who had lived here for years; others were transplants who had to scramble to find a place to live.

Click here to take a look at the homes of President Obama’s brain trust—from this $3 million Cleveland Park spread owned by Greg Craig to Robert Gibbs’s tidy Colonial in Alexandria.

Seller: MSNBC Chief Washington correspondent Norah O’Donnell and local restauranteur Geoff Tracy

Asking price: $1,850,000

Details: The local power couple, who has three young kids, put their four-bedroom, four-bath Wesley Heights Colonial on the market.  According to the listing, the house was built in 1934 and has been fully renovated. It has a formal living room with fireplace, a “spectacular” gourmet kitchen, and a dining room with French doors that leads to a flagstone terrace. O’Donnell and Tracy bought the house, which is just around the corner from Tracy’s flagship restaurant Cheff Geoff’s, for $1,465,000 in 2005.

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