Birchwood Apartments (525–545 N. Pollard St.; 703-465-0050) is a 43-unit apartment building four blocks from the Virginia Square/GMU Metro station. Units have floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room and granite countertops in the bathroom; amenities include a billiards room and fitness center. Rents range from $1,875 for one bedroom to $3,195 for three.

Less than a mile from the Ballston Metro, Buckingham Commons (4330 N. Henderson Rd.; 703-875-0303) is a development of Federal-style red-brick townhouses. The first phase of construction—which included 69 townhouses—hit the market two years ago; three units from that group are still for sale. A second phase of 51 homes goes on sale next year. Built around courtyards, each four-story townhouse has a rooftop deck, hardwood floors, and a two-car garage. Three-bedrooms start at $675,000, four- and five-bedrooms in the low $700,000s.

Fans of Bravo’s Top Chef may recognize this Kalorama mansion. It sold for $3.6 million. Photograph by David Pipkin

In DC: Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. and his wife, Mary Kaye, bought a five-bedroom, five-bath Federal-style home in Kalorama for $3.6 million. The house—where Bravo’s Top Chef: Washington D.C. was filmed—has five fireplaces and a two-car garage. John Huntsman, the former Republican governor of Utah, is US ambassador to China.

In Maryland: Finance executive Jonathan Legg and his wife, Elizabeth, bought a Colonial on Cedar Parkway in Chevy Chase for $3.1 million. The house has six bedrooms and seven baths. A former managing director at the investment-banking firm FBR Capital Markets, Jonathan Legg is senior vice president and wealth adviser at Morgan Stanley.

Real-estate executive Andrew Florance sold a five-bedroom, six-bath Colonial in Chevy Chase for $1.9 million. The renovated house sold in eight days. Florance, CEO of the CoStar Group, a commerical-real-estate research firm, spent $7.6 million on a Cleveland Park Georgian in December.

Congressman Sander “Sandy” Levin sold a five-bedroom, three-bath Arts and Crafts–style home on Morgan Drive in Chevy Chase for $995,000. Levin, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is a Democrat from Michigan. 

The agents selling this 35,000-square-foot mansion in Bethesda claim it’s the biggest house in Montgomery County. On the border of Bethesda and Potomac, it sits on a short street called Natelli Woods Lane that sidles up to the well-known golf course TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm. It listed for $9 million in July. So what does the biggest house in one of the richest counties in America look like? Here’s a break down by the numbers: 

In DC:
Former George W. Bush aide Clay Johnson III and his wife, Anne, sold a six-bedroom, five-bath Colonial on Glenbrook Road in Spring Valley for $1.7 million. The house has an in-law suite and a customized walk-in closet in the master bedroom. A classmate of Bush’s at Andover and Yale, Clay Johnson was deputy director for management in the Office of Management and Budget during his presidency.

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.”