The Top Home Sales of 2010

Location: Massachusetts Avenue Heights DC. Price: $8.2 million. Details: Seven bedrooms and eight baths on an acre. It originally listed for $14.6 million.

Buyer: Philanthropist and businesswoman Adrienne Arsht Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010

Seller: Former Capitals goalie Jose Theodore, now with the Minnesota Wild. Location: Arlington. Price: $2 million. Details: Six bedrooms, eight baths, fitness room, Irish pub, wine cellar, and theater.

Buyer: Capitals star center Niklas Backstrom Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010

Location: Great Falls. Price: $1.9 million. Details: Five bedrooms, eight baths, five fireplaces, and three-car garage. Cerrato bought the house in 2004 for $2.4 million and originally listed it for $2.5 million.

Seller: Former Redskins head of football operations Vinny Cerrato Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010

NIH chief Francis Collins spent $1.2 million on this four-bedroom in Chevy Chase.

Buyer: NIH chief Francis Collins Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010

Location: McLean. Price: $2.1 million. Details: Five bedrooms, five baths, tennis court, pool, and hot tub.

Buyer: Modeling-agency founder and Real Housewives of D.C. star Lynda Erkiletian Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010

Location: Kalorama DC. Price: $3.6 million. Details: Five bedrooms, five baths, five fireplaces. Contestants on Bravo’s Top Chef: DC lived here.

Buyer: US ambassador to China Jon Huntsman Jr. Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010

Location: Great Falls. Price: $2.2 million. Details: Five bedrooms, nine baths, home theater, and elevator on more than an acre.

Buyer: Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb Photograph by Top Homes Sales of 2010

Location: Georgetown. Price: $2.6 million. Details: Four bedrooms, seven baths, elevator, and theater.

Seller: Lawyer and Republican operative Kenneth Mehlman Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010

Buyer: CoStar Group CEO Andrew Florance. Location: Cleveland Park DC. Price: $7.6 million. Details: Six bedrooms, nine baths, pool, and carriage house.

Seller: Former Fannie Mae head Daniel Mudd Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010

Location: Wesley Heights DC. Price: $3.2 million. Details: Seven bedrooms, nine baths, and three-car garage. A short sale, the house originally listed for $5.5 million. O’Donnell and Tracy also sold two homes this year: a four-bedroom Colonial in DC’s Wes

Buyer: MSNBC correspondent Norah O’Donnell and restaurateur Geoff Tracy Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010

Location: Palisades DC. Price: $2.9 million. Details: Eight bedrooms, six baths, three decks, and Potomac River views.

Buyer: Internet executive Christopher Schroeder, the former head of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive who now runs HealthCentral, a Web site about health and medicine. Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010

After pleading guilty in a mortgage scam, Bollywood producer Vijay Taneja sold this Potomac mansion for $5 million at auction.

Seller: Bollywood Producer Vijay Taneja Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010

Redskin Trent Williams paid $2 million for this two-year-old house in Ashburn with a bar, gym, and five-car garage.

Buyer: Redskin Trent Williams Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010

Location: Bethesda. Price: $1.5 million. Details: Eight bedrooms, nine baths, solarium, and indoor pool and spa.

Buyer: University of Maryland men’s basketball coach Gary Williams Photograph by Top Home Sales of 2010