Arlington County · County guide
Arlington, Virginia — Urban Living Across the River from DC
Arlington is Northern Virginia's urban option: a compact county pressed against the Potomac and downtown DC, organized around Metro in a way almost nothing else in the region is. The Rosslyn–Ballston corridor — Rosslyn, Courthouse, Clarendon, Virginia Square, Ballston — strings walkable, high-rise neighborhoods along the Orange and Silver Lines, while National Landing (Pentagon City and Crystal City) has become one of the East Coast's biggest growth stories.
Amazon's HQ2 and Virginia Tech's new Innovation Campus anchored that National Landing momentum, and the Pentagon keeps a steady flow of military and government moves running through the market. Of all the jurisdictions on this site, Arlington's close-in demand has been running the hottest lately — which shows up in fast sales and a stubbornly thin supply.
The numbers
Arlington market data
Arlington snapshot
- Median sale price
- $767,073*
- Typical home value
- $823,567*
- Year over year
- -0.4%*
Source: Zillow Research (median sale price), May 2026.
Source: Zillow Research (ZHVI), June 2026.
* Estimated by Zillow.
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Living here
What living in Arlington is actually like
The R–B corridor is where Arlington feels most like a city: restaurants, nightlife, and towers a short walk from a Metro entrance. Push into North Arlington and it turns residential and leafy — single-family neighborhoods feeding the Yorktown and Washington-Liberty pyramids — while South Arlington and the Columbia Pike corridor offer relatively more attainable entry points and Shirlington's walkable village.
Transit is the through-line: Orange, Silver, Blue, and Yellow Line stations, plus quick access to Reagan National Airport, the GW Parkway, and every bridge into DC. For many Arlington buyers a car is optional — which is precisely the lifestyle they're paying to buy.
The housing market
The Arlington housing market
Arlington is really several markets at once: high- and mid-rise condos along the Metro corridors, brick rowhouses and townhomes, and single-family homes in North Arlington that command some of the region's highest prices. Each trades on different fundamentals, so an accurate valuation starts with knowing which Arlington a home actually lives in.
For sellers — including the many military and government owners selling on a PCS or relocation clock — demand is strong but discerning, and mispricing a condo or a single-family against the wrong comps is the most common and costly mistake. Precise pricing, sharp presentation, and a launch timed to the corridor's buyer pool are what turn Arlington's demand into competing offers.
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