The Bedroom Chronicles: Exploring Arlington’s Housing Market…by Bedroom Data

What is a Bedroom?

Arlington’s Housing Market by Bedrooms

• Over the past five years, an average of 7,673 bedrooms have sold each year. 56% of bedrooms sold are in single-family homes, 25% in condos, and 19% in townhouse/duplex properties.
  
  
• There’s an average of 600 new bedrooms being delivered each year via new construction
  
  
• The average cost per bedroom has decreased in 2023 causing an overall decrease in the cost per bedroom in Arlington, despite small increases in the cost per bedroom for single-family and townhouse/duplex homes
  
  
• There are an average of 2.7 bedrooms in each home sold in Arlington. I expected to find that the number of bedrooms per transaction increased in the spring, suggesting that larger homes are listed during the spring market, but the average size of homes by bedroom count is consistent each month of the year always between 2.5 and 2.8 bedrooms per home sold.
  
  
• There is an average of .8 full bathrooms for every bedroom sold. The ratio for single-family detached homes is .73 full bathrooms per bedroom

• The second table below shows data from 2022-2023 sales
  
  
• The data suggests that 4BR homes are the most in-demand, followed closely by 3BR and 5BR, and for good reason…4BR homes have the best cost per bedroom of any size home
  
  
• If you are buying a home with 2-6 bedrooms, you’re most likely going to pay at or above the asking price
  
  
• The most expensive zip code per bedroom is 22209 at $494,000/BR and the least expensive is 22204 at $244,000/BR. The average cost per bedroom in a single-family home in 22207 is $349,000.