Question: What areas of Northern VA have the most and least expensive new construction homes?
Answer: The biggest and most expensive new builds in Northern VA are in Great Falls and Mclean. Prince William County offers the most affordability, along with the most house and land for your money.
The following data is based on MLS sales of new construction detached homes in Northern Virginia from 2025-June 1 2026.
Great Falls, Mclean, and Everybody Else
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The small town of Middleburg is the only city with an average new home price over $3,000,000.
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Dumfries and Bristow are the only Northern VA cities where the average new home costs less than $1,000,000
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The average price for a new home in Vienna is $22,000 higher than Arlington
How Big Are New Homes?
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Most new homes throughout Northern VA come in around 5,000-6,000 finished square feet
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Mclean (8,450) and Great Falls (8,700) average nearly 2,000SF more than homes in Vienna, the city with the third largest average new home
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Despite having significantly more room to build, homes in Loudoun County and Prince William County are constructed with a “modest” 4,800 finished SF
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On average, 5,700 finished SF in Northern VA is filled with 5.4 bedrooms and 5.1 full bathrooms
If Yard and Privacy Matter the Most
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The average new home in Prince William County sits on nearly 2.7 acres and provides new home buyers with the lowest cost per acre for a new home
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Privacy in your new home is hard to come by in Arlington, Ashburn, Brambleton, Dumfries, and Bristow with average lot sizes under 0.2 acres
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Great Falls (1.69) and Oakton (2.07) are the only jurisdictions within Fairfax County with an average lot size over one acre
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In Northern VA, the average new home is built on 0.84 acres
For the Data Junkies
The table below provides a full breakdown of nearly all Northern VA submarkets that have at least a few new homes that sell over the course of a year.
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Despite Great Falls homes averaging 3,400 more finished SF than Arlington homes, they average the same number of bedrooms and Great Falls homes average just one more full bathroom.
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Arlington has by far the highest cost per acre for a new build, at an average of over $13M. Vienna costs $5.5M per acre and Mclean comes in at $7.1M per acre. Lovely Purcellville is just over $430,000 per acre.
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We have access to the most pre and off-market listings across the DMV of any brokerage and are happy to share what’s available with anybody who asks.
Below are some of our team’s pre/off-market listings, details and additional listings available by request:
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Clarendon – 1BR+den/1BA/760 sqft – Condo (1991) – 2400 Clarendon Blvd Arlington VA 22201
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Virginia Square – 4B/2BA/2,000 sqft – Duplex (1939) – N Lincoln St Arlington VA 22201
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Ballston – 4BR/3.5BA/2,400 sqft – Townhouse (2008) – N George Mason Dr Arlington VA 22203
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Ballston – 1BR/1BA/740 sqft – Condo (2000) – 3835 9th ST N Arlington VA 22203
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Williamsburg – 6BR/5.5BA/5,500 sqft – Detached Single Family (2026) – 27th St N Arlington VA 22207
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Yorktown – 6BR/6.5BA/6,000+ sqft – Detached Single Family (2026) – N Greencastle St Arlington VA 22207
