Average price in area: $534,255
This house: $619,900
Description: 4 beds, 2.5 baths; 2,700 square feet
Thanks to its concentration of government jobs, the D.C.-metro area has come roaring out of the recession faster than most places around the country. In April, the unemployment rate fell to 5.4% from 6% a year earlier.
Rockville, number 30 on MONEY's Best Places to Live list of
MONEY Magazine, also sits in the I-270 Technology Corridor, an area that has attracted an array of bio-tech and software companies, like
Human Genome Sciences and divisions of
Lockheed Martin and
Northrup Grumman -- many of which located here to be close to the seat of power and funding.
This brick and stone colonial is on a quiet cul-de-sac, according to real estate agent Cynthia Moler. "It's not a cookie-cutter-type, newly-developed area," she said.
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