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Annandale, Virginia
A lot inside the Beltway. Half sold above asking.
At a glance
Six numbers that describe Annandale.
The median single-family home in Annandale sold for $925,000 in 2026, went under contract in six days, and almost half sold for more than the seller asked.
What a house costs in Annandale this year, who buys it and how they pay, what it rents for, which of five high schools it feeds, and how long the drive is. Every number below is from Bright MLS closed sales, pulled on October 2, 2026, not from a listing site's estimate.
Annandale is an unincorporated community in Fairfax County with one zip code, 22003. Single-family means a detached house with at least three bedrooms and two full baths; townhouse means end-of-row and interior-row homes; condos, including the garden condos along Little River Turnpike, are not included. Source: Bright MLS, closed sales January 1 to October 2, 2026, Postal City = Annandale, pulled by Ahmed Makkiyah on October 2, 2026.
Prices
What $925,000 buys: a mid-century house on a wooded lot.
Annandale's cheapest single-family sale of 2026 was $625,000 and its dearest $2,790,000, and 164 of the 251 houses sold under $1 million.
The typical Annandale house is a late-1940s to 1960s brick rambler, split-level or colonial on a quarter to half acre of oaks, in Sleepy Hollow Woods, Broyhill Crest, Canterbury Woods or Wakefield Forest. Updated, it sells near the median. Original, it sells under $800,000 (53 sales), often to a builder. Above $1.3 million (28 sales) are the rebuilds: the same lot with a new house on it.
Annandale is a house market. 251 houses sold against 72 townhomes, about three and a half to one. The townhomes sold at a median of $627,000, from $490,000 to $899,900, took 7 days and half went over asking.
At $486 a square foot, Annandale houses cost more per foot than Fairfax ($451) or the Alexandria side of the county ($468) but less per house, because they are smaller. You are paying for the lot and for being inside the Beltway, ten minutes from Seven Corners and fifteen from the Pentagon.
Median single-family sale price, 20262
Bright MLS closed sales, 2026 year to date, except the Fairfax County row (September 2026 alone). The town rows are filtered to 3+ bedrooms and 2+ full baths and leave out condominium-regime homes; the Fairfax County row has no size filter. Fairfax, Alexandria and Falls Church mean the Fairfax County addresses, not the independent cities, and Chantilly means its Fairfax County side. Arlington County, the neighbor to the east, is one row for the whole county (pulled October 3, same filters). The Cities of Fairfax, Falls Church and Alexandria are independent cities next to the county, shown under their own names. Oak Hill (20 sales) and Dunn Loring (12) are too small to chart.
| Measure | Single-family | Townhouse |
|---|---|---|
| Homes sold | 251 | 72 |
| Median sold price | $925,000 | $627,000 |
| Average sold price | $1,007,437 | $636,996 |
| Median price per square foot | $486 | $424 |
| Median days to contract | 6 | 7 |
| Median sold-to-list | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Sold above asking | 123 (49.0%) | 36 (50.0%) |
| Under contract within 7 days | 57.0% | 55.6% |
| Lowest sale | $625,000 | $490,000 |
| Highest sale | $2,790,000 | $899,900 |
| Total dollar volume | $252.9M | $45.9M |
What can you afford in Annandale? Start from the monthly payment you can live with, not the price. The calculator adds Fairfax County tax, insurance and HOA for you; most Annandale streets have a civic association, not an HOA.
Follow the money
Cash goes to the cheapest houses. Families finance the rest.
In 2026, 38 of 251 single-family sales closed without a mortgage, 14% of the dollars. Under $800,000, almost one house in four sold for cash.
Share of single-family sales paid in cash, by price range
Under $800,000 the buyers are builders and investors buying original houses for the lot. From $1 million to $1.3 million, the renovated family houses, only 4 of 59 sold for cash.
How 251 single-family purchases were paid for
Cash buyers paid less: a median of $885,000 against $930,000 financed, and closed in about the same time. 184 buyers used a conventional loan and 24, about one in ten, a VA loan, fewer than Fairfax or the Alexandria side because Annandale is further from Fort Belvoir.
What that means if you need a loan: in the band where most families shop, $800,000 to $1.3 million, you are competing almost entirely with other financed buyers. Half the houses sold over asking and 57% went under contract within a week, so the offer that wins is a full pre-approval, a fast inspection and an escalation cap you decided before the open house.
Townhomes: 6 of 72 sales were cash (8%), and those buyers spent $3.8 million of $45.9 million (8%). The cash median, $627,000, was the same as the financed median, because the cash sales sat at the two ends: 3 under $600,000 and 3 over $652,000. Conventional 54, VA 8, FHA 3. Mixed cash-and-loan deals were counted as financed.
The interesting facts
Between Fairfax and Alexandria on price, with Koreatown on the corner.
Four things in the 2026 numbers that set Annandale apart.
Inside the Beltway. Most of Annandale sits inside I-495, and 164 of its 251 houses, most on wooded lots, still sold under $1 million. That is why the cheap ones go to builders and the renovated ones go over asking.
Who is buying. Families who want a lot and a short drive, renovators and small builders, Korean-American families, and Arab and Muslim families who want to be near Mustafa Center and the Falls Church mosques without Falls Church prices.
Rentals. A house rents for $3,950 and leases in 18 days; townhomes are fewer and slower, 61 leases at 28 days. Investors here buy houses, not townhomes.
Rent or buy
Just under the line where buying wins.
A single-family home rents for a median of $3,950 a month and sells for $925,000, a price-to-rent ratio of 19.5; a townhome rents for $3,100 and sells for $627,000, a ratio of 16.9.1
| Measure | Single-family | Townhome |
|---|---|---|
| Homes rented | 88 | 61 |
| Median monthly rent | $3,950 | $3,100 |
| Average monthly rent | $4,093 | $3,061 |
| Median rent per square foot | $2.37 | $2.17 |
| Median days to lease | 18 | 28 |
| Rent range | $2,700 to $6,400 | $2,250 to $4,300 |
Gross yield is before the mortgage, tax, insurance and upkeep. Under 20, a family that stays five years or more can usually expect buying to beat renting, and a townhome at 16.9 gets there sooner. Three house leases that closed far above their asking rent look like data-entry errors and are left out of the range; they do not change the median.
Own in Annandale already? Half the houses here sold over asking this year, and builders are paying for lots. Ahmed runs a real comparative analysis against the 251 sales on this page, as a renovated sale and as a lot, not a website estimate.
The houses
Brick ramblers, split-levels and the rebuilds next door.
Annandale was built out between the late 1940s and the 1960s, and most of it still looks that way: brick houses on wooded lots, civic associations instead of HOAs, and a new build on every few streets.
Sleepy Hollow Woods. A preserved mid-century neighborhood built from 1958 to 1965; almost nine in ten of its homes date from 1940 to 1969. Ramblers and split-levels on sloped, wooded lots, with one of the strongest civic associations in the area.
Canterbury Woods and Wakefield Forest. Mid-1960s split-levels, colonials and ramblers on the west side, toward Fairfax. This is the Woodson pyramid, and it is where the renovated houses go furthest over asking.
Broyhill Crest and the Columbia Pike side. Started in 1951 and still filling in, with houses from the 1950s to new builds. The shortest drive in Annandale to the Pentagon and Arlington.
The townhomes. 72 sales, mostly 1970s to 1990s communities off Little River Turnpike, Backlick Road and Braddock Road. The garden condos along Little River Turnpike are a separate, cheaper market not counted here.
What to check. Radon, the age of the electrical panel and galvanized pipe in any original house; drainage on the sloped lots; and, if you plan to add on, what the lot allows. If you are buying from a builder, ask for the permits and the warranty in writing.
Schools
Annandale, Woodson, Falls Church or Justice, and the street decides.
22003 is split across several pyramids: Annandale High (IB) for the middle, Carter G. Woodson for Canterbury Woods and Wakefield Forest, Falls Church High for Camelot, and Justice for the Sleepy Hollow side.3
B+
Annandale High School
Niche #17 in Fairfax County and its #1 "standout" school, US News #73 in Virginia. An IB World School: the Middle Years Programme in grades 9 and 10, then the IB Diploma. Fed by Annandale Terrace, Braddock and Columbia elementaries.
A+
Carter G. Woodson High School
Niche #8 in the county, US News #7 in Virginia. Fed by Canterbury Woods and Wakefield Forest through Frost Middle.
B
Falls Church High School
Niche #21 in the county, US News #116 in Virginia. Fed by Camelot Elementary through Luther Jackson Middle.
C+
Justice High School
US News #115 in Virginia, IB Diploma. Fed by Sleepy Hollow, Beech Tree and Parklawn through Glasgow Middle.
A
Lake Braddock Secondary
Niche #9 in the county, US News #22. Takes the Ravensworth edge toward Springfield.
Masjid
Mustafa Center
On Braddock Road in 22003, with weekend school. Dar Al-Hijrah in Falls Church and the MAS center on Edsall Road are about ten minutes away; Madina and the Imam Ali Center in Springfield about the same.
NOVA
NOVA Annandale campus
The largest campus of Northern Virginia Community College, about 23,000 students a year, on Little River Turnpike.
Private
Saint Michael and the Islamic schools
Saint Michael Catholic School (PK to 8) is in 22003. Washington International Academy on Edsall Road and Al-Qalam Academy in Springfield are the nearest full-time Islamic schools.
The January 2026 boundary changes moved students out of crowded Glasgow Middle, 67 to Poe and 46 to Holmes, which ended the Mason Crest split at the middle-school level; about 20 Parklawn students moved to Columbia Elementary; and Poe gained an Advanced Academic Program center from 2026-27. A separate study of the Bren Mar Park feeders could move between 92 and 308 students from Edison to Annandale High, with no decision yet. A listing's school claim is not a guarantee. Check the exact address at the FCPS Boundary Locator, and ask Ahmed to confirm it before you offer.
Commute
No Metro, but the Beltway, 395 and Columbia Pike are all minutes away.
Annandale has no Metro station of its own. Most people drive, take Columbia Pike buses to the Pentagon, or park at Dunn Loring-Merrifield on the Orange Line, about four miles north.
| To | Drive | Route |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown DC | 30 to 50 min | Little River Turnpike to I-395, or the Beltway to I-66 |
| Pentagon | 20 to 40 min | Columbia Pike, or I-395 |
| Tysons | 15 to 30 min | The Beltway north, or Gallows Road |
| Reston Town Center | 35 to 50 min | The Beltway to the Dulles Toll Road |
| Dulles Airport | 35 to 55 min | The Beltway to the Dulles Toll Road or I-66 |
The Beltway's 495 Express Lanes and the 395 Express Lanes are both a few minutes from most of 22003; carpools of three ride free with an E-ZPass Flex, everyone else pays a toll that moves with traffic.5 Inside Annandale, Little River Turnpike and Braddock Road back up at rush hour, so a house near the Beltway or Columbia Pike saves real time. Ahmed will do the 7:45 drive with you before you offer.
Daily life
Koreatown, Wakefield Park, and Mustafa Center down the road.
Koreatown. Little River Turnpike and Columbia Pike are one of the largest Korean commercial districts on the East Coast: barbecue, soup houses open all night, bakeries and H Mart on Heritage Drive, which also has a halal meat section.
Outdoors. Wakefield Park is 292 acres off Braddock Road, from Lake Accotink to Little River Turnpike, with the Audrey Moore RECenter's pool, a free skate park, tennis and pickleball, and almost two paved miles of the Cross County Trail.
Halal and Middle Eastern. Naz Foods on Markham Street cuts halal meat to order. Halalco, the big halal supermarket, is ten minutes east in Bailey's Crossroads, with Jenin Pastry for knafeh. Mustafa Center is on Braddock Road.
Hospitals and shopping. Inova Fairfax Hospital, the region's Level I trauma center, is about five minutes up Gallows Road. The Mosaic District is ten minutes north.
Taxes.4 Annandale is unincorporated Fairfax County, so there is no town tax: the 2026 rate is $1.12 per $100 plus $0.0335 in county fees, about $1.15 all in, roughly $10,700 a year on a $925,000 house. Some streets add a leaf-collection or refuse fee. The car tax is $4.57 per $100 of each vehicle's value.
Where to eat
"Ahmed, where do you go to eat?" The Annandale list.
The top five within about ten minutes of Annandale in each cuisine, the one doing best at the top, and halal marked.7
Also worth knowing: Erbil Kabob in Fairfax, about fifteen minutes west, is the Iraqi kitchen; Marib in Springfield does Yemeni lamb mandi; Mejana in Bailey's Crossroads for Lebanese mezze. Closed in 2026 on Little River Turnpike, so not listed: Tandoori Nights, Baden Baden, Thai Food, Hot Lola's and Ben's Burgers, plus Izakaya Honey Pig on Markham Street. Rankings weigh current Yelp and Google ratings by review count, critics' lists and whether the place is busy; the halal note comes from Zabihah, Yelp's halal category or the restaurant itself. Know one that belongs here? Tell Ahmed.
Who buys here
Families who want a lot, a short drive and a real neighborhood.
First-time single-family buyers who want a lot inside the Beltway; renovators and small builders; Korean-American families; and Arab and Muslim families who want Mustafa Center and the Falls Church mosques close by.
Buyers choose Annandale over Fairfax for about $60,000 less at the median and a shorter drive to the Pentagon and DC, and over Falls Church for the lot. They choose it over Springfield and Burke for being inside the Beltway. The ones who leave are usually trading up to Vienna or Fairfax for a newer house, or selling a 1950s house to a builder who wants the land.
Questions
What people ask about Annandale.
How much does a house cost in Annandale, Virginia in 2026?
The median single-family home (3+ bedrooms, 2+ full baths) in Annandale sold for $925,000 in 2026 through October 2, across 251 sales in Bright MLS, at $486 per square foot. The median townhouse sold for $627,000 across 72 sales. Houses ran from $625,000 to $2,790,000 and townhomes from $490,000 to $899,900.
How competitive is the Annandale housing market?
Very competitive. In 2026, 49% of single-family homes and 50% of townhomes sold above the asking price, and the median house went under contract in 6 days (7 for townhomes).
How many Annandale home buyers pay cash or use a VA loan?
15% of single-family buyers paid cash in 2026, 38 of 251, and cash was most common under $800,000, where 23% of sales were cash, often builders buying original houses to rebuild. 184 buyers used a conventional loan and 24, about 10%, used a VA loan.
What is rent in Annandale, Virginia?
In 2026 the median single-family rental (3+ bedrooms) leased for $3,950 a month across 88 closed leases in Bright MLS, and the median townhome for $3,100 across 61 leases. Houses took a median of 18 days to lease and townhomes 28.
Is it better to rent or buy in Annandale?
Buying wins for a family that stays five years or more. The price-to-rent ratio is 19.5 for a single-family home ($925,000 against $47,400 a year in rent) and 16.9 for a townhome ($627,000 against $37,200), so the townhome math is the stronger of the two.
Which high schools serve Annandale?
Zip 22003 is split: Annandale High (IB) serves the middle of Annandale, Carter G. Woodson serves Canterbury Woods and Wakefield Forest, Falls Church High serves Camelot, Justice serves the Sleepy Hollow side, and Lake Braddock takes the Ravensworth edge toward Springfield. Check any address at the FCPS Boundary Locator.
How long is the commute from Annandale to DC and the Pentagon?
At 8 am on a weekday, downtown DC is about 30 to 50 minutes by car, the Pentagon 20 to 40 and Tysons 15 to 30. Annandale has no Metro station; the nearest is Dunn Loring-Merrifield on the Orange Line, about four miles north, and Columbia Pike buses run to the Pentagon. These drive times are estimates.
What is the property tax in Annandale, Virginia?
Annandale is unincorporated Fairfax County, so there is no town tax. The 2026 rate is $1.12 per $100 plus about $0.0335 in county fees, about $1.15 all in, roughly $10,700 a year on a $925,000 house.
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Ahmed's take
Two or three sentences in Ahmed's own voice go here: who Ahmed sees buying in Annandale, when to sell to a builder instead of renovating, and the first thing Ahmed checks on a listing (the school pyramid, street by street).
دليل شمال فرجينيا
السكن في أنانديل، فرجينيا.
بلغ السعر الوسطي للبيت المستقل 925,000 دولار في 2026، وبيع نحو نصف البيوت بأكثر من السعر المطلوب.
تقع أنانديل داخل الطريق الدائري (البلتواي)، وبيوتها مبنية بالطوب في الخمسينات والستينات على أراضٍ فيها أشجار. السوق سريع: بلغت المدة الوسطية حتى توقيع العقد ستة أيام. ويشتري المقاولون البيوت القديمة الرخيصة فيهدمونها ويبنون بيوتاً جديدة. والمدارس هي أنانديل (IB) ووودسن وفولز تشيرش وجستس، حسب الشارع. ويقع مركز مصطفى الإسلامي على شارع برادوك، ويبعد مسجد دار الهجرة وسوق حلالكو عشر دقائق، ويقع متجر ناز للحم الحلال في وسط أنانديل. جميع الأرقام من Bright MLS، مبيعات مغلقة من 1 يناير إلى 2 أكتوبر 2026.
حسابياً، أنانديل دون الحد الذي يصبح عنده الشراء أفضل من الإيجار: نسبة السعر إلى الإيجار 19.5 للبيت المستقل و16.9 للتاون هاوس. هل لديك بيت قديم في أنانديل؟ قد يدفع لك المقاول فيه أكثر مما تتوقع. هل تفكر في أنانديل، أو تحتار بينها وبين فيرفاكس؟ أرسل لي تفاصيل وضعك، وسأحسب معك أرقامك الحقيقية، بالعربية أو بالإنجليزية.
وكيلك العقاري الموثوق في شمال فرجينيا.
Fairfax
Half sold over asking.
$985K
Median house, 2026
Alexandria
One buyer in four on a VA loan.
$885K
Median house, 2026
Buying power
Start from the payment.
Tax, insurance and HOA included
Home valuation
Priced on evidence.
A real comparative analysis, not a website estimate
Fairfax County
Fifty-one years of prices.
$950K
Median house, September 2026
بالعربية
Every step, in Arabic.
بالعربية أو بالإنجليزية، كما تفضّل