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Washington’s luxury home market gets big boost from Trump cabinet picks

Adam Allington May 1, 2017
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Washington’s luxury home market gets big boost from Trump cabinet picks

Adam Allington May 1, 2017
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While certainly not a cheap place to live, Washington, D.C., has never really been known as a place where the uber-wealthy go to buy property. But, some current members of President Trump’s cabinet may have changed that, according to a new report from the real estate brokerage Redfin. The D.C. luxury home market rose more than seven times the national rate in the first quarter of this year.

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