Monday, July 22, 2024
A year ago this week, a literal brick wall hit the local real estate market. A one-foot-by-24-foot wall was listed for $50,000 in July 2023, and at the beginning of the summer, was taken off the market. Owner Allan Berger thought it would be a great place for some street art at the time, but the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission declared it unsafe.
Now, a year later, Urban Turf has reported that the wall is no longer for sale. It faces a bank parking lot and is attached to Daniela Walls’ (the last name is quite the coincidence!) home. Walls said that the wall’s deterioration was letting water into her basement and creating mold. Walls mentioned that a street art project could end up trapping water and make structural damage even worse.
At the end of last year, there were five offers on the wall, but unfortunately none reached the asking price of $50,000. One did come within $10,000, and Walls’ attorney made an offer to buy the wall for $600, its tax-assessed value. Berger declined all offers. Robert Morris, a Keller Williams real estate agent, is no longer working with Berger. He told The Washington Post: “I don’t know what happened since I got the kibosh. It was great to do it. I don’t have any regrets…I enjoyed all the cockamamie hate and discontent for trying to sell the wall.”
In the meantime, we’ll keep an eye on the wall to see if it gets relisted later this year.