David Brooks, a columnist at The New York Times, on “Meet the Press” in 2008, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images for “Meet The Press”) Well, that was fast: A phrase you can’t wait to hear — from your realtor.
In less than 48 hours, New York Times columnist David Brooks sold his home in Cleveland Park for a reported $4.495 million last week. We’re sure whoever snapped up the six-bedroom, four-and-half bathroom Colonial had been itching for a tony “just off Wisconsin Avenue” address.
“There’s not a lot around to compete with it in terms of Cleveland Park because there’s not a lot on the market right now,” said Washington Fine Properties real estate agent Margot Wilson, who handled the sale and who also sold Brooks the home.
Brooks purchased the home with his wife, Sarah, for $3.95 million in July 2012. A year and a half later, the Reliable Source reported that the couple, married for 27 years, were divorcing. Currently there are no records of the Brooks divorce on file in D.C. court, and David Brooks did not return a call for comment.
The residential Northwest neighborhood is home to Washington’s media and government elite. Columnist Al Hunt and PBS anchor Judy Woodruff are Brooks’s now former neighbors. PBS executive editor Jim Lehrer is down the street. Margaret Ann Hamburg, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and her husband, hedge-fund manager Peter F. Brown, are also close by.
Wilson, of Washington Fine Properties, could not reveal the identity of the newest addition to the neighborhood, but did confirm that “the buyer is local.”
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