A 10-foot-wide, one-bedroom home was built in Washington, DC, on what used to be a driveway.Zoning law changes forced tight measurements for the 0.02-acre property, requiring many iterations.The home is listed for $581,903 and is attracting investors who may use it as a rental property.
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A developer in Washington, DC, had a small canvas — about the width of a driveway — to build a modern home that’s on the market for $581,903.Now, there’s a 10-foot-wide, one-bedroom home on what used to be a driveway.According to the listing agent, Jennifer Young of Keller Williams Chantilly Ventures, the zoning laws changed shortly after the developer purchased the 0.02-acre property, so they had to scrap the idea of building a home or tighten their floor plan.
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“It literally came down to sometimes a centimeter of getting the exact measurements right to both comply with DC zoning and build a really nice home that was functional,” Young told Business Insider.Nady Samnang, the contractor tasked with figuring out how to build a home on a driveway in between two alleys, told the Washington Post that the design went through many forms and took nearly seven months to get approved by the city permit office.”I wanted to quit so many times,” he told the Washington Post. While the price has fluctuated since being listed for $799,900 in July 2023, according to Zillow, it’s garnered interest from many across the country.”It’s one of the most-viewed homes on Zillow that I’ve ever seen in my career,” Young said. “We do have quite a bit of looky-loos, but we have a lot of first-time buyers looking and investors — people that want to Airbnb it or rent it to college kids.”
