As Swedish officers confront a housing stoop again house, a few of their colleagues throughout the pond are betting that trophy residences can nonetheless command premium costs.

The Swedish authorities has put its former ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C., available on the market for $19.5 million, the Wall Avenue Journal reported, making it the most costly itemizing within the U.S. capital, in keeping with the itemizing agent.

3900 Nebraska Avenue Northwest in Washington, DC (Compass)

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Set on 7 acres at 3900 Nebraska Avenue within the metropolis’s American College Park neighborhood, the 12,000-square-foot mansion comes with seven bedrooms, however wants roughly $2 million of renovations and updates, in keeping with Compass’ Cara Pearlman, who has the itemizing with fellow Compass agent TJ Morton.

Constructed within the Twenties for writer David Lawrence, who would go on to discovered the journal U.S. Information & World Report, the house accommodates two ballrooms, a library, two sunrooms and 5 fireplaces. Outdoors are a greenhouse and lighted tennis court docket.

3900 Nebraska Avenue Northwest in Washington, DC (Compass)

The Swedish authorities bought the property within the Fifties, and it’s been house to a dozen ambassadors since. Karin Olofsdotter, the present Swedish ambassador to the U.S., lived there from 2017 to 2019.

Olofsdotter just lately moved to a diplomatic residence within the Home of Sweden, a more recent constructing in Georgetown the place the Swedish Embassy relocated in 2006.

Builders have reportedly expressed curiosity within the property, hoping to subdivide the massive swath of land whereas preserving the historic house. One research advised roughly 22 indifferent properties or 50 townhomes might be constructed there, although it might be maintained as an property for a rich purchaser.

— Holden Walter-Warner