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Lansdowne, Virginia
A golf-resort community on the Potomac with a Leesburg address, where the median house sold for $1.35 million in 2026 and none sold for less than $1 million.
At a glance
Six numbers that describe Lansdowne.
The median single-family home in Lansdowne sold for $1,350,000 in 2026 after a median five days on the market, and 41% sold above the asking price.
Lansdowne is a planned community and census-designated place in unincorporated Loudoun County, with 12,427 residents at the 2020 census. Its homes carry a Leesburg, VA 20176 mailing address, but Lansdowne is not part of the Town of Leesburg, so there is no town tax. Bright MLS files Lansdowne homes under the Leesburg postal city, so the numbers here are the 20176 sales whose subdivision name is Lansdowne: Lansdowne on the Potomac, Lansdowne Town Center, Cadence at Lansdowne and The Vistas at Lansdowne. The same sales are counted on the Leesburg page, and this page sets the two side by side. Lansdowne Woods, a 55+ condominium community, is not in the numbers. Every number is from Bright MLS closed sales, pulled on October 4, 2026, not from a listing site's estimate.
Single-family means a detached house with at least three bedrooms and two full baths; townhouse means end-of-row and interior-row homes; condominium-regime homes are left out of both, which is why Lansdowne Woods does not appear. Source: Bright MLS, closed sales in 2026, County = Loudoun, zip 20176, Subdivision contains Lansdowne, pulled by Ahmed Makkiyah on October 4, 2026.
Prices
$1,350,000 for a Lansdowne house in 2026, $210,000 more than the Leesburg median.
The median Lansdowne house cost $210,000 more than the median Leesburg house ($1,140,000) and about the same as Aldie ($1,348,862), but it bought about 5,600 square feet at $360 a foot, less per foot than Leesburg ($373) or Ashburn ($385).
Houses. 46 houses sold, from $1,000,000 to $3,600,000. 41% sold above asking and 59% went under contract within a week, against 45.5% and 54.7% for Leesburg as a whole. The median house spent five days on the market, a day less than Leesburg's six, and sold at 100.0% of the asking price.
Townhouses. 32 sold at a median of $812,500, from $616,000 to $1,200,000, or $281 a square foot. That is $112,500 more than across Leesburg ($700,000, $314 a foot) and $72,500 more than in Ashburn ($740,000), and $27,500 less than in Brambleton ($840,000). 14 of the 32 sold above asking, and the average townhouse sold at 101.0% of its list price.
Against the county. Middleburg's Loudoun side ($1,765,000) and Waterford ($1,425,000) cost more. Lansdowne and Aldie are $1,138 apart. Brambleton ($1,204,938), Hamilton ($1,200,000), Ashburn ($1,186,700), Leesburg and South Riding ($1,140,000), Broadlands ($1,127,180), Cascades in Sterling ($1,010,000), Purcellville ($920,000), Round Hill and Lovettsville ($850,000) and Sterling ($780,000) cost less.
Median single-family sale price, Loudoun County, 20262
Bright MLS closed sales, 2026 year to date, County = Loudoun, filtered to detached houses with 3+ bedrooms and 2+ full baths, condominium-regime homes left out. Brambleton and Broadlands are their own postal cities, so Ashburn here leaves them out. South Riding (20152) is the Loudoun side of the Chantilly mailing address, nearly all of it South Riding. Hamilton, Purcellville, Round Hill, Lovettsville, Waterford and Middleburg are western Loudoun; Middleburg means the Loudoun County side of its address only. Lansdowne and Cascades are communities selected by zip code and subdivision name inside the Leesburg (20176) and Sterling (20165) addresses, so their sales overlap those rows. Upperville, Bluemont, Hillsboro and the other small places have too few sales to chart.
| Measure | Houses | Townhouses |
|---|---|---|
| Homes sold | 46 | 32 |
| Median sold price | $1,350,000 | $812,500 |
| Average sold price | $1,482,342 | $861,387 |
| Median price per square foot | $360 | $281 |
| Median size and lot | 5,641 sq ft, 0.23 acres | 3,402 sq ft |
| Median year built | 2004 | 2005 |
| Median days on market | 5 | 6.5 |
| Average sold-to-list | 100.6% | 101.0% |
| Sold above asking | 19 (41.3%) | 14 (43.8%) |
| Under contract within 7 days | 59% | 59% |
| Lowest sale | $1,000,000 | $616,000 |
| Highest sale | $3,600,000 | $1,200,000 |
| Cash sales | 2 (4.3%) | 4 (12.5%) |
The average house, $1,482,342, sits above the median because the top of the market pulls it up, to $3,600,000. The median house sold at 100.0% of its asking price; the average, 100.6%. House sales totaled $68.2 million and townhouse sales $27.6 million. These 78 sales are also inside the Leesburg page's numbers, which were pulled two days earlier, on October 2. Lansdowne Woods, condominiums for buyers 55 and older, is left out by the condominium filter.
What can you afford in Lansdowne? Start from the monthly payment you can live with, not the price. Lansdowne pays no town tax, but its homes pay HOA dues; the calculator adds them for you.
Follow the money
2 of 46 Lansdowne house buyers paid cash, and 40 used a conventional loan.
In 2026, cash buyers spent $4.3 million of the $68.2 million paid for Lansdowne houses, 6.3% of the dollars, on two houses at $1,985,000 and $2,300,000. The other 44 house buyers financed: 40 with a conventional loan and 4 with a VA loan.
Share of sales paid in cash, Lansdowne houses and townhouses
Cash is rare for a Lansdowne house: 4.3%, against 13.2% across Leesburg and 16.9% in Ashburn, and close to Brambleton (4.8%). Townhouses are different: 4 of 32 buyers paid cash, 12.5%, a little more than the 10.2% for Leesburg townhouses.
How 46 Lansdowne house purchases were paid for
VA loans paid for 4 of 46 houses and 5 of 32 townhouses, 9 of the 78 Lansdowne purchases. No house in the 2026 sales was bought with an FHA loan.
What that means if you need a loan: you will rarely meet a cash offer on a Lansdowne house, and both cash buys were near $2 million or above. Your competition is other financed buyers, and they move fast: 59% of houses went under contract within a week and 41% sold over asking. Have a full pre-approval, a short inspection window and an appraisal-gap plan decided before the showing.
Townhouses: 22 conventional, 5 VA, 4 cash and 1 other of 32. Mixed cash-and-loan deals were counted as financed.
The interesting facts
No Lansdowne house sold for less than $1,000,000 in 2026, and the median had 5,641 square feet.
Four things in the 2026 numbers that set Lansdowne apart.
A Leesburg address, not the Town of Leesburg. Lansdowne is a census-designated place in unincorporated Loudoun County. Its homes are listed as Leesburg, VA 20176, but they sit outside the town limits, so owners pay the county tax only: about $2,400 a year less on a $1,350,000 house than the same house inside the town. To search it, use the 20176 zip and the subdivision name; a search for "Leesburg" mixes it with the town and the rest of the zip.
More house, smaller lot. The median Lansdowne house had 5,641 square feet and five bedrooms, about 1,400 square feet more than the median Leesburg house (4,198), on a lot of 0.23 acres. At $360 a foot, it costs less per foot than Leesburg ($373), Ashburn ($385) or Cascades ($381), and about the same as Hamilton ($360).
Fast, and financed. 59% of houses went under contract within a week, against 54.7% across Leesburg, but only 2 of 46 house buyers paid cash. Townhouses ran just as fast, and 14 of 32 sold above asking.
Rent or buy
A Lansdowne house sells for 22.5 times its yearly rent, a townhouse for 19.3.
A Lansdowne house rents for a median of $5,000 a month and sells for $1,350,000, a price-to-rent ratio of 22.5; a townhome rents for $3,500 and sells for $812,500, a ratio of 19.3.1
| Measure | Houses | Townhomes |
|---|---|---|
| Homes rented | 7 | 22 |
| Median monthly rent | $5,000 | $3,500 |
| Price-to-rent ratio | 22.5 | 19.3 |
| Gross rental yield | 4.4% | 5.2% |
| Rent range | $4,800 to $7,500 | $2,600 to $5,650 |
Gross yield is before the mortgage, tax, HOA, insurance and upkeep. Both rents are above Leesburg as a whole, $4,250 for a house and $3,250 for a townhome. The house ratio, 22.5, is about the same as Leesburg's (22.4), so renting a Lansdowne house is fair value for a family that may move within a few years. But 7 house leases is a small sample, from $4,800 to $7,500 a month, and one or two leases can move that median, so read the house ratio as a rough guide. A Lansdowne townhouse, at 19.3, costs more years of rent than a Leesburg townhouse (17.9): it sells for $112,500 more but rents for only $250 more a month. 22 townhomes were leased in 2026, against 32 sold.
Own in Lansdowne already? 41% of houses sold above asking this year, and the median sold in five days. Ahmed runs a real comparative analysis against the 78 sales on this page, Lansdowne against Lansdowne, not a website estimate.
The houses
About 2,155 homes around a golf resort, on the Potomac River and Goose Creek.
Lansdowne on the Potomac was built on former plantation land as one planned community of houses and townhouses around Lansdowne Resort, with the Potomac River and Goose Creek at its edges and Route 7 to the south.
Lansdowne on the Potomac. About 2,155 homes, houses and townhouses on curving streets. The median house sold in 2026 was built in 2004, with five bedrooms and 5,641 square feet on 0.23 acres; the median townhouse was built in 2005, with 3,402 square feet.
Town Center, Cadence and The Vistas. Bright MLS also files homes under Lansdowne Town Center, Cadence at Lansdowne and The Vistas at Lansdowne. They are counted here, because the search takes every 20176 sale whose subdivision name includes Lansdowne.
Not counted. Lansdowne Woods, a 55+ community of condominiums, is left out here and on the Leesburg page by the condominium filter. River Creek, the gated golf community next door, is listed under its own name, so it is in the Leesburg numbers but not here.
Townhouses. 32 fee-simple townhouses sold at a median of $812,500, from $616,000 to $1,200,000, at $281 a square foot against $314 across Leesburg.
What to check. The HOA resale package with the dues and any special assessment; the roof, windows and HVAC on a house built around 2004, now more than 20 years old; what the lot backs onto, whether Route 7, the golf course or open space; and, if you want to play, the cost of a golf membership, which is separate from owning a home here.
Schools
Riverside High, in Lansdowne, ranks #11 in Virginia on Niche and #26 on US News.
Lansdowne is Loudoun County Public Schools. Children in Lansdowne attend Seldens Landing Elementary, Belmont Ridge Middle and Riverside High, and Niche places all three in Lansdowne.3
A+
Riverside High School
In Lansdowne, with a Leesburg address. Niche #5 in Loudoun County and #11 in Virginia, US News #26 in Virginia, about 1,710 students and 13 per teacher.
A
Belmont Ridge Middle School
In Lansdowne, and it feeds Riverside. Niche #33 among Virginia public middle schools, about 1,071 students and 14 per teacher.
A-
Seldens Landing Elementary
In Lansdowne. Niche #184 among Virginia public elementary schools, about 508 students and 14 per teacher.
STEM
Academies of Loudoun
About 15 minutes west on Loudoun Academy Drive in Leesburg: the Academy of Science, the Academy of Engineering and Technology and Monroe Advanced Technical Academy on one campus. Students apply.
Masjid
ADAMS Ashburn
The ADAMS Center's Ashburn branch on Beaumeade Circle, about 10 to 15 minutes east, open for all five daily prayers.
Masjid
ADAMS Leesburg
On Sycolin Road in Leesburg, formerly the Muslim Community Center of Leesburg, with all five daily prayers and two Friday prayers.
Halal
Mahi Bazar and More
In Ashburn: Mahi Bazar on Beaumeade Circle has a halal meat counter and cuts to order; More Ind-Pak Groceries on Yukon Drive sells halal meat, including baby goat, and cooked food.
Halal
Eastern World Market
On East Market Street in Leesburg, about 15 minutes west: a halal butcher and grocery with food from the Middle East, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Bosnia.
School boundaries follow the address, not the subdivision name, and LCPS redraws them as new schools open. Check any address at the LCPS school locator, and ask Ahmed to confirm it before you offer.
Commute
Route 7 or the Greenway, 10 to 20 minutes to the Silver Line at Ashburn, 50 to 85 to downtown DC.
Lansdowne sits on Route 7 between downtown Leesburg and Ashburn. Route 7 is the free road east; Belmont Ridge Road runs south to the Dulles Greenway, a private toll road to Dulles Airport and the Toll Road. The Silver Line's Ashburn station is the nearest Metro.
| To | Drive | Route |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown DC | 50 to 85 min | Route 7 or the Greenway to the Toll Road and I-66, or the commuter bus |
| Pentagon | 45 to 75 min | Greenway and Toll Road to I-66, or the commuter bus |
| Tysons | 25 to 45 min | Greenway and Toll Road, or Route 7 |
| Ashburn Metro station | 10 to 20 min | Belmont Ridge Road and the Dulles Greenway |
| Dulles Airport | 15 to 25 min | Dulles Greenway |
| Downtown Leesburg | 10 to 15 min | Route 7 west |
Loudoun County Transit runs weekday commuter buses in the morning and late-afternoon rush only, to Rosslyn, Crystal City, the Pentagon and downtown DC, from park-and-ride lots that include the Leesburg Park and Ride on Gourley Transit Drive.5 The Greenway saves time but its toll is an extra monthly bill, and Route 7 is free but slower at rush hour. If you work at a Silver Line stop, parking at Ashburn station and riding in can beat the drive. Ahmed will do the 7:45 drive with you before you offer.
Daily life
Two championship golf courses, the Potomac, Inova Loudoun Hospital, and about $10,900 a year in county tax.
Outdoors and sights. Lansdowne Resort has two championship golf courses, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. and Greg Norman; golf membership is separate from owning a home here. The HOA's Potomac Club has a beach-entry outdoor pool, a six-lane heated indoor pool and a fitness center, and residents have a kayak and canoe launch on Goose Creek and trails toward the Potomac. Lansdowne Town Center on Promenade Drive has shops and restaurants, and One Loudoun is a few minutes east on Route 7 in Ashburn.
The hospital next door. Inova Loudoun Hospital is on Riverside Parkway in Lansdowne, and the Inova Children's Emergency Room is on the same campus.
Food and groceries. Lansdowne Town Center has Il Cappero for Italian and Bombay Tandoor for an Indian lunch buffet with a dosa station. For halal meat, Mahi Bazar on Beaumeade Circle and More Ind-Pak Groceries on Yukon Drive are in Ashburn, and Eastern World Market is on East Market Street in Leesburg.
Taxes.4 Lansdowne is unincorporated Loudoun County, outside the Town of Leesburg, so there is no town tax despite the Leesburg address. The 2026 county rate is $0.805 per $100: about $10,900 a year on the $1,350,000 median house and $6,500 on an $812,500 townhouse, before HOA dues. The same house inside the town limits, at the town's added $0.1774, would pay about $13,300. Cars pay the county's $3.09 per $100, without the town's extra $1.00.
The HOA. Lansdowne owners pay the community association that runs the Potomac Club, the pools and the common areas. Ask for the resale package, with the dues and any special assessment, before you offer.
Where to eat
"Ahmed, where do you go to eat?" The Lansdowne list.
Up to five picks in each cuisine, the one doing best at the top, and halal marked. Lansdowne Town Center has a few restaurants of its own; One Loudoun and Ashburn are five to fifteen minutes east, downtown Leesburg about fifteen minutes west, and the Lebanese and Afghan kitchens of Sterling about twenty minutes east.7
Closed, so not listed: Silk Road Afghan Cuisine and Lansdowne Tavern on Promenade Drive, and Roxy's Rotisserie Chicken in Lansdowne Town Center, show as closed on Yelp. Rankings weigh current Yelp ratings by review count and whether the place is busy; the halal note comes from Zabihah, Yelp or the restaurant itself, and "ask about halal" means it could not be confirmed. Know one that belongs here? Tell Ahmed.
Who buys here
Move-up families, townhouse buyers and military families, 9 of 78 buyers on VA loans.
Families trading a townhouse or a smaller house for five bedrooms and about 5,600 square feet; townhouse buyers who want the same pools, trails and schools for $812,500; military and veteran families, 9 of the 78 buyers on a VA loan; and Muslim families within about fifteen minutes of ADAMS Ashburn and ADAMS Leesburg.
Buyers choose Lansdowne over the rest of Leesburg for a bigger house, resort amenities, Riverside High and no town tax, and pay about $210,000 more at the median. They choose it over Ashburn ($1,186,700) for more house for the money, $360 a foot against $385, and over Cascades in Sterling ($1,010,000) for about 1,700 more square feet. They give up yard: the median lot is 0.23 acres. If you are torn, decide on the commute and the high school first; the price follows.
Questions
What people ask about Lansdowne.
How much does a house cost in Lansdowne, Virginia in 2026?
The median single-family home (3+ bedrooms, 2+ full baths) in Lansdowne sold for $1,350,000 in 2026, across 46 sales in Bright MLS, at $360 per square foot, and no house sold for less than $1,000,000. The median townhouse sold for $812,500 across 32 sales. That is $210,000 more than the median Leesburg house ($1,140,000), whose numbers include Lansdowne, and about the same as Aldie ($1,348,862). Lansdowne Woods condominiums are not included.
How competitive is the Lansdowne housing market?
Fast: in 2026 the median house sold in 5 days, and 59% of houses and of townhouses went under contract within a week. 41% of houses and 44% of townhouses sold above the asking price. The median house sold at 100.0% of its list price, 100.6% on average.
Do Lansdowne buyers pay cash or use VA loans?
Few pay cash. In 2026, 40 of 46 house buyers used a conventional loan, 4 used a VA loan and 2 paid cash, at $1,985,000 and $2,300,000. Townhouse buyers: 22 conventional, 5 VA, 4 cash and 1 other of 32. Across Leesburg as a whole, 13.2% of house buyers paid cash.
What is rent in Lansdowne, Virginia?
In 2026 the median single-family house leased for $5,000 a month across 7 leases, a small sample, from $4,800 to $7,500. The median townhome leased for $3,500 across 22 leases, from $2,600 to $5,650. Both are higher than Leesburg as a whole ($4,250 and $3,250).
Is it better to rent or buy in Lansdowne?
A median house sells for 22.5 times its yearly rent and a townhouse for 19.3 times, gross yields of 4.4% and 5.2%. The house ratio is about the same as Leesburg's (22.4), so renting a house is fair value if you may move within a few years, though it rests on only 7 leases. A Lansdowne townhouse costs more years of rent than a Leesburg townhouse (17.9).
Which schools serve Lansdowne?
Lansdowne is Loudoun County Public Schools. Children in Lansdowne attend Seldens Landing Elementary (Niche A-, #184 among Virginia public elementary schools), Belmont Ridge Middle (Niche A, #33 among Virginia public middle schools) and Riverside High (Niche A+, #11 in Virginia; US News #26 in Virginia). Check any address with the LCPS school locator.
How long is the commute from Lansdowne to DC?
At 8 am on a weekday, downtown DC is about 50 to 85 minutes by car on Route 7 or the Dulles Greenway, the Toll Road and I-66, the Pentagon 45 to 75, Tysons 25 to 45, the Ashburn Silver Line station 10 to 20 and Dulles Airport 15 to 25. Loudoun County Transit runs rush-hour commuter buses to DC from park-and-ride lots such as the Leesburg Park and Ride. These drive times are estimates.
What is the property tax in Lansdowne, Virginia?
Lansdowne is unincorporated Loudoun County, outside the Town of Leesburg, so there is no town tax despite the Leesburg address. The 2026 county rate is $0.805 per $100: roughly $10,900 a year on the $1,350,000 median house and $6,500 on an $812,500 townhouse, before HOA dues. The same house inside the town limits would pay about $13,300. The vehicle tax is $3.09 per $100.
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Ahmed's take
Two or three sentences in Ahmed's own voice go here: who Ahmed sees buying in Lansdowne, how Ahmed helps a family weigh it against the rest of Leesburg, Ashburn or Cascades, and the first thing Ahmed checks on a listing (the HOA resale package, the age of the roof and systems on a house built around 2004, and the school assignment).
دليل شمال فرجينيا
السكن في لانزداون، فرجينيا.
لانزداون مجمّع سكني مخطط على نهر بوتوماك، حول منتجع فيه ملاعب غولف. عنوانه البريدي ليسبرغ 20176، لكنه يقع خارج حدود بلدة ليسبرغ. بلغ السعر الوسطي للبيت المستقل 1,350,000 دولار في 2026، وللتاون هاوس 812,500 دولار.
البيوت هنا كبيرة: تبلغ مساحة البيت الوسطي 5,641 قدماً مربعاً، وفيه خمس غرف نوم، وسعر القدم 360 دولار، أي أقل من ليسبرغ (373). لم يُبع أي بيت بأقل من مليون دولار. بقي البيت الوسطي في السوق خمسة أيام، وبيعت 41% من البيوت بأكثر من السعر المطلوب، ودفع 2 فقط من 46 مشترياً نقداً. لا توجد ضريبة بلدة، لكن ضريبة مقاطعة لاودن 0.805 دولار لكل 100، أي نحو 10,900 دولار سنوياً على البيت الوسطي، عدا رسوم جمعية الملاك (HOA). المدارس: سيلدنز لاندنغ الابتدائية، وبلمونت ريدج المتوسطة، وريفرسايد الثانوية. يقع مركز آدمز آشبرن على شارع بيوميد سيركل، وتوجد متاجر لحم حلال في آشبرن وعلى شارع إيست ماركت في ليسبرغ. جميع الأرقام من Bright MLS، مبيعات مغلقة في 2026 حتى بداية أكتوبر، وهي محسوبة أيضاً ضمن أرقام ليسبرغ.
قبل أن تقدّم عرضاً، اطلب أوراق جمعية الملاك (HOA) وتأكد من المدرسة المخصصة للعنوان بالضبط. هل تحتار بين لانزداون وبقية ليسبرغ أو آشبرن؟ أرسل لي تفاصيل وضعك، وسأحسب معك أرقامك الحقيقية، بالعربية أو بالإنجليزية.
وكيلك العقاري الموثوق في شمال فرجينيا.
Leesburg
A historic town, 433 houses sold.
$1.14M
Median house, 2026
Ashburn
The end of the Silver Line.
$1.187M
Median house, 2026
Buying power
Start from the payment.
Tax, insurance and HOA included
Home valuation
Priced on evidence.
A real comparative analysis, not a website estimate
Cascades
Pools, trails and the river in Sterling.
$1.01M
Median house, 2026
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