A Guide To The Best Bethesda Neighborhoods For Building Your New Home  

Bethesda

Bethesda Maryland is a highly desirable city to live in. Bethesda is a very wealthy area and has highly educated people living there.

Some of the neighboring communities Bethesda is associated with are: Chevy Chase, Kensington, Potomac, McLean, Falls Church, and Washington D.C.

Bethesda is also know for it’s excellent public and private schools. See the list of schools below.

And Bethesda has been voted best place to live on many lists, such as Forbes 2009 Best Towns to Live in.

This Bethesda builder designed and built this new contemporary home:

Paramount Construction is a Bethesda Builder Building New Homes

Paramount Construction are award winning new home Bethesda builders. Paramount has the largest list of new homes and building lots in Bethesda and the DC area. This Bethesda builder also have an in-house architect who has been with them for over 16 years. Paramount Construction has never designed or built the same home twice.

Paramount Construction is one of the few Bethesda builders that specialize in contemporary new homes. Each new home Paramount Construction designs is designed to fit optimally in each building lot. 

If you’d like to learn more about our Bethesda building lots or building lots in Chevy Chase, Arlington, McLean, Washington DC or Falls Church, call 301-370-6463.

Here’s a new home we just finished in downtown Bethesda. This home is on Fairfield Road, a few blocks to the Bethesda Metro and the Harris Teeter Store:

Here’s another new Bethesda home we just completed in Bannockburn, on Callander Drive: 

And here are three Bethesda new homes which are move-in ready right now:

1. 5700 Tanglewood Drive Bethesda in Kenwood Park- 22 minute walk to downtown Bethesda

2. 5908 Beech Avenue Bethesda in Wyngate- move in ready in Wyngate – SOLD

3. 5908 Rolston Road Bethesda in Wyngate- SOLD

And if you can wait for the home to be built, this Bethesda builder has many, many more Bethesda building lots, here’s just a few:

1. 6002 Maiden Lane Bethesda – 10,300 sf lot – Kenwood Park neighborhood
2. 6005 Maiden Lane Bethesda – 10,000 sf lot – SOLD
3. 6529 Elgin Lane Bethesda – 14,800 sf lot – Bannockburn neighborhood
4. 7000 Amy Lane Bethesda – 11,000 sf lot
5. 5905 Wiltshire Drive Bethesda – 7,200 sf lot
6. 8009 Newdale Road Bethesda – 8,900 sf lot in Westboro- 12 minute walk to Bethesda Metro
7. 5209 Baltimore Ave. Bethesda – 7,700 sf lot – 20 minute walk to Friendship Heights Metro,
Paramount Construction has a large list of tear-down building lots and new homes in these
Bethesda and Chevy Chase neighborhoods:

1. Cabin John
2. Glen Echo
3. Bannockburn Estates (you’ll love our Nevis Model)
4. Bannockburn Coop – (Check out this excellent building lot)
5. Kenwood Park – (here’s a 10K sf flat lot for sale)
6. Battery Park
7. Bradley Hills – (check out our Garfield Model with a first floor master suite at 8801 Garfield St.)
8. Wyngate – (here’s a brand new Arts & Crafts home for sale)
9. Glen Echo Heights – check our our Iroquois Model built in Glen Echo Heights
10. Mohican Hills
11. Tulip Hills
12. Chevy Chase West – (check out this new home at 4815 De Russey Pkwy)
13. Westboro – (check out this lot at 4602 Chase Ave.)
14. Town of Chevy Chase (check out our Metro Contemporary)
15. Kenwood
16. Town of Somerset (excellent building lot near the Somerset Pool – 4712 Essex Ave.)
17. Edgemoor (7114 Exfair new home – walk to Bethesda Metro)
18. Section 3 Chevy Chase
19. Section 5 Chevy Chase (Williams Lane Section 5 new home coming soon)
20. Brookdale – (walk 5 blocks to Friendship Heights Metro)
21. Brookmont
22. Wood Acres
23. Chevy Chase Village
24. Village of Chevy Chase

The Best Bethesda Builders 

You can see the best Bethesda builders here.

Here’s a map of Bethesda and Chevy Chase (circled in red):

Bethesda Builders map of Bethesda & Chevy Chase

Slideshow map of Bethesda Neighborhoods:

Public primary schools located in Bethesda include:

Ashburton Elementary School
Bannockburn Elementary School
Bethesda Elementary School
Bradley Hills Elementary School
Burning Tree Elementary School
Carderock Springs Elementary School
Seven Locks Elementary School
Westbrook Elementary School
Wyngate Elementary School
Wood Acres Elementary School

Public middle schools located in Bethesda include:

North Bethesda Middle School
Thomas W. Pyle Middle School
Westland Middle School

Public high schools located in Bethesda include:

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
Walt Whitman High School
Walter Johnson High School

Private schools located in Bethesda include:

Georgetown Preparatory School
Feynman School
Holton-Arms
Landon
St. Bartholomew (Blue Ribbon elementary school. PK–8)
Little Flower School (K–8[20])
Mater Dei School Norwood (in the Potomac CDP)
Our Lady of Lourdes School
Sidwell Friends School (Lower School)
Saint Jane de Chantal Catholic School (preK–8)
Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart
The Woods Academy
The Harbor School
The French International School – Lycee Rochambeau
Washington Episcopal School (N–8)
Washington Waldorf School
Oneness-Family School
Bethesda Community School
National Intelligence University

Check out this contemporary new home for sale in Bethesda. The schools are Walt Whitman HS, Pyle MS and Bannockburn ES. It is walking distance to Walt Whitman HS and a 5 minute drive to downtown Bethesda near the Bethesda Apple Store. This home could have a first floor bedroom and an elevator.

Kenwood Bethesda Maryland Neighborhood

While Kenwood appears to lie within Bethesda’s general boundaries, its Zip Code makes it part of Chevy Chase.

Located south of Bradley Hills, and between Kenwood Golf & Country Club to the west and Chevy Chase Terrace to the east, Kenwood is known for both its beautiful luxury homes and for its Japanese cherry trees that line its streets. Kenwood’s cherry blossoms are said to rival those of Washington, DC’s tidal basin. And you can get more information on viewing the cherry blossoms here.

Most of the 300 or so homes in the Kenwood area are large colonials, though there are a couple of condominium buildings and smaller townhouses located at the neighborhood’s south end.

There is a mix of lot sizes, though most tend to be a quarter-acre and up. The 12-month median price for a home in Kenwood is just below $1.4 million, with recent listing prices ranging from $280,000 (condo) to almost $4 million. Here are some home plans ideal for these larger lots in Kenwood.

 

Kenwood provides its residents with easy walking-distance access to downtown Bethesda and a closer walk to the stores and services south in Westwood.

If you prefer a smaller lot closer to downtown Bethesda, you may like the East Bethesda neighborhood, just a few blocks from the Marriott headquarters.

River Road passes the west side of the neighborhood providing easy access to Washington, DC. Public school options include Somerset Elementary, Westland Middle, and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High. And here’s a Town of Somerset 12,400 SF flat lot near the Somerset pool for sale.   

Frequently Asked Kenwood Questions

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