There’s a new record home sale in greater Washington.
The 3.2-acre McLean estate that belonged to Jim Kimsey, the late co-founder of AOL, sold for $45 million on Friday, according to listing agents Mark Lowham and Russell Firestone of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty. The buyer was not disclosed. Lowham and Firestone declined further comment.
The sale price is significantly less than the $62.95 million the Chain Bridge Road home initially listed for in 2018, but it still marks the most expensive home sale ever for the region. It edges out the $43 million sale in 2018 of Merrywood estate in McLean from Jean and Steve Case (a fellow AOL co-founder) to The Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Merrywood was the childhood home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
The Kimsey property, named The Falls, features a main house and a guest house, the latter of which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
The main house has nine bedrooms, 13 full bathrooms and seven half-baths — and each…
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