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A neighborhood of post war cape cods colonials ramblers and split levels.  Oakview is located in a convenient area of Silver Spring,  inside the beltway and approximately 2 miles to the Washington, D.C. border.  Oakview is bordered by Northwest Branch Park, the Beltway, New Hampshire Avenue and Stateside Drive.  There are 692 Single Family Homes in Oakview. Oakview has the most affordable single family homes in Silver Spring that are located INSIDE the Beltway!

Market Report for Single Family (Detached) Homes in the Oakview Neighborhood of Silver Spring, Md 20903  Real Estate Activity from November 5th 2007 to February 5th 2007. 

Currently 18 Active Listings
Price Range $269,900 to $549,900
Average Price for Active Listings - $406,650
Average Time on the Market - 162 Days

1 Pending (Listings Under Contract)
List Price for Pending Listing - $365,000
Days on Market - 9

10 Listings were Withdrawn Expired from the Market
Average List Price of Withdrawn Listings - $453,870
Average Days on Market before withdrawl - 127

6 Sold Listings
Average List Price - $385,549
Average Sold Price - $377,583
Average Days on Market - 101

2007 Year End Sales Report 
There were 23 Homes Sold in Oakview in all of 2007. 
The Average List (Asking)Price in 2007 was  - $420,612 and the Average SOLD Price was - $415,065
The Average Amount of Seller Credits or Subsidy to Buyers in 2007 was $13,500 per House Sold
The Average Time it took to sell a House in Oakview was 80 Days

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A neighborhood of post war cape cods colonials ramblers and split levels.  Oakview is located in a convenient area of Silver Spring,  inside the beltway and approximately 2 miles to the Washington, D.C. border.  Oakview is bordered by Northwest Branch Park, the Beltway, New Hampshire Avenue and Stateside Drive.  There are 692 Single Family Homes in Oakview. Oakview has the most affordable single family homes in Silver Spring that are located INSIDE the Beltway!

Market Report for Single Family (Detached) Homes in the Oakview Neighborhood of Silver Spring, Md 20903  Real Estate Activity from March 30 to August 30th 2007

Currently 23 Active Listings
Price Range $390,000 to $575,000
Average Price for Active Listings - $452,721
Average Time on the Market - 104 Days

2 Pendings (Listings Under Contract)
Average Price for Pending Listings $325,000
Average Days on Market - 119

12 Listings were Withdrawn Expired from the Market
Average List Price of Withdrawn Listings - $455,000
Average Days on Market before withdrawl -145

10 Sold Listings
Average List Price - $453,400
Average Sold Price - $445,000
Average Days on Market - 60

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The Oakview Pool was the first Community Neighborhood Swimming Pool in Mongomery County.  The  Pool opened in 1957. The pool was built and is still owned by the Oakview Recreation Corporation, a group of Oakview Residents.
Oakview Pool is home to the OAKVIEW OCTOPI a very active swim team that competes with other swim teams in Mongomery County.  This year, they mark their 50th Aniversary.  Along with their regularly scheduled Annual Community Day in early June, the Oakview Pool is planning a Big 50th Aniversary Event for Pool Members.
 
In honor of their 50th year the Recreation Corporation is putting together a scrap book for a trip down memory lane. The Board members would like help finding old photographs and memorbilia for the scrapbook.  If you, or your relatives, or someone you know ever lived in the Oakview Neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland and have old photos (don't care how old or beat up the photo is), or memorabilia, or a story of the Pool or Neighborhood - The board would appreciate anything you know of!





Please contact Jean Mack, Treasurer of the Oakview Recreation Corporation: 

By phone (240)601-9334 or her email jotz34@earthlink.net 

She will return all photos and memorbilia after copies are made.

For more info about the Oakview Pool and the Swim Team visit the Pool Website

For more information, demograhics, history and photos of Oakview

A neighborhood of post war cape cods colonials ramblers and split levels.  Oakview is located in a convenient area of Silver Spring,  inside the beltway and approximately 2 miles to the Washington, D.C. border.  Oakview is bordered by Northwest Branch Park, the Beltway, New Hampshire Avenue and Stateside Drive.  There are 692 Single Family Homes in Oakview. Oakview has the most affordable single family homes in Silver Spring that are located INSIDE the Beltway!

Oakview's pride and joy is the Neighborhood Swim Club.  Built in the 1950's it was the first Community Swim Club  in Montgomery County.  The pool was refurbished recently and has a very active Swim Team and general Membership. Fun for all ages! The pool is celebrating it's 50th Year anniversary this Year and lots of celebration is planned in the community

Oakview can also boast of a newly constructed "state of the art" Montgomery County Elementary School built in 2005.  Roscoe Nix Elementary School 

Oakview has the Beautiful Northwest Branch Park as a natural Border.  The park offers hiking, biking and running.  The part of the park that borders Oakview has a large Northwest Branch Stream running through it.

                                                             Early Oakview History

     Late in the Civil War, a Mr. W.W. Rapley purchased some 382 acres of forest land, which covered all of present day Oakview from South Dilston Rd to what are now the Xaverian College grounds. The land was gradually cleared during the latter half of the nineteenth century and planted with crops of wheat, corn , hay and grain. A large house, surrounded by magnificent oaks, was built in the area of Cahart Place. These oaks remain as one of the reminders of the past.
 
     In the late nineteenth century, Washington's "400" could be seen on many Saturday nights driving up to the mansion in sleek black carriages, via a winding path, now known as Avenel Road. After the Rapley family purchased an interest in the old National Theater , stage personalities joined the high-ranking government officials at the gala events held at the Rapley home.
    
     By the turn of the century, cattle roamed the fields and some 50 thoroughbred horses graced the many barns surrounding the mansion. A small racetrack was built in the general area around South Dilston and Braddock Roads. The land south of the Rapley Esates was part of a track called "Hard struggle" and had been purchased late in the 19th century  by Mr. W.R. Smith. A Scotsman of the Cameron clan, he named the area "Cameronia" and built a house which was burned several years ago.  Mr. Smith planted some exotic trees of which still remain.
     
     Each Spring, the rolling fields of Cameronia became a mecca for picnickers who followed Sligo Creek to Carrol Avenue, then over to Brown's Corner (Piney Branch & University Blvd). The more adventurous continued on the path along Piney Branch to Avenel Road. Many hiked as far as the large barn on the top of the hill (site of Good Shepherd Methodist Church) from which they could survey the Rapley farm. Some even wandered down to the track to watch the horses perform over the steeplechase hurdles.
    
      The beginning of modern Oakview took place shortly after the end of World War II. One of the many  picnickers, a Mr. Ernest Brandt, decided to make this area his home and approached Mr. James Hyslop, who had purchased Cameronia in 1918. Although Mr. Hyslop did not wish to split one acre, he agreed to sell 12 acres which were duly purchased by Mr. Brandt and nine other WWII veterans living in Silver Spring.  The plot was divided into relatively equal sections and the ancestor of the OCA meeting took place in the Brandt home for the purpose of dividing the area. The ex-soldiers cleared the heavily-wooded area and named their street "Stateside Drive".
    
      In 1948 the Light Construction Company purchased the entire Rapley tract and the bulldozers began constuction of the Oakview subdivision. The first houses extended on both sides of Oakview Drive, which was paved down to Braddock Road.  Although paving ended here in 1950 houses were built on either side of Dilston Road running north from what is presently Oakview Drive to what was to become Moffet Road.  The rest of the story is too well known to need retelling. The rapid building of the remaining houses, the birth of OCA, the fight for school bus service and numerous other activities made Oakview what it is today.

This is a condensed version of an article written by BERNIE LIEB (ex-Citizen Editor 1956, 1957; OCA
President 1957-1958)

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