Perched on a tree-lined street just outside Washington, D.C., a sprawling estate teeming with athletic amenities and ties to local sports history just hit the market.
The nearly 15,000-square-foot mansion sits on 2 acres in Bethesda, Maryland, an affluent suburb of the nation’s capital. The estate is listed privately for $11 million by Robert Hryniewicki, Adam Rackliffe, Christopher Leary and Micah Smith of HRL Partners at Washington Fine Properties.
Beyond its size and amenities, the property boasts a tie to the region’s sports history. Between 2019 and 2023, it was home to Washington Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal. During Beal's 11 seasons with the Wizards, he moved up to No. 2 on the team's all-time leading scorer list behind power forward Elvin Hayes. After the 2022-2023 season, Beal was traded to the Phoenix Suns.
Homes.com data shows that Beal sold the property in 2023 for $9.185 million. Before he sold the property, though, Beal oversaw the rebuilding of the home’s underground basketball court, creating a unique amenity in the D.C. area, according to HRL Partners' Smith.
“The entire package together is extremely rare,” Smith said in an email interview. “If a buyer is looking for this specifically, there may be one or no options at all at any given time in the capital region.”
In addition to the basketball court, the estate also boasts six bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, an elevator, a pool and an outdoor tennis court. Also, the current owners recently completed a complete interior refresh as well as several exterior upgrades.
Taken together, those offerings create “an amazing one-of-a-kind property estate offering,” Smith said.
Busy DC housing market
The listing comes at a time of turnover in the D.C. area’s luxury housing market.
Since President Donald Trump was elected in November, there’s been an increase in demand from wealthy buyers, especially from members of his second administration.
For example, presumptive commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick, the CEO of investment giant Cantor Fitzgerald, paid $25 million in cash for his new home in D.C.'s Foxhall neighborhood, according to media reports. And David Sacks, the Paypal cofounder Trump appointed as his “White House A.I. & crypto czar,” purchased a $10.3 million penthouse in Northwest D.C., as Axios first reported.
Over the past month alone, there have been 13 houses in the city and its suburbs have hit the market priced at $7 million or higher, according to Homes.com. Moreover, that only accounts for houses that have been publicly listed on multiple listing services, or MLS, the online platforms real estate agents use to share their for-sale properties.
Some luxury buyers and sellers, such as the owners of Beal's former Bethesda mansion, opt to keep their transactions off the MLS, though.
“The private listing offers only exclusive access for buyers in search of a rare opportunity like this,” Smith said. “Since it is not available publicly to the whole world on the MLS, we are tasked with marketing it in a more fine-tuned way i.e. reaching out to other agents who sell in the ultra-luxury price range, social media marketing, email campaigns, print advertising, and other ways of reaching the right audience. This gives the sellers more privacy and offers an option of less pomp and circumstance surrounding the process of putting your home publicly for sale.”
Given that marketing strategy, Smith said he expects a “serious” buyer to purchase the estate.
“It’s most likely a buyer working with a strong, luxury sales agent who knows this market and is plugged into the agent networking sphere,” he said. “It could also be a buyer that isn’t necessarily in the market for a home but then sees this home on their social media feed, or they receive an email about it, and then they reach out to see it.”