Pull up four different sites this week and search Cameron Station home prices, and you will get four different answers. Redfin puts the median sold price at $678,000 for March 2026, up 10.2 percent year over year. Movoto lists the median asking price at $802,000 for August 2026, down 1 percent from the year before. Homes.com shows $777,000 as the median home price, twice, on two separate pages, five months apart. None of these sites made an error. They are all measuring something different, and once you see why, you will read every other neighborhood's median price differently too.
One Name, Eight Housing Markets
Cameron Station gets marketed as a single neighborhood because it has one entrance, one clubhouse, and one HOA logo. Underneath that logo sits a master association that governs shared roads, landscaping, and the Cameron Club, plus six separate condominium sub associations that govern nothing but their own buildings. Add single-family homes and townhomes, which fall under the master association alone, and you have three product types and at least eight distinct governance and pricing structures wearing one neighborhood name.
That matters because a "median" is only useful when it describes a single, comparable pool of homes. Cameron Station's pool includes detached houses that push past $1,000,000, townhomes running from the $600,000s into the $1,100,000s, and condos currently priced in the $500,000s. Blend those together into one number and you get something that describes no actual home for sale.
Here is what each product type looked like in its own listing window this year:
| Housing type | Price range | Days on market | Data window |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condos | $525,000–$625,000 | 20 days | June 2026 |
| Townhomes | $605,000–$1,175,000 | 17 days | January 2026 |
| Single-family homes | Upwards of $1,000,000 for park-adjacent properties | Not separately reported | Current listings |
The spread between the low end of the condo range and the high end of the townhome range is roughly $650,000. A single blended median tells you nothing about which end of that spread you are actually shopping.
Where the Numbers Quietly Break
Here is the detail that most buyers never catch. The Homes.com page filtered specifically for condos, pulled in June 2026, displays a headline "median home price" of $777,000, the exact same figure shown on the separate page filtered for townhomes, pulled five months earlier in January 2026. A condo-only page and a townhome-only page, covering different inventory in different months, showing an identical top-line number is not a coincidence. It means that badge number is a sitewide neighborhood average sitting on top of a filtered page, not a figure recalculated for what the page is actually showing you.
If you are comparing Cameron Station to another Alexandria neighborhood using that badge, you are comparing an unfiltered average to whatever the other site happens to calculate for its own unfiltered average, which may use a different date range, a different mix of sold versus listed prices, and a different sample size entirely. Redfin's $678,000 is a sold-price median from actual March closings. Movoto's $802,000 is a listed-price median from active inventory in August. Comparing those two numbers to each other, or to a badge that never changed when the underlying page did, will not tell you what a Cameron Station home costs. It will tell you which methodology you happened to land on.
Six Buildings, Six Different Fee Conversations
The condo side of Cameron Station carries its own layer of complexity that a townhome or single-family buyer never has to think about. Cameron Station's own management page draws the line clearly:
Sub Associations within Cameron Station are managed separately from the Master Association.
In practice, that means the community includes six distinct condominium sub associations, split across three different management companies. Cameron Station Condominium, Carlton Place Condominium, and Main Street Condominium are managed by Community Association Management Professionals. The Condominiums at Cameron Station Boulevard and Oakland Hall Condominium are managed by Community Management Corporation. Woodland Hall Condominium has its own manager, Gordon James Realty.
Each of those six associations sets its own condo fee, funds its own reserves, and handles its own building maintenance on top of what every resident already pays the master association for the Cameron Club, the pool, and the shared grounds. Two condo listings at the same price in the same zip code can carry meaningfully different fees, different reserve health, and different special assessment risk, depending on which of the six buildings they sit in. A five-story building like Cameron Square, completed in 2007 with 149 units, carries a different maintenance profile than an older building from the community's first phase in 1999. When you are comparing a condo here to a condo somewhere else, the building's specific association matters as much as the neighborhood name on the listing.
What the Sticker Price Actually Buys
Real listings from this year give a clearer sense of what each band means in practice than any median can:
- A top-floor, two-bedroom condo with a renovated kitchen and hardwood floors around 1,034 square feet, priced with two assigned parking spaces
- A Hudson model condo, three bedrooms and 2.5 baths, described by its own listing agents as rarely available
- A Gatsby model townhome, four levels and over 2,500 square feet, with a fenced rear yard and an attached one-car garage
- An Arlington model end-unit townhome near Brenman Park, prized for its extra windows and light
- A Greenbrier penthouse in Carlton Place, one of only three of that layout in the building, with four bedrooms and 3.5 baths
Location inside the community also moves the price independent of square footage. Homes.com's own neighborhood profile notes that prices here range from roughly $500,000 for a two-bedroom condo up to seven figures for a park-side property with a view, which means proximity to Ben Brenman Park carries its own premium on top of whatever the housing type itself commands.
The Fee Trap When You Compare Across Alexandria
If your search extends beyond Cameron Station, the same instinct to compare on sticker price alone will mislead you again. A one-bedroom condo at Watergate at Landmark, a few miles away in Alexandria's West End, listed in March 2026 at $299,000 for 863 square feet, well under Cameron Station's current condo floor of $525,000. But Watergate's condo fee bundles in electricity, gas, water, sewer, and parking. At least one Cameron Station condo listing this year specifically flags that its fee covers standard utilities except electricity, meaning that buyer carries a separate power bill the Watergate buyer does not. A lower purchase price with a smaller all-in fee coverage is not automatically the better deal. It depends on what you are actually paying for once you own it.
What This Means If You're Comparing Neighborhoods
Before you treat any neighborhood's median price as a decision-making number, ask three questions. Is this a sold price or a listed price, and from which month? Does it cover all housing types or one filtered segment, and does the badge number on the page actually match that filter? And if the home is a condo, which of the building's sub associations governs it, since that determines the real monthly cost and the building's financial health far more than the neighborhood's overall average ever will.
Do all six condo sub associations pay the same fee? No. Each of the six associations sets its own budget and reserve funding independently, so fees vary by building even within Cameron Station.
Does a single-family home in Cameron Station belong to one of the six condo associations? No. Single-family homes and most townhomes fall under the master Cameron Station Community Association only. The six sub associations exist specifically to govern condominium buildings and units.
Why did Redfin show 10 percent growth while Movoto showed a 1 percent decline in roughly the same window? They were not measuring the same thing. Redfin's figure was a sold-price median from actual March 2026 closings. Movoto's figure was a listed-price median from active August 2026 inventory. Asking prices and closed prices can move in different directions in the same market.
If you are trying to figure out what a specific Cameron Station home, or a specific building within it, is actually worth right now, a headline median will not get you there. Paul Gonzalez works this neighborhood building by building. Let's Connect and get a number that actually matches the home you're looking at.
