Folks looking to become luxury home owners in the District this year are going to be spoiled for choice.

Project “1101 Penn” will also feature condominiums and two other retail spaces.

And they will be smaller than earlier this decade.

The Georgetown West Heating Plant was sold last week, and now we know what will come of it: high-end condos, of course.

The Central Union Mission building on 14th and R Streets NW will soon become boutique condos, but one thing might stay the same—the name.

The 216 condos in the massive CityCenterDC development in Chinatown are being marketed, and no surprise here: they’re not cheap.

The Onyx on First apartments The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics released the petition documents today of those individuals who filed initiative measure applications for the so-called “Marriage Initiative of 2009.” This is the petition put together by a group of D.C. area Baptist ministers, led by the outspoken Bishop Harry Jackson, who are seeking to put the question of whether to legalize same-sex marriage in the District up for a popular vote….

The Week in Real Estate is a column from Mark Wellborn of UrbanTurf, a local blog and newsletter that covers the residential real estate scene in D.C., MD, and VA. Auctions usually bring to mind a motor-mouthed auctioneer, a frenetic bidding process, and such tight competition between bidders that the actual prize up for grabs can take a back seat to winning. Condo auctions, like the one held this past weekend in Rockville, veer slightly…