This week, former Commanders owner Dan Snyder’s Potomac River estate in Fairfax County (specifically, a part of Fairfax County that’s postmarked as Alexandria)—known as River View Estate—hit the market for $49.9 million.
Feeling a little de ja vu? There could be two reasons for that. Allow us to break it down. First: Snyder and his wife, Tanya, initially bought this house, River View, in November 2021—reportedly for $48 million in cash—earning a slew of buzzy headlines calling it the most expensive home sold in the Greater Washington area. In July 2023, less than two years later, Snyder sold the Commanders (for $6.05 billion), and 11 months after that, in June 2024, River View went back on the market—with a whopping $60 million price tag. At some point—according to Redfin, in February of this year—the listing was removed, and on Wednesday, it returned with a new broker (Michael Sobhi, The Sobhi Group of Real Broker) and a new list price of $49.9 million.
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If that’s still confusing, perhaps it’s because Snyder’s other former estate, known as River House—and also on the Potomac River, but located on River Road in Potomac, Maryland—also caught a lot of buzz in the last few years when it was listed for a nearly identically staggering $49 million in February 2023, had its price dropped, was donated to the American Cancer Society, was listed again, was reduced in price again (twice), and finally sold at auction in December for $13.29 million. It’s a lot of Dan Snyder estate-on-the-Potomac-River sales news, we get it.
Back to River View—the house currently on the market. There are eight bedrooms and a slew of bathrooms, with a main house, a guest house, and a carriage house, the latter of which includes a studio apartment and a four-car garage. The property is designed to work as both a private home and a gathering spot, says listing agent Michael Sobhi. “The property offers an extraordinary level of privacy . . . while still being designed to accommodate entertaining on a remarkable scale,” says Sobhi. “It has the ability to host hundreds of guests comfortably, yet still function as an intimate private residence.”
In fact, according to the listing, the main house has an entire floor dedicated to entertaining, with a full bar, billiards table, and doors that open to the river. There’s also a wine cellar, a private theater, and a fitness center and spa with an indoor resistance pool, steam room, sauna, and more. All on 16.5 acres of land with 400 feet of waterfront, and a private dock.
“That combination of ultra-privacy, scale, waterfront living, and proximity to the center of power is incredibly rare,” Sobhi says.
If it sells at this price, it’ll be the most expensive property sold in the DMV for the second time, outselling its own last sale by a ($1.9 million) hair. See the photos of the estate below.
Amy leads Washingtonian Weddings and writes Style Setters for Washingtonian. Prior to joining Washingtonian in March 2016, she was the editor of Capitol File magazine in DC and before that, editor of What’s Up? Weddings in Annapolis.
