4107 Clagett Rd, Hyattsville

4107 Clagett Road, Hyattsville, MD — How a Two-Bedroom Colonial Became a $950,000 Showpiece in College Heights Estates

Not every rehab project starts with a teardown vision. Sometimes the right move is to look at what a house is trying to be — and give it the space to finally get there.

That was the story at 4107 Clagett Road, a 1940 Colonial sitting on a generous quarter-acre lot in College Heights Estates, one of the most desirable pockets of Hyattsville. When I acquired the property, it was a well-located but undersized two-bedroom home with 1,688 square feet and a floor plan that had never quite kept up with what modern buyers in this market expect. The bones were excellent — solid Colonial construction, great lot, a neighborhood with real cachet — but the upstairs was cramped and the kitchen was too small to justify the price point the location deserved. The project was about surgical expansion: two targeted structural moves that unlocked an entirely different category of buyer.

The Primary Suite: Unlocking the Attic

The upper level of the original house had an attic bedroom over the rear — the kind of space that's technically livable but never quite feels like it. Low roofline, limited square footage, no bathroom attached, no real sense of retreat. It's one of the most common limitations I see in older Colonials in this part of Prince George's County, and it's one of the most solvable problems if you're willing to do the work.

We opened up and expanded the entire rear attic space to build a proper primary suite from scratch. The existing roofline was restructured to create full, comfortable ceiling height throughout. What emerged is a genuinely large primary bedroom with room for a real furniture layout — not the squeeze-in-a-queen-and-call-it-done situation that was there before. Attached is a full primary bathroom with all the finishes buyers at this price point expect: tile, quality fixtures, and a layout designed around how people actually use the space. And critically, we built in a walk-in closet — the single feature that, in my experience, separates a primary suite from just a big bedroom in the eyes of most buyers.

The result is a top floor that feels like a completely different house from what was there before. Two additional bedrooms and a full hall bath round out the upper level, giving the home a proper three-bedroom upper floor where there had essentially been one usable room.

The Kitchen: 40 Square Feet That Changed Everything

The kitchen addition is a smaller intervention in square footage terms — 40 feet cantilevered out over the garage — but its impact on the livability and marketability of the home is disproportionate to its size. The original kitchen was tight, with limited counter space, a constrained layout, and no real room to build the kind of gourmet kitchen that College Heights buyers are shopping for when they're spending north of $800,000.

The cantilever addition extended the kitchen footprint without touching the garage below, a structurally clean solution that added exactly the space needed to build a full gourmet kitchen. The finished kitchen features quality cabinetry, stone countertops, stainless steel appliances, and the layout room to actually cook and gather in the space. Opening the kitchen to the dining room created the open main-floor flow that buyers in this market have come to expect — a layout that reads as modern even inside an 84-year-old Colonial.

Also on the main floor: a library with pocket doors and a half bath — a flex space that functions as a home office, reading room, or formal sitting room depending on the buyer's needs. It's the kind of detail that shows up in listings as an afterthought but lands as a genuine differentiator with buyers who work from home.

The Rest of the Home

Beyond the two headline moves, the renovation touched every level of the house. The basement was finished to add a fourth bedroom and a full bathroom — functional flex space that works as a guest suite, au pair room, or home office. Upstairs laundry was added on the bedroom level, eliminating one of the most common friction points buyers raise when touring older homes in this area. The screened-in porch off the rear was preserved and refinished, connecting the main living area to a backyard that, at 12,000 square feet of lot, gives this home more outdoor space than most anything else in the neighborhood.

The full renovation covered new systems, updated electrical and plumbing throughout, hardwood floors, and recessed lighting across all levels. The exterior presents as a clean, classic Colonial — the additions are structurally integrated in a way that doesn't shout "addition" from the street.

The Outcome: From $545,000 to $950,000 in One Renovation Cycle

The numbers tell the story cleanly. The house sold in August 2023 for $545,000 as a two-bedroom, 1,688-square-foot home. After the renovation, it sold in September 2024 for $950,000 — in one day on market. The transformation added nearly 1,500 square feet of finished living space, two bedrooms, and a full bathroom, and repositioned the property from a two-bedroom starter into a four-bedroom, four-bath family home with a primary suite and a gourmet kitchen. In a neighborhood where serious buyers are actively looking for move-in ready homes at this size, it sold exactly the way a well-executed project should.

College Heights Estates is one of those Hyattsville neighborhoods that tends to hold value well precisely because the housing stock is older and doesn't turn over quickly. When a fully renovated home hits that market, buyers move fast. That's the bet this project was built around — and it paid off.

Interested in what a value-add project could look like for a property you're considering? I've done this work firsthand across Hyattsville and the broader Prince George's County market. If you're evaluating a home with expansion potential, reach out and let's talk through the numbers.

📞 Ryan Hehman | Email: Ryan.Hehman@Compass.com | Direct: 443-990-1230