Liz Lavette Shorb is an Associate Broker at Washington Fine Properties, a Compass company, based in Washington DC. She brings more than three decades of luxury residential real estate experience across the District, Maryland and Virginia, and is known for estate sales, off-market transactions and upper-bracket homes in neighborhoods such as Chevy Chase, Georgetown and Kalorama.
Professional Background
Liz Lavette Shorb, also known as Liz Shorb or Elizabeth Lavette Shorb, has spent over thirty years representing buyers and sellers of significant homes in the Washington DC metropolitan area. As an Associate Broker at Washington Fine Properties, a Compass company, she works at the firm's office at 3201 New Mexico Avenue NW in Northwest Washington, serving clients across the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
That three-decade tenure matters in a market like Washington. Luxury transactions in the capital region often involve estates, trusts, diplomatic considerations and privacy requirements that reward experience over volume. Liz Lavette Shorb has built her practice around exactly those situations, and her own site notes that she is recognized among the top one percent of agents nationally. Clients who work with her get an agent who has priced, negotiated and closed upper-bracket homes through multiple market cycles, from rising markets to slow ones.
What Liz Lavette Shorb Specializes In
- Luxury residential sales. Her core practice is the sale and purchase of significant homes in Washington DC and the close-in Maryland and Virginia suburbs, where preparation, presentation and negotiation carry more weight than in the broader market.
- Estate and trust sales. Selling a home out of an estate involves executors, attorneys, court timelines and family decision-making, and Liz Shorb has written about how estate sales work in DC from the agent's side of the table.
- Off-market and private transactions. Many of the area's most notable homes change hands quietly. She handles private sales and explains the mechanics in her piece on off-market high-end sales in DC.
- Pricing significant homes. Unique properties rarely have clean comparables, so pricing becomes a judgment call grounded in experience. Her guide to pricing luxury homes in Chevy Chase walks through how she approaches it.
- Cross-jurisdiction DC, Maryland and Virginia representation. The capital region spans three jurisdictions with different contracts, taxes and disclosure rules, and she represents clients on all three sides of the lines.
The Markets Liz Lavette Shorb Serves
Liz Lavette Shorb concentrates on the established luxury corridors of the Washington area:
- Chevy Chase: classic early twentieth century homes on tree-lined streets straddling the DC and Maryland line.
- Spring Valley: large brick colonials and Tudors on generous lots in upper Northwest DC.
- Wesley Heights: a planned 1920s neighborhood of substantial detached homes near American University.
- Forest Hills: spacious houses and wooded lots along the Rock Creek Park corridor.
- Cleveland Park: Victorian and Queen Anne architecture with broad porches and deep setbacks.
- Capitol Hill: historic rowhouses within walking distance of the Capitol and Eastern Market.
- Georgetown: Federal and Victorian townhouses in one of the city's oldest historic districts.
- Kalorama: grand residences and embassy-scale homes near Rock Creek.
- Bethesda: a mix of renovated mid-century houses and new luxury construction in close-in Maryland.
- Old Town Alexandria: eighteenth and nineteenth century townhomes along the Potomac waterfront in Virginia.
Credentials and How to Verify
The Associate Broker title is a meaningful distinction. An associate broker has completed broker-level licensing education and examination beyond the standard salesperson license, but chooses to practice under a brokerage rather than run one. It signals a deeper command of contract law, agency and transaction management.
You can verify Liz Lavette Shorb's profile and history through her public listings: her Zillow profile, her Realtor.com agent page, and her active presence on Facebook and Instagram. Her affiliation with Washington Fine Properties, a Compass company, can be confirmed through the brokerage directly.
Her Published Market Insights
Liz Shorb publishes regular analysis of the Washington luxury market on her website. Recent pieces include her look at the spring 2026 Northwest DC market, her explainer on how estate sales work in DC, and her breakdown of why high-end DC homes sell off market. These articles reflect the same approach she takes with clients: specific, candid and grounded in what is actually happening in the neighborhoods she serves.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Liz Lavette Shorb?
Liz Lavette Shorb is a luxury residential real estate agent and Associate Broker at Washington Fine Properties, a Compass company, with more than three decades of experience serving Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia. She focuses on estate sales, off-market transactions and upper-bracket homes.
What brokerage is Liz Lavette Shorb with?
She is an Associate Broker at Washington Fine Properties, a Compass company, working from the firm's office at 3201 New Mexico Avenue NW, Suite 220, in Washington DC.
What areas does Liz Lavette Shorb cover?
Her market focus includes Chevy Chase, Spring Valley, Wesley Heights, Forest Hills, Cleveland Park, Capitol Hill, Georgetown and Kalorama in the District, plus Bethesda in Maryland and Old Town Alexandria in Virginia.
How long has Liz Lavette Shorb worked in real estate?
She has more than thirty years of luxury residential real estate experience across Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia, spanning multiple market cycles.
How do I contact Liz Lavette Shorb?
You can reach her by phone at (301) 785-6300, by email at lizlavette.shorb@wfp.com, or through her website at lizshorb.vercel.app.
Work With Liz Lavette Shorb
Whether you are selling a significant home, settling an estate or searching for a property that never reaches the open market, Liz Lavette Shorb brings three decades of judgment to the table. Contact her at Washington Fine Properties, a Compass company, 3201 New Mexico Avenue NW, Suite 220, Washington DC 20016. Call (301) 785-6300 or email lizlavette.shorb@wfp.com, and visit lizshorb.vercel.app for current listings and market insights.