Exploring Deep Creek Lake in the Spring!

Many buyers who choose to purchase real estate in Garrett County and at Deep Creek Lake often base their decision on the amount of activities and recreational opportunities in the area - but sometimes there are too many to choose from! Those of us that live here full time certainly take advantage of [...]

This past weekend marked the 21^st annual Governor's Cup Ski & Snowboard race at Wisp Resort, sponsored by the Deep Creek Winter Sports Team.  60 local and regional skiers and snowboarder's competed for the coveted Governor's Cup in a 2 day event.   To be eligible for the Cup racers were required to complete 4 race runs, starting with 2 [...]

How are some vacation rental homes at Deep Creek Lake doing?

Just like most things in life, “some have it and some don't”, or so the saying goes.

With today's tightening lending market many wonder; are there homes for sale at Deep Creek Lake that have great rental income that you can purchase to help offset the expense of second home [...]

In 2008 Railey Realty was once again the leader in market share for the Deep Creek Lake and Garrett County Maryland areas.  In fact, we sold more real estate in 2008 than all other area brokerages combined! Below is a chart showing the number of transaction sides and total dollar volume for 2008. These statistics include all residential, lot [...]

Railey Realty and Deep Creek Lake were featured in an article that appeared in yesterday's New York Times Great Homes and Destinations section.

The article is titled ‘View from the Blog' - which reports about the growing popularity of blogs published by real estate agents and brokerages in second and vacation home markets such as ours at Deep Creek [...]

Fractional ownership homes at Deep Creek Lake are growing in popularity. The concept of multiple families joining together to purchase a vacation home is not new to the Deep Creek Lake area, but having a management company/developer to design and manage the project [...]

If you are thinking about purchasing a vacation home at Deep Creek Lake, you may first want to learn more about the hottest trend in real estate and second home ownership. The very wealthy have been doing fractional ownership for years and while it's a newer trend at Deep Creek Lake, owners in places like Aspen, Colorado and Jackson Hole, [...]

The Deep Creek Lake Maryland area was just recently named “Best Four Season Spot” by Forbes Magazine. The article appeared yesterday in the online edition of Forbes and quoted our own Railey Realty salesperson Adam Cowgill. The article's “In Depth” slideshow also displays one of our lakefront homes for sale, listed by [...]

If you are thinking about purchasing a lakefront home for sale or real estate at Deep Creek Lake there are some very important things to pay attention to during the buying [...]

In what was probably the narrowest margin of victory in the history of this race, Eric Recker, a local real estate agent here in our office at Railey Realty, won the 2008 Maryland Men's Governors Cup Ski Race held this past weekend at held at the Wisp Ski Resort. Eric, who has won the past two Governor Cup races as well, edged out runner-up [...]