This is a search of land for sale in Maryland

This is a search of the newest land properties for sale in Maryland. If you are searching for raw land, buildable lots and homesites, acreage, hunting land, farm and agricultural land, approved plats, or just your own slice of nature, then this list is just a sample of what is available. To see more details on any listing, including photos, price drops and price history, estimated property taxes, location on a map, and much more, click on the price or street address for the listing. This will bring you to our real estate search engine which found this listing. Under “Property Type” be sure to select land. This is a powerful tool that can help you find that perfect plot of land, and show you all the listed properties for sale in Maryland. With “Property Type” also set to “Residential / all” when looking at the map, you can see what homes are for sale around the property, and get an idea of the value once you build a home on your private acre of earth. This map based tool puts you in control of your home and land search. Basic searching is straight forward, but many advanced features are easily missed. I have created a tutorial page with videos to get you started. But please ask for help if you need it. I realize you are currently in the information gathering stage, and that is fine. My goal is only to assist you without any pressure.

Also, don’t miss the Smart Tip at the bottom of this page.

See these properties and more on a map of Maryland.

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Smart Tip:
You can also subscribe by email to your search of land in all of Maryland, or zoom in to limit to any Maryland location. This way, the HelpShop.com search robot keeps you up to date. Be the first to know when a new property comes on the market, or when that expensive piece of property has a price drop. Go to see these properties and more on a map of Maryland, and click on the “Email Me Property Updates” link at the lower right corner of the map. Then just follow the directions.

“Temporarily Unavailable” is such a sad phrase

Update #2 4-17-09 12:38am: Everything should be working again. Thank you for your patience. There was a server crash. Now Amazon S3 is being used to host the listing photos.

One of my clients provided a good tip. Even though the photos were missing before, many listings have a virtual tour. The virtual tour photos were working all along. Also, even though some listings don’t have any photos provided by the listing agent, that house may have been listed before. Ask us to search prior listings for photos, and other descriptions. We will be happy to provide that for you.

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Update #1 4-16-09 2:52pm: RSS feeds now work. Photos will be working late tonight.

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The HelpShop website is being repaired. Currently anything to do with search is missing photographs. The new-listings and special-searches categories also do not have working images. The search RSS feeds are broken.

A real estate search website without images is a sad spectacle. I am a strong believer in the power of photographs to market a house. I am also a big proponent of empowering the home shopper to find their dream home with great tools. Well today I have failed you. At least it is only temporary. But for many real estate websites and many home listings, the crippled presentation and search is real. Those websites and listings don’t believe in the internet. They make searching hard, and too many listings have poor if any photographs.

If you like what I am trying to build here, you can encourage me. Help me spread the word of the HelpShop.com search engine. Tell your friends about it when they say they are thinking about buying a house. Save bookmarks to it on delicious.com and other bookmark sites. Blog about it. Twitter about it. But not today. It looks so sad today.

My internal tools have photos and strong searching ability. And they still work even now. You are always welcome to ask me for any listing to be emailed to you. That will include photos. You can request custom searches, and those results will be sent to you. I can even have those searches automatically continue to email you if something new comes up. Also, I can search in ways that unfortunately HelpShop.com cannot provide just yet, even when it works. I can search based on strange shaped regions. This way you can find only houses that are north of a diagonal road, or just inside the beltway for instance. I can search based on words in the description. This way you can find homes that promote their in-law suite for example. I can search on property status. With this I can show you sold and expired listings. We know how much the seller paid for his house. And we can find sellers that have a great house to sell that was priced too high, and nobody is looking at them anymore. They let their listing expire. You can make their only offer. So even once HelpShop is happy and working again, I can still provide custom searching for you. And of course when we run searches for you, we look them over too. We have a lot of experience finding great houses for our clients.

How to find your next rental

You want to find a great new place to rent. So what can you do to make that happen?

Did you know you can have a Realtor represent you and help you with this process, and the landlord pays us? We are free to you the tenant but we are worth much more!

Here is the basic process:

1. Find the house, townhouse, condo, or apartment you wish to rent
   • With our industry leading interactive map based search, you can browse the listings on a map. Drag the map to see available rental listings in any direction. Change the search criteria to limit price/rent, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, detached home or condo or etc., and even search by things like days on market. No zip codes are required which greatly simplifies the search.
   • If you wish to take advantage of our expertise and skill, we can help you with the search or you can sit back while we send you listings. 
     • Just tell me what type of property you are looking for and in which areas. 
     • Do you have pets?
     • What length lease are you looking for? 
     • Do you desire rent to own? 
     • Next, I’ll send some listings for you to look over.
     • Ask us how you can still buy a house with zero percent down!
   • Once you have chosen or found some homes you would like to see, just tell me which ones you wish to see in person, and we go and see them together.
   • Now you narrow your choice to one, or we continue the search until you choose a suitable home.
2. Get Approved
   • You fill out the application and give me certified funds for the application processing fee.
   • I deliver the application and fee to the landlords’s agent who then processes the application, runs credit report, researches your information.
   • The landlord’s agent then will contact me if they need additional information.
   • The landlords agent presents your information to the landlord/owner and then the landlord makes a decision to approve your application or not.
   • If approved, I will prepare the lease according to the landlord’s instructions.
   • Approved: We will then meet to sign the lease, you will provide certified funds for the first month’s rent, and I will deliver these items to the landlord’s agent. The landlord will review and sign the lease. Then prior to you the tenant taking possession the security deposit will be provided by you to the landlord (most likely in certified funds) and then the landlord will give you keys to the house.
   • Not approved: If not approved we will find out why and then we will decide what strategy we might need or what to change to get approved for the next house. Credit issues are common with renters, and many times things go through fine. But a solid housing rental or mortgage history is the most important part of your credit. If you had problems here, then we need to present the story or reasons that might convince a landlord that things are different now. The landlord usually has a mortgage to pay, and they need to be convinced that approving your lease is not risky. If you have the income, ask us how to get private cosigning insurance.
   • Application approval process usually takes 2-5 days for all the verification steps.
3. Sign the lease and move in!
   • Lease preparation can be completed the same day as the approval, schedules permitting.
   • Exchanging keys and funds can also be completed in the same day as the lease preparation as long as all parties are available.

Sometimes I can help to save some time and fees if the landlord’s agent will accept a credit report run by my mortgage person. That is also a good way for us to review ahead of time if there are any credit issues that might present a problem and to work to resolving and explaining the issues. As early as possible in your search, you should provide us a Long & Foster Rental Application (no fee until we are ready to submit this for a particular application), and fax us your written permission to pull your credit report (ask for the form). Fax all documents to me at fax# (410)741-3601.

Photo credit, Shawn Zehnder Lea. (Modified)

Columbia Maryland Real Estate, Homes for Sale and Rent

Columbia Maryland along with Ellicott City Maryland were named by CNN Money Magazine as the best small city and place to live in Maryland for 2008. Columbia and Ellicott City placed 8th overall in the country. Columbia is a suburb of Baltimore and Washington DC in Howard County Maryland. It is convenient to I95, US-29, RT-100, and RT-108 and centered between Baltimore and DC. This creates many commuting options. Columbia is a planned community created out of 14,000 acres of farmland in 1967 by developer James Rouse. In all Columbia is now a total of ten distinct villages:

• Dorsey’s Search: Has neighborhoods Dorsey Hall and Fairway Hills. Street names are from Oliver Wendell Holmes’ poetry. Located north of RT-108, west of US-29, and east of Centennial lane.
• Harper’s Choice: Has neighborhoods Longfellow named for poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hobbit’s Glen name inspired by the books of J.R.R. Tolkien, and Swansfield, a name inspired by works of Aesthetic Movement painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
• Hickory Ridge: Has neighborhood Hawthorn named for poet Amy Lowell with the street names derived from her works. There is neighborhood Clemens Crossing with street names derived from Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) writings. And there is neighborhood Clary’s Forest named for land grant owner John Clary with the streets named for the writings of poet William Carlos Williams. The village is located between US-29 and Cedar Lane, north of RT-32 and south of Owen Brown Rd.
• Long Reach: Has neighborhoods Jeffers Hill named for American poet Robinson Jeffers, Locust Park which was named for land grant “Locust Thicket”, and Phelps Luck named for land grant “Phelp’s His Luck”. The village is located south of RT-108 and north of RT-175, and east of Snowden River Parkway.
• Kings Contrivance: Has neighborhoods Dickenson named for poet Emily Dickenson, Huntington with streets named for the works of Carl Sandburg, and Macgill’s Common named for Reverend Macgill’s farm and it has street names from “The Folk Songs of North America” collected by Alan Lomax. The village is located north of RT-32, west of US-29, and south east of Broken Land Parkway.
• Wilde Lake: Has neighborhoods Running Brook named for a work of Robert Frost with streets named from his poems and Aesop’s Fables, Bryant Woods named for the American poet William Cullen Bryant, and Faulkner Ridge named for writer William Faulkner. The village is located south of RT-108 and north of RT-175 and village Town Center, and east of US-29.
• Oakland Mills: Has neighborhoods Stevens Forest named for land tract Stevens Forest, Talbot Springs named for land tract Talbot Springs, and Thunder Hill named for Thunder Hill Farm. The streets of Oakland Mills are named for works of Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg and Andrew Wyeth. The village is located east of US-29, south of RT-175, and north of village Owen Brown.
• Owen Brown: Has neighborhoods Hopewell named for land grant “Laswell’s Hopewell” with streets named for the works of poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Dasher Green named for the Dasher Family with streets named for the works of poet John Greenleaf Whittier, and Elkhorn named after the Dasher Family farm “Elk Horn Farms” and the street names coming from the works of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. The village is located east of Broken Land Parkway, south of RT-175, north of RT-32, and south of village of Oakland Mills.
• River Hill: Has neighborhoods Pheasant Ridge named for a land grant, and Pointer’s Run, as River hill was the site of a game preserve. The streets are named for the works of Walt Whitman and James Whitcomb Riley. The village is located north of RT-32 and east of RT-108.
• Town Center: Has neighborhoods Creighton’s Run, Vantage Point with name coming from a poem by Robert Frost, Amesbury Hill, Banneker, Lakefront, and Warfield Triangle. These are neighborhoods distributed through the commercial area of downtown Columbia. The streets are named from the works of poets Robert Frost and William Cullen Bryant. The Town Center with Columbia Mall at its center is located north in the bend of RT-175 (Little Patuxent Parkway), and south of village Wilde Lake.

Columbia has the largest Maryland population after Baltimore City. It is an employment destination for many. It is the home of The Mall in Columbia and many other shopping features. Columbia does have a private non-profit governance through a homeowners association (HOA) which was called Columbia Park and Recreation Association, Inc. (CPRA), but is now just Columbia Association. This is the largest HOA in the country. There are rules and restrictions, and a fee that people refer to as the CPRA tax. Columbia is a sought after place to live and work.

Below is the most recent 50 homes for sale in Columbia Maryland, and a widget version of our industry leading map based homes search centered on Columbia. If you are interested in seeing in person, any of the homes you see here, or wish our help with your search, contact us. Every listed home is having an open house when you have a Realtor helping you shop. Realtors are usually paid by the sellers or the landlord. We hold our clients interests as paramount. I believe if you help enough people get what they want, you get what you want. We are easy to work with, can help you with your search and plans, can likely save you money, and are here to serve. Email or Call us when you are ready.

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Photo credit, Betsy.

Owings Mills Real Estate and Homes for Sale

Owings Mills is a suburb of Baltimore in Baltimore County Maryland. It is convenient to I795 and thus the Baltimore Beltway which keeps commuting times low. The Baltimore Metro Subway has its only stop outside the Baltimore Beltway here in the center of town. The subway is great for commuting to down town Baltimore and includes a stop at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, one of the worlds greatest hospitals and a huge Maryland employer. Owings Mills Mall is here with local major employers of CareFirst and T. Rowe Price. The Baltimore Ravens football team headquarters are in Owings Mills. A recent addition to the area is the Northwest Regional Park which is a 322 acre public park with baseball/softball diamonds and fields for soccer, lacrosse, and football. We have two of the regions movie theater complexes with AMC Owings Mills 17 and AMC Loews Valley Center 9. All sorts of housing is available here from rental apartments, rental homes, townhomes for sale, and single family homes for sale. The price and quality of homes here ranges from the affordable to the elite. Some of the Ravens football players have their homes in Owings Mills! Owings Mills also has the popular New Town planned community. Below is the most recent 50 homes for sale in Owings Mills, and our industry leading map based homes search centered on Owings Mills. If you are interested in seeing in person, any of the homes you see here, or wish our help with your search, contact us. Every listed home is having an open house when you have a Realtor helping you shop. Realtors are usually paid by the sellers or the landlord. We hold our clients interests as paramount. I believe if you help enough people get what they want, you get what you want. We are easy to work with, can help you with your search and plans, can likely save you money, and are here to serve. Email or Call us when you are ready.

If this looks useful, then try our full size search solution!

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