Heather’s passion for architecture and design was literally bred into her. With a talented builder as her mother, Heather grew up frequenting open houses, salvage yards and job sites. After graduating from the Bryn Mawr School, she migrated south to Clemson University and eventually planted her roots in her second favorite city, Charleston, SC, becoming the art director for a children’s book publishing company. Heather enjoyed the creativity but felt unfulfilled sitting behind a desk. Craving a change, she often envisioned a career in real estate. In 2008, she returned to Baltimore with her Lowcountry love and now husband, Jared, and joined the Krauss team to pursue that calling. Heather does not think of real estate as sales; instead, she views it to be more like matchmaking. Impeccable listening skills and honest guidance allows her to build lasting relationships with her clients. Heather believes that strength in negotiating requires a delicate touch and has found great success infusing positivity and camaraderie into her transactions. A natural go-getter, she enjoys the opportunity to creatively seek out houses for her buyers. Real estate is Heather’s true passion, and she feels very blessed to wake up inspired every day.
Agents For Change: Meet Heather Hartley
Featured Hot Listing: Breathtaking Retreat in the Heart of Greenspring Valley
2 CHETWICK COURT, OWINGS MILLS, MD 21117
5 bedrooms, 6 baths
Listing Price: $1,789,800
The Inn at Little Chetwick. Breathtaking retreat in the heart of Greenspring Valley. Classic architecture that embraces a Charleston aesthetic with a splash of contemporary flare. Jawdropping grounds. The world just disappears. Strong old specimen trees anchor it to the earth with meandering stone walls & cultivated native gardens punctuated with a destination pool and pool house that are sublime. Sweeping bluestone courtyard invites you to dine and relax outdoors. Expansive cooking and gathering space. Dramatic dining with curved wall and on axis view of zen Koi pond. Luxe first floor master suite with spa bath & dialed in dressing area. Your own private resort in the Valley. Minutes to everywhere you want to be. Serenity abounds.
Final design approved for apartment project that will include part of former Martick’s building
The memory of Martick’s Restaurant Francais will live on in Baltimore’s newest apartment project.
Featured Hot Listing: Rare Find River Frontage Home in Ruxton
909 ROLANDVUE ROAD, TOWSON, MD 21204
5 bedrooms, 5 baths
Listing Price: $1,698,888
A river runs through it in Ruxton. Glorious river frontage with rock outcroppings and hiking trails. A rare find. Timeless brick traditional on the outside, supremely inviting and livable on the inside. Gracious foyer leads to open cooking and gathering space surrounded by glass with seamless flow to expansive blue stone terrace. Unwind under the awning and soak in the sounds of the Towson Run river. Dine under the stars. Serenity abounds. Library with handsome woodwork. Architecturally balanced living room anchored by fireplace and signature window. Master suite is literally a breath of fresh air with glass on three sides. Updated bath with dual dressing areas. Large finished space in lower level with fireplace and lots of natural light, full bath. Endless possibilities. Three truly usable acres. Just the right size home in a tremendous Ruxton location. Unparalleled setting, minutes to everywhere you want to be. Open Wednesday, June 5th 1-3pm.
Featured Hot Listing: Chic Goodier Home in Owings Mills
12206 Worthington Road, Owings Mills, MD
6 bedrooms, 7 baths
Listing Price: $1,699,000
Get refreshed. Relish the latest vision from Goodier Homes. Clean lined and au courant. Chic deep navy kitchen with waterfall quartz counters & french gold hardware. Crisp white on white exterior with bold dark windows. A study in texture. Sumptuous master suite with decadent dressing area and soothing spa bath with power shower. Large bar with acoustic wall and tasteful media area. Expansive yard.
Gibson Island Open House – This Sunday 6/9
OPEN HOUSE
Sunday, June 9
1PM – 4PM
Absolutely extraordinary setting – 1000 acres with seven miles of shoreline, two-thirds of the land undeveloped and owned by the Gibson Island Corporation, one third residential home sites. Click here for a spectacular video tour of this gorgeous paradise, located less than an ho
ur from Annapolis, Washington D.C. and Baltimore. Situated on the Western shore of Maryland, there is no bay bridge crossing! The island is home to a 44-acre fresh water lake and features a private country club (membership by invitation)which offers fine dining, golf, tennis, yachting, and swimming as well as a fitness center, croquet, skeet shooting, garden club, summer camp and more. Boaters will love the full-service yacht yard. A 24hr staffed gatehouse and the Gibson Island Police Department ensure privacy and security. The Island also has a museum detailing the Island’s unique history and a Service Department that offers a variety of services to Island homeowners.
Want to see more? Check out these wonderful Gibson Island homes for sale! ©Gibson Island Corporation
Historic Pigtown bathhouse and fire station transformed into apartments, ground-floor café
Kim Lane likens Pigtown’s three blocks along Washington Boulevard to a barbell.
The weights down in the 700 block, closer to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, are the local shops that have served as the commercial core of the just-barely Southwest Baltimore neighborhood. Up in the 900 block, past a stretch of mostly row homes with addresses in the 800s, are more weights—newer ones—comprising newer businesses and organizations, including the Mobtown Ballroom, the year-old Suspended Brewing Company, the Hopkins-operated SPARC women’s health center and, soon, a three-story culinary workforce training outpost for the nonprofit Paul’s Place.
“Our work now is how to connect the two [sides], how to get people walking down here, flowing back and forth,” says Lane, executive director of Pigtown Main Street.
