Buying and selling in Owings Mills, MD

Where Owings Mills is

Owings Mills station is the western end of the Metro SubwayLink; the extension there opened July 20, 1987. Metro Centre at Owings Mills is built around the station.^[1][2]

I-795, Reisterstown Road (MD 140), Owings Mills Boulevard and Painters Mill Road are the main roads.^[2]

Housing stock

Owings Mills has 15,729 homes with a median year built of 1996: 30% went up in the 1990s, 23% in the 2000s and 14% in the 2010s. About 25% are townhouses, 19% detached houses, and over half are in condo and apartment buildings.^[3]

On 1990s townhomes the common inspection items are original roofs, water heaters, decks and the first-generation HVAC equipment.

Getting around

• Metro SubwayLink from Owings Mills: about 25 minutes to Charles Center, 27 to Shot Tower and 29 to Johns Hopkins on the schedule.^[4]

Before you buy or rent here

• Baltimore County charges a 1.5% transfer tax and $2.50 per $500 in recordation tax, and a deed that changes ownership must come with a lien certificate.^[5]
• Maryland's state transfer tax is 0.5% of the price. When the buyer is a first-time Maryland homebuyer who will live in the home, the state rate drops to 0.25%, paid entirely by the seller.^[6]
• Baltimore County requires rentals with six or fewer units to be registered and licensed before a tenant moves in, with each unit inspected by a state-licensed home inspector.^[7]
• Renting out a home built before 1978? It must be registered with the Maryland Department of the Environment and brought up to the lead risk-reduction standard, with a passing lead-dust test, before each new tenant moves in.^[8][9][10]

Public schools: Baltimore County Public Schools. Check any address with the district's official boundary locator.

Parks and landmarks

• Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, a 1,900-acre serpentine barren with 7 miles of marked trails, is at 5100 Deer Park Road.^[11]
• Mill Station replaced the Owings Mills Mall (opened 1986, closed 2015, torn down 2016-17); its anchors are Costco, Lowe's and Dick's Sporting Goods.^[12]
• Foundry Row at 10100 Reisterstown Road, on the old Solo Cup plant site, opened with Wegmans in September 2016.^[13]
• CCBC has an Owings Mills campus, and Stevenson University opened its Owings Mills campus in 2004.^[2]

Our work in Owings Mills

We sold 9202 Amber Oaks Way, a four-bedroom home built in 2007, and Owings Mills is one of the towns that comes up most in our sales archive.

Homes we've sold in Owings Mills

Address	Bedrooms	Sold for
9202 Amber Oaks Way	4	$657,000