Waterfront Greens, in Swanton, is a pocket of Garrett County where most of what comes up for sale looks out at the water rather than touching it, so the view is the thing you are buying and the shoreline belongs to someone else. That shapes the search more than anything: you are comparing what each house sees, and from which rooms, instead of counting feet of frontage. Houses dominate the listings here, which keeps the comparisons fairly direct from one address to the next. The Bell | Fenton Luxury Real Estate Sales Team works this area closely and can tell you quickly how one of these homes for sale stacks up against the last one.
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Waterfront Greens at a Glance
- County
- Garrett County
- ZIP codes in these listings
- 21561
- Typical sold price
- $1,212,500 (median of 10 home sales, excluding 4 land and other non-dwelling sales, past 18 months)
- Typical home
- 3,928 sq ft (n=10) · 5.5 bed / 5 bath (medians, n=10)
- Months of supply
- 3.9 (leaning to sellers)
- Sold-to-list
- 97.8% of asking (median per home sale, n=10)
- Data current as of
- October 2026
What the market is doing in Waterfront Greens
The supply picture here leans toward sellers, so go in with your financing lined up and your questions ready rather than treating any listing as a casual look. Homes that have closed recently recorded about a month on market, which is simply what the completed sales show. On price, closings have been landing very close to what sellers asked, and half of them closed at least $52,000 under the asking price. Read both as history, not as a signal about any particular house in front of you. And since nearly everything for sale here is a house, your search is mostly a matter of comparing one house to another: the size of the lot, what the house sees, and the condition of what is inside it.
What your money buys here
The typical house in Waterfront Greens dates to around 2005, which puts it in a well-built, modern-layout range rather than an old cottage one. It also puts it at the age where the first real round of replacements comes due. The roof, the air handler and the water heater all have a lifespan, and at twenty years or so you want to know which ones have already been swapped out and which are still the originals the builder installed. Ask the seller for dates. A house here with a newer roof and a recent furnace is a very different ownership year from one still running everything it came with.
Worth confirming before you write an offer
- HOA dues and reserve funding for amenities.
- Short-term rental restrictions for lake properties.
- Dock permit transferability under lake management rules.
- Septic permit and county health department approval.
Having the team in your corner
Two things on this page are easy to misread: how long listings here have actually been lasting, and how closely sales have been tracking their asking prices. Add the association dues and how the amenity reserves are funded, plus the rules around rentals and dock permits on the lake, and there is plenty that does not show up in a listing photo. The Bell | Fenton Luxury Real Estate Sales Team works these questions daily and can pull the figures and the paperwork for any address you are weighing. Send over a listing you are considering and they will walk you through the pace, the pricing history and the association terms before you write anything.
