LAKE OCONEE'S TOP LUXURY REAL ESTATE AGENT FOR 24 YEARS
Riezl Baker is an award-winning Real Estate Agent with 25 years of real estate experience at Lake Oconee, Georgia. A resident since 1997, she is well-known for her business accomplishments and extensive community involvement. In 2020, she and her husband Ted co-founded Luxury Lake Oconee Real Estate Group to combine their 40+ years of experience in the Lake Oconee market with a mission to provide the highest level of service to clients.
Riezl closed out 2025 with over $129 million in sold transactions, recognizing her as the Top Individual Agent of the Lake Country Board of REALTORSĀ® for the third consecutive year and surpassing $1 billion in career sales. She was also recognized as TOFA's Most Influential Filipinos in the World (2025), as well as a 2023 and 2024 RISMedia Real Estate Newsmaker & Achiever, and most recently as a 2025 RISMedia Newsmaker Luminary. In 2023, Riezl ranked among the Top 1 Percent of Agents with Georgia MLS. The year prior, she closed over $131 million in sales and was honored as the Top Luxury Real Estate Leader by The Atlantan magazine, along with being named a Real Estate Newsmaker & Achiever by RISMedia. Her momentum began in 2021, when she closed over 70 transactions totaling $115 million, earning Top Producer honors and receiving the prestigious Crystal Phoenix Award from the Lake Country Board of REALTORSĀ®. She has also been recognized as Top Luxury Real Estate Industry Leader by The Atlantan in 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
She is passionate about her community and has been involved on a leadership level for many different organizations. She is the Past Chairman of the St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital Board and was part of the original founding Board that steered the opening of the hospital in 2013. Riezl proudly served as the 2025 Chair of the Heart & Soul Gala at The Ritz-Carlton, Reynolds Lake Oconee, where a record-breaking $800,000 was raised for the local hospital. In 2010, she and her husband co-founded the Lake Oconee Food & Wine Festival to benefit local education, which has evolved into a three-day destination event at The Ritz-Carlton. An advocate for the arts, Riezl is a Board Director for the Oconee Performing Arts Society (OPAS). She was the President of the Lake Country Board of Real Estate Agents (2016). The Atlantan magazine awarded her āExpert in Second and Vacation Homesā for 2020, 2021, and 2025. She was also recognized as a āTop Luxury Real Estate Industry Leaderā and nominated for āBest Bilingualā and āBest Community Impactā in Georgia.
Riezl holds a Bachelorās degree in Hotel and Restaurant Administration and joined Hyatt Hotels as a Corporate Management Trainee. She worked for the company for seven years in Operations Management and Hospitality Sales in Houston and Atlanta. She served as a Board Director for Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and was the Editor-in-Chief of Breakout, Georgia MPI's monthly publication distributed to thousands of members. As the Director of the Athens (GA) Convention and Visitors Bureau, Riezl developed strategic plans to attract conventions to the city. In 2000, she obtained her real estate license and worked for Reynolds Lake Oconee Properties, where she was a top producer for 20 years.
Riezl is a public speaker and has spoken at several national real estate conferences and webinars. Most recently, she was invited to speak at the Leading Real Estate Companies of the WorldĀ® Conference, where she shared her insights on āSelling in a Challenging Market.ā In 2022, she was a featured speaker at a National Empowerment Conference in Las Vegas, presenting on āSuccessful Entrepreneurship in America.ā That same year, she was also featured in an episode of Fox Business Networkās prime-time real estate show Mansion Global.āāāāāāā
She and her husband have lived in the Lake Oconee area and been married for 28 years. They raised their two children hereāStuart, a Yale graduate, and Remi, who attends NYU.
Board Member, Oconee Performing Arts Society
Board Member, St. Maryās Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation Board
Past Chairman, Heart and Soul Gala, 2025
Co-Chair, Heart and Soul Benefit Gala, 2022
Past Chairman, St. Mary Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation Board, 2017-2019
An excellent real estate professional, integrity, in-depth community and market knowledge, marketing savvy, effective negotiation skills and a high-quality professional network, all of which are hallmarks of how Riezl Baker works.
Agent in Georgia MLS 2023
Real Estate Newsmaker, RISMedia
The Atlantan Top Luxury Real Estate Industry Leader
Top Producer, Over $120 Million in Sales Volume
Top Producer, Over $102 Million in Sales Volume, & Million Dollar Club Member for Lake Country Board of Real Estate Agents
Top Producer, Over $131 Million in Sales Volume
Top Producer, Over $115 Million in Sales Volume
Expert in Second Homes, The Atlantan
Best in Community Impact
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