Real Estate Acquisitions in Maryland
Maryland Real Estate Deal Themes
Maryland real estate acquisitions span multiple asset types, from waterfront marinas and self-storage to transaction-adjacent services like title insurance and settlement. Across recent deals, many buyers focus on expanding presence in key Maryland submarkets such as the Annapolis/Chesapeake Bay area.
Deal activity also reflects a mix of platform-building and capability add-ons. Investment managers and operators (including Barings, Bain Capital Real Estate, and Public Storage) pursue growth by adding properties or integrating teams, while technology and services firms (such as Zonda and Compass) target tools that improve how homes are toured, listed, insured, or settled.
What Stands Out
- Waterfront leisure & storage are recurring themes, with marina expansions including Safe Harbor Marinas’ acquisition of Port Annapolis and Bain Capital Real Estate/BlueWater Marinas’ purchase of Kent Narrows Boatel.
- Mid‑Atlantic property operators show up prominently: Public Storage acquired ezStorage’s self-storage portfolio, expanding its footprint across Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland.
- Services tied to real estate transactions also appear, including Compass acquiring KVS Title to extend title and settlement coverage into the D.C. metro region.
- Real estate tech & data features in Maryland-adjacent activity: Zonda acquired UTour to expand unattended home tour, voice/chat, and smart-home security capabilities tied to new home construction.
- Capital partners and platform builders recur, including recurring buyers such as Principal Real Estate Investors and recurring operators/investors like Access Holdings and Lincoln Rackhouse (Lincoln Property Company division).
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November 11, 2025
- Buyer
- Safe Harbor Marinas
- Target
- Port Annapolis
- Industry
- Real Estate
- Location
- Maryland, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Safe Harbor Marinas closed its acquisition of Port Annapolis (a 16-acre, 250-slip marina and boatyard) on November 11, 2025, adding the facility to its global portfolio. As a result, subsidiary Bluewater Yacht Sales will relocate operations to the Port Annapolis site to expand storage, service capabilities, and yacht sales presence in the Annapolis/Chesapeake Bay market.
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- Buyer
- Bain Capital Real Estate, BlueWater Marinas
- Target
- Kent Narrows Boatel
- Seller
- Rob Marsh, Jody Schulz
- Industry
- Real Estate
- Location
- Maryland, United States
- Type
- Addon
Bain Capital Real Estate, working with marina operator BlueWater Marinas, has acquired Kent Narrows Boatel (KNB), a Class-A heated drystack marina on Kent Island, Maryland. The property — which offers 375 slips and over 12,000 square feet of commercial space — will become the fourth marina in the Bain/BlueWater portfolio and will be operated to enhance customer experience and regional market presence.
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February 18, 2025
- Buyer
- Barings
- Target
- Artemis Real Estate Partners
- Industry
- Real Estate
- Location
- Maryland, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Barings has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Artemis Real Estate Partners, a U.S. real estate investment manager. The deal will integrate Artemis' team and capabilities into Barings' U.S. real estate equity platform to expand Barings' investment capabilities and accelerate growth; terms were not disclosed and the transaction is expected to close in Q1 2025.
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September 5, 2023
- Buyer
- Zonda
- Target
- UTour
- Industry
- Real Estate
- Location
- Maryland, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Zonda, a residential real estate technology and data provider, has acquired UTour, an on-demand self-guided home tour platform that serves the new home construction market. The acquisition will integrate UTour's unattended access, AI-powered voice/chat capabilities and smart-home security with Zonda's Livabl listings and data offerings to expand Zonda's product and data capabilities and improve the homebuyer journey.
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July 8, 2021
- Buyer
- Access Holdings
- Target
- Oasis Marinas
- Industry
- Real Estate
- Location
- Maryland, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Access Holdings, a Baltimore-based mid-market investment firm, announced a partnership/investment in Annapolis-based Oasis Marinas to support the company's growth and scale operations. Oasis Marinas operates marina management services across more than 40 locations and Access will provide capital, operational support, and technology to enhance the customer and marina-owner experience.
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April 13, 2021
- Buyer
- Public Storage
- Target
- ezStorage
- Seller
- Manganaro family
- Industry
- Real Estate
- Location
- Maryland, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Public Storage (NYSE: PSA) acquired ezStorage’s 48-property self-storage portfolio for $1.8 billion, adding approximately 4.2 million net rentable square feet across Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland. The transaction expands Public Storage’s Mid‑Atlantic coverage and was funded with unsecured debt; the company indicated the deal would be immediately accretive to FFO with an anticipated closing in May 2021.
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February 25, 2021
- Buyer
- Compass
- Target
- KVS Title
- Industry
- Real Estate
- Location
- Maryland, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Compass has signed a definitive agreement to acquire KVS Title, a title insurance and settlement services provider serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The acquisition expands Compass' title and settlement services capabilities and extends its settlement coverage into the D.C. metro region (Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.).
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- Buyer
- Lincoln Rackhouse (Lincoln Property Company division), Principal Real Estate Investors
- Target
- ByteGrid
- Seller
- AltPoint Capital Partners
- Industry
- Real Estate
- Location
- Maryland, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Lincoln Rackhouse, the data center division of Lincoln Property Company, in partnership with Principal Real Estate Investors, has acquired colocation and managed services provider Bytegrid, gaining control of three data centers in the Washington, DC (Silver Spring), Chicago (Aurora) and Seattle (Lynnwood/Aurora area) markets. The acquisition includes approximately 320,000 square feet of facilities and 16MW of IT load and adds Bytegrid's colocation, managed services, network and hosting business to Rackhouse's nationwide portfolio.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which real estate sectors are represented in Maryland acquisitions?
The deals shown span marinas and marinas-related operations, self-storage, title insurance and settlement services, and real estate technology/data for home tours and listings.
Are Maryland deals concentrated in any particular submarket?
Several transactions are anchored to Maryland, including waterfront holdings in the Annapolis/Chesapeake Bay market (e.g., Port Annapolis) and marina activity on Kent Island (e.g., Kent Narrows Boatel).
What types of buyers appear most often?
The page highlights recurring groups such as investment managers and real estate operators, including Barings, Bain Capital Real Estate, Public Storage, Access Holdings, and platform/data players like Zonda and Compass.
Do these acquisitions focus on adding properties or expanding services/capabilities?
Both themes appear. Some deals add physical assets (marinas, self-storage portfolios), while others expand services and customer-facing capabilities (title and settlement coverage; on-demand self-guided home tours and related smart-home features).