Ellijay, Georgia Mountain Homes and Acreage

Ellijay is the county seat of Gilmer County and a mountain town incorporated in 1834 on a square that still anchors downtown. Two rivers, the Ellijay and the Cartecay, meet here to form the Coosawattee. East of town, State Highway 52 runs through a valley of orchards, which is why Gilmer County carries the title of Georgia’s Apple Capital and hosts the Georgia Apple Festival each October. The county sits in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and national forest land reaches into it.

For buyers, that geography creates a wide range of property. There are homes near the square, farms in orchard country, cabins along moving water and long-range view lots on the ridges. Many of our clients here want a second home with real acreage rather than a cabin on a tight lot. Others want frontage on a river, or a place near Carters Lake, where the Corps of Engineers keeps the shoreline free of private docks and houses. Each of those choices brings its own questions about access, water and land use.

Karen leads our Ellijay work and works in the area directly. Before real estate she worked in construction management, and she reads mountain land with that background: slope and where a house can sit, the grade and surface of the road in, well and septic, and drainage near a river. She has lived on Lake Lanier for more than twelve years, so she also knows how second-home owners actually use a property. With Britney covering North Atlanta, we can handle the sale at home and the purchase in the mountains together.