Meet Riezl

Riezl Baker is an award-winning Real Estate Agent with 24 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 over 40 years of experience in the Lake Oconee market and with a mission to provide the highest level of service to clients.

Riezl closed out 2024 with over $120 million in sold transactions, recognizing her as the top individual agent of the Lake Country Board of REALTORS® for 2024. She was also recognized 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 Realtors. 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, which takes place at The Ritz-Carlton, Reynolds Lake Oconee. During this term, 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 in 2016. The Atlantan magazine awarded her "Expert in Second and Vacation Homes" for 2020, 2021 and 2025. She was recognized as a "2021 Top Luxury Real Estate Industry Leader" and was also nominated as "Best Bilingual" and "Best Community Impact" in Georgia.

Riezl holds a Bachelor's degree in Hotel and Restaurant Administration and joined the 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), the largest meeting and event industry association, and was the Editor-in-Chief of Breakout, Georgia MPI's monthly publication that is distributed to thousands of members.

As the Director of 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 World® conference, where she shared her insights on “Selling in a Challenging Market.” In 2022, she was a featured speaker at a National Empowerment Conference in Las Vegas, presenting on “Successful Entrepreneurship in America.” That same year, she was also featured in an episode of Fox Business Network’s prime-time real estate show Mansion Global.

She and her husband have lived in the Lake Oconee area and been married for 28 years. They raised their two children here—Stuart, a Yale graduate, and Remi, who attends NYU.