Washington Wizards shooting guard Roger Mason bought this five-bedroom, five-bath contemporary in Upper Marlboro for $882,000. The house is part of Oak Creek Club, a new gated golf community. A Washington native, Mason was a basketball star at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Wheaton and played for the University of Virginia. After stints with the Chicago Bulls, the Toronto Raptors, and a European team, Mason was signed by the Wizards in 2006. Photograph by David Pipkin.

In Virginia: Anthony Piszel, Freddie Mac’s chief financial officer, and wife Bonnie bought a five-bedroom, eight-bath Colonial on Innsbruck Avenue in Great Falls for $3.6 million. The house on five acres overlooks a lake and has a floating staircase, a four-car garage, and two kitchens.

In Maryland: Biotechnology executive David Mott and wife Alice paid $1.2 million for a 1925 house on Underwood Street in Chevy Chase. Mott is CEO of MedImmune, a local biotech company.

Writer and teacher Michael Ortiz and his wife, Kathleen, bought a four-bedroom, four-bath house on Potomac’s Stable House Court for $1.02 million. Ortiz, who teaches at the Heights School in Potomac, wrote the children’s novel Swan Town: The Secret Journal of Susanna Shakespeare, published last year.