Lake Market Data
Kalamazoo Lake
Homes along Kalamazoo Lake in Saugatuck and Douglas.
Median sold price
$525,000
Up 38% since 2016
Median of 3 closed sales on Kalamazoo Lake, Oct 2025 – Oct 2026.
Kalamazoo Lake market stats
- Homes for sale
- 1
- Median list price
- $1,045,000
- Homes sold
- 3
- Trailing 12 months
- Months of supply
- 4
- Median days on market
- 22
- Homes for sale now
The lake
About Kalamazoo Lake
Kalamazoo Lake is not really a lake in the sense the rest of this site means it. It is the wide water at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River, between Saugatuck and Douglas, a few miles before the river reaches Lake Michigan — a natural harbour rather than an inland basin.
For a buyer that is the whole point and the whole complication. A home here has boat access out to Lake Michigan, which almost nothing else in this area offers, and it sits on working harbour water with the traffic, the current and the river levels that come with that. Those are river questions, not lake questions, and they are worth asking specifically.
The same two towns appear on the Lake Michigan page, and the distinction is real: a Saugatuck home on the harbour and a Saugatuck home on the big lake are different purchases at different prices. The sales below are the harbour only.
On the market now
One home for sale on Kalamazoo Lake.
What's on the market, and what sold.
Median sold price over time
Kalamazoo Lake, 2016 to 2026
$370,000 to $512,000, a change of 38% across 43 quarterly readings.
Each point is the median of closed sales in the twelve months ending that quarter.
Recent sales
Every sale behind the number
Closed waterfront sales on Kalamazoo Lake over the last three years, with the frontage each one reported and the resulting price per foot. Only sales in the trailing twelve months feed the published median; the rest are listed so the full sales history can be checked.
| Closed | Address | Close price | Frontage | $ / front ft | In index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2026 | 64 Lakeview Saugatuck | $1,700,000 | 103 ft | $16,505 | yes |
| May 8, 2026 | 124 Elizabeth Saugatuck | $525,000 | — | — | outlier |
| Apr 10, 2026 | 64 Griffith Street Saugatuck | $460,000 | — | — | outlier |
| Oct 6, 2025 | 342 Mariners Douglas | $499,000 | — | — | older |
| Aug 4, 2025 | 337 Culver Saugatuck | $835,000 | 200 ft | $4,175 | older |
| Jul 15, 2025 | 807 Lake Saugatuck | $890,000 | 197 ft | $4,518 | older |
| Jun 12, 2025 | 807 Lake Saugatuck | $880,000 | 197 ft | $4,467 | older |
| Nov 15, 2024 | 807 Lake Saugatuck | $900,000 | 197 ft | $4,569 | older |
| Nov 11, 2024 | 357 Ferry Douglas | $1,700,000 | 31 ft | $54,839 | older |
| Sep 9, 2024 | 342 Mariners Cove Douglas | $467,500 | — | — | older |
| Sep 3, 2024 | 80 Swing Bridge Douglas | $980,000 | — | — | older |
| Aug 30, 2024 | 977 Lake Saugatuck | $471,500 | 1 ft | $471,500 | older |
| Aug 16, 2024 | 70 Swing Bridge Douglas | $980,000 | — | — | older |
| Aug 15, 2024 | 354 Mariners Cove Douglas | $515,000 | — | — | older |
| Jun 26, 2024 | 348 Mariners Cove Douglas | $429,000 | 50 ft | $8,580 | older |
| Jun 14, 2024 | 140 Kewatin Douglas | $815,000 | — | — | older |
| May 16, 2024 | 6573 Heron Bay Saugatuck | $1,925,000 | 140 ft | $13,750 | older |
| Feb 29, 2024 | 977 Lake Saugatuck | $575,000 | 20 ft | $28,750 | older |
| Oct 30, 2023 | 372 Mariners Cove Douglas | $425,000 | — | — | older |
| Oct 20, 2023 | 5 Park Saugatuck | $1,700,000 | 44 ft | $38,636 | older |
Sales marked older closed before the current twelve-month index window. Sales marked outlier fall inside it but sit outside the statistical fence — a short frontage under an expensive house produces a very high figure per foot, and that number describes the house rather than the shoreline. Both are listed rather than hidden so the median can be checked against the full record.
Sale data from the MLS, deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
Sold alerts
Know what sells on Kalamazoo Lake.
Every time a home closes on Kalamazoo Lake, I'll email you the address, what it asked, what it actually sold for, and how long it sat. That is the whole email.
No newsletter, no drip sequence, no “just checking in.” If you ever want out, every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
How this figure is calculated
The price-per-front-foot figure is the median closed sale price divided by feet of water frontage, for homes that sold on Kalamazoo Lake in the trailing twelve months.
Listings with reported frontage outside 20 to 1,500 feet are excluded as data-entry error, and statistical outliers are trimmed before the median is calculated. We publish this figure only where there are at least eight qualifying sales in the window — below that, the sample is too small to be reliable.
Data comes from the MLS and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
Owning on the water
The things nobody explains before you buy.
Written for Kalamazoo Lake and every other lake around here — what the law actually says, and which office to call for the part that varies lake by lake.
- Riparian rights and docksWhat owning to the water actually lets you do, and who else may have a recorded right to your shoreline.
- All-sports and no-wake rules“All-sports” is not a legal category. Where the rules really come from, and how to check one lake.
- Legal lake levels and assessmentsWhy a dam, a court order and a line on your winter tax bill are the same story.
- Associations and deeded accessThree different things get called “the lake association”, and only some of them can bill you.
- Waterfront septic and wellsMichigan has no statewide septic code. On a converted cottage this is the inspection that matters.
- Lake Michigan shorelineGreat Lakes frontage follows different rules — including who can legally walk your beach.
Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. © 2026 MichRIC LLC. All rights reserved. Data last updated October 8, 2026. Real estate listings held by brokerage firms other than PREMIERE Group · Real Broker, LLC are marked with the MichRIC logo.