Lake Market Data
Lake Doster
Homes along Lake Doster in Plainwell.
Median sold price
$487,000
Up 67% since 2016
Median of 4 closed sales on Lake Doster, Oct 2025 – Oct 2026.
Lake Doster market stats
- Homes for sale
- 0
- Median list price
- —
- Homes sold
- 4
- Trailing 12 months
- Months of supply
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- Median days on market
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- Homes for sale now
The lake
About Lake Doster
Lake Doster is a Plainwell address inside Allegan County, about four miles east of town and ten miles north of Kalamazoo. It is a smaller lake — roughly 130 acres, close to a mile long, and about 20 feet at its deepest — with the Lake Doster Golf Club adjoining it on a little under 200 acres of rolling, wooded ground.
There is a slalom course on the water, so it gets used for skiing and tubing rather than being a fishing lake first.
It also trades quietly. A handful of homes change hands in a year and there are stretches with nothing listed at all, which is worth knowing up front: a search that comes up empty here does not tell you much. When something does come on, it tends not to sit.
On the market now
Nothing is for sale on Lake Doster today.
Lakes this size go quiet for months at a time. The sales record below is the full history either way. Browse every waterfront home for sale.
What's on the market, and what sold.
Median sold price over time
Lake Doster, 2016 to 2026
$285,000 to $475,000, a change of 67% 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 Lake Doster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2026 | 121 Lake Doster Plainwell | $740,000 | 83 ft | $8,916 | yes |
| Aug 19, 2026 | 337 Horseshoe Plainwell | $475,000 | 60 ft | $7,917 | yes |
| Apr 22, 2026 | 24 Heron Plainwell | $499,000 | — | — | outlier |
| Mar 13, 2026 | 74 Lake Doster Plainwell | $457,500 | 15 ft | $30,500 | outlier |
| Sep 2, 2025 | 180 Lake Doster Plainwell | $380,000 | 55 ft | $6,909 | older |
| Jul 25, 2025 | 339 Highland Plainwell | $619,000 | 110 ft | $5,627 | older |
| May 9, 2025 | 29 Terrace Plainwell | $364,900 | — | — | older |
| May 9, 2025 | 343 South Fork Plainwell | $505,000 | 102 ft | $4,951 | older |
| Apr 25, 2025 | 403 Midlakes Plainwell | $645,000 | 133 ft | $4,850 | older |
| Mar 25, 2025 | 341 Bayview Plainwell | $705,000 | 111 ft | $6,351 | older |
| Dec 26, 2024 | 13990 Doster Plainwell | $610,000 | 126 ft | $4,841 | older |
| Oct 10, 2024 | 360 Highland Plainwell | $671,000 | 250 ft | $2,684 | older |
| Apr 26, 2024 | 77 Lake Doster Plainwell | $492,500 | 115 ft | $4,283 | older |
| Dec 5, 2023 | 357 Horseshoe Plainwell | $380,000 | 90 ft | $4,222 | older |
| Oct 31, 2023 | 312 Blarney Plainwell | $682,000 | 215 ft | $3,172 | 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.
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Know what sells on Lake Doster.
Every time a home closes on Lake Doster, I'll email you the address, what it asked, what it actually sold for, and how long it sat. That is the whole email.
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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 Lake Doster 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 Lake Doster 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.