Buying a Home in East Troy: Village Homes, Lake Beulah, Potters Lake and Country Property

By Kim and Joel Reyenga, eXp Realty | Published October 2, 2026

Quick answer: East Troy sells four different things. Village homes on about a quarter acre, 96 sales at a median of $402,500. Township homes off the water, 148 sales at $502,500. Lake access homes, 22 sales at $367,500. And waterfront, 40 sales from $305,000 to $3,595,000. Inventory is thin: 51 active listings across the whole area when we pulled this data, and 47 percent of homes sold in a week or less.

What you can buy right now

Here is the entire active market in East Troy on September 17, 2026.

Type	Active	List price range
Village homes	15	$299,900 to $598,900
Township homes off the water	13	$299,800 to $1,599,000
Waterfront	6	$884,900 to $3,899,000
Condominiums	2	$354,900 to $364,900
Vacant land	14	$104,900 to $329,900

Fifty-one listings. That is the whole shelf.

Speed follows from that. Across 306 single family sales since January 2024, 47 percent closed a deal within 7 days of hitting the market, and 103 of them sold above asking. Those 103 took a median of 4 days.

If you are shopping here from Chicago or Milwaukee on weekends, you will lose homes to buyers who can see them Tuesday morning. Plan for that.

Ready to look? Search current East Troy listings, or call or text Kim and Joel at (262) 325-9867 and have them set up alerts before the weekend list goes out.

Buying by lake

The three lakes do not behave alike. One is expensive and deep, one is small and busy with access lots, and one cannot be bought into at all.

Lake	Waterfront sales	Range	Lake access sales
Lake Beulah	23	$305,000 to $3,595,000	6
Potter Lake	15	$382,000 to $1,425,000	16
Booth Lake	2	$939,000 and $1,060,000	none

Lake Beulah carries the top of the market. It is 812 acres and 58 feet deep, per the Wisconsin DNR, and it holds the widest spread of any segment in the area. Six of its 23 waterfront sales closed above $1.5 million. Four closed under $500,000, and those four were small older cottages or channel lots.

Potter Lake is the access market. Its 16 lake access sales outnumber its 15 waterfront sales, at a median of $367,500. That is where a buyer gets water without the frontage price.

Booth Lake has no access market, and this is where listings mislead people. The beach, the launch and the park are open to residents and property owners of the Village of East Troy, the Town of East Troy and the Town of Troy. Proof of residency is required. Buying a house near Booth Lake does not buy a right. Living in one of the three municipalities is the right.

Which streets carry the frontage

Waterfront here is concentrated on a short list of roads.

On Potter Lake: Shorewood Drive and Miramar Drive carry most of it, with Spleas Skoney Road and Lake Lane adding a few.

On Lake Beulah: Beulah Heights Road, Country Club Lane, South Shore Drive, East Shore Road, Kings Lane, Beulah Park Road, Wilmers Point, Stringers Bridge Road, Ravine Drive, New Deal Avenue, Deer Path Road and Beach Road.

On Booth Lake: Booth Lake Heights Road.

If a listing claims water and the address is not on one of those roads, ask what exactly is being sold.

Every waterfront sale, one by one

We do not publish a waterfront median. Two sales at $305,000 and $3,595,000 average out to a number that describes no house. Here is the actual record for the past 33 months.

Sold	Lake	Street	Price	Frontage	Built
4/2026	Beulah	Beach Rd	$305,000	131 ft	1949
9/2024	Beulah	Ravine Dr	$337,500	16 ft	1946
5/2024	Potter	Shorewood Dr	$382,000	45 ft	1920
9/2026	Beulah	Deer Path Rd	$435,000	50 ft	1950
8/2024	Beulah	Ravine Dr	$450,500	n/a	1953
1/2026	Beulah	Stringer Bridge Rd	$452,000	n/a	n/a
5/2025	Potter	Shorewood Dr	$460,000	50 ft	1929
4/2024	Beulah	Beulah Heights Rd	$510,000	165 ft	1930
5/2025	Potter	Shorewood Dr	$516,000	94 ft	1931
4/2025	Potter	Shorewood Dr	$620,000	50 ft	1958
5/2025	Potter	Shorewood Dr	$670,000	50 ft	2006
6/2026	Potter	Shorewood Dr	$675,000	50 ft	1940
7/2026	Potter	Miramar Dr	$705,000	50 ft	1930
10/2025	Potter	Miramar Dr	$725,000	n/a	1940
9/2026	Potter	Shorewood Dr	$750,000	50 ft	1930
11/2025	Potter	Miramar Dr	$845,000	37 ft	1954
7/2026	Beulah	Wilmers Point Ln	$850,000	40 ft	1992
5/2025	Potter	Shorewood Dr	$850,000	50 ft	1958
7/2025	Booth	Booth Lake Heights Rd	$939,000	50 ft	2006
2/2026	Beulah	East Shore Rd	$987,350	9 ft	2013
5/2025	Beulah	New Deal Ave	$989,000	43 ft	1996
3/2026	Beulah	Kings Ln	$990,000	n/a	1930
12/2024	Potter	Spleas Skoney Rd	$1,055,000	50 ft	1997
5/2024	Booth	Booth Lake Heights Rd	$1,060,000	125 ft	1973
2/2026	Potter	Miramar Dr	$1,100,000	50 ft	1929
9/2024	Beulah	Country Club Ln	$1,160,000	n/a	1948
2/2026	Beulah	Country Club Ln	$1,290,000	100 ft	1996
9/2025	Beulah	South Shore Dr	$1,300,000	117 ft	1972
10/2025	Potter	Miramar Dr	$1,300,000	50 ft	2012
1/2025	Beulah	Wilmers Grove Rd	$1,334,000	80 ft	1993
5/2025	Beulah	Country Club Ln	$1,350,000	64 ft	1948
6/2026	Potter	Lake Ln	$1,425,000	n/a	2008
11/2025	Beulah	East Shore Rd	$1,475,000	100 ft	2002
9/2026	Beulah	Beulah Park Rd	$1,600,000	65 ft	1912
7/2026	Beulah	Stringers Bridge Rd	$1,625,000	100 ft	1940
9/2026	Beulah	Beulah Heights Rd	$1,800,000	119 ft	1962
6/2026	Beulah	Beulah Park Rd	$2,000,000	n/a	1925
6/2026	Beulah	South Shore Dr	$2,290,397	100 ft	1976
5/2025	Beulah	Kings Ln	$3,250,000	100 ft	2023
9/2025	Beulah	Beulah Heights Rd	$3,595,000	92 ft	1992

Read the frontage column. Fifty feet is the standard Potter Lake lot, and the price swing on those 50-foot lots runs from $460,000 to $1,300,000. The house and the condition move the number, not the water.

The acreage ladder, and the one place it breaks

Lot size	Sales	Median
Under 0.35 acres	111	$435,000
0.35 to 1 acre	80	$416,500
1 to 3 acres	43	$475,000
3 to 5 acres	18	$569,950
5 to 10 acres	39	$610,000
Over 10 acres	15	$1,005,000

The ladder climbs, with one exception at the bottom. Homes on less than a third of an acre sold higher than homes on a third to a full acre. That is the lake lots. Waterfront parcels are small, so the smallest lots in the area include the most expensive houses. Take that band apart before you use it as a comparable.

The age ladder

Decade built	Sales	Median
Before 1920	33	$355,000
1920s and 1930s	20	$445,000
1940s and 1950s	43	$380,000
1960s and 1970s	51	$410,000
1980s and 1990s	78	$482,500
2000s	30	$654,500
2010s	15	$780,000
2020 and newer	35	$542,000

Two things worth noting. The 2010s median sits above the 2020s median, because the 2010s number includes new lake houses while the 2020s number is mostly village and subdivision construction. And the pre-1920 group is where the cottages are, which is why it prices below the 1940s.

Condominiums

All condominium sales in the area are inside the village. Twenty-four sales in 33 months across six complexes.

Complex	Sales	Median	Built
Ashland Meadows	9	$325,000	2001
Crystal Acres	7	$330,000	2004
Lynndale I, II and III	5	$190,000	1992 to 1994
Graydon Avenue East	1	$399,000	2017
Fields Neighborhood	1	$325,000	2006
Hidden Glen	1	$310,000	2019

Two condominiums were active when we pulled the data, both listed in the $350,000s. There is no lake access condominium product here, and no resort or condo-hotel product. If that is what you want, it is on Geneva Lake and Delavan Lake, which our condominium values page covers.

Read the declaration and the reserve study before you write. Ask what the association owns, what it insures and when it last funded a roof.

The subdivisions to know

Lake Bluff is the largest, with 24 sales, all in the village. Troy Hill Estates follows with 13. Miramar Park sits on Potter Lake with 6. Alpine Tower Estates, on the Lafayette side, had 5. Sterling Oaks had 4.

The MLS spells several of these three different ways, Troy Hill Estates and Miramar included. If you search by subdivision name you will miss listings. Search by street.

Vacant land

Sixty-two land sales closed in 33 months, and the pattern is clean.

Where	Sales	Median	Median acres
Town of Troy	19	$350,000	6.53
Town of East Troy	33	$140,000	1.35
Town of Spring Prairie	5	$230,000	5.23
Village of East Troy	3	$109,900	0.29

Fourteen parcels were active at a median list price of $119,900. Land in the Town of East Troy sat a median of 72 days before selling. In the Town of Troy it sat 24.

Before you buy a lot, get the septic feasibility test in writing. A parcel that will not perc is a parcel you cannot build on, and the price you paid assumed you could.

Wells, septic and shoreland zoning

Only homes inside the Village of East Troy are on municipal water and sewer. Everything outside the village is on a private well and a septic system. That is the single biggest difference between a village purchase and a township purchase, and it changes your inspection list.

On a township home, ask for:

• The well record and a water test, including bacteria and nitrates.

• The septic system's location, size, type and last pumping and inspection records. Walworth County keeps these.

• Whether the system is a conventional field or a mound, and how old it is.

• The property's zoning and any shoreland zoning overlay, which is county-administered.

On a waterfront or channel home, add:

• The pier's permit status. Wisconsin regulates piers, and the DNR pier planner is the starting point.

• Whether the shoreline has a seawall or riprap, and who maintains it.

• Any lake district or association assessment, and what it covers.

• Slow-no-wake rules that apply to the channel or the whole lake.

On Lake Beulah, channel frontage is not open-water frontage. The channel homes in our data sell as lake access. That is not a criticism of the channel, it is a pricing fact.

Reaching the water without buying frontage

Three ways work here.

Buy on Potter Lake with access rights. Sixteen sales did exactly that at a median of $367,500, most of them in and around Miramar Park.

Buy on Lake Beulah with access or channel rights. Six sales, from $249,000 to $747,170.

Live in one of the three municipalities and use Booth Lake. The park pass comes with residency and proof of address, not with a deed.

Our page on lake association real estate explains how association rights are written and what to verify. For the whole region, see our lake property study, the LakeGenevaWeekend guide to the 26 lakes and its fishing guide, which covers what each lake holds.

What to confirm before you write an offer

1. Which municipality the parcel is in. The tax key tells you, the mailing address does not.

2. Which school district serves it.

3. Water and sewer, or well and septic, with records.

4. Exactly what water right is conveyed, read from the deed and not the listing.

5. Pier permit status and shoreline maintenance responsibility.

6. Lake district or association assessments.

7. Zoning, shoreland overlay and any nonconforming status on an older cottage.

8. For land, septic feasibility and access.

How Kim and Joel help buyers in East Troy

A buyer here can look at a 1949 cottage on 131 feet of Beulah frontage and a 2023 build on Kings Lane in the same afternoon, with almost $3 million between them. Sorting that takes the deed, the well record and the pier file, not a listing description.

Joel has held a Wisconsin real estate license since 1986. On a property like that, his job is to get the right third-party opinions in front of you and to make sense of them: the home inspector's report and the questions it raises, the contractor or builder who can price the work, the well and septic professionals who can say whether a system has life left. An agent should not be giving you a construction opinion. An agent should know which specialist to call, what to ask, and what the answer means for your offer.

Kim has been licensed since 2012 and works the preparation side of a transaction: renovation planning, staging, getting a property ready and the photography that follows. She also managed a 21-unit building in Lake Geneva, which is useful when a condominium's reserve study comes up short. Together they bring more than 50 years of combined real estate experience with eXp Realty LLC, and they have owned their Williams Bay home since 1988.

They also publish the data they use. Read more about Kim and Joel, or see how they cover community life on LakeGenevaWeekend.com.

Frequently asked questions about buying in East Troy

How much does a lake home cost in East Troy?

Over 33 months, 40 waterfront homes sold from $305,000 to $3,595,000. Lake Beulah carried 23 of them, Potter Lake 15 and Booth Lake 2. Lake access homes, which have water rights but no frontage, sold 22 times at a median of $367,500.

Can I get lake access without buying on the water?

Yes, on Potter Lake and Lake Beulah. Sixteen Potter Lake access homes sold at a median of $367,500, and six Lake Beulah access or channel homes sold from $249,000 to $747,170. Booth Lake has no access market, because its park and launch run on residency.

Do I need to live in East Troy to use Booth Lake?

Yes. The beach, the launch and Booth Lake Memorial Park are limited to residents and property owners of the Village of East Troy, the Town of East Troy and the Town of Troy, with proof of residency required.

Are East Troy homes on well and septic?

Only homes inside the Village of East Troy are on municipal water and sewer. Everything outside the village is on a private well and a septic system, so a well test and a septic inspection belong in every township offer.

How fast do homes sell in East Troy?

Fast. Of 306 single family sales since January 2024, 47 percent were under contract within 7 days, and 103 sold above asking in a median of 4 days.

How much inventory is there in East Troy?

Fifty-one active listings across the village and the townships when we pulled data on September 17, 2026: 15 village homes, 13 township homes, 6 waterfront, 2 condominiums and 14 vacant parcels.

What condominiums are in East Troy?

Six complexes, all inside the village: Ashland Meadows, Crystal Acres, the three Lynndale buildings, Graydon Avenue East, Fields Neighborhood and Hidden Glen. Twenty-four sold in 33 months, from $168,500 to $399,000. There is no lake access or resort condominium product here.

How much is vacant land in East Troy?

Sixty-two parcels sold. The Town of Troy ran a $350,000 median on a median 6.53 acres, the Town of East Troy $140,000 on 1.35 acres, and the village $109,900 on 0.29 acres. Get septic feasibility in writing before you close.

Is a bigger lot always worth more here?

Usually, but not at the bottom. Homes under a third of an acre sold at a $435,000 median, above the $416,500 median for homes on a third to a full acre. That is because waterfront lots are small and expensive. Separate the lake lots before you use lot size as a comparable.

What should I look for in a buyer's agent for East Troy lake property?

Three things. Someone who verifies the water right from the deed rather than the listing, someone who reads the well, septic and pier records before the offer rather than during the inspection period, and someone who can tell you which of the three municipalities a parcel sits in. Kim and Joel bring more than 50 years of combined experience in this market. Start on their about page.

Talk with Kim and Joel about East Troy real estate

Buying? Search East Troy homes for sale and ask Kim and Joel to pull the well, septic, pier and lake-rights records before you write. Buying a second home? Start with our Wisconsin vacation home buyer's guide, and if you are coming from Illinois, our post on short-term rental rules.

Selling first? Request a free home value report, then check it against the current market update and the regional home values report.

Still comparing towns? Walk East Troy with the community guide, check the events calendar for a weekend to visit, read the Alpine Valley guide and the Kettle Moraine Southern Unit guide, then compare with Elkhorn and the Lauderdale Lakes and our regional overview.

Kim and Joel Reyenga bring more than 50 years of combined real estate experience with eXp Realty LLC and live in Williams Bay. Meet Kim and Joel, read client reviews, see the market snapshot or send a message. Call or text (262) 325-9867.