SoldLakefront Contemporary
Cedar Point
4 bd · 3.5 ba · Represented seller
Lakeside Realty Group — Cedar Lake Basin
Know the mountainbefore you buy it.
I help buyers and sellers move through the Cedar Lake Basin with a clear read on each neighborhood — access, water, fire, permits, and what a house is actually worth in February.
Listings open on the Lakeside Realty Group website
June – September
Summer
Peak rental demand and peak pricing. Buyers tour in July and regret it in February — walk the lot before you fall for the water.
02A note from Morgan
I've lived here long enough to know which streets get plowed first and which docks survive a hard winter.
Most of my clients are buying a second home. That's a different decision than buying a primary residence — it's about how you'll actually use a place across four seasons, and what it costs to keep when you're not in it.
So I slow the process down. We walk neighborhoods before we tour houses. I tell you what I'd want to know if it were my money, including the things that make a house harder to sell later.
Morgan Hale
Broker Associate, Lakeside Realty Group
The basin
Five neighborhoods, one shoreline — and a different answer in each.
03Neighborhoods
Five basins within one basin.
The lake is small. The differences between its streets are not. Here's an honest read on each — character, price, and who it actually suits.
Cedar Point
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Cedar Point
$2.4M – $6M
Old lakefront parcels with deep lots and private piers. Quiet year-round, mostly long-tenured owners, and very little inventory — a Cedar Point sale is usually a relationship, not a listing.
SuitsBuyers who want water frontage and are willing to wait for the right parcel.
02
Ridgeview
$1.1M – $2.2M
Above the basin on the sunny side, with big views and newer construction. Steeper driveways mean real snow management, but the plow route is reliable and the light in winter is unmatched.
SuitsSecond-home buyers who want a view and a house that needs nothing.
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Old Mill Village
$650K – $1.1M
The walkable middle of town. Cottages and 1970s A-frames on small lots, close to the market and the trailhead. Short-term rental permits are capped here, so verify status before you write.
SuitsFirst mountain home, or an owner who wants to walk everywhere.
04
North Shore Meadows
$900K – $1.8M
Flat, sunny, and family-oriented, set back from the water with meadow frontage. Best access in a heavy winter and the easiest lots to build defensible space around.
SuitsFull-time residents and families who want space without the hill.
05
Granite Creek
$1.6M – $3.4M
Architect-built homes on wooded acre lots along the creek. Private and dark at night, with well water on some parcels — worth budgeting for inspection and a flow test.
SuitsDesign-minded buyers who value privacy over proximity.
04Sold
A selection of past sales.
Representative closed transactions across the basin. Drag to move through them.
SoldSoldRidge House
Ridgeview
3 bd · 3 ba · Represented buyer
SoldCreekside Retreat
Granite Creek
4 bd · 4 ba · Represented buyer
SoldThe A-Frame
Old Mill Village
2 bd · 2 ba · Represented seller
SoldMeadow Cottage
North Shore Meadows
3 bd · 2 ba · Represented seller
SoldPier & Boathouse
Cedar Point
5 bd · 4.5 ba · Represented buyer
Static portfolio — not a live MLS feed. Sold data shown for illustration.
How I work
Slow the process down. Walk the streets before you tour the houses.
05By the numbers
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For Buyers
Buy the neighborhood first.
- A walk of the basin before you tour anything — so you choose the neighborhood first.
- Honest read on snow load, access, well and septic, and what a remodel really costs up here.
- Short-term rental and permit status verified in writing before the offer.
- Local lenders, inspectors, and contractors who actually return calls in winter.
- Quiet access to off-market conversations in tightly held pockets.
For Sellers
Sell to the right season.
- Pricing built on basin comparables, not county-wide averages.
- Architectural photography and a seasonal shoot plan — summer water, winter light.
- Pre-list punch list: defensible space, deck, roof, and the items inspectors always flag.
- Direct outreach to second-home buyers already circling your street.
- One point of contact from list to close. You'll always talk to me.
February
A house is only worth what it's worth in the hardest month of the year.
07Resources
Local knowledge, written down.
The questions that come up in every transaction up here. Articles are in progress — replace each link as they publish.
Clients
“Morgan talked us out of the first house we loved. Six months later we bought two streets over and it was completely the right call.”
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09About
Eighteen winters in the same basin.
I came to Cedar Lake, Pine County for a season and stayed. Before real estate I worked in construction here — framing, decks, and enough remodels to know what's behind a wall before we open it.
That background is most of the value I bring. I can stand in a house and tell you what the deferred maintenance is going to cost, whether the roof pitch is right for this snow load, and how a lot sits relative to the fire risk map.
I work this market and only this market. I take a small number of clients at a time so that when you call, I answer — and so I'm actually walking the streets I write about.
Outside of work you'll find me on the north shore trails most mornings, and on the water until it's genuinely too cold.
- Brokerage
- Lakeside Realty Group
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- Cedar Lake Basin
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- Buyers & sellers
Contact
Start with a conversation.
Tell me a little about what you're considering. I'll reply personally, usually the same day.