Round Lake used to be something rare. You could see 40 feet down through water so clear it looked like glass. You chose this lake because of that. Because of what it meant to be here when it was still that.
Something has changed. The new homes are bigger. The boats are louder. The lawns run to the water’s edge — manicured, fertilized, perfect — and every summer the algae blooms a little more than the year before. The lake that drew you here twenty-five years ago is not the lake your neighbors are buying today.
If you’re starting to think about what comes next for this property — this page is for you.
What the Market Looks Like Right Now
Round Lake is one of the most active real estate markets in the Hayward Lakes region. With 44 waterfront residential properties currently listed, prices range from the high $300s to nearly $3 million — with the heart of the market sitting between $600,000 and $1.5 million for quality single family lakefront. The upper end of the market has climbed significantly as new construction and luxury renovation reshape the shoreline.
What your specific property is worth takes a conversation, not a calculator. Every lot, every cabin, every family situation is different.
Who This Page Is For
When the lake you loved isn’t the lake you bought.
You remember when the water was so clear you could see 40 feet down. You remember when the boats were smaller and the summers were quieter. When you knew your neighbors and the lake had a certain character that felt permanent.
It doesn’t feel that way anymore. The new homes are bigger. The wake boats are louder. The manicured lawns run to the water’s edge and every August the algae blooms a little more than the year before. The lake is still beautiful. But it isn’t the lake you bought.
That’s not a small thing. And you don’t have to pretend it is.
When the property is worth more than the life you’re living on it.
Round Lake real estate has never been more valuable. What you paid for this property twenty or thirty years ago and what it’s worth today are two very different numbers. And somewhere along the way, the enjoyment stopped keeping pace with the responsibility.
The taxes. The maintenance. The dock. The roof. The insurance. You built something real here — and the market is ready to reward you for it. The question is whether holding on still makes sense, or whether the timing is finally right to let someone else take it from here.
When the family can’t agree on what to do with it.
Multiple owners. Multiple opinions. Multiple memories tied to the same piece of shoreline.
One sibling wants to sell. One wants to keep it. One hasn’t been up in five years but has plenty of thoughts. And every family gathering that should be about the lake turns into a conversation nobody wants to have.
I don’t take sides and I don’t rush anyone. What I do is bring clarity to the process — lay out what the property is actually worth, what selling looks like, and what staying looks like — so every person at the table can make an informed decision.
Sometimes that conversation ends in a listing. Sometimes it doesn’t. Either way you’ll know where you stand.
Every place like this has a story. I’d like to hear yours.
Fill out the form below. Tell me what you’re thinking, what you’re feeling, or just where you are in the process. I’ll be in touch by phone — usually the next morning.
Who I Am
I’m Yancy Perkins, a real estate agent with Pine Point Real Estate in Hayward, Wisconsin. I specialize in lake properties, hunting land, and wilderness retreats across Sawyer, Bayfield, and Washburn Counties.
My family’s roots in Wisconsin run to the late 1700s — I’m a seventh-generation Wisconsinite raising the eighth generation on these same waters. I spent twenty years in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where I became a luxury real estate agent and found my way into fly fishing and bird hunting. The mountains, the rivers, the backcountry — it all shaped how I see land. Not as inventory. As something to be loved, stewarded, and passed forward. Coming back to Wisconsin wasn’t a career move. It was a homecoming.
I don’t work every lake in Wisconsin. I work this zone — Spider Chain, Lost Land, Teal, Ghost, and the quiet lakes around Hayward that draw the kind of people who came here for the nature, not the noise.
If that’s you, I’d like to hear your story.
— Yancy Perkins
(715) 558-9740