Wolverine Lake is an all-sports lake in the Village of Wolverine Lake, a home-rule village inside Commerce Township, Oakland County. The Village's 2022 master plan measures 289.6 acres of water and describes a 289-acre all-sports lake. The Village's community profile lists the same lake at about 265 acres. A Michigan DNR inland-lake contour survey (lake ID L8403) records a deepest sounding of 57 feet. That sounding is one deep spot on the chart, not the depth a dock sees. Usable depth at the seawall is what gets priced.
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The lake was built. In the 1920s Dr. Howard Stuart dammed the marsh and joined six smaller lakes — Spring, Mayze, Pork Barrel, Bicking, Taylor, and Bradley — raising the water about eight feet. The dam was finished in March 1923. Stuart's Oak Island sits in the lake, and the Village's history says a section-line road between Mayze and Spring is still under the water. Neighbors incorporated as a home-rule village in 1954 so the shoreline would stay one community. The Village's community profile lists 4,312 residents and 1,740 households on about 1.69 square miles. The City of Walled Lake is to the south, Wixom to the west, and the rest of Commerce Township on the north and east.
How a house meets the water is the sale. The 2022 master plan says residents reach the lake through subdivision outlots along the shore, and that some of those parks have a beach or a boat launch. An outlot key is not a deed that touches the water. At the southeast end, a canal the Village studied in 2020 was a wetland on the 1907 map and is now about 10.5 acres of open water with about 7,500 feet of shoreline. On October 29, 2020, with the lake about 9 inches below the normal level that study used (918.25 feet USGS), canal depths ran from about 2.1 to 5.3 feet and averaged about 3.5 feet. The Village's history also describes Penny Lake, a southeast pond later opened to the main lake. Open water, that canal, and a Penny Lake edge are three different properties.
The Village runs the level. Wolverine Lake is not on Oakland County's published list of lakes with a court-set normal level. Each fall the Village lowers the lake so owners can work the shore. The published target is about 18 inches below the summer level by December 1, and back to the summer level by June 1. A dock measured in July is not the same dock in January. A Michigan DNR public access site sits off Glengary Road, so this is a public all-sports lake, not a private basin. Owners pay Village taxes and Commerce Township taxes. The Village's community profile lists the Walled Lake School District, and the mailing address is 48390. Read the deed, both tax bills, and the school boundary off the address before anyone prices the house like an inland colonial.
Hire MARK Z and the Z Real Estate Experts team at eXp Realty. A Wolverine Lake listing is a water-rights sale: open-lake frontage, southeast canal frontage, or access through a subdivision outlot. The price comes from other Wolverine Lake sales, not from Union Lake, not from the City of Walled Lake, and not from a house off the water in the same village.
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Cash Offer Now is a separate path, and only for homes that fit it — generally built after 1950 and valued between $15,000 and $750,000. Some houses in the village fit that range. Homes built before 1950 do not, and frontage priced above the cap should be listed. Call (248) 890-7077 and we will put both numbers in front of you.
Current listings from the MLS, updated continuously.
These are waterfront listings in the Village of Wolverine Lake. The set can include the southeast canal and a house with lake access that does not have its own frontage. Ask us to separate open-lake frontage, canal frontage, and outlot access before you use them as comps.
MARK Z and the Z Real Estate Experts team. Wolverine Lake is an all-sports lake in the Village of Wolverine Lake, inside Commerce Township. The Village's own figures put the water at about 265 to 290 acres. A seller needs comps from this lake — open frontage, the shallow southeast canal, or an outlot key — not a Union Lake or Walled Lake sale. Call (248) 890-7077 for a free valuation.
The same team. The public record is 6,000+ homes sold, over $1 billion in career volume, and 4.8 stars across 780 Google reviews. On Wolverine Lake that trust shows up as pricing the water itself, including the Village's seasonal drawdown of about 18 inches, and as a Guaranteed Sold Program when you want the sale buttoned down.
A qualified Wolverine Lake agent can tell open-lake frontage from the southeast canal (about 10.5 acres, surveyed around 2 to 5 feet deep in October 2020) and from access through a subdivision outlot. That agent also reads two tax bills, Village and Commerce Township, and the Walled Lake School District off the address. That is the work MARK Z's team does on this shoreline.
Top dollar comes from pricing the actual water right — open frontage, the southeast canal, or an outlot — against recent Wolverine Lake sales, then marketing that water to buyers who already want this village lake. MARK Z's team does that work. Compare the list price with Cash Offer Now only when the home fits the program (built after 1950, value about $15,000 to $750,000). Frontage above that range, and homes built before 1950, should be listed.
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