Mark Updegraff · Real estate broker

Thinking about selling
your lake house?

Before you start fixing things, let’s look at the house. We can talk through price, timing and which projects are worth taking on.

Conesus Lake from the lawn at 5854 Big Tree Road
Conesus Lake5854 Big Tree Road · Sold 2020
Photograph from the original listing

A few places you may know.

Conesus Lake2020

5854 Big Tree Road

Lakeville

A home directly on Conesus Lake. I represented both sides of the sale.

Seneca Wine Trail2023

4610 State Route 14

Rock Stream

A historic home with lake views along the Seneca Wine Trail. I represented the seller.

Canadice2018

6151 Canadice Hill Road

Updegraff Group Realty

Our company helped a buyer purchase this property. I handled the client relationship, and Michael Pascutoi handled the transaction as the buying agent.

Exterior of the historic home at 4610 State Route 14 in Rock Stream
4610 State Route 14 · Sold 2023 · Original listing photograph

A home with a lake view.

I represented the seller of this Rock Stream property. This was a lake-view home, not a direct-waterfront sale.

What sold on the lake?

A starting point for the conversation. These lake-wide numbers include different property types and ownership arrangements.

Conesus and Seneca · January 1–December 31, 2025
LakeClosed MLS recordsMedian sale price
Conesus26$667,500
Seneca57$700,500

On Conesus, a narrower group of 21 records had a $750,000 median and 12 median days on market after excluding specified unit- and lot-address records. Which properties you compare makes a difference.

Source, filters and limitations

Rochester Investment analysis of NYS Alliance of MLS Matrix, retrieved September 13, 2026. Closed period: January 1–December 31, 2025. Single-family, condominium/townhouse and two-to-four-unit residential records marked On Waterfront = Yes, with an exact lake-name match. Lake-view-only properties are outside this dataset.

The narrower Conesus group excludes addresses with unit or lot identifiers at 4795, 5118, 5129 and 4425 East Lake Road. This is an address-based screen, not a determination of legal ownership. Its median days on market applies only to those 21 records.

Counts are MLS records, not unique parcels. Fields may be incomplete; days on market are not cumulative market time. These medians do not measure appreciation or establish a value for your home.

What comes with the view?

For a lake property, I want to understand the shoreline access, the stairs down to the water, the septic system and any work the house needs. Those details belong in the pricing conversation.

If you’ve been renting it out, we should also look at the rental records and what a new owner would need to keep doing that.

Have a place in mind?

Send me the address and when you’re thinking of selling.