Realtors in Annandale, MN
Wright County lake country, on Pleasant Lake and the Clearwater chain. Buying, selling and home valuation in Annandale, Wright County, from a two broker team based in Saint Michael.
People do not move to Annandale for the commute. They move here for the water.
This is where Wright County turns into lake country. Pleasant Lake, the Clearwater chain and a scattering of smaller lakes give Annandale a housing market that runs on water frontage, cabins and year-round lake homes, and a meaningful part of it has historically been seasonal property that has since been converted to full-time living.
Converted cabins are the thing to watch here. A seasonal building that someone winterized twenty years ago can be a wonderful house or a stack of deferred problems, and the difference is in the foundation, the insulation, the septic and how the water line was run. Get an inspector who has seen a lot of lake property. Septic on older lake lots is its own subject, because small lots near water constrain where a compliant system can even go.
- County
- Wright County
- Schools
- Annandale (ISD 876)
- Commute
- Highway 55, then I-94 or Highway 12
- To downtown
- over an hour to downtown Minneapolis in most conditions
- Water/sewer
- lake country, mostly wells and septic outside the city core
- Housing
- Lake frontage across a wide range, converted cabins, year-round lake homes, a small-town core and rural acreage.
- Coordinates
- 45.2622° N 94.1250° W
Approximate drive times, and they are worth nothing next to the drive you make yourself at the hour you would really be leaving.
Buying, selling and valuation in Annandale.
Each of these has its own Annandale page, written for this town, not for the county.
What a buyer should know about Annandale.
On any lake property, buy the water first. Frontage feet, shoreline, depth at the dock, orientation for afternoon sun, and what the DNR and the county allow at the shore. Then inspect the building hard, especially anything that started life as a cabin. Septic compliance on a small lakeside lot is the single most expensive surprise out here.
What a seller is up against in Annandale.
The water is your product. Photograph it from the water, in good evening light, and state the frontage in feet. If your system and well are recent and compliant, say so in the listing, because buyers who have been shopping lake property have learned to worry about exactly that.
Valuing a Annandale property.
Lake valuation is a specialty. Which lake, how much frontage, what the shoreline is and which way it faces drive the number, and the house is sometimes almost secondary. Automated estimates on lake property are the least reliable numbers in real estate.
Thinking about Annandale?
Call 763-786-3700. We will tell you what is on the market here, what it is going for and whether this is the right town for what you want.
Annandale questions, answered straight.
What is the housing stock like in Annandale?
Lake frontage across a wide range, converted cabins, year-round lake homes, a small-town core and rural acreage. Lake and converted-cabin property gets inspected differently, and we plan for that.
Which school district serves Annandale?
Annandale is served by Annandale (ISD 876). District boundaries out here do not always follow city limits, so we still confirm it per address before you write an offer.
How long is the commute from Annandale to Minneapolis?
You are on Highway 55, then I-94 or Highway 12, and it is over an hour to downtown Minneapolis in most conditions. Those are approximate and the only number that matters is the one you get driving it yourself at the hour you would really be leaving, in both directions.
Which county is Annandale in?
Wright County. That determines your property taxes, your recording and where a septic compliance inspection gets filed, so on the county borders we get the actual tax statement, not an estimate.
Other towns on the sheet.
| Town | County | School district | Commute spine |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Michael | Wright | St. Michael-Albertville (ISD 885) | I-94 at County Road 19 |
| Albertville | Wright | St. Michael-Albertville (ISD 885) | I-94 at exit 202 |
| Otsego | Wright | mostly Elk River Area (ISD 728), with part in St. Michael-Albertville (ISD 885) | Highway 101 north to Elk River, I-94 south |
| Rogers | Hennepin | Elk River Area (ISD 728) | I-94 at Highway 101 |
| Elk River | Sherburne | Elk River Area (ISD 728) | Highway 169 and Highway 10, plus the Northstar commuter rail station |
| Monticello | Wright | Monticello (ISD 882) | I-94 west of the metro |
| Buffalo | Wright | Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose (ISD 877) | Highway 55 and Highway 25 |
| Delano | Wright | Delano (ISD 879) | Highway 12 east toward I-394 |
Equal Housing Opportunity. MTS Real Estate Group supports the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin.
Edina Realty, a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate. Licensed in the State of Minnesota. MTS Real Estate Group is a team of licensed real estate professionals with Edina Realty.