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Klaxon Lake Estate listing seeks C$19.95 million for 1,449 acres

Haliburton Gold Group’s Klaxon Lake Estate listing highlights a 108-acre private lake and an apparent price change since 2025.

Sofia Marchetti

By Sofia Marchetti · World Affairs Correspondent

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Klaxon Lake Estate listing seeks C$19.95 million for 1,449 acres
Photo: Haliburton Gold Group

Haliburton Gold Group has put the Klaxon Lake Estate listing at C$19.95 million, marketing 1,449.5 acres in Ontario’s Haliburton Highlands around a 108-acre enclosed private lake. The offering is a niche ultra-luxury real-estate listing whose value pitch rests on land scale and seclusion rather than a conventional cottage lot.

The price in the group’s August 19 announcement is lower than the C$24.975 million figure given for Klaxon Lake in a June 30, 2025 announcement. Neither announcement explains the difference, and the August material does not establish the property’s current active-listing status.

What does the Klaxon Lake Estate listing include?

The estate is described as centred on a fully enclosed lake of 108 acres. Haliburton Gold Group characterizes the lake as spring-fed and stocked with lake trout; a 2025 announcement also described seven private ponds and frontage on three other lakes.

The earlier announcement listed seven buildings, 8,800 square feet of accommodation, six bedrooms and 8.5 bathrooms. Those specifications were not repeated in the August announcement, which instead focused on acreage, privacy and the lake.

“Zero neighbours” appears in the marketing headline, but the August announcement does not define whether that means no adjoining owners, no nearby homes or no public access. Its description supports a privacy-focused sales pitch without setting out parcel boundaries or access arrangements.

Why acreage is central to the sales pitch

Jeff Wilson, an owner and sales representative with the group, said buyers at this end of the waterfront market place greater weight on privacy and land scale than on house finishes or floor plans. The group said transactions at this price level can take longer and involve more financing and legal review, with a smaller pool of potential purchasers.

Its comparison with Muskoka and Collingwood is also based on the brokerage’s view of those markets. The firm cited typical high-end Muskoka estates of two to 6.5 acres and said larger Collingwood listings generally remain below 60 acres, figures that were not accompanied by market data in the announcement.

For buyers of rural waterfront holdings, acreage is a measure of land area, not a guarantee of usable building sites or development rights. The group’s general buyer guidance advises prospective purchasers to review terrain, road access, utilities, zoning and shoreline rules before buying land.

Those questions bear directly on a property marketed for its scale. The Haliburton private-lake acreage offering is being presented as a rare form of Ontario waterfront ownership, while the available announcements leave title, boundary and regulatory details for prospective buyers to examine.