Townhomes for Sale in Rochester, IN

Halfway between Kokomo and South Bend, the small city of Rochester is home to Lake Manitou, an all-sports lake that locals love and tourists have yet to discover. “It’s the small, rural county seat of Fulton County. It’s a farming community, and our biggest asset is our 800-acre lake that’s incorporated into town,” says Susan Morris, a resident of nearly 30 years and co-owner and principal broker of Rochester Realty. Downtown Rochester boasts boutiques, restaurants and small businesses, plus recent improvements like new streetlamps, refurbished facades and the renovation of the historic Times Theater. The venue now hosts concerts, films and community events, making it a popular destination for the city of about 7,000. Rochester has an assortment of home styles and prices, ranging from modest bungalows built in 1900 to new builds in subdivisions to custom-built lakefront estates. “We’re talking between $700,000 and $1 million on the lake, but this year lake houses aren’t selling because the interest rates are high and the economy’s uncertain,” Morris says. The median single-family home sale price is $200,000, which is lower than Warsaw’s median of about $260,000. The median cost of