The Community of Bishops Bay
Middleton/Westport, Dane County, Wisconsin · Madison golf market
- Housing
- Single-family starter homes, Estate homes
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The Community of Bishops Bay is a large master-planned new-construction development in Middleton and Westport (Dane County), developed by Terrence Wall's T. Wall Enterprises beginning around 2011 on roughly 780 acres acquired from the estate of Bishops Bay Country Club founder Sam Jacobsen. The plan calls for seven distinct neighborhoods -- The Back Nine, Watermark, Town Center, Reserve Hill, The Farm, The Prairie, and The Woods -- with The Back Nine specifically sited overlooking the golf course. Housing spans starter single-family homes from roughly $299,900 to multi-million-dollar estates, plus villas from $730,000. The community funds its own clubhouse (fitness center, hot tub, zero-entry pool) through mandatory HOA dues, entirely separate from Bishops Bay Country Club's own private golf membership.
Golf Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Homeownership in the Community of Bishops Bay requires HOA membership (appurtenant to lot ownership per the HOA's bylaws) but does not include or require Bishops Bay Country Club golf membership, which is priced and governed entirely separately by the private club.
Living in The Community of Bishops Bay
The Back Nine, the community's premier neighborhood directly overlooking the course, offers 37 housing lots ranging from golf-view empty-nester condos to wooded and traditional home sites; other neighborhoods (Town Center, The Farm, The Prairie, The Woods, Watermark, Reserve Hill) are planned to round out an eventual multi-thousand-resident buildout.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Residents have access to a dedicated community clubhouse with meeting rooms, a full kitchen, fitness center, hot tub, and zero-entry pool, plus a working farm neighborhood, trails, and planned parks and shops -- independent of Country Club amenities.
Location & Surrounding Area
The community sits on the north shore of Lake Mendota in Middleton and Westport, roughly 15 minutes from downtown Madison.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old figure a current one.
Home price (low)
Current$299,900
The Back Nine neighborhood's 'starter' home price point as marketed; WebFetch to the source page was blocked, figure taken from a search-result snippet.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current HOA dues and whether the community (or any phase) is gated.
- Confirm current pricing across all seven planned neighborhoods, since only The Back Nine's price points were confirmed this session.
Notable
- The community's seven planned neighborhoods include 'The Back Nine,' explicitly named for and sited overlooking the golf course.
- The residential master plan was secured by a different developer (Terrence Wall) roughly 15 years after Sam Jacobsen founded Bishops Bay Country Club, following acquisition of the surrounding land from Jacobsen's estate.
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