Get waterfront living for a lot less

Affordable oceanfront property can be hard to find. But you can buy a sweet lake house for under a million. Here are four of them on the market now.

1 of 4

Alburg, Vt.

Price: $499,000

Lake Champlain contemporary has Italian tile in the kitchen and dining room, a blue slate fireplace, two decks, and a 45-foot dock.

Rooms: 7 bed, 3 bath

Square feet: 3,200

Taxes: $5,200

Lot size: 0.8 acre

By Sarah Max, Money Magazine

NEXT: Mount Vernon, Texas

Last updated June 26 2009: 5:55 AM ET

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