Lake Geneva Rentals
I can’t fully explain to you how pleased I am that the Lake Geneva lakefront market doesn’t care about rentals. What a relief that is to remove rental concepts from … Read more
Fontana
Abbey Ridge For Sale
One of my two complementing agents, Jessica Genrich, just listed this rather fantastic Abbey Ridge residence that includes a separately deeded Abbey Harbor boat slip. This immaculate unit has been … Read more
1081 South Lakeshore
If you’re a buyer in Fontana, you can gain access to lots of fun things. You could try to join the Lake Geneva Yacht Club and hang out at that … Read more
1905 NLSD Sells
On a January day in 2018, a pleasant house on the north shore of Fontana hit the market for $4,695,000. It wasn’t a house that was necessarily built to hit … Read more
North Lakeshore Drive Sells
My latest lakefront sale was of this delightful shingle style home on Fontana’s North Shore.
Wisconsin Kringle Company Pizza Review
A corner convenience store turned into a Kringle shop that also sells pizza. Let’s see if it’s any good.
Pending Lakefront
Another week, another pending sale on the lakefront. This time, a magnificent Fontana specimen priced at $7,395,000.
Lake Geneva Market Update
It’s still winter, but the lakefront market knows that summer is right around this icy corner.
Lake Geneva Inventory
In real estate, you either win sometimes or you lose sometimes. There is no such thing as winning or losing. You’re winning, a bit. Losing, a bit. Both, often, at … Read more
389 North Lakeshore Drive
There are three things that attract people to houses. Yes, there are renters who rent based on price and convenience, those who say they won’t be pinned down, won’t be … Read more
Glenwood Springs For Sale
There’s a reason you read this blog. That, of course, was a lie. In actuality, there are many reasons you read this blog, but perhaps there are are only two … Read more
Buena Vista Sells
It’s a curious thing to watch buyers as they watch the market, and the houses that exist inside of that market. Buyers are attracted to various things, to shiny, for … Read more
Buena Vista, Fontana
A fresh video for my rare listing in Fontana’s bucolic Buena Vista. This home offers a large private pier, beautifully updated finishes, immaculate gardens, and loads of lakeside patio space. … Read more
Municipal Musings
Last weekend, it was hot. You know that. I know that. It was super hot. Smoking hot. Summer hot. If you were here, then you were less hot than the … Read more
New Buena Vista Lakefront Listing
I have a particular thing for porches. This affinity is owed to my youth, to a childhood home where little mattered except that old porch. Summer lunch, in the porch. … Read more
Clear Sky Lodge Home For Sale
You don’t really want to be me. Some of my friends think they’d like to be me. To work a bit and make money a bit and drive a nice … Read more
2017 Abbey Springs Market Review
I owe Abbey Springs something. Not money, I don’t think. It’s never paid me very much, so I shouldn’t feel obligated to pay it back. In the mid 1990s, I … Read more
465 Outing
When David Bowie died, it was hard to scroll through Twitter and find someone who had not, at some point, met him. In line at McDonald’s. Rushing through Heathrow. Buying … Read more
Sneak Peek
New listing coming to market by Memorial Day. Fontana location. Not huge, but man is it nice. Low $3s.
1014 South Lakeshore Sells
The most important lakefront home I’ve ever sold is 1014 South Lakeshore Drive in Fontana. I sold that home for the first time in 2010 for $5.885MM. At the time, … Read more
Pleasant View Sells
No, this doesn’t mean your cottage with lake access is going to sell for $1.1MM. It doesn’t mean that small cottages with views and private piers are always going to … Read more
Geneva Lakefront Sale
We tend to buy real estate based on emotion and sell it based upon fact. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has ever bought or sold real … Read more
Glenwood Springs Sells
I think it’s great when someone comes up to tour some vacation homes on a Friday and buys one on a Sunday. But I admit to you that in 20 … Read more
Fontana Lakefront Sells
I’m not going to say what I want to say. I’m not going to say that a house with a modest 110′ worth of cliff frontage shouldn’t sell for five … Read more