A collection of Lake Geneva's finest properties.
Sold! Sea grass limestone and white oak floors (with a break for wool in a guest suite or two) run throughout the more than 11,000 square feet of this home. A main floor master suite on the east end of the home is warmed by one of the home’s five masonry fireplaces. If you sit in the great room, your gaze isn’t quite sure where to wander. You could find the fireplace, with it’s cut-limestone surround. Or you could look to the obvious, through the huge lakeside windows and onto that divine lake. Or up, to the white oak walls and Douglas Fir balcony. Or away from the lake and the fire, and onto the serene driveway side, with that steel atrium and the custom fixtures that illuminate. In spite of these views, this home isn’t really something you see as it is something you feel. $10,995,000
Country Estate! You won’t find Burr Oaks farm unless you’re really looking for it. An understated entry gives way to a winding cobble driveway that dips past untold numbers of trees and flowers and shrubs and grasses. Beyond the Ussurian Pears, the Pin Oaks, near the Honey Locust and just to the edge of the prairies where the cone flowers bloom brilliantly, you’ll catch your first glimpse of this renovated 1890 cream city brick home, tucked inside a flowering garden that perfumes your arrival. The renovation of this estate was performed by local craftsmen with an eye towards refined luxury without concern for cost. The home is divine, the grounds unrivaled, the pool and pool house are simple summer perfection. 174 acres of immense privacy with pond prairie and pasture, minutes from downtown Lake Geneva. $4,999,000
Sold! Once in a great while, a property is presented to the market that is so known, so revered, so celebrated, that no superlative description is required. These are the legacy properties that occupy not only the finest lots on the best streets and feature the highest grade architecture and finishes, these are the iconic properties that are so respected because of both what they are and what they represent. Today, for what is believed to be only the third time in its 115 year history, Glanworth Gardens, the preeminent estate on the premier lake in the Midwest, is being offered for sale. Replete with 40 acres of gardens and forest, 621+ feet of level frontage, and featuring an estate home with 14,145 square feet, this is the preeminent lakefront home in the premier lake in the Midwest. $39,250,000
Sold! This magnificent home on Geneva’s leeward south shore was constructed by Fischer Fine Homes to an exacting standard. The kitchen is refined and classic, a testament to Christopher Peacock and his fine custom cabinet builders. The light fixtures are timeless, just as you’d expect from Holly Hunt and Visual Comfort. An east-coast inspired cedar shingle exterior and a machine cut cedar shake roof clad the exterior. The 7200+ square feet of finished square footage is without flaw. From the bluestone front entry to the handsome office off of the master suite, there is nothing lacking. The home is uniformly stylish. It’s a perfect lakefront home, with wide lake views on a deliciously deep 2.26 acre lot and 98.5’ of private frontage. In what I imagine was not an easy decision to make, the original owners are offering it to the market today for $6,695,000.
The most recent articles from the Lake Geneva Real Estate blog…
Lake Geneva Lakefront For Sale
Sometimes, I list houses on the open market. Like this time. This comfortable five bedroom lakefront at Pier 651 is ready for a new owner. I sat on this lakeside deck for a while yesterday and realized that my house is nice. My kitchen is terrific. My siding is beautiful and my cedar roof has…
Burr Oaks Farm
Calm isn’t something we come by naturally. Life is chaotic, frenzied, complicated. It’s a whirlwind of harried navigation between the things that must be done and the things we’d like to be doing. We spin and toil and if we admitted what we’re really looking for it’s a sense of calm. It’s peace. It’s serenity.…
These Days
I spend most of my time wondering how Jackson Browne could write this song when he was just 16 years old. I remember being 16 years old. I had a pair of red lotto shorts that I wore with a tan polo shirt. I remember being quite confident in that ensemble, but it never gave…
Lake Geneva Market Update
It’s summer 2022 and the lakefront market at Lake Geneva is behaving itself. New inventory is hard to find and existing inventory has been picked over. So what’s next?
Gross
One of the things I most dislike about real estate mania is the mania part. I want real estate to make sense. I want pricing to make sense. I want comparable sales to matter and I want national and global trends to be reflected in valuations. I want to see things in order. Mania, on…
Geographic Catastrophe
I’m not sure if you knew this, but this is not a climate science blog. Nor is it a climate speculation blog. I wake up in the morning and look to the sky to determine if it will be sunny or cloudy, windy or calm, rainy or dry. If I want to get super scientific…
Seller’s Remorse
I contend that it would be impossible to sell a home that you loved without experiencing a considerable degree of seller’s remorse. Why wouldn’t you feel this way? How could you live some meaningful bits of your life in a place that mattered, and then walk away as if you would gladly trade a pocketful…
Lake Geneva Fireworks
If this blog was about my neighbors, and I was tasked with telling you when their firework celebrations were to occur, I would fail miserably. There are myriad reasons why I would be unable to tell you when the displays were to occur, mostly because they occur without ceasing. And when they cease, it’s only…
Ban
I think everyone knows how I feel about pontoon boats. In case you don’t know, I hate them. That’s not to say that I don’t understand them, it’s just that my understanding of their purpose only intensifies my feelings of disgust and animosity. Do the people who buy pontoon boats know that they sell other…
Pier 290
I’m grateful for the dull things in life. For the way I feel when I go to the hardware store and buy two furnace filters and a small pack of 6-32 machine threaded screws. I like the way it feels when I refill the seeds in my bird feeders. I like the way it feels…
Tops
I’m well aware that people grow tired of having me talk about sales volume. It’s tedious and annoying, I agree. I think that maybe I’ll stop talking about it, but then I see agents posting about single sales or about being #7 at their company branch office and I wonder why I, too, shouldn’t be…
Tell
If a house is listed for sale and then, a short while later, the price is dramatically reduced, what does that tell you? I view this as an admission of guilt. The price was wrong. Everyone knew it was wrong, but there was some hope held, either by the seller or the agent, that perhaps…
