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…
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 revered clubhouse and contemplate tacking and reaching and knots. Or you might work to join the Big Foot Country Club, which is always a nice…
Prolific
On the edge of my property, well beyond where the grass turns to prairie and after the prairie turns to a forest, if you can call it that, I have a magnificent oak tree. It’s my oak tree. It might straddle my lot line with the neighboring farm, but because that farm likely doesn’t value…
Sales Trends
If a condo sells because a buyer wasn’t particularly well informed, does this mean every condo should be priced based on the cemented reality of that one sale? If a buyer buys something, do we now use that sale as the benchmark from which all future listings will be based? How much does one sale,…
Mr. Complacent
I’m complacent. I can feel it. I still turn over every rock and sweat out every deal, that part of me will never fade. It’ll kill me, but it won’t fade. But this weather, man. It’s sunny again. I’m here, again. I have things to do, again. But the sun. It’s bright and it’s warm…
Geography Lesson
There are many things about the business of real estate that bother me. One revolves around agency relationships, and how agency rules actually often work against the interests of the consumer, but that conversation will have to wait for another day. The thing that bothers me lately is something that has always existed, but not…
Where
So where would you rather be, he said. If you didn’t have to be here, where would you live? If you had to choose a place, tell me where. There are other places, after all, places that aren’t here. Surely you’ve been to some other places that you liked, so where would you go? If…
Market Discussion
When I talk about the mood of the market, what exactly am I talking about? What is the market? The Market. It’s a meeting of the minds. A disagreement. A perception. A feeling. A mood, indeed. The market is the mix of what buyers are feeling and what sellers are feeling. Where is the market?…
Vista Del Lago
There can only be one front row, and at Vista Del Lago that’s building One. The rarest offering in Vista is now available with expansive lake views reaching all the way to Fontana. Over 400 ft of lake frontage and sprawling green grass make up the serene setting for Vista Del Lago, a dynamic lakefront…
Sioux Drive
Many a painter, poet and writer have found inspiration in small stone cottages tucked away in a quiet landscape. And for good reason, since our surroundings influence our moods and have the power to either spur creativity or stifle it. When 553 Sioux Drive was expanded in 2008 by Scott Lowell, the distinct charm of this…
Birds and Feathers
I arrived at my office this morning and read a comment from some person I don’t know who suggested I’m a “chubby bitch” with size 44 pants, which is, in part, true. I am chubby, admittedly so. I workout but I also love pizza and things made with flour and butter and eggs, fried or…
Contagion
If you were a buyer in 2002 and you called me to look for an entry level lakefront home, we would have been able to secure private frontage between $900,000 and $1,250,000. If you called in 2005 to find an entry level home we would have been able to find lakefront in the same price…
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…
