What a street. What a house. Just sold, with a last ask of $10,995,000. Pleased to facilitate this transaction for a terrific buyer and sel…

What a street. What a house. Just sold, with a last ask of $10,995,000. Pleased to facilitate this transaction for a terrific buyer and sel…
I’m cursed with a malfunctioning ability to dream. It wasn’t always this way, but it has been for most of my adult life, or at l…
The season is upon us. What season, you ask? The season where folks start thinking about summer. Winter is terrific, I think we can all may…
If you think it’s difficult being a buyer at Lake Geneva right now, imagine being an agent. The lack of inventory is pervasive and pro…
There were five lakefront estates on Geneva Lake designed by famed architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. Astonishingly, all of these homes are st…
Last February, I wrote the 2019 lakefront market review. I spelled out the statistics that make up this dynamic lakefront market of ours, bu…
For all of 2019, the lakefront condo market at Lake Geneva closed seven condominiums. That’s it. I suppose there might have been ano…
There can only be one individual market that I find to be the most curious. While the lakefront market has my heart, there’s always be…
If you live in the Chicago area, chances are one of your friends or neighbors bought a lake house last year. I don’t care who you are,…
Everyone is saying that this past year taught them a lot. It taught them about being alone and being still and being strong. I taught them t…
Nice things are problematic for me. If I have one nice thing, say, a really nice drill, then I should be pretty content. After all, I have a…
I’ll be home for Christmas, so the song wishes. I’ve been struggling to find some Christmas spirit this year, why it’s be…
Some people say you should live your life with no regrets. Some of those people tattoo the phrase on their bodies, to serve as a reminder to…
Let’s pretend I’m at a car dealership. Now let’s pretend you can feel my emotions. If you can feel those emotions and you…
One of the problems with this blog is that I cannot cite specific examples of the market mistakes I see. If I were to do so, I’d get i…
In 2016, there were two lakefronts for sale on Lackey Lane. Lackey, in case you didn’t know, is a nice little street on the south side…
For a millisecond, I thought it would be nice to be a developer. Build something, have people pay you more than your cost, make money. It se…
What a curious thing it is, this year. I sit here at this desk worrying about which customer will buy and which customer will sell, worryin…
If you follow me on any of the social media platforms, you know a few things about me. You know I like to fly fish. This is important to kno…
I’m pleased to have represented this south shore lakefront (along with my co-listers). 150′ of frontage and a slick modern home…
Perhaps you recently read the new article about the Lake Geneva vacation home market in the pages of Crain’s Chicago Business. The art…
It seems to me there are two seasons of a man’s life. Some would suggest there are more, but they would be wrong. No one would sugges…
I wrote an article earlier this year about my vision for the City of Lake Geneva. It was a pretty simple vision, really, one where the city…
It used to be well known that the math preferred by the Lake Geneva lakefront market was two plus two equals four. That formula supposes th…
I haven’t written one of these for a while, largely because doing so would have felt gratuitous. How many times do you need me to tell…
I don’t take my title lightly. I respect it. I honor it. I revere it. But alas, no matter how I feel about it what matters is how ever…
This market is something. I’d like to think it requires your attention, but it doesn’t. It just requires your engagement. And yo…
They’re here. It’s now. They snuck up on me, even though I knew they were imminent. I told you a few weeks ago that they’…
I spent the weekend in Bachelor Gulch, that little enclave in the narrow draw just to the west of Beaver Creek. The Aspens were at their col…
Well, not the real Fallingwater, but the Lake Geneva version. I was extremely fortunate to be hired to represent this unique property. The s…
I remember when I didn’t understand the South Shore Club very well. The year was 2002 and I visited an open house there with my new br…
Yesterday, it was August. Earlier today, it was Labor Day. Tonight, it’ll be October, and I couldn’t be happier about it. Sure I…
I guess I knew this was going to happen. With the hysterical and frenetic year we’ve had, this was really the only likely outcome. Wha…
What just happened? Is it still summer? I remember the summer days. I remember seeing them through my car window, and out of this office win…
When you’re an owner of a home and you sell it, the world responds with a typical refrain. Congratulations! This is what they say. This is a…
I suppose there’s something sweet about a summer buyer. Something innocent. On any sunny day it would be natural and normal for a subu…
I’m pretty much done talking about the summer market. If you noticed, I didn’t even talk about it that much in the first place. …
The license plate said that. ENDLESS SUMMER. If you capitalize it, then it seems like some sort of horror film. It screams at you and demand…
I’m torn on this thing that we’re doing here. Specificlaly, this thing that I’m doing. I’m selling houses. I’m…
I’ve written that title quite often over the last several years. First, it was when I sold a very nice home on the east end of Lackey…
Among my several annoying tendencies, few are more despicable than my unwillingness to listen to certain pieces of advice if my mind has alr…
I write that title with a question mark because it deserves one. The community, it seems, would have preferred I place a period there. As in…
There’s a simple truth to this site that you have likely noticed. And if not noticed, then certainly become aware of, and if you haven…
What a terrible time it is to be a man of conviction. Or a woman, I should add, so no one gets mad at me. There’s nothing that can be …
When it’s all said and done, I should probably look back at this market with some appreciation. With my eyes growing dim and the sunli…
I should, at this date in summer, be doing little but plodding through my work days and enjoying what I know to be a very short summer. I sh…
I showed this home approximately one billion times. That’s rounding up, sure, but the hyperbole is light in this case. I tried to sha…
What is it about youth that we so envy? Do we envy youth because of our own cherished memory of it? Is it that we can imagine a time in our …
I’d like to take a moment to give June the credit that June deserves. Typically, June deserves very little credit. Take last year, f…