Circle Parkway Sells
What is it that you want? Do you want a sanitized existence smothered in perfection? Do you value things and places that make you feel sterile and secure? Do you … Read more
What is it that you want? Do you want a sanitized existence smothered in perfection? Do you value things and places that make you feel sterile and secure? Do you … Read more
Just look at this place. It’s amazing. It’s available. It’s looks like what summer feels like. And it’s only $899k. If you love beautifully restored cottages near the water you … Read more
Hot markets make buyers itchy, and itchy buyers make market mistakes.
Another week, another sale. This one as the last, in Cedar Point Park. This one as the last, direct, off market.
The virus persists, but so does the vacation home market at the lake. Slower times are ahead, for now.
Last year, about this time, I sold the home at 254 Circle Parkway in Williams Bay, up on the tip of Cedar Point. The home was lovely, with newer updat
Certain times, there’s nothing more to say. Like when you’ve eaten a most delicious dinner. You can say it was a delicious dinner. You can take a picture of it … Read more
A unique location on the Parkway in Cedar Point Park. This lake access home might need a bit of improvement, but the location is divine.
My newest lakefront listing is perfect for the buyer who wants to find value in a market where it is, undoubtedly, elusive.
A couple of weeks ago, I started working on a new listing. This lakefront house was in Cedar Point, on the very top of the point, where the view is … Read more
It’s been a while since I’ve written a broad market update. It had also been a while since I felt the warmth of a bright sun on my skin. But … Read more
It’s well known and generally accepted that anyone with a lakefront budget will wish for lakefront. There were some people who lived up the road from my parents’ lakefront house … Read more
That’s a mouthful. I’m sure there’s a better way to say it for search engine optimization, but the market is best defined in that way. The market isn’t particularly flashy. … Read more
I read an article yesterday about slowing home sales in the Hamptons. Hamptons’ Homes See Double Digit Price Drop. Sounds terrible, unless you don’t care about the Northeast, which I … Read more
I almost bought a car in December. It was late December. The snow was falling and it was cold and it had been Christmas but it wasn’t yet the new … Read more
When a buyer finds his way to Lake Geneva and begins to search for a suitable lake house, he tends to do lots of things wrong. He tends to see … Read more
The most economical lakefront home to sell in 2016 was an odd little house in Knollwood. $1,075,000 was the required minimum price for 50′ of frontage on Geneva Lake. Farther up … Read more
Lake Geneva Foreclosures. Those three words were types into search engines with terrifying frequency over the last decade. In the early part of the past decade, the 2006 part, those … Read more
One easy way to gauge the strength of a market is to look at those homes that are under contract and consider their market history. Some would look only to … Read more
The year is young now, but not so young that we can’t judge it. One year old children are young, so young that we shouldn’t judge them. But two year … Read more
The real estate market in 2011 was pretty bad. It was fun, if bad, because sellers wanted to sell and buyers, though fewer than now, wanted to buy. It was … Read more