The Loch Vista Club
One month ago, I listed a great cottage on Lower Loch Vista for $689k. Then I had 16 or more showings over the following two days. Yesterday, I sold that … Read more
Lake Access
1606 West Main Street
I’ll live my entire life without buying Waterworks tile. I have dabbled with buying a Waterworks faucet or two, but even in that I’ve backed off in the later innings … Read more
Orchard Lane
There’s a thing about houses that the market, as a whole, often forgets. In the pursuit of function over form, the market hastily changes the classic lake homes of Lake … Read more
Indian Hills For Sale
At the Lake, the off-water market lake access market is made up of three very important and distinct sub-markets. There are homes with slips. Homes with views. Homes with proximity. … Read more
Lake Geneva Lake Access Update
The stock market is getting hammered, so shouldn’t the Lake Geneva market feel some of that pain? Apparently not.
Cedar Point Parkway Listing
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.
Shore Haven Sells
The lake access market at Lake Geneva is not difficult to understand. In order to find this understanding, one simply needs to be open to the facts. In the instance … Read more
Lake Geneva YTD Performance
When you’re part of an industry that puts significant focus on calendar year performance, you tend to look up in late October and realize you’ve run out of time. In … Read more
Black Point Sells
One of the many benefits of this strong vacation home market is that I get to test my theories on a daily basis. These theories were first penned when the … Read more
2017 Upper Bracket Lake Access Market Review
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
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
Oak Shores
When thinking of lake access associations, it’s best to think first in terms of the obvious. Once the obvious is understood, then it’s time to progress to the nuance. With … Read more
Black Point Sells
The whole lake is special, we all know that. Every nook and cranny, whether our particular nook or our own favorite cranny, is unique and valuable. Some North Shore dwellers couldn’t … Read more
Loramoor Opportunity
On Monday, I said goodbye to an old friend. I met this friend when I was ten, maybe twelve, sometime around then. This friend was with me through it all, … Read more
Temptation
As I understand it, Door County is a place where you go because you want to eat cherries while spending the better part of a full day searching for a … Read more