One of the great debates in the business of real estate revolves around pricing strategy. Some agents want listings so bad they’ll pr…

One of the great debates in the business of real estate revolves around pricing strategy. Some agents want listings so bad they’ll pr…
That’s a long title, but if I don’t really spell things out my search engine friends won’t respect my content. The nationa…
There are just two houses that get their own chapter in the book of Curry Family Lore. One of those houses is the obvious house, that old du…
Well, that’s that. The inventory that should have arrived in February, didn’t. I know why it didn’t. It doesn’t hav…
It’s been said that patience is a virtue. If you’re trying to teach math to a child, or trying to train a dog to balance a cooki…
The most common method for agents to market their knowledge finds them sending out postcards showing the sold properties in their geographic…
The business of real estate bothers me. It bothers me quite a bit. From the first day of exposure to the business the agents are taught to b…
Josh Altman and Josh Flagg are morons. There, someone said it. They’re absolute morons. Flagg is rich because his grandmother left him…
It was January, I think. An active lakefront buyer client of mine decided to put the brakes on his lakefront home search. The vaccines were …
This year, we’ve closed 14 lakefront homes priced in excess of $4.1M (and at least two more that I’m aware of that aren’t …
When the sun is shining and the smoke has cleared and the market is ripping it’s easy to not care about the question that’s on o…
Just like the visor light in my car makes me look thin and the built-in camera on my iMac makes me look swarthy, this market is making me, a…
This property didn’t require too much of me. It won’t require too much of the new owner, either. I listed N1822 Fair Oaks at the…
It should come as no surprise that our travels influence our sense of design and style. If I were to travel exclusively to Manitoba, Canada,…
A few years ago, I stood with a buyer on a large piece of lakefront on the south shore while the buyer hemmed and hawed and kicked at the di…
I always have the the same reaction anytime a house sells for full price in a matter of hours, and that is to assume that the home was price…
Here’s a dazzling lakefront home ideally situated between Williams Bay and Fontana along Fontana’s north shore. You’re goi…
I started selling real estate in the summer of 1996. With all due respect to my young self, I see now that I had no idea what I was doing. T…
There’s this road on the south side of the lake whose name generates some interesting commentary and even more interesting pronunciati…
Iโve said it often that I tend to offer lakefront buyers on Geneva a binary choice. They must either choose to have a nice lot with a bad ho…
Something that isn’t well understood in our market is how the approach to your lake house might impact your property value. For instan…
Of the surprises that 2020 whipped at our heads, I’d place the fact that I didn’t sell my N1963 Birches Drive listing near the v…
I used to liken writing this blog to providing color commentary during a baseball game. A sharp line drive to the shortstop. The Cubs in the…
If you’ve been in the market for a while, or you’ve spent time on the lake at some point during the past 25 years, there’s…
It’s well known that 2021 buyers hate the Lake Geneva market. They hate it if they’re looking for a $300k lake access cottage, a…
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…
I’m pleased to have represented this south shore lakefront (along with my co-listers). 150′ of frontage and a slick modern home…
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…
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 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…
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’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…
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…
You know I don’t care about Other Lakes. What Other Lakes? All of the Other Lakes. I think they’re terrible. Oh, your friend sa…
Often times, I find myself struggling against the market as I insist that certain attributes are the attributes that matter. It’s like…
What odd times we live in. And how much more odd they are when you’re in real estate in a thriving resort market. On one hand, I̵…
Valley Park isn’t a drive that someone can happen on easily. You must drive down South Lakeshore Drive and then head North on Maple Ri…
When considering a home purchase, it’s apparent to everyone, everywhere, that you have choices. Choices about location, bedroom count,…
January is an interesting month. On one hand, it’s winter, so everyone likes to pretend that it’s too difficult to do things. Dr…
On a January day in 2018, a pleasant house on the north shore of Fontana hit the market for $4,695,000. It wasn’t a house that was nec…
This morning there are just 15 lakefront homes for sale on The Lake. It’s the last week of October and our colors have peaked. The bo…
I didn’t have a great summer. My superjet sat on the lift, used only by my son and perhaps twice by me. The family had a new boat thi…
Sometimes, timing is everything. Except in real estate, because then it isn’t so much sometimes as all of the time. You could list you…
I was sitting on a pier last night, just after a lakeside dinner, watching the remnants of a cloudy evening sunset. Kids jigged for bass und…
Now that was a weekend. Sure, we were forced to sweat through the first few days to get to the last few days, but what sort of people are we…
It still pains me to write all of this on this open format. The thought of new agents reading this and adopting my way of thinking is bothe…
Sometimes, I like to dance around a topic. Actually, all of the time. Except today, because I’m in a hurry and there’s no time.…
There are several unavoidable truths involving the Geneva lakefront market of 2018. The market is frustrating for buyers. It’s awful, …
The way I see it, any buyer of a lakefront home here has two options. You can buy for now or you can buy for later. If you’re buying f…