Well, that’s that. I’m proud to announce my latest lakefront sale. While I remember all of my lakefront sales, this one is goin…

Well, that’s that. I’m proud to announce my latest lakefront sale. While I remember all of my lakefront sales, this one is goin…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
In the business of real estate, there is a tremendous emphasis on the broker. The brand. The website and the signs. But at the same time, o…
Something that isn’t well understood in our market is how the approach to your lake house might impact your property value. For instan…
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…
I’m pleased to have represented this south shore lakefront (along with my co-listers). 150′ of frontage and a slick modern home…
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…
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’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…
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…
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…
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…
If we had a million rentals, we could fill them all. It might not actually be that way, but that’s the way it seems. If you could see …
Amidst the landscape of our stalled lives, there is still activity. I listed 1530 Lake Shore Drive in Lake Geneva at the very end of January…
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 just wrote a brilliant review of the sale at W4396 Basswood. It was amazing, if I do say so myself. Succinct, powerful, articulate. And th…
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 n…
There’s a problem with our market. A long standing problem, one that has been established by people who thought, at the time, that the…
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…
Certain times, there’s nothing more to say. Like when you’ve eaten a most delicious dinner. You can say it was a delicious dinn…
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…
One year ago, I wrote my year end market reviews and worried about 2017 inventory. 2016 had been a terrific year, but without inventory the…
Now see, that’s a spring weekend. When I write about how much I dislike spring, I should be clear: I am not an opponent of seventy deg…