Fontana Club For Sale
$1.49M on the Fontana lakefront. You could spend $3.5M to be in this location, but why would you?
Lakefront
Market Top
Want to buy real estate in 2019? Good. Want to avoid the market mistakes that many consumers are making? Buy the blue chips.
Lake Geneva Lakefront Market Review
The market is moving along nicely, as you’d expect. With the S&P at ATH and the lakefront inventory tight, we have the markings of an exceptionally stable market.
Lake Geneva Lakefront Market Update
I spent much of Sunday on the lake. There’s a new boat in the Curry fold, and the boat must be used. Boats are like that. If you don’t use … Read more
New Cedar Point Lakefront
My newest lakefront listing is perfect for the buyer who wants to find value in a market where it is, undoubtedly, elusive.
North Lakeshore Drive Sells
My latest lakefront sale was of this delightful shingle style home on Fontana’s North Shore.
Old Lakefront Homes
The market loves old homes, until they hit the market. Truly old lakefronts might be legacy estates, but this isn’t about those. This is about the in between.
Market Update
The market has taken away my buy side worry and left me with supply side worry. Also, some other worry.
Countdown
The market knows what comes next. In case you forgot, summer is what’s next. And it starts in nine weeks, ready or not.
New South Shore Club Listing
A new listing in the South Shore Club isn’t just located in the best spot within the club. It’s likely the nicest house, too.
Pending Lakefront
Another week, another pending sale on the lakefront. This time, a magnificent Fontana specimen priced at $7,395,000.
Lake Geneva Market Update
It’s still winter, but the lakefront market knows that summer is right around this icy corner.
Park Drive For Sale
Lakefront buyers know that a hunt for a lakefront house can be fun. Can, being the operative word there. It could be fun. Should be fun. But often, in this … Read more
Lake Geneva Lakefront Inventory
A mid-February Lake Geneva lakefront market update. Inventory concerns remain, activity is on the rise.
Lake Geneva Lakefront
It’s January. Time for snow storms that aren’t really actually snow storms, and lakefront price reductions. Inventory will build over the coming 30 days, and price reductions won’t be uncommon … Read more
New Construction Lake Geneva
We know the trend. It’s not just here, but it sure is pronounced here. It’s not just a trend on Geneva, it’s a trend on our other, secondary lakes as … Read more
2018 Lake Geneva Lakefront Year In Review
The year just ended was, by most accounts, a good year. But that’s a silly way to describe something as diverse and unique as a year. That’s like booking a … Read more
Lake Geneva Inventory
In real estate, you either win sometimes or you lose sometimes. There is no such thing as winning or losing. You’re winning, a bit. Losing, a bit. Both, often, at … Read more
Bluff Lane Sells
Bluff Lane is a nice little dead end street on the south shore of the lake. In spite of its small nature, this street has been a near constant source … 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
389 North Lakeshore Drive
There are three things that attract people to houses. Yes, there are renters who rent based on price and convenience, those who say they won’t be pinned down, won’t be … Read more
Entry Level Lakefront Market Update
I’m not sure if there’s a more interesting segment in our market than the entry level lake access market. While other segments exist because particular homes move in and out … Read more
Cedar Point For Sale
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
Buena Vista Sells
It’s a curious thing to watch buyers as they watch the market, and the houses that exist inside of that market. Buyers are attracted to various things, to shiny, for … Read more
Lake Geneva Realtors
There’s nothing that makes me hate my chosen profession more than leafing through a local glossy magazine. There are lots of glossies here, most notably that Summer Homes For City … Read more
Lake Geneva Market Update
It would be disingenuous for me to pretend that we’re in the middle of another Lake Geneva summer. August is the peak of summer, sure, but it’s not exactly the middle. You … Read more
Loramoor Sells
Most of the players in this game are endless and unflappable cheerleaders. I did this! They say. I’m amazing! Others chime. Such is the business of self promotion. Without this … Read more
Valley Park Lake Geneva
My large lakefront offering in Valley Park is still available, though it probably shouldn’t be. Compare this property to the newest lakefront listing on Geneva, priced at $14,500,000. That listing … Read more
Buena Vista, Fontana
A fresh video for my rare listing in Fontana’s bucolic Buena Vista. This home offers a large private pier, beautifully updated finishes, immaculate gardens, and loads of lakeside patio space. … Read more
On Average
A lack of inventory is a curious thing. On one hand, lack of inventory typically leads to pricing increases. This is obvious. If I have one of something and three … Read more
Lazy Patience
It was good to be a buyer in 2011. And in 2012. 2013, too. We know that now. What a time! We think. If only I could have been a … Read more
Valley Park
Follow South Lakeshore Drive far enough from town and after some time you’ll be in the general vicinity of Black Point. But weave farther and deeper off of the known … Read more
Lake Geneva Market Update
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
Bay Colony For Sale
Back on the market just in time for whatever season we’re now calling April, a most memorable Bay Colony lakefront condominium… There’s a thing about lakefront condominiums. The typical way … Read more
Lake Geneva Prices
There’s an interesting bit of information available this morning courtesy a recent lakefront sale. The sale was of an older house on a 90′ lakefront lot in the Birches. The … Read more
New Buena Vista Lakefront Listing
I have a particular thing for porches. This affinity is owed to my youth, to a childhood home where little mattered except that old porch. Summer lunch, in the porch. … Read more
Lake Geneva Market Update
It feels like it wasn’t so long ago that I wished for more snow. For more cold. For more winter. Shortly after wishing, all of that came true. Briefly. Since … Read more
New Geneva Lakefront Listing
It is no secret that the South Shore Club is an exclusive development. Anything numbering just 40 in total would be viewed as exclusive. While this is known, what isn’t … Read more
Clear Sky Lodge Home For Sale
You don’t really want to be me. Some of my friends think they’d like to be me. To work a bit and make money a bit and drive a nice … Read more
Loramoor Sells
Just sold. $4,950,000. I was pleased to represent the seller of this fine lakefront home.
2017 Geneva Lakefront Market Review
Several of our vacation home segments finished 2017 without a particular narrative. They were nice markets that had a nice year. Nothing more, nothing less. No major breakthroughs, no particular … Read more
2017 Market Reviews
One year ago, I wrote my year end market reviews and worried about 2017 inventory. 2016 had been a terrific year, but without inventory there was no way that 2017 … Read more
South Shore Club Sells
In the South Shore Club, there are 40 total lots. Most are built on, a few are not. At present, there is one new construction underway. To date, there had … Read more
Bluff Lane
Buyers have a unique tendency to focus on one or two aspects of a purchase, and in doing so, convince themselves to proceed with the transaction. This is true of … Read more
465 Outing
When David Bowie died, it was hard to scroll through Twitter and find someone who had not, at some point, met him. In line at McDonald’s. Rushing through Heathrow. Buying … Read more
Lake Geneva Lakefront Market Update
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
Lake Geneva Market Update
When times were particularly bad and getting worse, I hatched a particular theory. The theory supposed that in spite of the various factors that we know prod consumers to buy … Read more
Lake Geneva Agent Representation
We know lots of things. We know that if we don’t cut our grass once a week it will grow too tall and too thick, and when we cut it … Read more
Fall At The Lake
Of the things we know to expect during an autumn here, 95 degree sunshine is not among them. The heat is rare, but in a summer devoid of any lasting … Read more