One of the great debates in the business of real estate revolves around pricing strategy. Some agents want listings so bad they’ll pr…
Lake Geneva Market Update
There’s no way to downplay the move in interest rates that have occurred over the past three months. I read an article this morning th…
Lake Geneva New Construction
The concept of total potential inventory and its role in real estate pricing isn’t something that’s very well understood. And if…
North Lakeshore Sells
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…
Lake Geneva Market Update
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…
Lake Geneva Price Per Foot
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…
Geneva National Market Update
To understand Geneva National you must first understand the fundamental issue with Geneva National. Notice I didn’t call it a problem.…
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&#…
North Lakeshore Drive Sells
There are certain ways that certain houses charm their way into our pocketbooks. It might be a floor plan. A quirky corner where a staircase…
Market Update
It’s April. That means the year is young, but it’s not exactly new anymore. The ice left us over the weekend, and now it’s…
Countdown
It’s spring break, and everyone is gone. To the mountains. To the beach. To a different place with its own brand of monotony. In the m…
2019 State Of The Market
Managing Directors, Those Bored and Successful, My Wife and Children, My Mother Who Reads These Posts, and my Fellow Lake Geneva Admirers:
We…
Vista Del Lago Sells
After a market downturn occurs, we must set our aim towards the goal of complete and thorough recovery. If that goal is to return a specifi…
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 e…
Abbey Springs Market Update
There’s a simple thought relating to markets like ours that supposes a specific pricing segment should prove active in different marke…
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 ca…
2017 Lakefront Condo Market Review
By now, everyone knows the Stone Manor story. Not the Otto Young story, mind you, because he’s old news. The new news is the news we l…
Lake Geneva Price Reductions
Tis the season for one of two things. Ambivalence is the most popular option for mid November. Why pay attention to the market when it’…
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…
Geneva Lakefront Market Update
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 …
Geneva Lakefront Market Update
I’ve been writing 2017 on my checks with solid consistency for the better part of a month now. There are no more sixes that have been …
Lackey Lane Sells
At one point earlier this year, there were three homes for sale on Lackey Lane. Lackey, in case you haven’t the pleasure of wandering …
Lake Geneva Market Update
I was going to write this morning a response to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. The article, Homeowners Hit The Jackpot, appear…
Geneva Lakefront Market Update
This time of year the Lake Geneva real estate market will do one of two things. It will either push slowly and methodically to the end of th…
Geneva Lakefront Market Update
The entry level lakefront market is a perplexing little market. On one hand, it’s obvious that a cheap lakefront on Geneva will always…
Abbey Springs Market Update
There’s a truth we need to agree on this morning. Abbey Springs is nice. That’s a truth. Abbey Springs has a golf course, anothe…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Update
August. It’s August now and it’s too late for you. If you’re at home and your vacation home dreams are there with you, th…
Glenwood Springs Sells
I think it’s great when someone comes up to tour some vacation homes on a Friday and buys one on a Sunday. But I admit to you that in…
Geneva National 2015 Market Review
In 1992, a small one bedroom condominium in Geneva National sold for $92,300. I imagine how happy the new owners were. They’d come up …
2015 Abbey Springs Market Review
If we had our druthers, we’d be Abbey Springs. That’s assuming we weren’t we, but we were in fact a large association of h…
2015 Lakefront Condo Year In Review
I’m just going to say that it makes sense. It makes sense that the lakefront condo market remains stuck in neutral. It doesn’t m…