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…
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…
The concept of total potential inventory and its role in real estate pricing isn’t something that’s very well understood. And if…
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 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…
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…
To understand Geneva National you must first understand the fundamental issue with Geneva National. Notice I didn’t call it a problem.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Managing Directors, Those Bored and Successful, My Wife and Children, My Mother Who Reads These Posts, and my Fellow Lake Geneva Admirers:
We…
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…
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…
There’s a simple thought relating to markets like ours that supposes a specific pricing segment should prove active in different marke…
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…
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…
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’…
When times were particularly bad and getting worse, I hatched a particular theory. The theory supposed that in spite of the various factors…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
The entry level lakefront market is a perplexing little market. On one hand, it’s obvious that a cheap lakefront on Geneva will always…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…