Once in a great while, a property is presented to the market that is so known, so revered, so celebrated, that no superlative description is…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Market Review
The most common method for agents to market their knowledge finds them sending out postcards showing the sold properties in their geographic…
South Lakeshore Drive Sells
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…
Bay Colony Sells
One of the things that’s fun about being in the same business in the same market for so long is that I get to see my own theories play…
Circle Parkway Sells
Josh Altman and Josh Flagg are morons. There, someone said it. They’re absolute morons. Flagg is rich because his grandmother left him…
Lake Geneva Fall Market Conditions
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 …
Dartmouth Woods Sells
You might have seen my 7 Dartmouth Woods listing and thought it was just a normal Dartmouth Woods house. This wouldn’t be your fault i…
Lake Geneva Market Discussion
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 …
Lake Geneva Market Conditions
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…
Hillside Drive Sells
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…
Fair Oaks Sells
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…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Market Update
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…
Lake Shore Sells
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…
Lakeview Sells
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…
Walcowis Sells
There’s this road on the south side of the lake whose name generates some interesting commentary and even more interesting pronunciati…
Fair Oaks
I’ve 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…
Fontana Club Sells
That didn’t last too long. It seems that buyers love the idea of a turn-key lakefront experience, without the typical turn-key lakefro…
Bonnie Brae Sells
Something that isn’t well understood in our market is how the approach to your lake house might impact your property value. For instan…
Birches Sells
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…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Market Update
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…
Southland Road Sells
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…
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…
Basswood Sells
What a street. What a house. Just sold, with a last ask of $10,995,000. I was pleased to facilitate this transaction for a terrific buyer a…
Lake Geneva Inventory Problems
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…
2020 Lakefront Market Year In Review
Last February, I wrote the 2019 lakefront market review. I spelled out the statistics that make up this dynamic lakefront market of ours, bu…
2020 Lakefront Condo Year In Review
For all of 2019, the lakefront condo market at Lake Geneva closed seven condominiums. That’s it. I suppose there might have been ano…
2020 Geneva National Year In Review
There can only be one individual market that I find to be the most curious. While the lakefront market has my heart, there’s always be…
2020 Lake Access Year In Review
If you live in the Chicago area, chances are one of your friends or neighbors bought a lake house last year. I don’t care who you are,…
Lake Geneva 2021
Everyone is saying that this past year taught them a lot. It taught them about being alone and being still and being strong. I taught them t…
Bad Decisions
One of the problems with this blog is that I cannot cite specific examples of the market mistakes I see. If I were to do so, I’d get i…
Geneva Lakefront Market Update
In 2016, there were two lakefronts for sale on Lackey Lane. Lackey, in case you didn’t know, is a nice little street on the south side…
Valley Park Sells
I’m pleased to have represented this south shore lakefront (along with my co-listers). 150′ of frontage and a slick modern home…
The New Math
It used to be well known that the math preferred by the Lake Geneva lakefront market was two plus two equals four. That formula supposes th…
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 Open House
I don’t take my title lightly. I respect it. I honor it. I revere it. But alas, no matter how I feel about it what matters is how ever…
Fallingwater Sells
Well, not the real Fallingwater, but the Lake Geneva version. I was extremely fortunate to be hired to represent this unique property. The s…
South Shore Club Sells
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…
Pricing Confusion
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…
Clear Sky Lodge Sells
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…
Inventory Issues
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…
Lake Geneva Fall Market
I’m pretty much done talking about the summer market. If you noticed, I didn’t even talk about it that much in the first place. …
Lake Geneva Buyers
I’m torn on this thing that we’re doing here. Specificlaly, this thing that I’m doing. I’m selling houses. I’m…
Lackey Lane Sells
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…
Lake Geneva Market Update
There’s a simple truth to this site that you have likely noticed. And if not noticed, then certainly become aware of, and if you haven…
Black Point Sells
When it’s all said and done, I should probably look back at this market with some appreciation. With my eyes growing dim and the sunli…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Market Update
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…
Sauk Trail Sells
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…
Lake Geneva Market Update
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…
Lake Geneva Alternatives
I suppose you can’t blame them, those once Lake Geneva determined buyers who find themselves aimlessly wandering down the miserable li…
Lake Geneva Market Update
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…