If a condo sells because a buyer wasn’t particularly well informed, does this mean every condo should be priced based on the cemented …
Market Discussion
When I talk about the mood of the market, what exactly am I talking about? What is the market? The Market. It’s a meeting of the minds…
Contagion
If you were a buyer in 2002 and you called me to look for an entry level lakefront home, we would have been able to secure private frontage …
Lake Geneva Market Update
Don’t look now, but summer is no longer young. It’s no longer new. It’s no longer out there in front of us. Today, it̵…
Off Market Sales Lake Geneva
The real estate world is at battle over the concept of off market sales. Things didn’t used to be this way, but like most things in 20…
The Wall Street Journal
Imagine writing an article on the 1982 baseball season with a specific focus on stolen bases and not interviewing Ricky Henderson. That̵…
Lake Geneva Real Estate Market Update
That’s a long title, but if I don’t really spell things out my search engine friends won’t respect my content. The nationa…
Lake Geneva IRS Auction
There are just two houses that get their own chapter in the book of Curry Family Lore. One of those houses is the obvious house, that old du…
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…
Short The Market
There are many reasons that I’m worse at my job than I otherwise could be. One reason is that I really don’t like working on the…
Lake Geneva’s Overton Window
The political application of the Overton Window is quite easy to understand. If you’re a mischievous politician and you’d like t…
Lake Geneva Market Update
Well, that’s that. The inventory that should have arrived in February, didn’t. I know why it didn’t. It doesn’t hav…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Condominium Year In Review
It’s true that I suffer from PTSD related to my exposure to the lakefront condo market between the years 2008 and 2018. This decade ca…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Year In Review
I’m writing my year end review a bit later than I’d normally write it, largely owed to a family vacation and that little Glanwor…
Glanworth Gardens Sells
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…
University of Chicago
At first I thought maybe it was just Monday. The world was resting, or asleep, or wishing to be unbothered by the thought of another week. M…
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…
Patience
It’s been said that patience is a virtue. If you’re trying to teach math to a child, or trying to train a dog to balance a cooki…
Glanworth Gardens Pending Sale
By now, you’ve heard the news. I have a contract on Glanworth Gardens. While the contract leaves me feeling somewhat sheepish, itR…
Glanworth Gardens Is For Sale
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…