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…
Memorial Day Weekend
During any year, we celebrate this weekend. We celebrate in our remembrance, but we do not confuse meaningful reflection with the absence of…
Lakefront Market Update
If we had a million rentals, we could fill them all. It might not actually be that way, but that’s the way it seems. If you could see …
Cedar Point Park Sells
Another week of dealing with a most miserable shut down of our once vibrant economy, another sale in Cedar Point Park. The things aren’…
Lake Geneva Market Update
May is a pretty good month. It’s the month that we see when our January minds concentrate to conjure up an image of spring. The calen…
Parkway Home Sells
If you know this market, and I mean, really know this market, then you know that there are pockets of inventory within this market that are …
Lake Geneva Market Update
What an odd time this is. On one hand, it’s lame. Super lame. Terrible. Some people are sick. Others are rightfully terrified of becom…
Geneva Manor Sells
Amidst the landscape of our stalled lives, there is still activity. I listed 1530 Lake Shore Drive in Lake Geneva at the very end of January…
Lake Geneva Lake Access Update
Coronavirus is coming for all of us. I mean, it might be. Who knows? I see on Facebook some of my friends who dislike the president seem to …
Choices
When considering a home purchase, it’s apparent to everyone, everywhere, that you have choices. Choices about location, bedroom count,…
2019 Lakefront Market Year End Review
In August of this year, it’ll mark 24 years that I’ve been sitting at this desk. That means I’ve spent the majority of m…
Lake Geneva Market Update
January is an interesting month. On one hand, it’s winter, so everyone likes to pretend that it’s too difficult to do things. Dr…
1905 NLSD Sells
On a January day in 2018, a pleasant house on the north shore of Fontana hit the market for $4,695,000. It wasn’t a house that was nec…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Condo 2019 Market Review
In contrast to my accurate prediction for Geneva National last year, I admit to you this morning that I was dead wrong about my prediction f…
Geneva National 2019 Market Review
Geneva National is back, and it really is better than ever. Sure, there are still homeowners residing inside these brick and cedar behemoths…
Market Oddities
Once in a while, I look at something other than the Lake Geneva lakefront and lake access market. I look at the market on Other Lakes, Wisco…
Clear Sky Lodge
It’s a shame I haven’t yet sold this beautiful home. Where else can you find a private tennis court, private (heated) swimming …