What a street. What a house. Just sold, with a last ask of $10,995,000. Pleased to facilitate this transaction for a terrific buyer and sel…

What a street. What a house. Just sold, with a last ask of $10,995,000. Pleased to facilitate this transaction for a terrific buyer and sel…
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…
Last February, I wrote the 2019 lakefront market review. I spelled out the statistics that make up this dynamic lakefront market of ours, bu…
For all of 2019, the lakefront condo market at Lake Geneva closed seven condominiums. That’s it. I suppose there might have been ano…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
I’m pleased to have represented this south shore lakefront (along with my co-listers). 150′ of frontage and a slick modern home…
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…
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…
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…
Well, not the real Fallingwater, but the Lake Geneva version. I was extremely fortunate to be hired to represent this unique property. The s…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
I’m torn on this thing that we’re doing here. Specificlaly, this thing that I’m doing. I’m selling houses. I’m…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I suppose you can’t blame them, those once Lake Geneva determined buyers who find themselves aimlessly wandering down the miserable li…
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…
During any year, we celebrate this weekend. We celebrate in our remembrance, but we do not confuse meaningful reflection with the absence of…
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 …
Another week of dealing with a most miserable shut down of our once vibrant economy, another sale in Cedar Point Park. The things aren’…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
When considering a home purchase, it’s apparent to everyone, everywhere, that you have choices. Choices about location, bedroom count,…
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…
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…
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…
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 is back, and it really is better than ever. Sure, there are still homeowners residing inside these brick and cedar behemoths…
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…
It’s a shame I haven’t yet sold this beautiful home. Where else can you find a private tennis court, private (heated) swimming …
This morning there are just 15 lakefront homes for sale on The Lake. It’s the last week of October and our colors have peaked. The bo…
I just wrote a brilliant review of the sale at W4396 Basswood. It was amazing, if I do say so myself. Succinct, powerful, articulate. And th…
Last year, about this time, I sold the home at 254 Circle Parkway in Williams Bay, up on the tip of Cedar Point. The home was lovely, with n…
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…
I didn’t have a great summer. My superjet sat on the lift, used only by my son and perhaps twice by me. The family had a new boat thi…
This is getting out of hand. This condo at Bay Colony was completely, entirely, and remarkably renovated by Lowell Management at a cost that…