South Shore Club Sale
Last month I listed a home in the South Shore Club. This month, I sold that home in the South Shore Club. This doesn’t seem like a big deal, but … Read more
Market Updates
Lake Geneva Foreclosures
The first foreclosure I bought was in 2009. January of 2009, to be exact. The home was ugly, the property decent, the list price somewhere around $249k. In January of … Read more
Lake Geneva Market Update
It’s getting late. The greens are no longer bright. The grass is beginning to fade. The corn is drying as it should, first at the bottom and then, slowly, eventually, … Read more
Lake Geneva Lakefront Update
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, then you’ve already blown it. This August … Read more
Geneva Lakefront Condo Update
The problem with market updates is that they require some movement in the market before they’ll really make sense. It’s like being a beat writer for a baseball team. If … Read more
Lake Geneva Lakefront Update
Perception is an interesting thing. For instance, when I’m in front of a mirror with no one around me, I think that things are looking pretty good. When I hang … Read more
Another Lackey Lane Sale
Sometimes, you just want what you want. You want to be on the lake, that’s smart. You want to see a weekend like the one just ended and you want … Read more
Lackey Lane Sells
It should be no secret that the cool people are buying at Lake Geneva. It’s not just the people, but the cool people. The kids who live in the city … Read more
Geneva Lakefront Sale
We tend to buy real estate based on emotion and sell it based upon fact. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has ever bought or sold real … Read more
Affordable Lake Geneva
Take to the highways and county roads this summer and you’ll notice plenty of things. You’ll notice that semi drivers often change lanes with relatively little warning, which is especially … Read more
Lake Geneva Market Update
I can feel it. It’s in the air. It’s in the way the grass looks and so many lilacs. Everywhere lilacs. The boats are here, they’re in the water and … Read more
Geneva National Value
I’ve spent a fair amount of time this year in Geneva National. I’ve shown most of the houses that are on the market inside those gates. I’ve generally been underwhelmed. … Read more
Lake Geneva Market Update
I have lots of brushes. I have small brushes and smaller brushes, medium ones, too. I have huge brushes, trust me, there’s no problem with my brushes. I have great … Read more
Lake Geneva’s Lackey Lane
Williams Bay is a big bay. Fontana Bay, also a big bay. Geneva Bay, big. These are the bays we know from maps and from vernacular and because we know … Read more
Lake Geneva Foreclosures
Lake Geneva Foreclosures. Those three words were types into search engines with terrifying frequency over the last decade. In the early part of the past decade, the 2006 part, those … Read more
South Shore Club at Lake Geneva
The South Shore Club at Lake Geneva is old now. It’s been here for a long time, or for a lifetime, assuming the life is young and the long time … Read more
Glenwood Springs Sells
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 20 … Read more
Lake Geneva Market Update
The ice is weak. It has been weak all season, since it first formed, just that skim coat at first, then more ice, stronger ice, but still weak. It has … Read more
Lake Geneva YTD Performance
The year is young now, but not so young that we can’t judge it. One year old children are young, so young that we shouldn’t judge them. But two year … Read more
Geneva National 2015 Market Review
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 to golf and to swim, to … Read more
2015 Abbey Springs Market Review
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 homes and condominiums. If that’s who we … Read more
2015 Geneva Lakefront Market Review
The real estate market in 2006 was not yet aware of the trouble that awaited it. I, too, was not aware. The lakefront market on Geneva was firing on all … Read more
Blood Red Markets
Another January morning. Clear pale blue skies, soft low light, index futures off triple digits. It’s been a trend this week, the skies pale blue and the markets in blood … Read more
2015 Lake Geneva Lake Access Market Review
The real estate market in 2011 was pretty bad. It was fun, if bad, because sellers wanted to sell and buyers, though fewer than now, wanted to buy. It was … Read more
2015 Lakefront Condo Year In Review
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 make sense because of some large demographic … Read more
Pikewood Estate
My grandmother was not necessarily a memorable fashionista. The was too old by the time I was old enough to recognize style, and by then I recognized that she veered … Read more
South Shore Club Market Update
As I grow more distanced from my youth, I remember things as though they happened on a movie screen. I remember being dropped off at the limestone steps of Northwestern Military … Read more
Lake Geneva Market Update
Now that I’ve predictably sabotaged our lovely fall weather by writing about how much I love it, and how much longer it will last, let’s get up to speed on … Read more
Lakefront Sales Update
As I recall, there is a tiki hut bar at the Angler’s Cove Condominiums in Marco Island, Florida. I don’t know as though I ever went there for any purpose, … Read more
Abbey Springs Market Update
I don’t think I ever had cause to enter Abbey Springs before I was 18, maybe 19. As a kid, I surely knew Abbey Springs was there, over on that … Read more
Basswood Sells
I’m really bad at selling homes I don’t like. I show homes I don’t like, and then I think, I don’t like this house. I have to play along as … Read more
Lake Geneva Foreclosure Update
It’s been a very long time since I’ve written about foreclosures. You’d think, after the exposure that I’ve had to them, I’d write more often about them. You’d think I’d … Read more
Geneva Lakefront Sales
A long time ago, I decided to write a real estate blog. Along the way, there have been some really bad posts. There have been a scant handful of good … Read more
Abbey Springs Sells
I built a real estate office at 57 West Geneva Street. I did this because I needed a place to work. You’d be surprised to learn, or maybe you wouldn’t, … Read more
Fontana Lakefront Sells
I’m not going to say what I want to say. I’m not going to say that a house with a modest 110′ worth of cliff frontage shouldn’t sell for five … Read more
South Shore Club Sales
I watch the million dollar shows on television. I used to think I liked those shows, because they portrayed Realtors as being cool and hip, and Realtors have, since the … Read more