New Listings
Fontana Club Condo For Sale
If you knew me in the year 2000, then you knew I sold the Fontana Club Condominiums when the building was new. Or maybe you didn’t know that about me … Read more
Stoney Hollow
Stoney Hollow at Pier 74 is a magnificent stone and slate Tudor located on Snake Road at the end of private Folly Lane. This premier estate is offered with the … Read more
The Loch Vista Club
One month ago, I listed a great cottage on Lower Loch Vista for $689k. Then I had 16 or more showings over the following two days. Yesterday, I sold that … Read more
New Lakefront Listing
Simple lakefront perfection is yours with this turn-key lakefront home on 100 feet of impossibly level frontage on Geneva’s South Shore. This immaculate six bedroom home is positioned at the … Read more
Loch Vista Club
Is there a more perfect lake cottage? I don’t mean in Williams Bay. I don’t mean in Walworth County. I mean anywhere. I suppose there could be, but I doubt … Read more
Abbey Ridge For Sale
One of my two complementing agents, Jessica Genrich, just listed this rather fantastic Abbey Ridge residence that includes a separately deeded Abbey Harbor boat slip. This immaculate unit has been … Read more
556 Sauk Trail
Entry level lakefront homes at Lake Geneva tend to have consistent attributes. The attributes we love are those perfect white piers, and that meandering shore path at the water’s edge. … Read more
Lake Geneva Condo
Does anyone want to be my neighbor? I’ve listed one of the upper two bedroom condominiums at my 323 Broad Street building, and as you can see from these photos, … Read more
1081 South Lakeshore
If you’re a buyer in Fontana, you can gain access to lots of fun things. You could try to join the Lake Geneva Yacht Club and hang out at that … Read more
Vista Del Lago
There can only be one front row, and at Vista Del Lago that’s building One. The rarest offering in Vista is now available with expansive lake views reaching all the … Read more
Sioux Drive
Many a painter, poet and writer have found inspiration in small stone cottages tucked away in a quiet landscape. And for good reason, since our surroundings influence our moods and have … Read more
Lake Geneva Lakefront For Sale
Sometimes, I list houses on the open market. Like this time. This comfortable five bedroom lakefront at Pier 651 is ready for a new owner. I sat on this lakeside … Read more
Burr Oaks Farm
Calm isn’t something we come by naturally. Life is chaotic, frenzied, complicated. It’s a whirlwind of harried navigation between the things that must be done and the things we’d like … Read more
Dartmouth Woods
Here’s a dazzling lakefront home ideally situated between Williams Bay and Fontana along Fontana’s north shore. You’re going to love these wide-water views spanning from Conference Point to the Fontana … Read more
Fontana Club For Sale
$1.49M on the Fontana lakefront. You could spend $3.5M to be in this location, but why would you?
W4443 North Lake Shore Drive
There are certain homes on this lake that catch your attention. When you walk by, when you boat by, when you drive by, everyone has a house that invites wonder. … Read more
Birches Lakefront For Sale
Often times, I find myself struggling against the market as I insist that certain attributes are the attributes that matter. It’s like this sometimes in the debate between level or … Read more
1606 West Main Street
I’ll live my entire life without buying Waterworks tile. I have dabbled with buying a Waterworks faucet or two, but even in that I’ve backed off in the later innings … Read more
Orchard Lane
There’s a thing about houses that the market, as a whole, often forgets. In the pursuit of function over form, the market hastily changes the classic lake homes of Lake … Read more
Indian Hills For Sale
At the Lake, the off-water market lake access market is made up of three very important and distinct sub-markets. There are homes with slips. Homes with views. Homes with proximity. … Read more
1530 Lake Shore Drive
The newest lakefront home to find its way to market: 1530 Lake Shore in Lake Geneva. Level frontage, turn key condition. Sweet.
W4484 Basswood Drive
An inspired Michael Abraham design on Lake Geneva’s luxury lane hits the market.
Five Star Farm
I’ve never been to Edgar, Wisconsin. The odds are good that you haven’t been there either. Because I’ve never been, I don’t know much about it, other than they used … Read more
Cedar Point Parkway Listing
A unique location on the Parkway in Cedar Point Park. This lake access home might need a bit of improvement, but the location is divine.
New Cedar Point Lakefront
My newest lakefront listing is perfect for the buyer who wants to find value in a market where it is, undoubtedly, elusive.
New South Shore Club Listing
A new listing in the South Shore Club isn’t just located in the best spot within the club. It’s likely the nicest house, too.
Park Drive For Sale
Lakefront buyers know that a hunt for a lakefront house can be fun. Can, being the operative word there. It could be fun. Should be fun. But often, in this … Read more
389 North Lakeshore Drive
There are three things that attract people to houses. Yes, there are renters who rent based on price and convenience, those who say they won’t be pinned down, won’t be … Read more
Cedar Point For Sale
A couple of weeks ago, I started working on a new listing. This lakefront house was in Cedar Point, on the very top of the point, where the view is … Read more
Glenwood Springs For Sale
There’s a reason you read this blog. That, of course, was a lie. In actuality, there are many reasons you read this blog, but perhaps there are are only two … Read more
Bonnie Brae Boathouse
For each of us, there is something unique in our story, some important event in our past, or in the past of our parents, or our grandparents, or our great … Read more
Valley Park Lake Geneva
My large lakefront offering in Valley Park is still available, though it probably shouldn’t be. Compare this property to the newest lakefront listing on Geneva, priced at $14,500,000. That listing … Read more
Valley Park
Follow South Lakeshore Drive far enough from town and after some time you’ll be in the general vicinity of Black Point. But weave farther and deeper off of the known … Read more
Bay Colony For Sale
Back on the market just in time for whatever season we’re now calling April, a most memorable Bay Colony lakefront condominium… There’s a thing about lakefront condominiums. The typical way … Read more
New Buena Vista Lakefront Listing
I have a particular thing for porches. This affinity is owed to my youth, to a childhood home where little mattered except that old porch. Summer lunch, in the porch. … Read more
New Geneva Lakefront Listing
It is no secret that the South Shore Club is an exclusive development. Anything numbering just 40 in total would be viewed as exclusive. While this is known, what isn’t … Read more
Clear Sky Lodge Home For Sale
You don’t really want to be me. Some of my friends think they’d like to be me. To work a bit and make money a bit and drive a nice … Read more
Bluff Lane
Buyers have a unique tendency to focus on one or two aspects of a purchase, and in doing so, convince themselves to proceed with the transaction. This is true of … Read more
465 Outing
When David Bowie died, it was hard to scroll through Twitter and find someone who had not, at some point, met him. In line at McDonald’s. Rushing through Heathrow. Buying … Read more
Oak Shores
When thinking of lake access associations, it’s best to think first in terms of the obvious. Once the obvious is understood, then it’s time to progress to the nuance. With … Read more
New Lakefront Listing
The South Shore Club is all quite nice. The pool and the entrance, the tennis courts and the piers. There’s nothing like it here, and likely never will be anything … Read more
Lakeview Pointe
I’ve written often about Geneva National. It’s a staple in our market, one of the largest pieces to this puzzle. Without it, a review of the Lake Geneva vacation home … Read more
Whispering Oaks
What is it that makes a lakeside property desirable? Is it the view? That has to be some of it. Any nice house on any lot is fine, but a … Read more
New Elgin Club Listing
It’s the word Club that throws people off. There’s some significant confusion in the market regarding the Elgin Club. Is it a Club? Well, sort of. Is it a co-op? … Read more
412 Harvard Avenue
A little fresh video work this week. This time, it’s my listing at 412 Harvard in Glenwood Springs.
Jerseyhurst
As an agent, there are certain streets around this lake that I revere. The streets that don’t encourage visitors. The streets that don’t offer up their homes with any version … Read more
Sneak Peek
New listing coming to market by Memorial Day. Fontana location. Not huge, but man is it nice. Low $3s.
Equestrian Estate
I rode a horse once. It was an unruly horse, wild maybe. I was all of 12 years old and I was riding on the back of this wild beast; … Read more
Loramoor Opportunity
On Monday, I said goodbye to an old friend. I met this friend when I was ten, maybe twelve, sometime around then. This friend was with me through it all, … Read more
New Lake Geneva Club Listing
There are certain houses that are, for one reason or many others, better. They might not be gilded with gold, or polished to the highest diamond shine, but there’s just … Read more
New Geneva Lakefront Listing
The thing about entry level lakefront is that it’s entry level lakefront. It’s not fancy. If it were fancy, it wouldn’t be entry level. Entry level exists in increasingly fewer … Read more
New South Shore Club Listing
There was nothing like it in 2002 just as there is nothing like it in 2017. A lakefront community engineered to attract high end buyers, in a high end setting, … Read more
New Glenwood Springs Listing
In the world of collector cars, an untouched car with original paint, matching numbers, and original factory features is a very desirable car indeed. The car is valuable because it … Read more
700 South Lakeshore
There are homes that you know. Stone Manor. You know this place. You know the Driehaus property and the Wrigley cottages. You know where the Pritzker’s live at their Casa. … Read more
Pleasant View
When you see a wolf, it’s best to tell someone. See something, say something, they always say. That’s why that little boy cried Wolf! Except that he didn’t actually see … Read more
New South Shore Club Listing
Within the South Shore Club, there are several market segments. First, the homes up front. The homes on the water. Those are the kings of the SSC. There are four … Read more
New Lakefront Estate
This lake is lined with $15MM houses. There are others at $20MM. Some, still at $12MM. Several at $17MM. There are estates that the owners likely value at $30MM. Some will … Read more
Lakewood Estates
I was the first broker to try my hand at selling the new Harbor Watch condominiums on downtown Lake Geneva’s waterfront. I believe the year was 2002, because I was … Read more
South Shore Club Lot
Increasingly, buyers build what they want, where they want, oblivious, either ignorantly or happily so, to the fact that their build is pricing them right out of the market they’ve … Read more
New Loramoor Listing
Sometimes, 50 feet of frontage just won’t do. It’s tough for me to write that, but it’s true, and the market has proven it true time and time again. If … Read more
New Fontana Lakefront Listing
It’s no particular secret that buyers like Fontana. If I have 100 lakefront buyers call me this year, there’s a strong chance that 75 of them may specifically ask to … Read more
New Lakefront Listing
When I was a kid, I’d walk to Gage Marine. It wasn’t far from my house, and so I’d walk down the shore path, across those green lawns, up those … Read more
New Lake Geneva Listing
There are many reasons to frequent this blog. If you wanted to know what my latest hobby is, for instance. How else could you know? You could call me and … Read more
Loramoor Lakefront For Sale
My kids like to make time-lapse videos. Some people make time lapse videos over the course of an entire day. The sun comes up, quickly, then it moves across the … Read more