Lake Geneva & Southern Lakes Wisconsin Real Estate Blog
How to Market a Home Near the Lake Without Overpromising the Lifestyle
By Kim and Joel Reyenga, eXp Realty | YourWiscoHome.com Quick answer: Market the property, not the fantasy. On Geneva Lake that means stating water rights exactly as they're recorded, giving proximity in blocks or miles instead of impressions, showing the season the buyer will actually see, and desc
What Makes Williams Bay Homes Appealing to Second-Home Buyers
By Kim and Joel Reyenga, eXp Realty | YourWiscoHome.com Quick answer: Second-home buyers choose Williams Bay for the north shore geography, the amount of protected open land inside village limits, and a shoreline where a large share of the frontage is held by institutions rather than turned over on
How Video Marketing Helps Lake Geneva Homes Reach More Qualified Buyers
By Kim and Joel Reyenga, eXp Realty | YourWiscoHome.com Quick answer: Video helps a Lake Geneva home most by filtering, not by broadcasting. A buyer 90 minutes away in the Chicago suburbs uses video to decide whether your house is worth a Saturday. The ones who show up have already toured it once on
Lake Geneva Shore Path Access and Home Value: What Sellers Should Know
By Kim and Joel Reyenga, eXp Realty | YourWiscoHome.com Quick answer: The Shore Path rarely costs a Geneva Lake seller money. Buyers here expect it, and the market priced it in generations ago. What does cost sellers money is handling it badly: an overgrown segment, unclear boundaries, or a disclosu
What Buyers Notice First When Touring Homes Near Geneva Lake
By Kim and Joel Reyenga, eXp Realty | YourWiscoHome.com Quick answer: Buyers form most of their opinion in the first 60 seconds, before they've seen a single bedroom. The sequence runs approach, front door, entry sightline, and smell, in that order. On a lake property there's a fifth thing that jump
Do Drone Photos Help Sell a Lake Geneva Property?
By Kim and Joel Reyenga, eXp Realty | YourWiscoHome.com Quick answer: On a lake property, usually yes. An aerial answers the questions a buyer has before they'll drive up from Chicago: how close the house actually sits to the water, how the lot is shaped, where the pier is, and how near the neighbor
What Lake Geneva Area Homes Are Worth
By Kim and Joel Reyenga, eXp Realty | YourWiscoHome.com Quick answer: Over the last 12 months the median sale was $1,050,000 for lakefront, $425,000 for a lake association home, $385,000 in town, $612,500 on an acre or more, and $352,400 for a condo. Which of those describes your home matters far mo
Who Are the Best Listing Agents in Lake Geneva, WI?
By Kim and Joel Reyenga, eXp Realty | YourWiscoHome.com Quick answer: There isn't one. "Best listing agent in Lake Geneva" isn't a single title, because a lakefront estate, a Geneva National condo, a Delavan Lake cottage, and an inland ranch in Elkhorn are 4 different specialties. What you can do is
Can I Sell My Lake Geneva Home and Buy Another Property at the Same Time?
By Kim and Joel Reyenga, eXp Realty | YourWiscoHome.com Quick answer: Yes, and it happens constantly around Geneva Lake. Owners trade up, downsize, move from lakefront to lake access, or swap a Delavan property for a Geneva Lake one. The whole difficulty is the gap between the two closings. You clos