Lake Tahoe Experts

We, being novices, instead of "old blogging pros" like we are now, missed Inman Connect last year. And blissfully, we didn't know what we had missed until the photos and missives about how cool it was started coming in.

Then we felt like dunces in a corner, or at least a professional bus-stop-bench-sitter, whose job it is to warm a spot, observe, and then miss, rather than catch the bus. (It's a late bird and a missed worm kind of thing.)

This year we're on it. We got a bus ticket. And we'll be at the reception the night before. And hopefully at whatever dinner that springs up for way too many thereafter.

Check out bloggers connect here. And again there's a reception the night before.

That's where we'll get to meet Don Rich, up front and in person for the first time. And when we're talking with him we'll be scanning the crowd looking for Laurie Manny. And Bob and Johathan, we hope. And a whole lot more.

It'll be like a high school reunion... of people we never went to school with. What a hoot.

To help our rubber-neckery out, so we can pretend like we're paying attention to Rich, while we're looking for you, who's coming? Am sure a lot of us would like to know.

Lakefront Properties Updated - All 2008 Lakefront sales, those in escrow and currently listed.

(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We’ve just updated Lakefront Properties, one of the Stateline, NV neighborhoods as desigated by our mls in our South Lake Tahoe real estate market. Please click the link “Lakefront Properties, NV” found in our left sidebar. 

All current Lakefront Properties listings, plus statistics, here.

All current Lakefront Properties in escrow, plus statistics, here.

All 2008 Lakefront Properties sales, plus statistics, here.

 Also included are all Lakefront Properties sales for 2006, 2005 and 2004.

Also included in our left sidebar are all other South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV neighborhoods, plus complete reports on the entire South Lake Tahoe real estate market and Statenline, NV real estate market.

Here you will also find current South Lake Tahoe real estate and Stateline, NV real estate absorption rates as well. This is the most complete and up-to-date Lake Tahoe real estate information available online. Our goal is to provide you with all of the information... all of the time.

About Lakefront Properties:
Lake front homes and estates on the Nevada side of our South Lake Tahoe real estate market are found in all neighborhoods facing the lake, and along Highway 50 from Elk Poijnt to Glenbrook. Value ranges from the high $2M’s to $30M and more. Lake front homes are usually the most desirable property to own around Lake Tahoe. They are also, and it makes sense, the highest price. Values usually increase along national trends, though lake front properties in Lake Tahoe rarely, if ever, see price declines.

Also found on each spreadsheet page for Lakefront Properties are statistics charts with the following:

• -- Median Sold Price.
• -- Average List Price.
• -- Original List Price.
• -- Dollar difference between original list and median sold price.
• -- Percent difference between original list and median sold price.
• -- Average Price per Sq Ft.
• -- Average Days on Market.
• -- Average Size.

We offer this information as a public service. It is the most complete and current information on Lakefront Properties and the South Lake Tahoe real estate market available.

If you like what you see here and find it helpful, please call or email us for further help with buying or selling a Lake Tahoe home. We’re also always interested in comments and suggestions too. (Please use comments box below.)

Hidden Woods Neighborhood Update - All 2008 Home Sales, Homes in Escrow and Current Listings.

All current  Hidden Woods listings, plus statistics, here.

All current Hidden Woods escrow, plus statistics, here.

All 2008 Hidden Woods sales, plus statistics, here.

Also included are all Hidden Woods sales for 2007, 2006, and 2005.

 About Hidden Woods  : (For more about  Hidden Woods)
 (Number homes: 32) Known for its exclusive mountain-setting mansions, Hidden Woods has lake views and secluded forest view lots. Homes range from upscale opportunities to richly appointed and landscaped lake view estates. This is an outrageously nice neighborhood.

We offer this information as a public service. It is the most complete information on Hidden Woods available.

If you like what you see here and find it helpful, please call or email us for further help with buying or selling a Lake Tahoe home. We’re also always interested in comments and suggestions too. (Use comments box below.)

Lower Kingsbury Neighborhood Update - All 2008 Home Sales, Homes in Escrow and Current Listings.

(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We’ve just updated Lower Kingsbury, a Stateline, NV neighborhood in South Lake Tahoe. Please note “Kingsbury (lower), NV” found in our left sidebar. 

All current Lower Kingsbury listings, plus statistics, here.

All current Middle Kingsbury escrow, plus statistics, here.

All 2008 Middle Kingsbury sales, plus statistics, here.

Also included are all Lower Kingsbury sales for 2007, 2006, and 2005.

 About Lower Kingsbury : (More about  Lower Kingsbury, including aerial view and slide show)
Set amid the hills next to the lake near the Nevada state line, Lower Kingsbury Grade is part of Lake Tahoe’s largest community. With over 800 homes, the Kingsbury Grade area has 3 sections. Homes throughout span from the bottom of Lake Tahoe’s real estate market to stunning, expansive, lakeview homes that are among the most breathtaking properties on the lake.

Also included in Lower Kingsbury is Granite Springs, which is located on a few of Lower Kingsbury’s streets under Heavenly Mountain. Granite Springs homes are usually larger, newer and have greater value that other Lower Kingsbury Grade homes.

We offer this information as a public service. It is the most complete information on Lower Kingsbury available.

If you like what you see here and find it helpful, please call or email us for further help with buying or selling a Lake Tahoe home. We’re also always interested in comments and suggestions too. (Use comments box below.)

Middle Kingsbury Neighborhood Update - All 2008 Home Sales, Homes in Escrow and Current Listings.

(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We’ve just updated Middle Kingsbury, a Stateline, NV neighborhood in South Lake Tahoe. Please note “Kingsbury (middle), NV” found in our left sidebar. 

All current  Middle Kingsbury listings, plus statistics, here.

All current Middle Kingsbury escrow. plus statistics, here.

All 2008 Middle Kingsbury sales, plus statistics, here.

Also included are all Middle Kingsbury sales for 2007, 2006, and 2005.

 About Middle Kingsbury : (More about  Middle Kingsbury, including aerial view and slide show)
Set amid the hills next to the lake near the Nevada state line, Mid Kingsbury Grade is part of Lake Tahoe’s largest community. As with Lower Kingsbury Grade, homes in this area range in value from market entry to the most stunning, exclusive, and expensive.

We offer this information as a public service. It is the most complete information on Middle  Kingsbury available.

If you like what you see here and find it helpful, please call or email us for further help with buying or selling a Lake Tahoe home. We’re also always interested in comments and suggestions too. (Use comments box below.)

Had a great conversation with Lenn Harley. Wasn't hard core real estate talk; it was better than that.

Maxene, my better 7/8th's, son, Olivier, has been invited to attend the National Junior Leadership summit in Washington, and we're headed to DC next week.

Lenn, like many of you, we know only by pen here on AR. Yet she called to asked us over for lunch while we're there. That's where the hard core real estate talk will happen, and am most looking forward to it. Count on it.

I'll bring Maxene too, and who knows who else we might meet there. What's so cool is through AR we get to do things like this... with people we've wanted to know for a while... who we kinda know from afar already. But better than that is AR, like all of our blogs, establishes trust... before we meet someone personally.

But to be asked to meet someone at their wonderful home, how cool is that? And it speaks volumes about the benefits of our less-than-90,000-member exclusive club here.

I'll take pictures and let you know what we learned from our visit to the hard core real estate mountain. Some seas are bound  to part, and wisdom to be heard. Yea.

Upper Kingsbury Neighborhood Update - All 2008 Home Sales, Homes in Escrow and Current Listings.

(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We’ve just updated Upper Kingsbury, a Stateline, NV neighborhood in South Lake Tahoe. Please note “Kingsbury (upper), NV” found in our left sidebar. 

All current  Upper Kingsbury listings, plus statistics, here.

All current Upper Kingsbury escrow, plus statistics, here.

All 2008 Upper Kingsbury sales, plus statistics, here.

Also included are all Upper Kingsbury sales for 2007, 2006, and 2005.

 About Upper Kingsbury : (More about  Upper Kingsbury, including aerial view and slide show)
This area rests atop the "Nevada Side" of Heavenly Mountain. The single family homes in this area tend to be spacious and many have either spectacular lake or Carson Valley views. There are also large condominium / townhome communities located just steps from the Nevada lodges of Heavenly Ski Resort.

We offer this information as a public service. It is the most complete information on Upper Kingsbury available.

If you like what you see here and find it helpful, please call or email us for further help with buying or selling a Lake Tahoe home. We’re also always interested in comments and suggestions too. (Use comments box below.)

Round Hill Neighborhood Update - All 2008 Home Sales, Homes in Escrow and Current Listings.

(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We’ve just updated Round Hill, a Stateline, NV neighborhood in South Lake Tahoe. Please note “Round Hill, NV” found in our left sidebar. 

Al current  Round Hill listings, plus statistics, here.

All current Roundhill escrow , plus statistics, here.

All 2008 Rondhill sales, plus statistics, here.

Also included are all Round Hill sales for 2007, 2006, and 2005.

 About Round Hill  : (More about  Round Hill, including aerial view and slide show)
 (Number homes: about 205) A quiet, secluded neighborhood set amid forest-backed lots and tall trees, Roundhill is one of the lake's most family oriented communities. Homes range from low to mid-market values to upscale lake view properties. There are a few condominiums located in Roundhill as well.

We offer this information as a public service. It is the most complete information on Round Hill available.

If you like what you see here and find it helpful, please call or email us for further help with buying or selling a Lake Tahoe home. We’re also always interested in comments and suggestions too. (Use comments box below.)

Skyland Neighborhood Update - All 2008 Sales, Homes in Escrow and Current Listings.

We’ve just updated Skyland, a Stateline, NV neighborhood in South Lake Tahoe. Please note “Skyland, NV” found in our left sidebar. 

For all current  Skyland listings, plus statistics,  here.

All current Skyland escrow, plus statistics,  here.

All 2008 Skyland sales, plus statistics,  here.

Also included are all Skyland sales for 2007, 2006, and 2005.

About Skyland  : (More about  Skyland, including aerial view and slide show)
(Number homes: about 225) Located next to the lake, Skyland is a sedate, big-backyard and barbeque neighborhood known for large lots nestled amid tall, shade bearing pine trees. Homes range from mid-market opportunities to exquisite lakefront estates. Skyland is truly one of our most desired Nevada neighborhoods.

We offer this information as a public service. It is the most complete information on Skyland available.

If you like what you see here and find it helpful, please call or email us for further help with buying or selling a Lake Tahoe home. We’re also always interested in comments and suggestions too. (Use comments box below.)

One would think that a curb, even when in mid-speak with a client, would not post much of a challenge. But not so apparently yesterday.

We were showing the boat ramp at Cave Rock next to the lake; that's where the foul curb was.

Next to it was a bit of a hole, an indentation in the asphalt actually. One not easily seen. (That's the end of the ramp pictured, which is much more inspiring than the hole, or the parking lot.)

And when my foot hit it, the ankle rolled, and there I was spilling out into the parking lot in mid sentence, rolling over, tearing my slacks, skinning my knee and landing with a 200+lb flop. Ok, a thud.

And it really hurt. I knew immediately that I had to get my head down or it would be pass-out time. (That's what some of us do with sudden, sharp pain.) So I just laid there, stretched out, looking up at our clients... and I kept talking. Few things it seems will stop a good real estate filibuster.

About 5 minutes later we were on our way.  But buy the time I got home it looked like I had a softball in my sock. Yes my ankle still swells from a sprain like it did when I was a kid. Oh well.

This is the second time I've had a showing fall. The first one was the same ankle two years ago, where I did pass out. That stops filibuster cold. It was from snow collapsing unexpectedly out on a deck overlooking the lake.

They don't teach us acrobatics, and tumbling techniques in real estate school. But the truth is they don't teach us much more than how to pass the state tests. The rest is up to us. Even if we have to wear catcher's equipment when confronting curbs.

The first time this happened the clients eventually bought a real nice place here in paradise. I hope these people do do. They were a lot of fun to be around. And even laughed at our attendant flip-flop jokes.

We thought you mioght appreciate just another tale in the crazy thinkgs we do to make all that "easy" money we do, and perhaps you can also appreciate why I'm wondering why they don't make curbs like they used to.