WOW House

$1.3 Million 'Wow House' Includes Private Beach on Shores of Lake Michigan

European-designed home in Ozaukee County is 4,300 square feet on a heavily wooded lot with great lakefront access

From elegant and stately mansions to modern, environmentally friendly abodes, southeastern Wisconsin is chock-full of one-of-a-kind homes for sale. Each week, Patch highlights one "Wow House" that caught our attention. This week, it's a home at 1269 Towhee Trail in Port Washington located in a heavily wood lot along Lake Michigan that includes a private beach footage. The European-designed home is fully customized from top to bottom and features cherry wood cabinetry, Rumford fireplaces, Kohler fixtures, Brazilian granite tops and more. This four-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom home was built in 2004, and is 4,310 square feet. On the market for about six weeks, the home has a selling price of $1,299,900, and is being offered by the Tom Didier Team …

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9:58 pm on Saturday, February 9, 2013

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Fall Could Be Right Time to Sell Your Home

Sales of existing homes are up and the housing market in general appears to be making a slow, but steady comeback. That's good news if you want to sell your home now.

So, you’ve wanted to sell your house for the past couple of years but the sagging housing market has given you the blues?d Cheer up! This fall could finally be the right time to put the homestead on the market. That’s the consensus among a group of real estate experts we asked to assess the current Milwaukee area housing market and — in particular — the conditions for selling a home this fall. In fact, the market has been slowly but surely improving for several months. “This year, we’ve seen a steady increase in the market,” said John Paul Horning, vice president of Shorewest Realtors, which has offices throughout the area, including Wauwatosa,  Shorewood and Mequon. “We’ve been up roughly 25 to 30 percent every month compared to last year…

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