Best Suburbs
Photo by Pete Prodoehl. This story appears in the April 2011 issue of Milwaukee Magazine. by Kevin Kosterman Read the entire article by calling 414-287-4333 or 1-800-662-4818 to subscribe or purchase a single issue.
What’s Your Home Worth?
photo by John Cizmas It was a yellow Cape Cod. Cute but quaint. Walking through the Wauwatosa home on North 65th Street, Jeremy and Sara Monty, a young married couple moving from Michigan, weren’t quite sold. The house had lots of character, with a mishmash of window types and trims, and sat on a nice, tree-lined street bordering Center Park. But maybe it was too quirky. “There were just a bunch of things we didn’t like,” Jeremy says. The basement was too small. It had oil heat. “I was afraid the house was going to blow up,” Sara says. But…
Rankings by Municipality
2001 2006 % inc 1 Summit $302,349.00 $556,484.00 84% 2 South Milwaukee $123,232.00 $215,778.00 75% 3 St. Francis $107,067.00 $175,873.00 64% 4 Slinger $143,739.00 $232,356.00 62% 5 Milwaukee $97,137.00 $155,608.00 60% 6 Lisbon $223,917.00 $339,291.00 52% 7 Norway $204,791.00 $304,680.00 49% 8 Menomonee Falls $199,856.00 $296,260.00 48% 9 Oak Creek $149,249.00 $220,437.00 48% 10 Burlington $142,902.00 $210,160.00 47% 11 UnionGrove $143,443.00 $208,214.00 45% 12 Delafield $333,355.00 $483,336.00 45% 13 Cudahy $112,314.00 $162,390.00 45% 14 Vernon $214,117.00 $309,332.00 44% 15 Eagle $216,105.00 $306,581.00 42% 16 Grafton $183,762.00 $260,526.00 42% 17 Hartford $144,452.00 $204,633.00 42% 18 West Bend $147,130.00 $207,493.00 41% 19…
50 Suburbs Rated
The route home for a growing number of metro Milwaukee residents stretches the definition of suburbs. For many, the drive first includes 20 to 30 minutes of freeway cruising past city neighborhoods, inner-ring communities and beyond. Exit, and the rest of the route meanders along rustic roads, with no hint of a metropolis in sight. Home may be in the village of Jackson, Saukville or Fredonia; the town of Summit, Merton or Erin; the city of Oconomowoc, Grafton or Port Washington. It may be lakeside, wooded, in a clear-cut subdivision cropping up on former farmland or skirting a small downtown…
Hottest Places to Live
Photos by Janica Yoder Trudy and Rich Snyder were ready for the good life. They were ready for a move to the North Shore. They had bought their first home in South Milwaukee 10 years earlier – a 1930s colonial that oozed vintage charm. But after two sons, they found they had outgrown it. So they started shopping. In Shorewood and Whitefish Bay, Trudy relished the cute cafes, the boutiques and bread stores dotting the sidewalks. She imagined loading the kids into their royal blue double stroller and enjoying anew the neighborhoods of her college days. Rich liked the idea…
Condo Mania
Photo by Tim Evans Real estate developer Barry Mandel stands at the window of his 17th-floor office Downtown and looks out on the blue expanse of Lake Michigan, at the buildings jutting up before him, at the miniature figure of a man crossing the street below. He considers the whole panorama of this changing urban landscape. “There’s not one part of the city I don’t have my eye on,” he says. That’s big talk, but in truth, his Mandel Group Inc. has $475 million worth of developments in the pipeline, with locations from Downtown to the suburbs. When the 36-story…