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The ability to search homes by Street Name has been available on lakeandcityhomes.com for some time, however it's been missing from the Quick Search on our home page. Until today, that is! Lake & City Homes Realty is happy to announce that we have added "Street name" (see arrow on screenshot) to the "Start Your Home Search" field in the quick search on our home page. So now, in addition to searching by City, Subdivision, Zip, or MLS number from the Quick Search, you can also type in a street name to quickly reference all the homes currently for sale on that street, regardless of city. 

In addition, we added a "By Address" tab to our advanced search form here. :) And, happily, we did not eliminate the ability to drill down and search by street name

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Great news! We've added a new feature to our property details pages that we think you're gonna love. It's an idea similar to "Related Products" that we borrowed from Retailing except that it's for real estate so we call it "Similar Properties". Located near the bottom of every property details page you'll see four properties that are similar to the property you're currently looking at. The picture to the left is an example of what we mean. Underneath these four properties is a button marked "View all similar properties here" if you want a complete list of properties that are similar to the current property.

How do we define "similar"? Well, in order for a property to show up under "Similar Properties" it has to have the following characteristics:

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In honor of NAR's National Open House day this weekend, Lake & City Homes Realty will hold open houses at three different locations in the Madison area: 37 Glen Arbor Way in Fitchburg, 1965 Quam Point Rd in the Town of Dunn, and 1201 Douglas Trail (MLS #1645729) in Madison.

All three open houses will be held from 1-3pm.

37 Glen Arbor (MLS #1653463) is a stunning new 3-bedroom, 2.5 bath condo listing located in Forest Glen Estates in Fitchburg, 1965 Quam Point (MLS #1643373) is a Town of Dunn ranch with gorgeous views of Lake Kegonsa, and 1201 Douglas Trail (MLS #1645729) is a wonderfully affordable 4-bedroom located in the Glendale neighborhood on the East Side of Madison.

Please join us in recognizing the official start to the 2012

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Looking for the perfect ranch condo? Located just 10 minutes from downtown Madison in the popular zip code of 53711, this immaculately maintained, like-new ranch style condo located in Forest Glen Estates truly has it all! Main floor master suite with two walk-in closets, main floor study with French doors (currently used as a music room), nice-sized living room with gas fireplace, and beautiful gourmet kitchen with stainless steel Frigidaire appliances including gas range, refrigerator with French doors, dishwasher, and microwave. The gleaming granite countertops, gorgeous glass tile backsplashes, and custom lighting fixtures are simply dazzling! Relax at the breakfast bar, in the dining area, on the screen porch, or on the sun deck and enjoy the lush,

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Lake & City Homes Realty is proud to announce its newest listing located at 343 Breckenridge Rd in the popular and sought-after neighborhood of Westridge Estates in beautiful Verona, Wisconsin.

This four bedroom, 2.5 bath, six year-old transitional is a Parade quality home with many upgrades such as granite countertops and California closets throughout - yet is priced to sell!

From the grand entrance with soaring ceilings to the Brazilian cherry hardwood floors to the well-appointed kitchen with walk-in pantry to the generous-sized Master suite with luxurious bath and walk-in closet, this 2,393sf home was built to impress! Need more room? No problem! The basement has nice high ceilings and is ready for finishing.

Check out all the property

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Lake & City Homes Realty is pleased to announce our newest listing, a gorgeous 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, two-story home in desirable Smith's Crossing located directly across from beautiful Thoreau Park in Sun Prairie! This stunning three year-old Prairie/Craftsman style home features open floor plan with vaulted ceilings, "random select" maple hardwood floors, generous eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances, stunning natural quartz (silestone) countertops, and a reverse osmosis filtration system. There is a lovely separate formal dining room with beautiful views of the park. The living room is open to the kitchen, as well as to the upstairs, and is graced with a striking gas insert and cathedral ceilings. The generous owner's suite is situated on

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Happy New Year! We hope that your 2012 has gotten off to a great start. As a token of our appreciation for your business we have just rolled out a brand new look & feel for our flagship Madison real estate site, LakeandCityhomes.com. Please bear with us while we work out the kinks. We think that you're going to love the new functionality and improved readability.

Some of the more noticeable changes include:

• new & improved Quick Search at the top of the home page
• radius and polygon searches (included with Search by Map)
• more readable property details pages
• links to virtual tours (without leaving the site)
• create Saved Searches instantly 
• featured neighborhoods, communities
• rotating testimonials
• our new mobile site:

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Today Inman News announced the results of its 10 U.S. hotspots for smallest house sizes. Included in its top ten list were six cities located in the Midwest, notably the great state of Wisconsin. The list was based on the median square footage of homes listed for sale on Realtor.com during the month of September 2011. Note: not all homes for sale are listed on Realtor.com. Realtor.com reported that the median size of homes for sale in Wisconsin was the 10th smallest in the country for the month of September 2011, at 1,669 square feet. Like the other top ten finishers (with the exception of our nation's capitol which only has two), Wisconsin's homes have a median of three bedrooms. In addition to Wisconsin, the other Midwestern states…

NEW! This lovely 3-story colonial built in 1926 is located on a quiet side street in the Franklin/Randall School district in sought-after University Heights. University Heights is a beautiful West Side Madison neighborhood filled with older homes just a ten minute walk to Monroe Street, Trader Joe's, the U.W. Hospital, and the west end of the U.W. campus. This 3-5 bedroom home features living room with archway and wood-burning fireplace, formal dining room with archway and arched "nook", and remodeled eat-in kitchen with full suite of appliances including dual fuel range with convection oven. Tiled airlock entries front and rear keep out the elements and the screened-in porch is great for entertaining on those long summer nights. Loads of original

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Ever wondered if there's an app for searching for Madison WI real estate? Well, you're in luck! Lake & City Homes Realty is proud to announce the launch of iLakeandCityhomes.com, the mobile edition of our flagship Madison WI real estate site LakeandCityhomes.com. The mobile addition of our site has some really cool features that our desktop version does not have that we think you're really going to love.

For starters, scroll down and click on a community that interests you. The app loads all the listings for that community in chronological order. That means the latest listings always appear at the top of your screen. That way you can stay on top of which listings are the newest to the market in that community. This is doubly helpful for quickly checking

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