Lake Bluff, IL Real Estate — Joe Gattone, Compass

Joe Gattone is a Compass real estate broker based in Libertyville who has closed 8 transactions in Lake Bluff and ranked #3 among all Libertyville agents by 2025 sales volume (RealTrends Verified). Call or text 847-650-4048.

Homes I've sold in Lake Bluff

  • 815 Jenkisson Ave, Lake Bluff
  • 454 Rockland Ave, Lake Bluff
  • 812 W Blodgett Ave, Lake Bluff
  • 12533 Meadow Cir, Lake Bluff
  • 120 E Sheridan Rd, Lake Bluff
  • 28596 Windmere Ct, Lake Bluff
  • 28 Ravine Forest Dr, Lake Bluff

What Lake Bluff buyers and sellers ask me

How is it different from Lake Forest? Smaller, more compact, and most of it is walkable to the village center and the Metra. The housing stock is a mix of Victorian-era cottages near the bluff and postwar homes west of Green Bay Rd. Fewer estates, more in-town homes.

Is there a beach? Sunrise Park and Beach, village-run, at the end of Center Ave. Houses within walking distance of it carry a premium.

What's the inventory like? Thin. Lake Bluff is a small village and good houses get bought by people who already live there. If you want in, be ready before the listing hits, and tell me what you want so I can watch for it.

Lake Bluff neighborhoods and what they're like

East Lake Bluff / Village Center. The blocks around Scranton Ave and the Metra: older homes, the village green, walk to everything.

The Bluff. Homes along the lake edge north and south of Sunrise Park.

West of Green Bay Rd. 1950s–1990s subdivisions with larger lots, closer to Route 41 and the Great Lakes Naval Station boundary.

Points of interest

Sunrise Park and Beach, the Lake Bluff village center and Fourth of July parade, Lake Bluff Golf Club, the North Shore Bike Path, and the Metra station on the Union Pacific North line.

Schools

Lake Bluff Elementary District 65 (K–8) and Lake Forest High School (District 115). For current performance data on any school, use the Illinois State Board of Education's Illinois Report Card (illinoisreportcard.com).

Notoriety

Lake Bluff began as a lakefront summer resort community in the 1870s; the cottage architecture in the east village dates to that era. The village's Fourth of July parade is a long-running local tradition.

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