Lake communities in Montana and Idaho are commanding Cartier-like real-estate prices, as West Coast buyers move in
Jordana Woodland, an entrepreneur and designer, spent more than a decade jetting between Los Angeles, where she owned a sprawling boutique on La Cienega Boulevard, and her Montana vacation home near Whitefish Lake, a glacial lake wedged between two mountain ranges. The two places were a study in contrasts: West Hollywood glitz versus Western rustic, with “deers popping out of walls and wood-everything,” Ms. Woodland recalled.
The gem-toned lakes of Montana and Idaho, created thousands of years ago by receding glaciers, are commanding Cartier-level real-estate prices. Unlike coastal waterfront communities, northwestern lake regions have been spared the worst effects of climate change: hurricanes, rising sea levels, coastal erosion, algae blooms. Cold and clear, glacial lakes have high levels of dissolved oxygen in their depths that prevent the growth of slimy vegetation.
Her 14,500-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa—a collaboration between Montana Creative Architecture & Design and LM Pagano Design—was designed to make the most of sweeping views of Whitefish Lake, the Whitefish Mountain ski resort, Beaver Lake and the mountain peaks and high forests of Glacier National Park. It was built at a cost of about $18 million. “I wanted glass windows, glass walls, everything glass,” said Ms. Woodland. “The windows alone were about $1.5 million.
Mostly, it is used as a homework and arts-and-craft room by the kids, who range in age from 4 to 12. Ms. Woodland’s family eats most of their meals at an oversize upholstered booth in the airy kitchen, which is baby-blue with lots of creamy, blue-veined marble. In the summer, the action shifts to an expansive outdoor living space with a full kitchen, a wood-fired pizza oven and king-size swing bed.
“We were suddenly surrounded,” said Ms. Pagano, who sold the house,which she bought for $1.2 million four years ago, for close to $3 million.The 40-seat cafe serves coffee, pastries and gelato. Lea Williams, an associate broker with Tomlinson Sotheby’s International Realty, recently fielded two offers on a $17 million compound on Lake Coeur d’Alene. “The guy who could prove he had cash in the bank, won. I said, ‘Is this going to be a second home for you?’ and he said, ‘It will be my seventh,’ ” Ms. Williams said of the buyer from western Washington state. “He had beautiful homes in Hawaii and Mexico, but he had to fly there—he wanted somewhere he could drive to.
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