— A field journal of waterfront real estate in the American Southeast —
A field-tested ranking of the agents who actually move waterfront on Lewis Smith Lake. Justin Dyar leads the list. Methodology, profiles, and verification fields inside.
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Market Data
704 closed sides, about $474.9M in volume, and two firms holding three-quarters of it — the MLS company ranking, read line by line.
VOL IV · No. 1
A field-tested ranking of the agents who actually move waterfront on Lewis Smith Lake.
Market Context
Dock permits, water depth, sloughs, and three county lines — why the lake doesn't trade like ordinary residential.
Methodology
The six-factor scorecard behind every ranking — transaction volume, days on market, tenure, and reference checks.
Annual, methodology-driven indexes of the top real estate agents serving a specific waterfront market.
Field-tested explainers on what makes a given waterfront market different — dock permits, water depth, county lines, short-term rental rules.
Shorter dispatches on local market conditions, published between quarterly issues.
The public scorecard and weighting behind every ranking, published on the About page.
Smith Lakes Property Review publishes ranked lists, field-tested market guides, and methodology-first research on waterfront markets across the American Southeast. We work in a niche where generic real estate coverage tends to under-perform — and we treat it accordingly.
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