North Lake Tahoe & Truckee
Tahoe City Real Estate & Homes for Sale | Chris Gallagher
Earn your turns.
Mountain and lake homes across North Lake Tahoe and Truckee, from Tahoe City and the West Shore to Olympic Valley and Northstar. I live here, I own here, and I find the right ones before Zillow does.
Featured Listing
The listing: 6024 Mill Camp
My Brokerage
Now with Timber & Tide Realty Co.
I've joined Timber & Tide Realty Co., a Truckee boutique brokerage led by broker Christopher A. Fajkos. Same local, numbers-first approach, with a stronger team behind every deal.
Buying
Second homes, ski and lake properties, and income homes across North Lake Tahoe and Truckee.
Selling
Listing marketing built by someone who ran revenue and marketing for Tahoe hotels and resorts.
Investing
STR rules, permit caps and real operating costs, modeled before you write an offer.
Tahoe City Real Estate & Homes for Sale | Chris Gallagher
Earn your turns.
I don’t sell listings — I sell the life you keep putting off. Lake-ready homes and off-market multi-family investments across Tahoe City, Dollar Point, Sunnyside, Talmont, Homewood, Tahoma, and Meeks Bay on the West Shore, plus Alpine Meadows and Olympic Valley. I live here. I own here. And I find these before Zillow ever does.
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From the North Shore
The North Shore. Unfiltered.
News, market notes, and buyer guides from a Tahoe City owner-operator, written down as I publish them, not recycled off Zillow.
5 Development Stories Every North Shore Buyer Should Know
Permits, projects, and the North Shore developments quietly reshaping value on Tahoe's West and North sides, worth knowing before you write an offer.
Read the storyThe A-Framer
North Shore market moves, listings, and local notes, published as they happen.
Read the latestThe North Shore Multifamily Market Guide
Where the inventory is, what it trades for, and where the value hides.
See the market guideMeet Chris: Third-Generation Real Estate
An owner-operator who invests where he sells, the Gallagher family story, from Ditmas Park to Tahoe City.
Read the full storyTahoe STR Regulations by County
Permit caps, waitlists, and what's still available across every North Shore county.
See the rulesThe Tahoe Duplex Buyer's Guide
House hacking, financing, and permits, the playbook I used on my own purchase, plus off-market sourcing, cash-flow numbers, and STR tax strategy for Bay Area buyers.
Read the buyer's guide
You keep coming back to Tahoe for a reason — some part of you already lives here. A week at a time, rented, isn’t ownership. It’s borrowed time. Owning it is closer than you think.
I live here, and I own here. I’ve done every version of this deal myself — the permits, the real numbers, the fine print nobody hands you at closing. Show me a property and I’ll walk you through it in minutes: exactly what it costs to own in Tahoe, permits included.
Buying at the lake shouldn’t come with a lawyer and a headache.
Stop scrolling Zillow. It doesn’t know Tahoe. I do. Bought here. Own here. Rent here. Talk to someone who’s done the deal — not an algorithm guessing at one.
Avg. response time under 15 minutes — 7 days a week.
You're on the list.
I'll text or email you as soon as a matching off-market deal comes up.
Or text "DEALS" to (530) 213-3574
Everything I know about Tahoe short-term rentals, written down.
Guides on permitting, cash flow, and tax strategy for Tahoe short-term rentals — from someone who bought, permitted, and runs his own Tahoe City STR today.
What it actually takes to buy, permit, and run a Tahoe short-term rental. Start to finish.
From permit eligibility and county rules to realistic cash flow and what ownership actually looks like week to week — the full picture before you write an offer on an STR.
Read the investment guide →Run Live Numbers On a Specific Property
Plug in a real listing and see realistic STR revenue, expenses, and cash flow before you write an offer.
Run the calculator → Tax StrategyHow Bay Area Buyers Use an STR to Offset W-2 Income
Material participation, cost segregation, and bonus depreciation — explained in plain English.
See how it works → RegulationsTahoe STR Regulations by County
Permit caps, waitlists, and what's still available — Placer and El Dorado County, side by side.
See the rules →
Everything I know about Tahoe multifamily investing, written down.
Guides on sourcing, buying, and underwriting Tahoe multifamily — from someone who bought his own duplex off-market, renovated it, and runs it today.
How I find the duplexes and triplexes that never hit Zillow.
Most North Shore income property changes hands before a sign ever goes up. I track 500+ multifamily properties across Tahoe City, Kings Beach, Carnelian Bay, and the West Shore, and talk directly with owners — here's how that works, and how my buyers get there first.
Read the off-market guide →What a Tahoe City Duplex Actually Earns
Income from my own owner-occupied duplex — and what I'd tell a buyer underwriting one today.
See the numbers → Buyer's GuideThe Tahoe Duplex Buyer's Guide
House hacking, financing, and permits — the playbook I used on my own purchase.
Read the guide → Market IntelThe North Shore Multifamily Market Guide
Where the inventory is, what it trades for, and where the value hides.
Read the guide →
Third-generation real estate. An owner-operator who invests where he sells.
Chris didn't find real estate — he was born into it. His grandmother, Mary Kay Gallagher, was the broker the New York Times called "the real estate queen of Ditmas Park," selling Brooklyn's grandest Victorians from her own home for nearly fifty years. Chris earned his first license in 2007 working her open houses — not at a corporate seminar, at her dining room table.
He specializes in off-market multifamily investing on the North Shore — the duplexes and triplexes that never hit Zillow. A career in luxury hospitality revenue management sharpened how he underwrites income property, and as an owner-operator in Tahoe City, he runs his own units. When he tells you what a Tahoe property will do, he's speaking from his own address.
That owner-operator mindset comes with responsibility to the block, not just the balance sheet. His Tahoe City property sat with fifty years of deferred maintenance before he bought and rebuilt it — one less eyesore on the street, not one more short-term rental headache for the neighborhood. He covers snow removal, keeps parking clear every storm, and sets the unit up the way a good neighbor would want it run. Several neighbors have had their own family stay there instead of a hotel.