The link below is to an interesting piece this week in the Wall Street Journal, confirming that vacation homes saw considerable upticks in sales in 2010. Lake Tahoe is on a similar trend with a 100% increase in the number of lakefront home sales in 2010 over 2009 (North and West Shores of the California side, according to MLS data.)
Read the WSJ article here: Market for Vacation Homes Is on the Rise – WSJ.com.