We interviewed Guild Hall director Andrea Grover for the Behind the Hedges print edition last autumn; she said of her Hamptons home, “We live in a quaint 1930s cedar-shingled bungalow in the Pine Neck neighborhood of Noyac. The house and neighborhood feel very family- oriented, and a lot of homes have hand-painted signs that read ‘No…
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The weather outside might be frightful, but it’s time to think about warm days at the beach, cocktail parties, golf, tennis, and ice cream. Now is when all the best listings for summer rentals are still available; here’s some picks from us depending on your interests. Writer Lee Avenue, East Hampton Cost: $650K, MD-LD Why:…
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This property, on Old Montauk Highway in Montauk, is one of the most easterly homes on Long Island. Next door is a place owned by designer Tony Ingrao, and in nearby Camp Hero are a few dwellings that used to be army housing, but that’s it. Peace, quiet (well, except for the crashing of the…
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This house, erected in 1897 by local builder George Eldredge, was listed in 2012, with a note that the property needed “someone to bring it up-to-date and add a pool.” It sold in 2013 for $4.5 million to Pilar Guzmán, the former editor-in-chief of Condé Nast Traveler, and husband Chris Mitchell, also a Condé Nast executive. Then the…
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Ah, the Mooch is the gift that just keeps on giving. Fresh off leaving the Celebrity Big Brother house after only six days (and then flying to Davos for a business conference), former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci (and wife Deirdre Ball) have listed the Farrell new build that we announced they were buying one…
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The last quarter results from the four big agencies that report are all in, and the broad results are as follows. Each report tends to focus on slightly different parts of the market, so results tend to be different from one another. Douglas Elliman As with 3Q18, prices are up but properties are just sitting…
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Yep, it’s a buyer’s market in the Hamptons now. But properties will always sell, provided they’re at the right price, and three of them that in the past few months we’ve commended on price are now in contract. The highest price of the trio is this one, 15 Greentree Court, Amagansett. Last ask for the property,…
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Douglas Elliman agent Enzo Morabito is one of the few brokers just as knowledgeable on either side of the canal.
Tick Hall, one of the Montauk Association houses built by McKim, Mead and White and owned by Dick Cavett, is for sale for $34 million.
The days are gone, we think, of people sniggering that west of the canal is “not really” the Hamptons. The advantages are so manifest–ridiculously shorter commute from Manhattan, lower prices, just as good amenities–that it’s no surprise that prices are inching up there, while being stagnant or dropping east of the canal. For an example,…
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