Croquet on the lawn. Afternoon tea in the conservatory. Lazy afternoons in a hammock with a good book. This property is the apotheosis of a classic Southampton summer home–and yet amazingly, no one has scooped it up in the past couple years on the market. Listed by Pat Petrillo at Sotheby’s, the house started out…
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Selling and staging your home involves a lot of steps. It’s important to create curb appeal, which the owners of this three-bedroom for sale in Hampton Bays have accomplished via some dog statues and many spiral topiaries.   Inside, the house needs to be as clean and uncluttered as possible. It might have been a good…
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People, we may have reached peak OTT in the Hamptons. And it’s in the form of a transparent swimming pool. (Load up on the Windex!) The rest of the house features lots of glass too, to make the space as light as possible and enable as many views of the ocean, sky, and landscape as…
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Tiny houses have been huge news in the rest of the country for years now but have been nonstarters in the Hamptons. Chris Burch tried to bring tiny homes to our area a couple years ago with his Cocoon9 project but that didn’t take off. Now native East Enders Mark and Jessica Dunkirk, who have worked…
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This sprawling house was designed to make the most of the ocean, pond, and field views. The property was formerly owned by TV legend Roone Arledge, whose estate sold it in 2004 for $19 million to David Silfen, the former co-head of Goldman Sachs’s equities division, who himself passed away in 2015. The listing is an…
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Tsk, tsk, tsk. The New York Post reported this weekend that Ballyshear, the Southampton estate of former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg, is a hotbed of licentiousness among the staff. At least according to one former housekeeper. Nelly Amaya says that Ballyshear managers Marika Sygman and Steve Kaczynski were often to be found getting jiggy in…
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This house, by maverick postmodern architect Charles Moore, is far from ordinary. A magnificent two-story concrete fireplace anchors the home, while Moore’s interior planes form nooks and shelters for different activities. Donlyn Lyndon, professor of architecture at UC Berkeley, said, “Charles wanted to give people a chance to put their own things in and to…
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Once again, we’re in the wrong business. Turns out if you’re a well-connected lobbyist, you can pull in a sweet $10 million a year from Russian oligarchs. According to the AP, Paul Manafort, the former head of the Trump campaign, had a lucrative contract with Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska to “influence politics, business dealings…
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Last September, the downtown Montauk building containing Plaza Surf & Sports, along with what was Wok N Roll for many years, was put up for sale. The asking price for the property at 716 Montauk Highway was $8.9 million, which included 12,000 square feet of retail space and 0.34 of an acre. It didn’t sell. Now…
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Ah, remember those halcyon days of 2014? The gilded summer when America’s Royal Family graced the humble Hamptons with their presence? Relive that glorious time by renting the same home Kourtney, Khloe, and Kim rented when they Took the Hamptons. (Remember that touching episode where Scott decided to check into rehab? Us neither: we got…
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