Behind the Hedges

Questions. They are everywhere around us, and new ones keep popping up all the time. At certain moments, it can even feel that the more we know, the more answers we seek. With that in mind, we turned to real estate experts and insiders on the East End to learn what essential questions buyers and…
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Take a journey back 100 years to see what a coming decade held…and imagine what the next 10 years may bring Year the Village of East Hampton was incorporated: 1920 Earliest mention of the Hamptons on the silver screen (The Sheik): 1921 Year 11 mini-hamlets amalgamated under the name Hampton Bays: 1922 Year first paved…
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Imagine, if you will, a stunning waterfront home in pristine shape complete with floating dock and views to die for. Now stop imagining–29 Cobb Isle Road, Water Mill, newly listed by Pat Petrillo at Sotheby’s International Realty, is a rare beauty that is very real. 29 Cobb Isle Road, the Numbers: Listed at $14.995 million…
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Six months into 2020, there have been significant and major properties sold across the East End. From an historic inn on Shelter Island to the largest sale on record in the Hamptons since 2016, here are the biggest sales thus far in 2020, as shared with us by each real estate group. Brown Harris Stevens…
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As we all look for wisdom and insight great and small, East End real estate insiders share the best advice they’ve ever gotten, and lessons they like to share, not only from the world of real estate but the world at large. In my early days on Wall Street, my manager pulled me aside and…
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When I go down to the sandy shore I can think of nothing I want more Than to live by the booming blue sea As the seagulls flutter around about me I can run about when the tide is out With the wind and the sea all about And the seagulls are swirling and diving…
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Everyone is in the Hamptons this summer. Tenants fled here in March. They are staying even after they were supposed to go back to the city at the end of their lease terms. Unfortunately, tenants have unilaterally elected to illegally holdover in their former rentals because it’s not just more beautiful here, it’s safer. This…
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As we’re halfway through 2020, we’re taking a look at the East End through the 20s–and not just the lavish era of roaring house parties and fabulous flappers. Length of Route 27, from Brooklyn to Montauk Point: 120.58 miles Number of 20th Streets on the East End: 1 Hamlets and villages in the Town of…
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Fine art has been called an attempt to bring order out of chaos, and a salve to the unbearable crudeness of reality, but the impact of a brilliant painting, drawing or print is often lost without a proper frame to display and safeguard it. A beautiful presentation can make even a less-than-masterful work stand out…
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The East End is now more than a week into Phase 2 of New York Forward, the initiative to reopen in the wake of the COVID-19 quarantine. As more and more businesses open up to customers and clients, real estate groups weigh in on safety practices, health concerns and more. Brown Harris Stevens Executive Managing…
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