Property of the Week: The Neski House, Water Mill
This is a very special property: the beloved second home of architects Julian and Barbara Neski, designed by them in 1965. The headline of Julian Neski’s 2004 New York Times obituary pretty much sums it all up: “Julian Neski, 76, Who Brought Modernism to Beach Houses.” The article, by Alastair Gordon, went on: “All of his houses…
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Hamptons Open Houses to Check Out This Weekend
Open houses are a great way to find your next home, see inside a house that you have always been curious about, or just get design ideas. 140 Hills Station Road, Southampton Open house: Friday, August 16, 2:30PM-4:00PM Ask: $1.495 million Beds: 5 Baths: 3 Size: 1.8 acre; 3,400 square feet Features: A large plot…
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High Style in the Gilded Age: Southampton 1870-1930
Once the Long Island Rail Road was extended to Southampton in 1870, the town changed from a sleepy agricultural area to a fashionable vacation area for the wealthy. Summer “cottages” began to be built, with a pretense of rural simplicity. But, inevitably, country charm began to give way to city polish. Gilded Age excess moved…
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Updates: Normandy House, Sagaponack Farm and More in Contract
Time for some updates again! This week, we’re glad to report that Normandy House is in contract, as is a very handsome Sagaponack property and a Greenport pied-a-terre. Normandy House was a victim of the slowdown in Hamptons real estate. It originally hit the market several years ago (2015), asking $48 million. And just to…
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Hamptons Confidential: Bill Williams
Bill Williams has been a top agent in the Hamptons for many years; these days he works out of Compass’s Bridgehampton office. Before that, though, the Ohio native was a tennis pro. What led him to the Hamptons and real estate? Where are you from originally? Ohio. I’m from Niles, Ohio. I studied finance at…
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Property of the Week: Shrubland Road, Southampton
In Southampton, you’ll find a unique property with much to offer. “There really is nothing else like it on the market right now. The highly stylized interior leaves nothing to chance and seamlessly combines Hollywood glamour with mainstream Hamptons aesthetics,” says listing agent Anthony Rosina at Sotheby’s. It’s a fairly compact property for the Hamptons, at…
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Hamptons Open Houses to Check Out This Weekend
Open houses are a great way to find your next home, see inside a house that you have always been curious about, or just get design ideas. 15 Norton Place, Southampton Open house: Friday, August 9, 11:00AM-12:00PM Ask: $2.45 million Beds: 5 Baths: 4 Size: 0.29 acre; 3,334 square feet Features: West-facing, this property offers views…
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Montauk Never Became a Transatlantic Port
A number of people tried to make Montauk into a transatlantic port in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On paper, the idea made sense: docking ships at Fort Pond Bay and then putting goods on the Long Island Rail Road would cut a day off the typical New York-Great Britain voyage. But didn’t pan out. In 1879, Arthur…
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Update: Meadowmere, Jerome Robbins and More in Contract
Hamptons real estate news is not all gloom and doom–for instance, this week’s update features three properties that have recently gone into contract. Asking price for all three combined is $64 million. That’s pretty good, with the caveat of course that we don’t know the final sales prices yet. The property with the highest asking…
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Real Estate
- Southampton Village Home, Close to the Ocean, Asks $11.5 Million
- Sagaponack Pond Estate With Summer Rental History Offered for Sale for the First Time
- Biggest Bang for Your Buck in the Backyard
- Waterfront Remsenburg Property Allows Three Boats to Dock
- ALINA Phase Two in Boca Raton Nearly 80 Percent Sold
House of the Day
- Southampton Village Home, Close to the Ocean, Asks $11.5 Million
- Sagaponack Pond Estate With Summer Rental History Offered for Sale for the First Time
- Waterfront Remsenburg Property Allows Three Boats to Dock
- Nature Lovers: This Noyac Home Could Be For You
- Classic Charm in Newly Built Georgica Estate Home