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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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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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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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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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What had been an ugly wasteland right in the heart of Sag Harbor is about to become the jewel in the crown of the village’s renaissance. For many years–13 in fact–the prime land at 2 West Water Street and the adjacent 1, 3, and 5 Ferry Road sat unused, while developers and owners squabbled about…
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“Ride your horse to the ocean,” says listing agent Carol Nobbs of this 10.4 agricultural parcel. Sounds like a scene from a Harlequin romance novel, but in this case it’s the plain truth. With frontage on Parsonage Lane (called this year “the most expensive street in the Hamptons” by Property Shark) and Hedges Lane right in…
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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. 17 Bay Road, Quogue Open house: Thursday, August 8, 11:00AM-1:00PM Ask: $3.495 million Beds: 5 Baths: 5 Size: 1.8 acre;  square feet NA Features: On a prestigious street, this…
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The Amagansett Lanes were becoming an elegant, tony part of the East End by 1926. There was just one little problem: one of the main streets was called the inelegant name of Dog’s Hole Highway. The residents petitioned the name for a name change, and ever since it’s been known as Hedges Lane. Tony Tiska’s…
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The East End is lucky enough to boast some of the most beautiful residential real estate in the world. And the best way to experience it, we think, is via a house tour. This Saturday, August 3rd, it’s Shelter Island’s turn to show off some of its finest houses. From 2PM to 5PM, enjoy the tour…
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So what’s going on in Hamptons real estate this week? Plenty. The East Hampton barn that was our property of the week just two weeks ago (below) is already in contract. We’re not surprised. Yes, the property is on Pantigo Road, but it’s set far back on a flag lot. James MacMillan of Brown Harris Stevens,…
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