News & Features

Check out the stories you may have missed last week.

On January 11, 2021 the Southampton Village Architectural Review & Historic Preservation Board declared the Pyrrhus Concer Homestead a historical landmark.

Dan Abrams, the chief legal correspondent at ABC News and a North Fork homeowner, is in the process of purchasing Laurel Lake Vineyards.

January 2021 registered a 40% increase in sales from January 2020. Thirty-nine properties went into contract last week, a level rivaling some weeks in summer and fall of 2020.

A portion of Castello di Borghese, Long Island’s first and oldest vineyard on the North Fork, is generating interest since it was first listed on the market last month. 

Court Sides With Hedges Inn, Throws Out East Hampton Village Law That Halted Weddings At Historic Inns [27East]
Hamptons Real Estate Booming amid COVID-19 [NY Post]
Hamptons Home Sales Soar to a Record, and So Do Bidding Wars [Bloomberg]
Hamptons Real Estate Is Being Upended Like Never Before — Here’s What That Means for This Summer [MarketWatch]
Contractor Pleads Guilty to Underpaying Workers on East Hampton Town Roofing Project [Newsday]
Energy Facility Pitched for Land Southold Town Marked for Preservation [The Suffolk Times]
Amagansett Library Book, 72 Years Overdue, Is Returned [The East Hampton Star]
Islanders Will See 19th-century Windmill Get 21st-century Update [The Shelter Island Reporter]
East Hampton Sends Out Police Reform Survey [27East]
East Hampton Airport Advocates Say South Fork Needs Facility’s $78M Revenue Stream [Newsday]
Item of the Week: Capt. Joshua B. Edwards’s House [The East Hampton Star]
Before & After: This Hamptons House Has Had a Complete Contemporary Transformation [livingetc.com]
Six Affordable Apartments Pitched for Old Sound Avenue in Mattituck [The Suffolk Times]
East Hampton Library Digitizes Whaling Log Collection, Largest Of Its Kind On Long Island [27East]

Catch up on the stories you may have missed this week.

Known as the Abraham Baker House and once a riding schools’ clubhouse, it was one of about a dozen properties to receive a special historic landmark designation from East Hampton Town in 2017, which provides a rare opportunity to build a second home on the property.

The Village of Sag Harbor is wading further into a debate to enact new rules for development in its waterfront district that makes up the heart of the downtown.

The data shows that the key to selling for Hamptons listings priced $10 million or more is negotiability.