Year-in-Review

Douglas Elliman’s top-performing agents have been recognized at the annual Ellie Awards.

The East End often makes headlines because of its residential sales, but commercial transactions can shape the economy and the community.  

Even with the market slowing down, there were still some extraordinarily expensive Hamptons sales in 2023.

This year’s most-read stories online prove once again that it’s not always the biggest sales that garner readers’ attention.

Inside each Behind The Hedges magazine, our Master Craftsman column highlights people who help make our house a home.

We are looking back at the year in real estate, including Behind The Hedges Powered by the Long Island Press.

As the clock winds down on 2023, let’s look back on the year in real estate, which, of course, includes our Behind The Hedges magazines.

“When the raw data came to me for the first 3 months of 2023, I cringed before even opening the tabs,” Judi Desiderio, the CEO of Town & Country Real Estate says in her first quarter home sales report, issued this week.

A list of the top commercial sales on the East End. Coming in first was a $28 million trade in East Hampton, but there is plenty else that moved.

The East End’s Community Preservation Fund took in $160.78 million from January through November 2022, 17.6% less than the previous year.