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Fickle buyers and sellers mixed in with the serious ones, a fast moving market, inconsistent listing data, and fatigued market participants have caused the Hamptons real estate market shift #3: Agent-to-agent trades.

Bay Street Theater Reveals Plans for New Sag Harbor Facility [Dan’s Paper’s]
Paid Parking In East Hampton Village Goes Back To Square One [27 East]
Broker Fee Ban an “Error,” Court Rules [The Real Deal]
Hold Still, Wainscott [Dan’s Papers]
Sag Harbor Movie Theater Reopens After 2016 Fire [NBC News]
‘Sizeable’ Brush Blaze Seen From Aircraft Overhead [27East]
From Grooming to Training: The Best Horse Farms to Stable Your Ponies in the US [Robb Report]
Gorgeously renovated art center ‘The Church’ opens in Sag Harbor [Architect]

It was all a dream . . . Certainly seems that way now. It’s been nearly 27 years since the Notorious B.I.G. released the video for Juicy, filmed at this house in Water Mill. Plus more top stories this week on Behind The Hedges

Located behind gates on just shy of two acres, the 12,000-square-foot home has been “meticulously designed and seamlessly executed.”

Today is Deadline for Comments on South Fork Wind Farm Environmental Report [East End Beacon]
Developer Proposes 22-House Subdivision in Place Of Tennis Club In Westhampton Beach [27East]
Town, Residents on Board with Montauk Skate Park Remodel [Newsday]
East Hampton’s Candice Bergen buys $2M Upper East Side Co-op [6sqft.com]
Compass to Acquire Bold New York [The Real Deal]
Insights Into Sotheby’s International Realty’s 2021 Luxury Outlook Report [Forbes]
Home Prices Soar in Newly Hot Hamptons Locales as Buyers Stay Closer to NYC [Newsday]
Lumber Prices Notch Records on Building, Remodeling Boom [WSJ]
Ellen Hermanson Foundation Tickled Pink Benefit Offers Laughs, Honors Behind The Hedges Editor and Others in Media [Dan’s Papers]
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka’s $5.5 Million Estate is Another World – See Inside [Hello!]

First 3-D-printed house for sale listed at $300K on Long Island [New York Post]
In Latest Village Parking Plan, Town Residents Pass Go [The East Hampton Star]
Mayor Jerry Larsen Talks Redesigning East Hampton Village [Dan’s Papers]
Weighing Whether Wainscott Can Vote to Incorporate [The East Hampton Star]
Hamptons-inspired eatery set to open in Abu Dhabi [Caterer Middle East]
Is the Mayor of an Exclusive Hamptons Enclave a Squatter? It’s Complicated [The New York Times]
Rich Hamptons Residents Scared of ‘Violent Energy Releases’ From Offshore Wind Farm Cable [GIZMODO]
Caviar Shortages, Sewage Overload, and Country Club Trespassers: Inside COVID-19 Winter in the Hamptons [Vanity Fair]

Buy Your East Hampton Village Beach Permits Beginning Monday [The East Hampton Star]
Bespoke Real Estate Brokerage Expands in South Florida [The Real Deal]
Skolnick Architecture Converts Historic Hamptons Church into an Arts Centre [dezeen]
Group Sues to Block Wind Farm in Wainscott [The East Hampton Star]
Ina Garten Filming Special From East Hampton With Melissa McCarthy Where They’ll Drink Cocktails Together [Delish]
Uncovering Long Island’s Ties to Slavery Rooted Past [NBC]
Real-Estate Agents Recall Clients Who Were There to Spy, Not Buy [WSJ]
County Legislature Approves Purchase of Three Lots off West Main Street for $1.14 million [Riverhead News Review]

There are few more recognizable names in Long Island’s East End real estate industry than Town and Country Real Estate. It was built that way by Judi Desiderio.

A not-to-be-missed open house this week: 14 Maple Street in Montauk, which may have you feeling more like you’re in Malibu than in Montauk (freezing temperatures aside of course).

As we reflect on this trying time and look forward to 2021, let’s take a look at the real estate-related stories that made headlines in 2020. Some may surprise you.