Spotlight On: Montauk

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Welcome to our new series where we take a look at one of the East End’s neighborhoods. We’ll discover what makes it so special to live in and what the housing stock is like. This week we’re exploring Montauk. Montauk has perhaps changed more than any other East End town in the past 20 or…
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This Hill Street Compound Is Just Completely Charming

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This sweet 1880 cottage, in Southampton Village on the south side of Hill Street, is simply delightful. From the hedged entrance with gate, to the copper beech tree, to the brick terrace, vegetable gardens and picket fences, it’s all sweet outside. Hidden out back, though, is the property’s best feature: a completely separate, legal guest…
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A Vintage Bootleggers’ Cottage in East Hampton

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This cottage, which has been in the same family for over 50 years, was originally purchased with a still in the basement. (Don’t you wish it was still there?) A hundred years after the Volstead Act was passed, we figure those owners would laugh about all the local, legal winemaking, beer-brewing, and even distilling going…
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Sorry, Haters, Sag Harbor Is Still Hot

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We keep hearing whispers that the overheated Sag Harbor market is cooling–but it doesn’t seem so at least when it comes to the lower end, anyway. These three properties clicked into contract in record time. Remember the Million-Dollar Teardown? We hope so, since we posted about it on March 5. It’s in contract after less…
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As the Daffodils Come Up, the Prices Go Down

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Ah, spring in the Hamptons. The crocus are blooming, the daffodils are coming up, the song sparrow warbles its heart out, and–what’s that? Why, it’s the sound of asking prices being slashed. One property that’s endured its fair share of price cuts over the years is beautiful Normandy House, right on Lake Agawam. It’s a grand…
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