Douglas Elliman

The well regarded Grassmere Inn B&B in Westhampton Beach has come on the market. Asking price for the 14-guestroom inn is $2.55 million, which is set on 1.03 of an acre of land. This place seems ripe for gentrification/hipsterification. There’s plenty of space in the 1885 Italianate mansion; in addition to the guestrooms, there’s a living room,…
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Paul Brennan has seen it all in his 40 years in the business. A Hamptons native, Brennan was mentored by legendary broker Allan Schneiderman; he then co-founded Braverman Newbold Brennan, later sold to Sotheby’s. In 1999, the year Brennan joined Douglas Elliman, he was instrumental in establishing the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund in…
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Christie Brinkley’s gorgeous North Haven property is in contract after two years on the market.

We interviewed Guild Hall director Andrea Grover for the Behind the Hedges print edition last autumn; she said of her Hamptons home, “We live in a quaint 1930s cedar-shingled bungalow in the Pine Neck neighborhood of Noyac. The house and neighborhood feel very family- oriented, and a lot of homes have hand-painted signs that read ‘No…
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The last quarter results from the four big agencies that report are all in, and the broad results are as follows. Each report tends to focus on slightly different parts of the market, so results tend to be different from one another. Douglas Elliman As with 3Q18, prices are up but properties are just sitting…
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Douglas Elliman agent Enzo Morabito is one of the few brokers just as knowledgeable on either side of the canal.

Our panel of local real estate experts dishes on their biggest surprise in 2018 and what they hope for in 2019.

Initially, when we saw this 1975 house, we thought, “Needs a lot of work on the interior.” But now we’re starting to think maybe the house should be kept as is.

With the news this morning that it is none other than Ralph Lauren purchasing Edward Albee’s Montauk oceanfront property, we decided to figure out just how much the legendary tastemaker will own. The answer is 9.94 acres of the best oceanfront land in the world (we’re slightly biased). We estimate about 850 feet of direct…
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In few communities can just 0.62 of an acre of land, with a teardown, command ten million dollars. But this is Sagaponack and the land is oceanfront.