Real Estate

Much discussion has been made of late regarding the issue of the rental activities of the online antics of the Internet website, Airbnb. Hamptons.com investigated how this effects rentals in the Hamptons.

Corcoran, a heavy hitting Hamptons real estate agency with offices in Manhattan and Palm Beach, has called in the big guns for their most recent ad campaign, famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. Understanding the need to "go social" they are looking for a few amateur photogs to get snap happy with their new social media photography contest that runs...

The financial headlines tell us that the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve (the Fed), is winding down its "quantitative easing" program.

The Tents are up in Bridgehampton for the Hampton Classic Horse Show extravaganza. The most beautiful trained and disciplined show horses are in many cases ridden by the most beautiful people. No doubt this is an event to take in to see the Hamptons horse people.

Beginning with a groundbreaking ceremony that featured Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone and Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst, this summer has seen nonstop activity at The Hampton Business District, the visionary new business park under development by Rechler Equity Partners at Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach.

Much has been written about Watchcase Factory, the sixty-four unit Loft, Town House, Garden, and Bungalow condominium residence in the Hamptons' Village of Sag Harbor, one block from its historic Main Street.

This is it, Mid-August in the Hamptons. The private jets and helicopters are parked at East Hampton Airport and the huge mega yachts are all docked in Sag Harbor. The lawns in Southampton are green with private party tents going up and down and it's hard to get tee times at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton.

The North Fork is considered to run from Aquebogue east to Orient Point. To gain perspectives for that expanse of real estate, I interviewed three experienced real estate brokers to get their take on the market.

Yet again, Richard Gere has dropped the price of his twelve-bedroom North Haven estate.

"All My Children" star Susan Lucci has put her Hamptons home on the marketplace for the first time since purchasing the 1.4 acre piece of land in Quogue and building the exquisite estate during the 1980s.