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Respect, Courtesy, and A Positive Attitude

By HRES Staff
September 22, 2015

Every once in a while I like to write about my own experiences working with someone in the community. This summer I got to meet Mr. Joseph Salvi, and from the very first phone call I knew I had chosen the right person. Mr. Salvi’s style is personable, positive, and he gets right to the point...

Effortless And Eye-catching

By HRES Staff
September 22, 2015

Fall is the time to plant bulbs that reward us with beautiful flowers next spring and summer. Nurseries and garden centers offer the familiar daffodils, narcissus, crocuses, tulips and lilies now. These classic garden flowers are favorites, but there are many less well-known but equally beautiful bulbous flowers you can plant now for effortless, eye-catching color in next year’s landscape.

Hamptons Babylon

By HRES Staff
September 22, 2015

It wasn’t so long ago that a poolhouse and a fully-equipped gym were standard features of every high-value property in the Hamptons. But the amenity du jour in high value homes is a private screening room. We don’t mean “media rooms”--essentially large dens with outsized flat screen TVs. Nor are we referring to finished basements kitted out with clunky DVD players, those relics of the pre-digital age.

The 23rd Annual International Film Festival

By Ruth Thomas
September 22, 2015

The 23rd Annual Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) will take place October 8-12, 2015. The festival was originally founded to celebrate Independent Filmmakers in the genres of long, short, fiction, and documentary films. Approximately 25,000 visitors will attend the Film Festival with about 130 films and over 20 events in 14 venues across the East End.

International Appeal

By HRES Staff
September 22, 2015

New Zealand-born Geoff Gifkins is the successful Hamptons-area Regional Manager for Nest Seekers International Realty. Upon immigrating with his family to the United States, Geoff chose to move to the Hamptons.

Best Deals In The Hamptons

By Zoe Langstrom
September 22, 2015

The Goods - “Only once in a blue moon does a 4-acre waterfront property on Quogue’s most desirable street become available,” says listing agent, Brown Harris Stevens’ Marcia Altman of the compound that has been in the possession of Toys R Us founder Charles Lazarus for 40 years...

Showcase Trends – Beach Chic BBQ

By Kelli Delaney
August 20, 2015

Hosting an end of summer soirée in the sand is a favorite Hamptons tradition. Add some style with these key pieces.

Heavenly Hellebores

By Anne Halpin
August 20, 2015

Summer is in the rearview mirror, and all too soon autumn will be winding down. Winter waits in the wings. For those of us who live here year-round, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could have plants in bloom in the winter? That winter miracle is entirely possible…even easy to attain.

The Mod Squad

By HRES Staff
August 20, 2015

Size doesn’t matter, at least not if Christopher Burch is correct. Tory’s ex and the entrepreneur behind her fashion line and highly ambitious but now defunct retail chain, C. Wonder, is betting on little houses. You might think that the Hamptons, with their ego-driven mammoth mansions, would be the last place on earth to showcase a tiny, prefab (horrors!) abode.

Artists to Watch

By HRES Staff
August 20, 2015

When Sag Harbor photographer Blair Seagram attended a cocktail party/open house this summer at “The Back Bay,” an enchanting waterfront property in Water Mill, she was pleasantly surprised to find one of her photographs hanging in the entry foyer – a print of a field at the corner of Scuttlehole and Mitchell’s Lane – that the owner had purchased at a Clothes Line Sale at Guild Hall.