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By Zoe Langstrom
August 20, 2015

Page Six has reported that the Clintons will be renting for the second summer running an Amagansett house owned by “Republican art collector Andre Nasser” and his wife, “real estate guru” Lois for the last two weeks in August. Price tag: $100,000. The paper implied that this was a huge amount to pay.

Realty Check

By Zoe Langstrom
July 23, 2015

Billionaire playboy Stewart Rahr, has put Burnt Point, his Wainscott estate, on the market for, gulp, $95 million, according to the New York Post. “Stewie Rah Rah, the No. 1 King of All Fun,” as he calls himself, set a New York state record when he bought the property for $45 million in 2004.

Realty Check

By Zoe Langstrom
June 30, 2015

The royals are coming to the Hamptons, at least according to OK! Magazine. The tabloid reports that “Wills, Kate, Prince George and Princess Charlotte” are meeting with brokers to snare a rental for “a large estate.”

Realty Check – June Edition

By Zoe Langstrom
May 28, 2015

“Say hello to the first $2 million summer rental!” So read Crain’s New York Business about an 8,000 square foot manse in Amagansett. Amagansett? It’s a nice place but hardly a locale for such an eye-popping price. So we checked Crain’s link to the property on HREO. Let’s just say somebody added an extra zero.

Realty Check

By Zoe Langstrom
April 30, 2015

Southampton’s Coopers Neck Lane has showed up as number eight on the top 15 most expensive streets in America, according to an analysis by online real estate site, Zillow. With a median home value of $11.87 million the tony road is the only one in New York to make the list.

Realty Check

By Zoe Langstrom
April 2, 2015

British rocker Roger Waters of Pink Floyd “has beenat war for three years over a right-of-way that gives his neighbors on Quimby Lane access to Sag Pond,” according to Richard Johnson in the New York Post. Apparently Waters’ neighbors have objected to the rock star’s builder, Benzz Krupinski, driving equipment down the shared right-of-way, so they blocked traffic with a chain.

Realty Check

By Zoe Langstrom
March 6, 2015

Michael Braverman, an iconic name in Hamptons real estate—a former partner in Braverman Newbold Brennan, the prestigious brokerage firm purchased by Sotheby’s in 1997—is now associated with Douglas Elliman where his former crony Paul Brennan holds court in the Bridgehampton office.

Realty Check

By Zoe Langstrom
February 5, 2015

Matthew Breitenbach, has left the Corcoran Group to join Douglas Elliman’s Bridgehampton office. At Elliman, he will target properties in the $10 million-and-up range, as well as tap into its new sports and entertainment division.