LATEST NEWS

Realty Check – April

By Zoe Langstrom
March 30, 2016

Sagg General Store has a new owner. Pierre Weber of Bridgehampton’s Pierre’s Restaurant will rename the old standby, which has been a general store since 1878, “Pierre’s” and will keep it open seven days a week year-round. While it will remain a general store, the pastry chef will be offering such Frenchified fare as quiches and croissants.

Realty Check – March Issue

By Zoe Langstrom
March 2, 2016

After being fired from The Creeks, Ron Perelman’s sprawling 57 acre Wainscott estate, the billionaire’s butler went on a $9,000 spending spree using several of the household’s credit cards. His revenge went wrong when he was caught and landed in court on a grand larceny charge.

Realty Check 2016

By Zoe Langstrom
February 4, 2016

Coastal Living, Time Inc.’s veteran magazine, which bills itself as “the best in coastal style, travel, and food,” will be hosting its first ever Hamptons’ show house in June at 272 Brick Kiln Road in Bridgehampton.

Realty Check

By Zoe Langstrom
December 10, 2015

Having been marketed for $85 million, the 30.4-acre Montauk estate Eothen, AKA the Warhol Estate, is in contract to be sold to Adam Lindemann, a billionaire art collector with a gallery on Madison Avenue. While the price has not been divulged, scuttlebutt has it at circa $50 million.

Realty Check

By Zoe Langstrom
November 12, 2015

Now that it’s gift-giving season, we canvassed area brokers to see what kind of gifts they have bestowed on their customers upon completion of a sale. Corcoran’s Gary DePersia tells us he once gave a buyer a generator – valued at $20,000 – as a closing gift. For a customer that bought a $20 million property he gave leather seating for the home theater.

Realty Check

By Zoe Langstrom
October 19, 2015

Following a fabulous summer yard sale, Betsey Johnson, designer of outrageous fashions, is selling the East Hampton house she has shared with her daughter, Lulu. More shabby chic than glam rock (reflecting Lulu’s taste), the 1986-built house on 1.65 acres has all the hallmarks of a typical Hamptons cottage including a marble fireplace in the living room.

Realty Check

By Zoe Langstrom
September 22, 2015

Even if you’re Madonna you still get mishigas from neighbors. The night before Madge turned 57, she held a gypsy-themed birthday bash at her Bridgehampton property, but an anonymous neighbor complained to the police at 2:30 am that the music was too loud. When the cops arrived, however, all was quiet.

Realty Check

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.”