“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.