Realty Check

The Hamptons summer may be over, but the real estate market apparently did not get the memo. Between a celebrity taking a multimillion-dollar haircut in Sag Harbor, a familiar Wainscott trophy property returning at half its original asking price, an East Hampton marina looking for a new owner and a former Real Housewife setting a record on Dune Road, there is still plenty happening on the South Fork. And, as usual, the numbers require a certain amount of emotional resilience.

Joy Behar Finds a Buyer
After a long and occasionally creative sales campaign, The View co-host Joy Behar, who once said she liked the Hamptons more than Provence, has sold her longtime Sag Harbor home for $5.65 million. That sounds perfectly respectable until you remember that the property originally hit the market in November 2024 asking $10.95 million. Ouch.

The sale followed one of the more interesting pricing journeys of recent memory. After debuting at $10.95 million, the house endured a series of cuts until the ask reached $5.95 million in December 2025. Then, in a maneuver that seemed to 

violate the basic laws of real estate physics, listing agents Ed Gaetjens and John Wines of Saunders & Associates raised the price again, to $6.995 million.

The reasoning was that a neighboring renovated property had sold for $11.25 million, demonstrating what Behar’s place might be worth after an overhaul. The agents even enlisted architects to draw up renovation plans, priced the work and secured planning permissions, essentially allowing prospective buyers to see the finished product without Behar having to endure the dust. Ultimately somebody saw enough potential.

Built in 1903, the roughly 4,500-square-foot Victorian sits on 0.63 acre and has four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms and a heated gunite pool. There’s also a guesthouse with its own kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and loft.

Goose Creek Redux
Speaking of ambitious asking prices, Goose Creek, the longtime Wainscott estate of late billionaire developer Sheldon Solow, is back on the market for $35 million. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because the property last appeared for sale in 2021 asking $70 million. So, yes, it is now half price. In Hamptons real estate, even the clearance rack requires a private banker. Jack Richardson of Serhant has the new listing.

Solow, best known for developing the distinctive 9 West 57th Street tower in Manhattan, bought the estate for $19.5 million in 2006 and owned it until his death in 2020. Goose Creek certainly has the raw materials to justify trophy-estate status. The property encompasses more than seven acres with an extraordinary 827 feet of frontage on Georgica Pond and views toward the Atlantic. A winding driveway leads to a nearly 10,000-square-foot, seven-bedroom residence.

Inside are the usual necessities of Hamptons survival: a double-height foyer, formal dining room, chef’s kitchen, library, sunroom with wet bar, home theater and gym with steam shower. Outside there’s a heated gunite pool overlooking the pond, pool house and detached three-car garage.

Perhaps more interestingly, the acreage reportedly offers subdivision potential for a second waterfront estate, including another house, pool, pool house and tennis court. Which makes $35 million sound almost reasonable, at least by the peculiar standards of Georgica Pond. Almost.

Wanna Marina?
For buyers who find houses insufficiently complicated, Shagwong Marina in East Hampton has hit the market for $7.995 million. The 2.3-acre property at 219 Three Mile Harbor Road offers 40 wet slips in a deep-water section of Three Mile Harbor, along with new bulkheads. Hal Zwick and Jeffrey Sztorc of Compass Commercial have the listing.

The two-story marina building contains offices as well as bathrooms, showers and laundry facilities. Summer dockage currently ranges from $325 to $365 per foot on the south side and $400 to $475 per foot on the north. There are also opportunities to squeeze more revenue from the property through renovations, food-and-beverage partnerships, events and expansion of the slip and boat-rental businesses. Because apparently charging nearly $500 a foot to park a boat is only the beginning.

The marina is owned by EHP Hospitality Group, led by Heath Freeman, president and founding partner of Alden Global Capital. EHP acquired Shagwong as part of its acquisition of the nearby East Hampton Point property. Records show the marina itself traded for $2.275 million in December 2020. The company subsequently expanded the Shagwong brand to marinas in Hampton Bays, New Suffolk and Cutchogue. As the brokers point out, there is one particularly attractive thing about an existing marina in the Hamptons: you can’t exactly go build another one.

Real Housewife, Real Money
Former Real Housewives of New Jersey star Siggy Flicker (no, us neither) and husband Michael Campanella have sold their West Hampton Dunes oceanfront home for $10 million, setting a record for the tiny village. Even more impressive: they paid $5.75 million for the property in December 2023. That works out to a $4.25 million gain in roughly two and a half years.

The house, at 785 Dune Road, occupies just 0.35 of an acre but comes with the acreage that matters most out here: 80 feet of Atlantic Ocean frontage. The 4,610-square-foot postmodern was substantially rebuilt before Flicker and Campanella bought it, with contractors Harvey and Chad Gessin taking the former Mediterranean-style residence down to the studs and reconstructing it within the existing footprint. Listing agent Lisa Perfido of Nest Seekers International credits Flicker’s decorating—heavy on Ralph Lauren—as well as the home’s condition and panoramic water views for the result.

The property initially asked $12.995 million, was reduced to $10.985 million and then attracted multiple offers and a bidding war. The $10 million closing eclipses the previous West Hampton Dunes record of $8.225 million, set last summer at 774B Dune Road.

The five-bedroom, five-bath house includes two primary suites, both with fireplaces, walk-in closets, spa baths and private decks. There’s also an oceanfront heated gunite pool with a waterfall, floor-to-ceiling windows, 18-foot ceilings and a smart-home system controlling lighting, security, music and locks.

Flicker left The Real Housewives of New Jersey after two seasons and later left New Jersey altogether for Boca Raton. Apparently, the real housewife move was buying the house, decorating it beautifully and selling it for $4.25 million more.

Pond, Check, Ocean, Check, Three Laundry Rooms, Check
Finally, for anyone who finds choosing between pond views and ocean views an unacceptable hardship, 155 Duck Pond Lane in Southampton Village is asking $23.495 million. The six-bedroom estate sits on 1.9 acres at the end of a private cul-de-sac, with Wickapogue Pond behind it and the Atlantic beyond. The approximately 8,000-square-foot house was completely rebuilt in 2017.

Patrick Giugliano of Nest Seekers International has the listing and describes the property as “quintessentially Hamptons,” which in this instance is difficult to argue with. There are three separate living rooms, three gas fireplaces, a first-floor junior primary suite and a second-floor primary with radiant heated floors and a sauna. There’s also a temperature-controlled wine cellar, gym and—perhaps the most convincing evidence that we are dealing with serious luxury here—three laundry rooms.

Outside are a heated saltwater gunite pool and spa, a substantial pool house with a full bath and private patio, outdoor kitchen, fire pit, outdoor shower and decks overlooking the lawn, pond and ocean.

At $23.495 million, nobody is pretending it’s inexpensive. But after a week in which $35 million qualifies as half-price, $10 million sets a village record and raising the asking price becomes a marketing strategy, the Hamptons market has once again demonstrated its greatest talent: making numbers that would be insane almost anywhere else seem strangely normal. That’s why we keep watching.