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Town and Country North Fork 4th Quarter 2013 Home Sales Report

By Judi Desiderio , Thursday, March 06, 2014
Press Release: January 17, 2014 TOWN & COUNTRY’S 4th Quarter North Fork Home Sales Report shows a rise in all criteria, thereby positioning the North Fork to clearly be in a solid recovery mode. The Mattituck market (which includes Laur...

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Town and Country’s 4th Quarter Home Sales Report

By Judi Desiderio ,
Press Release: January 17. 2014 Town & Country’s 4th Quarter Home Sales Report demonstrates a solidly recovered market. Eight of the twelve individual markets monitored by Town & Country reported increase in the Number of Home Sales, one r...

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East Hampton vs Pseg

By Judi Desiderio , Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Today there was a Town Hall meeting, which most people were unaware of, regarding the new obnoxious utility poles being erected by PSEG. The public was not invited to speak.. in fact the public wasn’t invited period! Those of us who went, ...

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It’s Time To Go Shopping W CPF Money!

By Judi Desiderio , Monday, March 03, 2014
Peconic bay community preservation fund revenues from the five east end towns that collect cpf 2% tax on real estate sales rose to its overall second highest level since it’s inception 15 years ago. This tax is customarily paid by the buyer...

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National And Hamptons Home Sales Reports

By Judi Desiderio ,
National and regional home sales reports are all in and it’s unanimous, 2013 was the best year for home sales since 2005. This statement was made by t&c, regarding the Hamptons, North Fork & Shelter Island back in December. The well respect...

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Strong Home Sales Report

By Judi Desiderio , Thursday, January 02, 2014
The newly released Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller 20-city Home Price Index Report indicated a 13.6% year over year gain—the fastest since February 2006. Keep in mind the Case-Shiller index covers approximately half the US homes and is no...

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Returning to its roots

A Cultural Exchange

By Judi Desiderio , Monday, December 16, 2013
Southampton is bringing back a relevant piece of Long Island history. The town has decided to purchase the Neptune Beach Club and turn back the hands of time to create a museum which will honor African-American Coast Guardsman who were station...

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Town & Country extends congratulations to Southampton Village

By Town & Country Real Estate , Friday, December 13, 2013
Town & Country extends congratulations to Southampton Village for forging the path to smaller carbon foot prints by all. Two years ago the village was the first to ban plastic shopping bags that clog our landfills, fly with the wind and lit...

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East Hampton’s Holiday Tour

By Town & Country Real Estate , Wednesday, December 11, 2013
East Hampton’s Chamber of Commerce is hosting it’s 24th annual holiday tour from noon to 4pm. Unlike other holiday tours, East Hampton not only proudly displays Christmas Décor at its most elegant timelessness, but the homes and propert...

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An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

By Town & Country Real Estate , Thursday, December 05, 2013
Town and Country Real Estate partners Janet Hummel, Nancy McGann and myself attended a presentation by The Nature Conservancy today in their East Hampton office at 142 Route 114. We were invited by Paul Brennan, along with a dynamic selectio...

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Here Ye, Here Ye!

By Town & Country Real Estate , Tuesday, December 03, 2013
East Hampton Village, one of the oldest towns on Long Island, settled in 1648, embraces its history and goes to extraordinary lengths to engage the public. December is when the history takes center stage. This past weekend was the East Hampto...

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Housing Markets—Local & National

By Town & Country Real Estate , Monday, December 02, 2013
It was exactly a year ago that I wrote a blog called “Housing Will Save US”. I had been BLOGGING about all the good news relative to housing statistics both locally & nationally for guite some time now. I predicted that a housing boom woul...

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