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Hampton Year End 2011 Home Sales Report

By Judi Desiderio , Monday, January 23, 2012
Town & Country’s Year End Home Sales Report holds no surprises. Looking at the 11 individual markets monitored by Town & Country, we see 4 of the 11 specific markets rose in the number of home sales by as much as 12% as seen on Shelter Is...

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North Fork Year End 2011 Home Sales Report

By Judi Desiderio ,
Town & Country’s Year End North Fork Home Sales Report is of no surprise to anyone in the real estate business on the North Fork. The top producer on the North Fork was Orient (which includes East Marion and Greenport) with all 3 criteria...

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100 Deed Transfers Last Week!!!

By Judi Desiderio , Tuesday, January 17, 2012
According to Pat Ammirati of The Real Estate Report Inc., there were 100 deed transfers last week on the East End. This is a significant milestone. According to Pat, in the past 3 years there was only one other single week period that hit 100 o...

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Hamptons 4th Quarter 2011 Home Sales Report

By Judi Desiderio ,
TOWN & COUNTRY’S 4th Quarter Hamptons Home Sales Report shows in black and white (and red) exactly what the home sales activity for late fall, early winter of 2011 was all about. Ordinarily, we close these reports with looking at all the A...

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The Media Just Doesn’t Get It!

By Judi Desiderio , Monday, January 16, 2012
If I read one more article on how the housing market remains stalled, I think I'll scream! I won't name names–but a major daily publication out of NYC, ran a story on how buyers were holding back because they think prices MAY come down A BIT ...

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Winterfest starting February 11th – Jazz on the Vine

By Judi Desiderio ,
It is not just the windmills that are creating energy on the North Fork this winter – the beautiful winter weather has continued the hustle and bustle we normally see in Fall with its Harvest festivals. Not just most Realtors ™ are expe...

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Mortgage Rates Drop Again!

By Judi Desiderio , Sunday, January 15, 2012
Freddie Mac said yesterday that the average fixed mortgage rates have dropped to a record 3.89%. So why isn't every Mortgage Broker and bank inundated with applicants? Simply put….after lending money to anyone with a pulse, they now went t...

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It takes (more than) a community to buy a theater…

By AgentImage , Friday, January 13, 2012
Roughly $150K to go – according to the sign on the North Fork CommunityTheater – before the Mattituck based Theater can close on its contract to purchase the Theater from the Mattituck Presbyterian Church before the end of 2012! The...

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Ships Hole Farm

By Judi Desiderio , Sunday, January 08, 2012
In Smithtown there is a 23 acre historic farm that dates back to the 1800's…The Ships Hole Farm. The Peconic Land Trust has orchestrated a collaboration between the current owners, the Nicodemus family, a government grant of $400,000 and priv...

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Condos Coming To Sag Harbor

By Town & Country Real Estate , Friday, January 06, 2012
The long awaited condos are finally coming to Sag Harbor. The Bulova Watch factory which closed in the 1980’s has finally been taken off the Department of Environmental Conservations list of toxic Superfund sites. The building has been decont...

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Happy New Year – In Real Estate on the North Fork

By AgentImage , Tuesday, January 03, 2012
The big question is – what will 2012 bring in business – besides the health and peace we all hope for – especially in the Real Estate Market? Is an investment in Real Estate a good one right now on the North Fork? In this blog I will t...

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Wake Up And Smell The Coffee!

By Judi Desiderio , Wednesday, December 28, 2011
In reviewing our Town and Country Monthly Reports in preparation for the year's end, it became instantly apparent that this November & December are the busiest we have seen here on the East End in many years! All 8 T&C offices showed a spike i...

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