Posts Tagged ‘Business’
New Trend or Anomaly
In 2014, Hamptons Real Estate markets set new records. The sale of Chris Browne and Andrew Gordon’s 18-acre Further Lane oceanfront estate for $147 million to Barry Rosenstein shattered the ceiling. The 2007 record, which was the sale of th...Make Some Noise – Help Us Get The Toxic Poles Pulled!
LIBFRE, a local, non-profit citizen’s group who is in the midst of a lawsuit fighting PSEG and LIPA to remove the poles, clean up the contaminated soil and water, and go underground with the power lines, is asking for everyone to MAKE SOME NO...Santa’s Gift to Wall Street
2014 was an incredible ride for the stock market—and we all know what that means to the Hampton's, North Fork and Shelter Island Real Estate. I always say, ‘we are umbilically connected’. 2014 was a year of many personal bests, new ceili...
Town & Country Welcomes You To Go Green Too!
Let’s all work with our East End towns in reducing our carbon footprints! There is a proposal to ban all plastic shopping bags from grocery stores throughout the Hamptons. Here at Town & Country, we already made that possible for hundreds of ...
Stages’ Celebrates 20 Years & 100 Productions with its 20th Annual Halloween Bash & A Special Alumni Show!
Stages, A Children’s Theatre Workshop is throwing the 20th annual Halloween Bash that you and your children won’t want to miss. Frankenstein Follies, a Halloween-themed musical review directed and choreographed by Helene Leonard, features a...
Town & Country Hamptons 3rd Quarter 2014 Home Sales Report
As predicted, the 2014 3rd Quarter Home Sales Report recorded some impressive statistics, the likes of which we haven’t seen since 2007. All 12 markets monitored by TOWN & COUNTRY REAL ESTATE rose… in fact 5 of the individual markets dou...
Town & Country North Fork 3rd Quarter 2014 Home Sales Report
Since the winter of 2013 I’ve been saying 2014 will be the year of the North Fork and yes it has been like a snowball rolling downhill, building in size and momentum. All 4 markets monitored by TOWN & COUNTRY REAL ESTATE rose in all 3 crit...
Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center Benefit
Town & Country was pleased to be one of the sponsors for the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center benefit. There was a golf tournament on Monday, October 6th to benefit the organization. Following the tournament there was a cocktail and b...Thank You To All Buyers Of Real Property!
The Community Preservation Fund or CPF transfer tax, as many of us in Real Estate call it, refers to the 2% tax paid by the buyer of real property over price points set back in 1999 when the fund was originally set up. The idea was to apply thi...New Home Sales Reach A 6 Year High!
The Commerce Department reported an 18% increase from July to August (504,000) in new home sales and August 2014 sales of new homes were up 33% from August 2013! This is a nationwide statistic. That is the highest level reported since May 2008,...