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Celebrity
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May 16, 2007
Further Lane used to be about potatoes. With Ron Baron, a billionaire investor, paying a record price it’s radically changed: now all about money. Hello?
May 16, 2007
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May 8, 2006
Lasata, the Bouvier family home where Jackie, Lee and Little Edie spent their summers is on the market
May 8, 2006
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Aug 23, 2005
Christy Brinkley at home in Tower Hill
Aug 23, 2005
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May 7, 2005
Gardiner’s Island and the ugly family feud behind its ownership
May 7, 2005
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May 2, 2005
The Red Horse Market feud involving two big names (and egos) finally resolved
May 2, 2005
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May 10, 1998
Real estate repartee: tattling in the (then) new age of information and celebrity
May 10, 1998
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May 9, 1998
Behind emphatically closed doors: peeking into celebrity houses
May 9, 1998
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Critiquing the Listings
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Aug 29, 2005
A house with a well-upholstered soul; Bluff Road, expensive and sought after; luscious, frilly, showy and over the top; a legacy of the whaling trade on Captain’s Row
Aug 29, 2005
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Aug 23, 2005
Windmill architecture, too adventurous now? good taste juiced up; barn interior, modern exterior
Aug 23, 2005
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Aug 16, 2005
Nature in every direction from a rare fifteen acres; good looks, good taste, a mountain of details; splendor is there, originality not so much; sail right up to the front door
Aug 16, 2005
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Aug 10, 2005
Few places more serene or beautiful; the evolution of a nice village house; evoking 30s glamor in a rear view mirror; it’s a teardown, why pretend?
Aug 10, 2005
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Aug 3, 2005
Seclusion near a vanished community; a nice house in nowheresville; unusual on the water, more unusual on the market; style and spirit instead of amenities
Aug 3, 2005
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Jul 26, 2005
Casual and homey the result of cold-blooded planning; dynamic shapes, unanticipated materials; the rapturous feeling of a great estate; dynamic, innovative and unfashionable
Jul 26, 2005
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Jul 12, 2005
The luxury of being transcendentally alone; the charm of an 1840s vernacular style; a splendid estate restored; postmodernist riffs for better or worse
Jul 12, 2005
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Jul 6, 2005
Tasteful without a trace of overdone fabulousness, tear it down; if money can’t buy happiness it can buy panoramic views; even the palms seem to be swaying in Remsenburg; estate living
Jul 6, 2005
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Jun 28, 2005
Bit of wetland and a lot of sky; the magic of an old estate area; only a Chinese Chippendale railing between you and nature; not what you see, it’s what you do
Jun 28, 2005
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Jun 22, 2005
Intimations of a superstar yacht; one street where you don’t trifle with tradition; afternoon dalliance just across the lawn; overlooking a protected bit of pastoral countryside
Jun 22, 2005
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Jun 19, 2005
House not swell enough for the property; only splashy thing are the ducks landing; the tone of an expensive suburb, not the Hamptons; refined, remarkable, uncommon
Jun 19, 2005
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Jun 12, 2005
Delicacy and fluidity in a farmhouse, nice to see; ravishing: dramatic night lighting, jazzy music, expensive baubles; colonnaded first floor porches; avoiding a hodgepodge of clichés
Jun 12, 2005
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Jun 8, 2005
Not exactly white bread design but sober and prudent; more like the beach cabana than the main house; mischief and prank-Palladian windows; authentic and charming Carpenter Gothic
Jun 8, 2005
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Jun 1, 2005
A petit something in search of a chateau; subdued and understated but also cogent and charismatic; bringing a centuries old beauty up to date; it’s just a house, not a status symbol
Jun 1, 2005
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May 25, 2005
Just add a cocktail waitress; beach house as survivor and talisman; foundation in the Hamptons, house rooted in Palm Beach; location is a beach lover’s paradise
May 25, 2005
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May 7, 2005
Enchanting to begin with, now absolutely captivating; instant gratification hardwired into this home; a totally American look, sublime and statuesque; sigh, an English country house
May 7, 2005
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Aug 31, 2004
Certifiably upper crust mansion; an area that’s moved up in the real estate pecking order; against the tide of shingled fabulousness; solid Southampton with extra chromosomes
Aug 31, 2004
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Aug 23, 2004
Major estate with Hollywood roots; tasteful without tricks, polished without props; an abstraction of a Greek temple; the 1938 hurricane didn’t bring it down but the next owner might
Aug 23, 2004
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Aug 16, 2004
As fabulous as it gets, truly; the beachiest place in the Hamptons: watch out for hurricanes; carriage house crying for restoration; perched on a rocky revetment on Peconic Bay
Aug 16, 2004
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Aug 9, 2004
An immaculately restored whaler’s house in Sag Harbor; brokers, without irony, call it a farmhouse, oh well; conventional, that’s qualified praise; when a house becomes a collector’s item
Aug 9, 2004
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Aug 2, 2004
A house that might have gone to prep school; sliced and diced doughnut of a house; unmistakably establishment and parading its refinement; a ranch house on a real ranch
Aug 2, 2004
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Jul 26, 2004
A spectacular property out east in Montauk; lush and sensual materials used with imagination; a rare, irreplaceable treasure of a house; the newly fashionable rotunda family room
Jul 26, 2004
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Jul 20, 2004
Lustrous clean-lined modern, a solid gold location; 20 acres with extraordinary views and rich history; masterfully detailed International Style beach house; generic but assembled well
Jul 20, 2004
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Jul 16, 2004
Even a sewing room and telephone nook in this Queen Anne beauty; welcoming the view and marvelous light of the Hamptons; a lovely part of a village streetscape; crisp but not minimal
Jul 16, 2004
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Jul 14, 2004
Very grand, very old money, Southampton style; once for chicks, now the height of chic; prodigiously comfortable and resisting the trends; it won’t win awards but it will win friends
Jul 14, 2004
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Jul 8, 2004
All the comforts of home, a Beverly Hills home; close relative of royalty: an Elizabethan manor on Main Street; circles, octagons, appendages, indentations, porches, gables, yikes!
Jul 8, 2004
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Jun 28, 2004
Stone walls, shaded paths and a koi pond; who doesn’t love a porte-cochere? do family values help real estate values? an 1830s hunting lodge now a major estate
Jun 28, 2004
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Jun 23, 2004
Your rich old aunt’s home, but oh what a street; big, luscious, frilly, showy and swank; low key, privileged and private; a place that sets out to exhilarate and dazzle
Jun 23, 2004
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Jun 7, 2004
Celebrity hideaway behind the dunes; simplicity that seems revolutionary; nautical reveries with a romantic boathouse; grand Georgian home with gorgeous details
Jun 7, 2004
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Jun 4, 2004
Restrained and harmonious in a Japanese way; searching for a dash of individuality in a very correct house; wonderful old trees create estate feeling; a bit of creative fantasy
Jun 4, 2004
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May 31, 2004
Oysters, clams and pastoral perfection, house? meh; big, brash, busy ,with a lovely pond; renaissance of a quintessential Victorian; sumptuous shingle-style cottage with everything
May 31, 2004
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May 30, 2004
Sumptuous living with some ocean views; a real but not remote island; turning its back on the farming community; and avoiding some but not all of the excesses
May 30, 2004
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May 20, 2004
Vermont barn settled in Sagaponack dunes; is that a tennis court or your front yard? all wet: submerged underwater acreage; don’t laugh, that’s really the price
May 20, 2004
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May 10, 2004
Good taste: hard to replicate but can be bought; house is a shambles, price is $25 million; any way you want it: real estate with instant gratification; when even a small pond looks golden
May 10, 2004
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Sep 3, 2003
Some genuine barn elements in a luxury home; two historic structures with sweeping views; far from everything including the estate area; a merger of traditional, formal and bucolic
Sep 3, 2003
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Aug 18, 2003
Martha Stewart Living where? dapper in 1980s geometric forms; lost some acreage but still an important estate; a little more than run of the mill but just a little
Aug 18, 2003
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Aug 14, 2003
On a small estuary of Mecox Bay a fine old estate; big, boxy, beachy and pricey; over the top and why not? chic country cottage with dairy barn roots
Aug 14, 2003
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Jul 28, 2003
Stone, copper, glass and bay views, elemental; columns and ornament dress up a simple structure; out in the woods but worth the trip; a plain Jane house in a top flight location
Jul 28, 2003
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Jul 23, 2003
Compendium of progressive taste; even a small horse farm comes with bragging rights; high times on a Montauk bluff; well-bred urbane estate with lots of style
Jul 23, 2003
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Jul 16, 2003
Quite possibly the most private location in the Hamptons; amenities piled on thickly; a bit of Fairfield County in the Bridgehampton hills
Jul 16, 2003
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Jul 9, 2003
Built by a (very tasteful) rebel; maybe passé but on the right bay; part real (estate) and part fantasy; the power of context along with weathered shingles
Jul 9, 2003
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Jun 27, 2003
Elevator going up, price going down; no grand gestures but resolute confidence; formality with a light touch of romanticism; so-so house can easily be replicated but the views can’t
Jun 27, 2003
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Jun 17, 2003
Close to water, close to nature, far from conveniences; a saucy little dormer, a widow’s walk and a Gothic reach for heaven; terrific 1911 main house with an awful 1960s pool house
Jun 17, 2003
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Jun 12, 2003
A timely check on those hefty houses; it’s not a style, or brand, it’s a genuine farmhouse; it’s the wrong time but the right place; optimistic and reaching toward the stars
Jun 12, 2003
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Jun 6, 2003
Goodbye whimsy, hello market driven formality; long driveway, long lap pool: significance? Mediterranean migrant; beach balls, towels, bathing suits welcome; plus some Mae West wisdom
Jun 6, 2003
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May 29, 2003
On a high ridge, the views have it; fewer farms but at least a farmhouse; when New England is older than Old England; moved from Main Street and a good thing
May 29, 2003
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May 22, 2003
Architectural grazing in a dangerous habitat; a recondite and fastidious beauty; everyday architecture with a touch of kitsch; a gate crasher in an area more used to charm than size
May 22, 2003
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May 11, 2003
A property that enchants even a critic who has seen it all; the kind of excess we know and love; a composition as pretty as any landscape painting
May 11, 2003
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Aug 5, 2002
Remarkable 10 acre refuge very out-of-the-way; comfy total package with a few mistakes; historic house with newish neighbors; a Eurasian beauty on an upscale street
Aug 5, 2002
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Jul 29, 2002
Modest and unassuming, you’re paying for the street; importance of style, location and pedigree; a façade with a nice Gothic twist; there’s a place for swags and finials and it’s here
Jul 29, 2002
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Jul 12, 2002
Unassuming house in a knockout location; architectural mashup that (sort of) works; virtuoso modernism with deconstructionist elements; a European Union of a house
Jul 12, 2002
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Jun 23, 2002
A traditional but testosterone loaded residence; 70s modern where that architecture is in the closet; retro country club look that we like; straightforward and not for the Prada crowd
Jun 23, 2002
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Jun 15, 2002
House OK, location deciding factor; dressed up and strutting its stuff; a neo-Victorian capable of serious retinal damage; and the furthest in on Further Lane
Jun 15, 2002
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Jun 7, 2002
1902 shingle style with perfect provenance; seaside seclusion on 34 oceanfront acres; a monumental, modernist oceanfront structure; built for English country weekend house parties
Jun 7, 2002
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May 14, 2002
Living on a Brobdingnagian scale; even the three car garage has formal trim; the transient quality of architectural trends; and a naturally elegant waterfront Victorian
May 14, 2002
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Jul 31, 2001
Saved by the house movers; serene if not quite authentically Asian; panoramic views from a Montauk hilltop; and an intact Greek revival wears its history well
Jul 31, 2001
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Jul 18, 2001
The art of being very rich and seemingly rural; spec house OK but not unrivaled; simple pleasures with a hefty price tag; a splendid shingle style roof over some well-coiffed heads
Jul 18, 2001
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Jul 17, 2001
The Guv’s house, and it’s not a mansion; an athletic complex; the best of three and a half centuries; and the Hamptons channeling rural England
Jul 17, 2001
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Jul 7, 2001
Can a property be too correct? A Hamptons fjord? Real estate microclimates? And are we hatching new estate areas?
Jul 7, 2001
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Jul 4, 2001
Summer Colony correctness doesn’t come cheap; domestic pleasures and the comfort foods of architecture; how much should you pay for provenance? Modernism with a touch of James Bond
Jul 4, 2001
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May 11, 2001
Bulldozing the moderately luxurious and moderately expensive; a bit of French Normandy with piled on amenities; consummate Further Lane oceanfront estate
May 11, 2001
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Aug 1, 2000
Mediterranean reveries; a Gallic chateau; purists beware; and a Gin Lane original.
Aug 1, 2000
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Aug 1, 2000
Conceptual modern design; traditional Nantucket design; conventional rich person’s house design; and Edwardian splendor.
Aug 1, 2000
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Aug 1, 2000
Catch the wave; island getaway (well, almost); Indian tea house in search of its Taj Mahal; the world’s best tree house.
Aug 1, 2000
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Jul 1, 2000
An estate channeling Scotland; a barn for horses and one for people; and a stately matriarch of a home.
Jul 1, 2000
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Jun 1, 2000
Seashore opulence; ancestral Southampton redux; and theatricals takes on living.
Jun 1, 2000
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Gotham Magazine Reports
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Mar 4, 2003
A somewhat snarky, take no prisoners survey of what’s happening in the Hamptons real estate market, celebrities and prices included.
Mar 4, 2003
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Mar 5, 2002
Real estate stories, like dragons, are hard to kill. Here is the latest and liveliest news from the upper reaches of the market.
Mar 5, 2002
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Feb 13, 2001
Extreme real estate: who’s renting the big stuff and what they’re paying.
Feb 13, 2001
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Aug 2, 2000
Forget moderation. In a red hot real estate market this is the year of living extravagantly.
Aug 2, 2000
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Apr 24, 2000
Off-off season report on life in the Hamptons includes some strange appearances and even stranger disappearances.
Apr 24, 2000
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The Hamptons Market
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May 26, 2013
A snapshot of the real estate market: where we’ve been, where we’re at and where we are going. Warning: from an architectural view we are not going anyplace exciting
May 26, 2013
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Jun 28, 2011
Candid conversations with three highly placed real estate brokerage executives: real opinions not talking points on the state of the market in 2011
Jun 28, 2011
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Aug 4, 2007
Buyers in the Hamptons real estate market: they look different than they used, they act different and they certainly spend differently.
Aug 4, 2007
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Aug 20, 2006
Finding out that excess has its limits, and the lighthearted excess of the Hamptons is taking on a dark side
Aug 20, 2006
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Aug 12, 2006
Allan M. Schneider: the man is gone and now the agency that still bears his name no long will. A look at a complicated man and his legacy
Aug 12, 2006
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Aug 7, 2006
Trading places: serial renovators in the Hamptons. Are they as smart as they think?
Aug 7, 2006
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Jul 28, 2006
“What do you think about the Hamptons market?’ It’s the question I dread at parties, but I’ll come clean now in print
Jul 28, 2006
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Jul 24, 2006
Horse farms and vineyards: a real estate option for the very rich and adventurous, with a certain hard to touch status
Jul 24, 2006
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Jul 8, 2006
A survey of the big real estate agencies, or why does everyone you meet have a real estate license? And what do the old time brokers think of it all?
Jul 8, 2006
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Jul 2, 2006
Why we don’t have gated communities in the Hamptons, even very posh ones, and why that’s unlikely to change
Jul 2, 2006
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Jun 16, 2006
Waterfront properties in the Hamptons: where, why, how much, a quick guide for the perplexed
Jun 16, 2006
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May 16, 2006
South of the highway, north of the highway, not exactly the antipodes; once contrary they are now counterparts, in a way paralleling Manhattan real estate
May 16, 2006
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May 9, 2004
Making sense of the very confused maze of ownership of the Hamptons real estate brokerages and the big money behind them. Warning: leave your logic at the door.
May 9, 2004
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May 5, 2004
I watched as the Sotheby’s International Realty power center shifted from Madison Avenue to Parsippany NJ. The gilt edge luxury brand that bought my business now has a less patrician boss.
May 5, 2004
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Aug 30, 2003
A puff piece done at the request of my magazine publisher, but even without the required braggadocio, fanfaronade and gasconading it is still quite an impressive property
Aug 30, 2003
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May 11, 2003
What Martha Stewart, Ed Burns and Christy Turlington, the Seinfelds, and Renee Zellweger are buying, selling and building, plus the crummy 2003 rental season
May 11, 2003
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Aug 20, 2002
On Long Pond a superb 40 acre estate you or I might fall in love with, but it has gazillionaire written all over it
Aug 20, 2002
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Jul 4, 2002
An overview of real estate at midseason: the priciest deals, the headliners involved, the prattle, chatter and buzz, the big agency secrets no one blabs about and you won’t see anywhere else but here
Jul 4, 2002
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May 8, 2002
What happened and didn’t happen in Hamptons real estate in the months since 9/11
May 8, 2002
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Jun 26, 1998
Playing Hamptons geography: the areas, the status, and what it all means.
Jun 26, 1998
