May 26 May 26 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 Michael Braverman
Jun 28 Jun 28 Candid conversations with three highly placed real estate brokerage executives: real opinions not talking points on the state of the market in 2011 Michael Braverman
Aug 4 Aug 4 Buyers in the Hamptons real estate market: they look different than they used, they act different and they certainly spend differently. Michael Braverman
May 16 May 16 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? Michael Braverman
Aug 20 Aug 20 Finding out that excess has its limits, and the lighthearted excess of the Hamptons is taking on a dark side Michael Braverman
Aug 12 Aug 12 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 Michael Braverman
Aug 7 Aug 7 Trading places: serial renovators in the Hamptons. Are they as smart as they think? Michael Braverman
Jul 28 Jul 28 “What do you think about the Hamptons market?’ It’s the question I dread at parties, but I’ll come clean now in print Michael Braverman
Jul 24 Jul 24 Horse farms and vineyards: a real estate option for the very rich and adventurous, with a certain hard to touch status Michael Braverman
Jul 8 Jul 8 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? Michael Braverman
Jul 2 Jul 2 Why we don’t have gated communities in the Hamptons, even very posh ones, and why that’s unlikely to change Michael Braverman
Jun 16 Jun 16 Waterfront properties in the Hamptons: where, why, how much, a quick guide for the perplexed Michael Braverman
May 16 May 16 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 Michael Braverman
May 8 May 8 Lasata, the Bouvier family home where Jackie, Lee and Little Edie spent their summers is on the market Michael Braverman
Aug 29 Aug 29 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 Michael Braverman
Aug 23 Aug 23 Windmill architecture, too adventurous now? good taste juiced up; barn interior, modern exterior Michael Braverman
Aug 16 Aug 16 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 Michael Braverman
Aug 10 Aug 10 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? Michael Braverman
Aug 3 Aug 3 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 Michael Braverman