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July Home Sales Report

S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index for July was just released! Nationwide, existing home sales rose over 12% in July 2013 Annually. New Home builders, such as KB Homes & Lennar Homes, reported separately, showed surges in the average price...

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Power Lunch

Members of Town & Country’s commercial division met for a true ‘power lunch’ this week at The Soundview Inn & Restaurant – one of our high profile commercial exclusives. Spearheaded by T&C Director of Commercial Sales Force, Hal Zwick ...

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Define Land Preservation

The Peconic Land Trust recently said they would consider selling 14 acres on Highland Terrace in Bridgehampton if Southampton Town would buy the development rights with CPF money. This has created quite a brew ha ha amongst our local preservati...

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Hamptons Home Sales Market and Interest Rates

Interest rates on home mortgages leapt up an entire percentage in just a few short weeks. Every business news channel said it will kill the newly emerging home sales market. As someone who has been a Real Estate Broker for over 30 years, I ...

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Housing Recovery

Town & Country has been predicting on the US housing recovery and reporting on the steady improvements in the Hamptons and North Fork markets for quite some time. In fact, in our blog www.TownandCountry.com/blog , we went so far as to say the h...

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7 Essential Characteristics Your Broker Needs

Experience… years in the industry ensures your agent has earned his/her stripes yet a progressive thinker captures more attention for your home. He / she should be seasoned enough to do a walk through with you and make recommendations as to...

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CPF Fund Back In The Money!

The Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund, or CPF tax is a 2% tax charged to the purchaser of real property on the East End (over minimal levels) since it’s inception in 1998. We have discussed the parameters of this tax and the ramificati...

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Housing Market Fully Recovered

February marked the first month in 7 years — since the crash—that US Home Prices rose at the fastest pace as buyers jumped in before prices and interest rates rise too much. Standard & Poor’s Case/ Shiller index jumped 9.3%. This widely...

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