Christopher Cameron

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Christopher Cameron

Busy buyers looking to add the Hamptons to their portfolio of plush playpens want one thing: turnkey satisfaction. That’s why brokers say demand for new construction is soaring. “If you are ready to make a decision, are organized and don’t change your mind, you can close in December and it will be ready by June,” says Douglas Elliman’s Martha Gundersen of renovation turnaround times in the Hamptons.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Christopher Cameron

In March, a 7-acre estate at 372 and 370 Further Lane in East Hampton kicked off the season with a $70 million sale. It was the kind of deal you’ve come to expect from the massive estates that line the sea. But as prices push ever higher south of the highway, many Hamptons home hunters are eschewing ocean bragging rights for the quiet, tranquil landscapes that drew society here in the first place.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Christopher Cameron

In March, a 7-acre estate at 372 and 370 Further Lane in East Hampton kicked off the season with a $70 million sale. It was the kind of deal you’ve come to expect from the massive estates that line the sea. But as prices push ever higher south of the highway, many Hamptons home hunters are eschewing ocean bragging rights for the quiet, tranquil landscapes that drew society here in the first place. The Great Hill spread sports 4,200 square feet of lusciousness.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Christopher Cameron

The megamansions of Further Lane are some of the largest and most expensive homes in all of the Hamptons. It’s the kind of neighborhood where a 10,000-, 20,000-, or even 30,000-square-foot home doesn’t stick out like a tall poppy. But in March, the East Hampton Town Board finally said enough is enough, approving a code change that reduces the size of new houses.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Christopher Cameron

Great New York restaurants aren’t easily forgotten. And when Swifty’s, the society cafe heir to Mortimer’s — which had delighted and infuriated the city’s bold face names in equal measure — closed its doors in 2016, people never really stopped talking about it. It turned out that Swifty’s was just ahead of the trend. It reopened in Palm Beach in 2019, just before the pandemic that would see practically all of its old Upper East Side patrons make the move to South Florida.