real estate

The Corcoran Group's East End 2009 Year-End Awards Ceremony

The Corcoran Group held its annual year-end awards ceremony and company sales meeting on February 3, at Hampton Hall in Southampton.

The Hamptons And North Fork REALTORS Association (HANFRA) Holds Annual Dinner

By Katy Gurley

The Hamptons and North Fork REALTORS Association (HANFRA) held its annual awards dinner and installation of officers ceremony at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor last week. 2 comments

Local Realtor Achieves National Association Of Realtors Green Designation

Amadeus Ehrhardt, Associate Broker and Office Manager with Engel & Völkers Southampton has been awarded the National Association of REALTORS®'Green Designation, the only green real estate professional designation recognized by NAR.

Learning To Negotiate Essential In Real Estate

By Katy Gurley

Negotiation is about emotion and, sometimes, ego. In a negotiation you have to appeal to the other person's interests as well as your own, while recognizing that your own interests are the most important.

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Bridgehampton South Rental: Private Tuscan Estate On Park-Like Grounds

By Mala Sander, Senior Vice President, Associate Broker, The Corcoran Group

This gorgeous Bridgehampton Villa features 7 bedrooms and 6 baths including staff quarters and guest house, heated and hidden tennis court.

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Brokers Go Green...Price Trends

By Nicole B. Brewer

A pioneer in the Green Building movement, Cathy Bedard reigns proudly as the East End's first certified Eco-Broker. This seasoned real estate professional, who specializes in marketing and advocating Green Building practices and alternative power sources, understands both the impact and benefits to homeowners when issues like energy efficiency, comfort, health and safety are addressed. 3 comments

Price Consolidation...No MLS In The Hamptons

By Nicole B. Brewer

The son of a Bridgehampton potato farmer, real estate veteran Paul Brennan, of Prudential Douglas Elliman in Bridgehampton, can trace his ancestry back to the founding of Southampton in 1640. Eleven years ago Paul met Dottie Herman, president and CEO of Prudential Douglas Elliman, and the rest, as they say, is Hamptons real estate history. 13 comments

Reality Checks...MLS To Come To The Hamptons

By Nicole B. Brewer

A 20-year career in sales at some of the country's top consumer product advertisers resulted in a natural and successful transition into real estate sales for Jim Makrianes when he moved back to East Hampton on a full-time basis in 1998. He joined the former Dunemere Associates, now Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons, in 2000. 7 comments