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Housing Recovery

By Judi Desiderio , Friday, May 24, 2013

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...

7 Essential Characteristics Your Broker Needs

By Judi Desiderio , Friday, May 10, 2013

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...

CPF Fund Back In The Money!

By Judi Desiderio , Friday, May 03, 2013

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...

Housing Market Fully Recovered

By Judi Desiderio , Thursday, May 02, 2013

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...

Inventory At 13 Year Lows

By Judi Desiderio , Friday, April 26, 2013

We all know of the scales of ‘supply & demand’ and how the price of any item is determined by this balance… or imbalance. Here at Town & Country we have been blogging about how our particular housing market on the Eastern End of Long Isl...

Cannonball Express Returns

By Judi Desiderio , Monday, April 22, 2013

The Hampton’s Cannonball Express train from Manhattan will begin service out of Penn Station as of Memorial Day. The whistle will blow on Friday afternoons as you sit back and let the conductor do all the work. For a mere $27 you will b...

Gene Stilwell Joins Town and Country

By Judi Desiderio , Thursday, March 07, 2013

Great news: The Suffolk theater reopening in Riverhead – March 1st 2013!

By Joan Bischoff van Heemskerck , Thursday, February 28, 2013

What better sign of a revival of a down town business district than the reopening of the beautiful Suffolk Theater on Main Street in Riverhead! If you have not seen Main Street lately – you will be surprised and you should re-visit the East M...

Double Whammy About To Hit!

By Judi Desiderio , Friday, February 22, 2013

Town & Country has been forewarning the shift about to occur since mid 2012… don’t say we didn’t warn you This morning’s Wall Street Journal, Nick Timiraos & Conor Dougherty wrote about the drop in inventory in an article titled “...

Home Prices Begin Their Next Ascend

By Judi Desiderio , Thursday, January 31, 2013

The November Standard & Poor Case-Shiller Report confirms the next trend in home sales has legs! Here at Town & Country, we have gone so far as to predict the housing market will be the primary driver to a healthy US economy. As we report...

Homes Sales Highest Since 2004

By Judi Desiderio , Thursday, January 24, 2013

The National Association of Realtors released their year-end report showing 4.65 million previously owned homes traded hands in 2012… that was a 9.2% leap from 2011. And the greatest annual gain since 2004. The total number of transfers hasn...

New Footbridge For Springs

By Town & Country Real Estate , Monday, January 21, 2013

The Springs community celebrated the rebuilding of the footbridge over Pussy's Pond on Sunday, considered to be a local treasure. The entire 5th grade class of the Springs School went to Town Hall in 2009 to ask the Town Board to rebuild th...

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