Hamptons

Stat of The Day: Hamptons Home Sales Drop

The number of Hamptons home sales dropped 28.8 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 through the first quarter of 2008, according to a new report from appraisal firm Miller Samuel. Sales dropped 42.4 percent annually in the first quarter.

At the same time, both median and average Hamptons home prices increased annually; and the inventory of unsold homes on the sales market increased both quarterly and annually.

Stat of The Day: How The Hamptons Started '08

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As the summer Hamptons season creeps closer, here's how housing prices there started 2008.

The luxury numbers below are taken from a fourth quarter 2007 report (PDF) authored by Jonathan Miller for Prudential Douglas Elliman.  read more »

Manhattan Masochists in Spankin’ Hamptons


“I’m Janey Wilcox, the model, and I’m spending the weekend with Zack Manners, the English billionaire record producer. So fuck you. All of you.”  read more »

Frisky Sexual Freeloader Makes Hamptons Plans


Model seeks place, puts up with boob-squeezing enthusiast.  read more »

Dan of Dan's Papers Working on Hamptons Memoir

Dan Rattiner.
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Dan Rattiner.

The New York Sun reports this morning that Dan Rattiner, who recently sold his iconic Hamptons magazine Dan's Papers to News Communications, Inc., is preparing his memoirs for publication next spring:  read more »

Liv Free or Die!

David Chelsea

Speaking of Liv Tyler (and when aren’t we?), her husband Royston Langdon, along with so-cool-you-can’t-pronounce-them artists like Ne-Yo and band Arckid, kicks off the Hennessy Artistry tour.  read more »