The second-quarter Miller Samuel-Douglas Elliman report on the North Fork and the Hamptons housing markets is now online as a PDF.

Another fun fact! Among the East End's luxury markets, Quogue had the highest average sales price at $15,650,000. Yes, Quogue.

The Hamptons remain much more expensive (of course) than the North Fork of Long Island's East End. Recent second-quarter 2008 numbers from appraisal firm Miller Samuel and brokerage Douglas Elliman showed an average North Fork home sales price of $921,803 based on deals closed in the quarter ending June 30. In the Hamptons, that average was $1,730,414.

The median sales prices were similarly far apart--$605,000 in the North Fork and $970,000 in the Hamptons. Proximity to glam has its price.

But! Whereas the Hamptons' prices tumbled annually in the second quarter, the North Fork's jumped.

That $921,803 North Fork average marked a 32.  read more »

Like in Manhattan (and Brooklyn and Queens), home sales in the Hamptons plunged annually in the second quarter of 2008. At the same time, the average home sales price dropped annually and quarterly as well to $1,730,414, according to a new report from appraisal firm Miller Samuel and brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman. The report covers closed deals for the quarter ending June 30.

The 26.2 percent sales drop from the second quarter of 2007 mirrors a Manhattan year-over-year drop of 21.8 percent, suggesting the oft-cited symbiosis between the two housing markets. Quarterly Hampton sales, similar to Manhattan's, were up 12.8 percent to 352--that's still well below the 477 recorded in the second quarter last year.  read more »

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.

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 »

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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 »

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