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New real estate moves reported from across the South Fork.

The latest raft of real estate transactions, Amagansett to Water Mill.

Home décor, like fashion, shouldn’t be generic, but should reflect the uniqueness of your personality, and that’s another reason to shop local, rather than at the homogenous big boxes this season. Here, a guide to small, special South Fork shops offering housewares to match your aesthetic

“After 35 years here and 15 months off, it feels like where I belong,” said Dave Winthrop, who is back at Brent's General Store in Amagansett and ready to “make people feel like they’re coming to the old Brent’s.”

The latest reported deals across the South Fork.

The Shinnecock Indian Nation’s official cannabis dispensary, Little Beach Harvest, is now open for business, just in time for the Indigenous harvest holiday known as Nunnowa, which the tribe celebrates each year on Nov. 16. “It’s a major achievement. This is something that Long Island is in need of,” said Chenae Bullock, the managing director of Little Beach Harvest, in describing the region’s first tax-free cannabis dispensary, located on the Shinnecock territory.

The East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, a more than 60-year-old organization, is retooling, restaffing, and, after hibernating during the Covid years, is waking up and ready to engage the business community.

Real estate. Here. Now. The transactions.

Thirty-three years ago, Theo Landi’s sister-in-law Geri Sanicola said to her, “This town needs a party shop.” Mrs. Landi replied, “You find a spot and maybe we’ll do it.” The Party Shoppe has been helping to make birthday parties and holidays complete ever since.

The real estate report: Amagansett to Southampton Village.

What’s new in Hamptons real estate buys.

After 22 years at Amagansett Square, Mandala Yoga Center for Healing Arts will soon move to Scoville Hall on Meeting House Lane, not far from its existing location. Scoville Hall has served as a satellite space for Mandala’s yoga classes since 2021.

A wintertime pipe burst at the Springs General Store, which has been shuttered for a year, spurred changes to plans to redevelop and reopen the store. Its owners have obtained liquor licenses for on and off-premise consumption, which seemed to pique the anxieties of the East Hampton Town Planning Board last week.

"We're ecstatic that in the three days we've been open the community has shown us more support than we could have ever imagined," said Geary Gubbins, who has run the shop at 53 Park Place since 2013. "It's just been a real shot in the arm to get ourselves back in gear." The shop had been closed since a water line break in February flooded several businesses in the village.

Much action in Springs in this week’s South Fork real estate report.

New South Fork real estate transactions.

Your weekly, localized real estate report.

The latest round of property transactions from Montauk to Southampton.

New real estate transfers here.

The latest South Fork real estate transactions, dutifully reported.

On any given morning, vehicles bump forward slowly through trade-parade traffic on Montauk Highway, at least half of them service trucks and vans. This is how the army of tradespeople who uphold the facade of the Hamptons arrives to build and service huge houses and maintain pristine pools and landscaping.

The movers, the shakers, the millions: It’s the Hamptons real estate report.

Amanda Calabrese, an East Hampton native and former lifeguard at Ditch Plain and Indian Wells Beaches, with her friend Greta Meyer, has disrupted the female hygiene industry so prominently that they have been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2023.

East Hampton Town is a place of both abundance and scarcity, an extreme example of the widening gap between rich and poor. But a new initiative, Hamptons Pantry Pickup, aims to connect the two, in a sense, while simultaneously reducing waste and providing for those in need.

Real estate action across the South Fork. The latest report.

Watch the millions move. Though someone in Springs did nab a property for an only-in-the-Hamptons modest three-quarters of a mil.

From East Hampton to Southampton — over two dozen L.L.C. transactions.

New real estate action, Hamptons-style. (That means not cheap.)

Seven million here, 13 million there — it’s the week in Hamptons real estate.

The new South Fork real estate report is here.