Hamptons Real Estate by the Numbers: Memorial Day Edition
The purchase of Duryea’s Lobster Deck in Montauk last week was just the latest news-making event in a big off-season of real estate sales here on the East End. A three-generation mainstay for diners and the wholesale market alike, Duryea’s will stay in business in 2014 before the new owners change things up. Since the last holiday weekend—that’s Labor Day, in case you’re keeping score—celebrities and those-who-prefer-to-not-be-named alike have played the numbers game in Hamptons real estate:
$5.9 million—Asking price for Duryea’s and related land and auxiliary buildings
$22.50—Cost of a Lobster Salad Roll at Duryea’s Lobster Deck (that’s 262,222 you could get for the sale price, plus a little change)
$147 million—Price of what is now the most expensive home ever sold in the U.S., on Further Lane in East Hampton
11—Properties on the Hamptons market between $50 million and $100 million
$2.2 million—What Scarlett Johansson paid for her Amagansett home in January
$2.99 million—Price Anderson Cooper is asking for the home he bought next to his summer place in Quiogue
$2.95 million—Sale price of 3,500-square-foot Pantigo Road home sold to director Brian de Palma over the winter
$9.25 million—Asking price for Bridgehampton home of Real Housewives of New York star Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, who originally put it on the market for $9.95 million less than two weeks after Labor Day
$98 million—Asking price Wooldon Manor went back on the market for after it sold for $75 million at the end of last year
$541.15 million—Total cost of the top 10 East End real estate sales since we bid adieu to summer 2013. Any guess on where that total will be by the time this summer ends?