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If you're looking to invest in Hamptons real estate this summer, you'd better have really deep pockets.

Prices are through the roof, with the median price of all Hamptons homes up to $780,000 from $699,000 a year ago at the same time. But it's the prices of luxury homes, which make up a good number of the houses out East, that really increased. More»

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Absolute seclusion, rare wildlife, and 77 acres of beach front property make this Montauk manor one for the record books. More»

wainscott, new york

Wainscott is very tiny, and looks quite like it sounds: classic shingled saltboxes, picket fences galore, riotous flower beds and ivy-garbed arbors. It's very old New England, only greener, and with a higher ratio of hulking estates. These really bother me, even though, as far as McMansions go, they're relatively inoffensive -usually pre-weathered, with endless gravel drives and statue-adorned gates.

A hamlet with a one-room school house and a modest white chapel and houses with fat cats on porch swings has no need for ostentation- fabulous and opulent are unwelcome, unasked for newcomers, trailing ferraris and gobbling potato fields. Still, I saw a lot of beauty as I biked down Main St, and had a flat tire not prevailed, I'm sure I would have seen more. Those of you who know it, what do you recommend?

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I know this is a chapel, not a house, but it was ridiculously charming. I'm not one (really) to fantasize about my wedding, but this does seem like a perfect spot, don't you think?