You know what’s something that used to be considered gauche but is now de rigueur with the Hamptons set so you know it’s cool? Not paying your mortgage. Apparently a bunch of Hamptons residents have been neglecting to send their checks to Angelo Mozilo’s PO Box these last couple months, former UBS executives included, which sounds about right. Erstwhile UBS employee Marc Warren is among the 120 homeowners who’ve had preliminary foreclosure actions (lis pendens proceedings) taken against them for loans exceeding $1 million. And they may soon be in even better company, if no one’s in a buying mood—Concoran broker Susan Breitenbach says she’s been called by dozens of Bear Stearns employees “desperate to unload their East End homes.” Hopefully they’ll be able to do so, and not join the growing number of EE homes (ten to date) that’ve been foreclosed outright since January. Which brings us to today’s reader poll– who’s the (former) deadbeat owner of this $15 million Westhampton home, pictured above? The Post doesn’t say, but we have faith the DealBreaker brain trust can figure it out.
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I wonder why Fox News Channel hasn’t had Barbara Corcoran on their Saturday morning business block lately??? Maybe because she was an unrelenting bull a year ago saying “…what housing bubble, there is no housing bubble…” Either she was talking her book (and loosing credibility faster than Steve Schwarzman lost credibility with the Japanese community) or she was just plain stupid.
If these tonys and angelos from queens had stayed there, none of this would have happened. Oil and water….
love it
LOVE IT
the air is whooshing out of the overheated ass parade that is the hamptons
Market forces: 1
Celebrity nuts: 0
Admit it, Bess, you had to ask Carney what “lis pendens” mean, right?
totally talking her book
great headline
@6:16– it’s in the article, genius.
The Hamptons Bubble is begining to bust! An era is about to end.
When did Westhampton become the East End? When I was a kid it began at the Shinnecock Canal. Westhampton and Hampton Bays were where you went to get drunk and laid.
The people who rent the shares won’t because they have no jobs, the owners will lose the houses to the banks, the banks will abandon them, and all the folks who used to “buy shares” will now squat in the dilapidated REOs, holding Sledgehammer & Graffiti Nights in a different house every weekend.
Same people, same partying, bottles of 40s instead of bottle service.