Your Summer Share: It's Not Too Late!

Posted by John Carney, May 23, 2008, 2:55pm

For most of those who have summer rentals in the Hamptons, this weekend marks the official start of the summer. The summer season has begun, with the roads out to East Egg already getting jammed.


But if you totally forgot to set up a summer share, you're in luck. It's not too late. Our friends over at Gridskipper report that there are a lot of properties in the Hamptons still available:


A cursory search this morning on various brokerage websites shows the following rental availability in East Hampton alone: Prudential Douglas Elliman, 1,481 listings; Corcoran, 768 listings; and Brown Harris Stevens, 671 listings. Counting for some overlap, that's still a serious glut.


Hamptons Rental Watch: It's a Renters' Market [Gridskipper]

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Posted by Random Banker, May 23, 2008 3:10PM

east egg was Great Neck

Posted by John Carney, May 23, 2008 3:12PM

Literalist.

It's metaphoric east egg.

Posted by guest, May 23, 2008 4:08PM

Who cares? The Hamptons aren't happening anymore anyway.

Weehawken is where it's at.

Posted by guest, May 23, 2008 4:37PM

I understand there's plenty of room on the Irawadi Delta these days...

Posted by guest, May 23, 2008 6:53PM

Speaking as an Angeleno (go ahead, I've heard 'em all) for a minute there, I thought East Egg was a real place, not just a figment of Fitzgerald's imagination.

Thanks to Random Banker for setting me straight...

Posted by guest, May 23, 2008 8:06PM

I have seen the same house listed with no less than SIX brokers, so there is no doubt considerable overlap in those numbers.

Posted by guest, May 23, 2008 9:42PM

Not every day we get a good reference to Fitzgerald.

Posted by guest, May 26, 2008 7:47PM

Fitzgerald was not writing about the South Fork (i.e., the Hamptons) when he reverenced the East Egg.

Posted by guest, May 26, 2008 10:33PM

and I thought East Egg was Sands Point, West Egg Great Neck. Why wouldn't it be a real place? Fitz practically gives you driving directions - out from Manhattan, pass the ash heaps (Corona)... Plus, I can't tell you how many LI Japs at Wharton went on and on about being from that magical area that Fitzgerald wrote about.

Posted by Finnegan, May 27, 2008 6:36AM

I think what Carney is trying to say is that he has a great place and some space to fill and that we are all welcome to join his share.

Awesomeness infinity!

Posted by guest, May 27, 2008 10:14AM

I'm glad that the nouveaux keep on rolling for ten miles past Southampton. East Hamption is where they belong. Their pedigree matches their personification; both are for shit.

Southampton is now and always has been "Thee Place" on the South Fork.

The Hatchet Man

Posted by guest, May 29, 2008 8:05AM

That search is meaningless. Because there is no meaningful Multiple Listing Service in the Hamptons, therefore no real RULES, agents (especially at Prudential - where all the real thugs of the business go) RARELY take houses off their website when they are rented, because they use the best ones to attract customers and then flip them over to something else. Do yourself a favor - if you call a brokerage or agent and the house you are calling about is already rented or bought, CALL SOMEONE ELSE. That will teach them that they can't play the bait and switch game.

Again Prudential Douglas Elliman is the worst! they have no moral leadership and it's a free-for-all there. you can see that by knowing that they are less than 1/2 the size of Corcoran with less than 1/2 their market share and have twice the number of listings on their site - case closed.

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