With July 4th weekend coming up, Shelter Island is ramping up the ferry slips to welcome day trippers, renters, home buyers and second homeowners to our beautiful little locale. A touch of red, white and blue seems to be accenting many homes as island businesses prepare for festivities. The real estate market on Shelter Island does not appear to be showing signs of let-up, despite news in the Continue Reading

"To everything there is a season." Real estate has always been a story of shifts and transitions, and of lives changed through a home or parcel of land. The Covid-19 pandemic, beginning in March 2020, was a life altering state of being that few people in our lifetimes have experienced, much less contemplated. "A time to refrain from embracing." Two years ago almost to the day, I was en route Continue Reading

This past weekend, one of the most thrilling Kentucky Derby races was run and the next day, amidst an offshore storm blowing wind and rain toward us, Mother's Day was celebrated by families gathering for the first time in months in some cases, and in others, years. Shelter Island is finally blossoming with leafed canopies revealing themselves in lyrical synchronicity, and if one listens carefully Continue Reading

With spring flower bulbs starting to pop out of the soil like pastel colored lollipops, landlords whose homes are available on the rental market on Shelter Island are looking for tenants to emerge to sign leases. Over the past three years, the rental market has evolved and it will undoubtedly continue to do so. Rentals, in general, flow with the lives and habits of consumers and it takes an Continue Reading

February is traditionally a quiet time, when snowbirds fly south for respite from the cold weather, and real estate activity usually centers around rentals. As was the case in 2021, this month continues to be active in real estate. Although there is a shortage of active listings, there is no shortage of ready, willing and able prospective buyers scouting for homes, vacant land and investment Continue Reading

This Thanksgiving season, there is much for us to be thankful for, as we finally see light at the end of the pandemic. With transactions on Shelter Island at an all-time high, Buyers and Sellers are also thankful this time of year. Here are a selection of recent transactions: 10 Lari Lane, a 5,161 sq. ft. estate home on 3.2 acres with carriage house, pool cabana and dock listed 4/24/21 for Continue Reading

One of the questions both sellers and buyers often ask is: how do real estate brokers work together to sell properties? The process on the East End of Long Island, and even more so on Shelter Island, is different from other areas in New York State, and indeed throughout the country. In New York State, most properties listed for sale are offered as "Exclusive" listings, where one agent at a Continue Reading

As we head into the July 4th holiday weekend, most everyone I cross paths with has declared near independence from a life as we knew it behind doors, masks, slathered in hand sanitizer, with an overriding fear of possible illness or worse...to one of fresh air, reacquainting ourselves with friends and family that seemed long lost, physically distant. On 6/24/21, Governor Cuomo lifted most of the Continue Reading

With the coming of Spring, there is a palpable feeling of light at the end of the tunnel, with Covid vaccines more accessible to a broader age range in our area. Throughout the pandemic, many real estate agents have felt the fear of exposure to the virus at each in-person appointment. Vigilance for the safety of ourselves and our contacts continues, as does the robust market that rose in the late Continue Reading

Since the springtime, the real estate market on Shelter Island has continued to be robust. As I predicted in my early summer market report, there has been a veritable tsunami of closings since Labor Day. After the 2016 Presidential election and then the December 2017 SALT tax reform, in 2018 the real estate market here had flattened, with the highest sale that year a little over $2M. It has since Continue Reading