Jul 16 Jul 16 Even a sewing room and telephone nook in this Queen Anne beauty; welcoming the view and marvelous light of the Hamptons; a lovely part of a village streetscape; crisp but not minimal Michael Braverman
Jul 14 Jul 14 Very grand, very old money, Southampton style; once for chicks, now the height of chic; prodigiously comfortable and resisting the trends; it won’t win awards but it will win friends Michael Braverman
Jul 8 Jul 8 All the comforts of home, a Beverly Hills home; close relative of royalty: an Elizabethan manor on Main Street; circles, octagons, appendages, indentations, porches, gables, yikes! Michael Braverman
Jun 28 Jun 28 Stone walls, shaded paths and a koi pond; who doesn’t love a porte-cochere? do family values help real estate values? an 1830s hunting lodge now a major estate Michael Braverman
Jun 23 Jun 23 Your rich old aunt’s home, but oh what a street; big, luscious, frilly, showy and swank; low key, privileged and private; a place that sets out to exhilarate and dazzle Michael Braverman
Jun 7 Jun 7 Celebrity hideaway behind the dunes; simplicity that seems revolutionary; nautical reveries with a romantic boathouse; grand Georgian home with gorgeous details Michael Braverman
Jun 4 Jun 4 Restrained and harmonious in a Japanese way; searching for a dash of individuality in a very correct house; wonderful old trees create estate feeling; a bit of creative fantasy Michael Braverman
May 31 May 31 Oysters, clams and pastoral perfection, house? meh; big, brash, busy ,with a lovely pond; renaissance of a quintessential Victorian; sumptuous shingle-style cottage with everything Michael Braverman
May 30 May 30 Sumptuous living with some ocean views; a real but not remote island; turning its back on the farming community; and avoiding some but not all of the excesses Michael Braverman
May 20 May 20 Vermont barn settled in Sagaponack dunes; is that a tennis court or your front yard? all wet: submerged underwater acreage; don’t laugh, that’s really the price Michael Braverman
May 10 May 10 Good taste: hard to replicate but can be bought; house is a shambles, price is $25 million; any way you want it: real estate with instant gratification; when even a small pond looks golden Michael Braverman
May 9 May 9 Making sense of the very confused maze of ownership of the Hamptons real estate brokerages and the big money behind them. Warning: leave your logic at the door. Michael Braverman
May 5 May 5 I watched as the Sotheby’s International Realty power center shifted from Madison Avenue to Parsippany NJ. The gilt edge luxury brand that bought my business now has a less patrician boss. Michael Braverman
Sep 3 Sep 3 Some genuine barn elements in a luxury home; two historic structures with sweeping views; far from everything including the estate area; a merger of traditional, formal and bucolic Michael Braverman
Aug 30 Aug 30 A puff piece done at the request of my magazine publisher, but even without the required braggadocio, fanfaronade and gasconading it is still quite an impressive property Michael Braverman
Aug 18 Aug 18 Martha Stewart Living where? dapper in 1980s geometric forms; lost some acreage but still an important estate; a little more than run of the mill but just a little Michael Braverman
Aug 14 Aug 14 On a small estuary of Mecox Bay a fine old estate; big, boxy, beachy and pricey; over the top and why not? chic country cottage with dairy barn roots Michael Braverman
Jul 28 Jul 28 Stone, copper, glass and bay views, elemental; columns and ornament dress up a simple structure; out in the woods but worth the trip; a plain Jane house in a top flight location Michael Braverman
Jul 23 Jul 23 Compendium of progressive taste; even a small horse farm comes with bragging rights; high times on a Montauk bluff; well-bred urbane estate with lots of style Michael Braverman
Jul 16 Jul 16 Quite possibly the most private location in the Hamptons; amenities piled on thickly; a bit of Fairfield County in the Bridgehampton hills Michael Braverman
