Our Practice Areas

Practice Area

Real Estate Transactions

Residential & Commercial Purchases, Sales, & Leases

EHADP’s six decades of service to Eastern Long Island’s real estate community gives the firm a unique vantage when representing buyers and sellers of property in the Hamptons and North Fork regions.  The region is home to some of the most valuable properties in the United States, yet it includes five towns and ten villages, each with its own rules governing real estate transfers, and titles that can trace back to colonial times, often leaving thorny issues to be resolved.  Whether the transaction involves the purchase of a small cottage or the sale of a $100+ million home, we approach every transaction with the same level of attention and care.

The firm’s comprehensive real estate services cover residential, commercial, and agricultural properties, both vacant and improved. Our real estate clients are as varied as our scope of services and include not only individual sellers and purchasers, but farmers, wineries and other businesses, as well as developers, lenders, landlords, and tenants. In addition to traditional purchases and sales, our attorneys will negotiate conservation easements, deeds of development rights, and “CPF” sales for owners seeking to conserve their lands in perpetuity.   We also draft customized long-term or seasonal residential leases, complex business leases, rights-of-way and other easements, option agreements, rights of first refusal, and mortgages.  Our attorneys will also review and negotiate listing agreements with real estate brokers and “AIA” contracts with contractors and architects. 

A sampling of recent transactions handled by the firm include

Sales:

  • East Hampton residence, $115 million
  • Wainscott vacant land, $28 million
  • Montauk vacant land, $3.25 million
  • Sag Harbor vacant lots, $8.5 million
  • Southampton Village oceanfront land, $40 million
  • Southampton movie theater, $13.5 million
  • Southampton motel property, $10.5 million
  • Southampton subdivision lot, $7.8 million
  • Water Mill home, $3.9 million
  • East Quogue multiple vacant lots, $6.9 million
  • Remsenberg house sale, $1.6 million
  • Mattituck home, $4.8 million

Purchases:

  • Amagansett (Beach Hampton) home, $2.6 million
  • Amagansett new construction, $11.8 million
  • North Haven adjacent residential lots, $25.5 million
  • Bridgehampton oceanfront home, $32.2 million
  • Noyac vacant lot, $3.25 million
  • Quogue residence, $2 million
  • Hampton Bays residence, $1.6 million
  • Westhampton Dunes bayfront lot, $3.4 million
  • Westhampton Beach business property, $2 million, plus lease
  • Riverhead agricultural land, $6.7 million
  • Jamesport new construction, $2 million
  • Greenport home, $2.2 million

Conservation:

  • Sagaponack agricultural easement to Southampton Town, $2.35 million
  • Wainscott “CPF” sale to East Hampton Town, $56 million
  • Riverhead conservation easements to Peconic Land Trust, $3.4 million
  • East Hampton multi-party conservation purchase/conservation easement, $55 million