The monster mansion replacing a 100-year-old beach shack in the estate sections isn’t a new phenomenon in the Hamptons. (”The trend is bigger, bigger, bigger,” an East Hampton broker told ...

The Village of East Hampton has owned and rented the Sea Spray Cottages for nearly 50 years. When Cottage no. 1 went up for rent in March 2024, we got a private tour.

In March, the East Hampton Town Board approved a code change reducing the size of new houses to a maximum of 10,000 square feet — making previously built megamansions more popular than ever.

A Gilded Age family built the East Hampton playhouse for their 16-year-old daughter. She died young, the family mansion was razed, and the playhouse survived.

A humble bungalow bulldozed for a dream beach house. Quaint cottages cleared away for luxury living. It’s an all too familiar scene that plays out in the Town of East Hampton, but officials are ...

A month earlier, in November, the Foleys had also listed for sale a more modest beach house at 12 Koala Lane in East Hampton for $4.45 million. (They had bought it for $2.9 million in 2016.) 3 ...