Stat of The Day: How The Hamptons Started '08

As the summer Hamptons season creeps closer, here’s how housing prices there started 2008. Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter

As the summer Hamptons season creeps closer, here’s how housing prices there started 2008.

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The luxury numbers below are taken from a fourth quarter 2007 report (PDF) authored by Jonathan Miller for Prudential Douglas Elliman.

  • Sagaponack was the most expensive Hamptons enclave. The average sales price for a luxury home there rose in 2007 from $7.3 million to $13.7 million.
  • East Hampton was the second most expensive with an average luxury price of $8,538,333 in the fourth quarter.
  • Southampton was third with an average of $7,088,818.
  • Then, Amagansett with an average of $6,562,500. And, rounding out the top five most expensive Hamptons enclaves, Quogue with an average of $4,131,000.

For the Hamptons entirely, of course, the home prices were much lower.

  • The average price was $1,777,796 in the fourth quarter. That represented an annual increase of 19.8 percent.
  • The median was $950,000, a 19.1 percent annual increase.

We’ll have more geographically specific prices later.

Stat of The Day: How The Hamptons Started '08