Business

On any given morning, vehicles bump forward slowly through trade-parade traffic on Montauk Highway, at least half of them service trucks and vans. This is how the army of tradespeople who uphold the facade of the Hamptons arrives to build and service huge houses and maintain pristine pools and landscaping.

The movers, the shakers, the millions: It’s the Hamptons real estate report.

Amanda Calabrese, an East Hampton native and former lifeguard at Ditch Plain and Indian Wells Beaches, with her friend Greta Meyer, has disrupted the female hygiene industry so prominently that they have been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2023.

East Hampton Town is a place of both abundance and scarcity, an extreme example of the widening gap between rich and poor. But a new initiative, Hamptons Pantry Pickup, aims to connect the two, in a sense, while simultaneously reducing waste and providing for those in need.

Real estate action across the South Fork. The latest report.

Watch the millions move. Though someone in Springs did nab a property for an only-in-the-Hamptons modest three-quarters of a mil.

From East Hampton to Southampton — over two dozen L.L.C. transactions.

New real estate action, Hamptons-style. (That means not cheap.)

Seven million here, 13 million there — it’s the week in Hamptons real estate.

The new South Fork real estate report is here.

Real estate moves on the South Fork of late . . .

It was a week without bombast among home buys on the South Fork from the spring.