AMAGANSETT

J. Trewhella to M. Greifenkamp, 42 Fox Hunt Lane, .91 acre, Nov. 1, $1,200,000.

EAST HAMPTON

H. and R. Matheson to P. Powers and A. Kess, A, 594 Route 114, 1.42 acres, Sept. 18, $750,000.

Hatchmere L.L.C. to Young Real Holdings, 404 Montauk Highway, .59 acre, Oct. 29, $1,125,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

W. and K. Flynn to Mulford Maidstone L.L.C., 23 Maidstone Lane, .92 acre, Sept. 24, $4,995,000.

MONTAUK

J. and M. Streibel to M. and A. Messineo, 52 Fairway Place, Unit 20, Oct. 22, $690,000.

C. Pedersen (by executor) to 1 S. Embassy L.L.C., 18 South Erie Avenue, .49 acre, Nov. 14, $925,000.

NOYAC

Hampton Landscopes to SME Sag Harbor Woods, 3260 Noyac Road (vacant), Oct. 29, $5,840,000.

SAGAPONACK

R. Clemens to B. Tsu and J. Powers, 400 Haines Path, .17 acre, Nov. 2, $982,000.

D. Mitchell to Tapsway L.L.C., 70 Fairfield Pond Lane, 1.4 acres, Oct. 30, $6,495,000.

SPRINGS

Black Whale Inc. to Town of East Hampton, 90 Gerard Drive, .35 acre (vacant), Nov. 8, $275,000.

R. and A. Treanor to A. Apicello and S. Larsen, 7 Lotus Avenue, .45 acre, Oct. 25, $580,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton.

AMAGANSETT

S. and J. Banker to R. Manley and L. Mackall, 52 Napeague Harbor Road, 1.05 acres, Oct. 24, $2,625,000.

A. Kabbaz Jr. to Zarela L.L.C., 403 Abraham’s Path, 11.5 acres, Oct. 24, $1,250,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

Ni-Co Holding L.L.C. to D. Garlick and E. Schpero, 497 Brick Kiln Road, .92 acre, Nov. 6, $775,000.

Dorchester Realty to G. Sonnino and V. Alvo, 48 Woodruff Lane, .57 acre, Nov. 7, $1,260,000.

A. Hunt to D. Adler and D. Gevurtz, 24 Lumber Lane, .7 acre, Oct. 19, $2,220,000.

EAST HAMPTON 

Hamptons Land Corp. to East Hampton Hotel, 490 and 492 Montauk Highway, 1.16 acres, June 1, $5,000,000.

Dubrow, Schnall, and Levy to R. Lewis and J. Reeves, 176 Two Holes of Water Road, 10 acres, July 30, $2,825,000.

G. and A. De Chimay (by referee) to OWB REO L.L.C., 34 Hedges Banks Drive, 1.3 acres, Sept. 24, $3,910,000.

J. Martin (by referee) to HSBC Bank USA N.A., 16 Bay View Avenue, .41 acre, Sept. 27, $718,640.

143 Old House Landing to Yates East L.L.C., 143 Old House Landing Road, .41 acre, Oct. 3, $1,510,000.

D. Smith and R. Wallace to T. and J. Cermak, 3 Eileen’s Path, 1 acre, Oct. 31, $5,100,000.

Korsberg, Hummel, et al., to 19 Osborne L.L.C., 19 Osborne Lane, .49 acre, Nov. 2, $1,500,000.

A. Gorgone to Town of East Hampton, 3 Soak Hides Road, .34 acre (vacant), Nov. 8, $235,000.

S. and M. Greene, S and M to 11 Bianco Road L.L.C., 11 Bianco Road, .82 acre, Nov. 8, $4,200,000.

R. and M. Llopiz to J. Rosenbaum, 5 Great Oak Way, 1.86 acre, Nov. 13, $2,692,500.

J. and J. Rockland to M. and M. Picchioni, 49 Crystal Drive, .89 acre, Nov. 13, $1,300,000.

B. Deichert to D. Harpur, 138 Old House Landing Road, .78 acre, Nov. 19, $999,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

M. and A. Newson to 50 East Hollow L.L.C., 50 East Hollow Road, 1.9 acres, Sept. 6, $6,450,000.

Bank of NY Mellon to P. Chase, 18 Toilsome Lane, .01 acre, Oct. 29, $493,500.

C. Martuscello to 178 FL L.L.C., 178 Further Lane, 1.03 acres, Nov. 1, $7,250,000.

MONTAUK

P. Leber to S. and D. Cortese, 192 Soundview Drive, 1.7 acres, Nov. 15, $4,600,000.

Jetlex LLlC to 560 West Lake L.L.C., 560 West Lake Drive, .71 acre, Nov. 12, $2,700,000.

P. and M. Castriota to L. Decker, 71 Tern Drive, .17 acre, Sept. 14, $900,000.

Goldberg Darmody Trusts to W. Jakobsen, 23 Fort Pond Road, Unit 141, Sept. 25, $797,000.

C. Salvador to C. Valensi, 18 Prentice Place, .21 acre, Nov. 16, $860,000.

D. and L. McCrea to S. Kelly, 115 Adams Drive, .12 acre, Nov. 15, $850,000.

A. Montemarano to R. and M. Maue, 27 Harrison Road, .12 acre, Oct. 5, $1,150,000.

S Lavenas (by executor) to 22 South Dewey L.L.C., 22 Dewey Place, .12 acre, Nov. 20, $605,100

Riverain Properties to 644 OMH L.L.C., 644 Old Montauk Highway, 1.36 acres, Nov. 14, $7,850,000.

NORTH HAVEN

J. Twyon to S. Madden, 36 Short Beach Road, .86 acre, Oct. 26, $2,000,000.

SAG HARBOR

G. Hudnell to 56 Hempstead St L.L.C., 56 Hempstead Street, .19 acre, Nov. 5, $890,000.

Parallel USA L.L.C. to S. and M. Wright, 29 Cuffee Drive, .65 acre, Nov. 16, $995,000.

SGHRBR L.L.C. to S. and M. DeBiasi, 232 Main Street, .33 acre, Nov. 16, $6,265,000.

SPRINGS

J. Ross Trust to J. and J. Korek, 263 King’s Point Road, .78 acre, Nov. 5, $2,100,000.

R. Farrell to J. McGuirk IV, 61 Glade Road, .46 acre, Nov. 14, $630,000.

J. Gorman to E. Carreno, 706 Springs-Fireplace Road, .66 acre, Nov. 6, $555,000.

R. Savage and N. Lepore to Roseberry Real Estate, 115 Waters Edge, 1.8 acres, Nov. 8, $9,000,000.

F. Chiesa and A. Licari to T.P. Kingham, 111 Harrison Avenue, 1.17 acres, Oct. 15, $875,000.

WATER MILL

R. Zimmerman to K. Kraszewski, 281 Seven Ponds Towd Road, .46 acre, Oct. 26, $725,000.

R. and C. Sherry, to 207 Head of Pond L.L.C., 234 Old Mill Road, 1.59 acres, Nov. 8, $1,285,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton.

By the time the owner of Harbor Books, Taylor Rose Berry, posted a Facebook message a few weeks ago announcing that her store on Main Street in Sag Harbor would be closing in February, the news that yet another village business was shutting no longer felt like an isolated incident.

What once looked like just the usual churn in the cyclical commercial life of any town’s business district now has various stakeholders in Sag Harbor — local merchants, residents, and activists alike — voicing the same concerns. Something more overarching — and perhaps damaging, in the grand scheme of things — is going on in Sag Harbor, a village that has long prided itself on being the “un-Hampton,” a place that had long avoided the march of corporate takeovers, seasonal pop-ups, and vacant storefronts that began blighting East Hampton and Southampton years ago.

People are now asking how long Sag Harbor’s Main Street can remain a three-block throwback dominated by individually owned businesses and locals who have a personal stake in the year-round vibrancy of the village. 

If the cost of business becomes too high, the fear is that only businesses backed by corporate muscle will be able to compete. And Sag Harbor’s unique character will be lost. By last week, Ms. Berry was well into her liquidation efforts, and one wall of shelves was already barren of books.

“I think people are very concerned that we are reaching a tipping point here,” said Ms. Berry, who opened her shop in November 2014. “Nobody likes to see stores closing, or stores with the windows covered with brown paper and signs saying ‘See you next spring.’ And the thing is, when you look at the common denominator for why all of these businesses here have closed in the last two years or so, the theme has always been the same: The rent is too high.”

Sag Harbor’s Main Street has long been the heartbeat of the village, but in the past two years alone it’s lost mainstays such as La Superica, Lee Jewelers, and Conca D’Oro, a family-run restaurant that sold its lease to what is now Sag Pizza, ending a four-decade run. Black Swan Antiques recently downsized, and part of its space is now occupied by the Grenning Gallery, which moved from nearby Washington Street. At the northern tip of town, Espresso closed and remains vacant in the same building where La Superica sits empty.

Country Lane and Adornments, two more independently owned stores, shut down in the last two months after Donald Zucker, who already owned the Main Street building where Addo, Grindstone Coffee, and Provisions are housed, bought a key parcel of land via his company, Manhattan Skyline Management. (Addo has been empty since last year, as Mr. Zucker holds fast on his asking rent price.)

Mr. Zucker’s new package of properties was originally listed for $11.995 million and stretches from Main Street to Division Street along Washington. It includes seven retail spaces, two offices, and three apartments on the second floor, a single-family rental property, a building on Division Street that houses the Scarlet Rose Aveda Salon, and a vacant lot where a three-story structure could be legally built.

Some merchants predict the business district’s future could be dramatically redefined by how Mr. Zucker develops that corner of the village.

“We’re very concerned about the changes on Main Street,” said Gwen Waddington, who owns and runs the Wharf Shop with her mother, Nada Barry, who founded the toy store 50 years ago. “Because the real estate moguls who are purchasing these properties because they have extra cash to invest don’t have their heart in the village. They aren’t thinking forward to maintain the character of the village. I feel all they see is it’s an investment opportunity because Sag Harbor is, quote, ‘hot.’ ”

One byproduct, Ms. Waddington added, is “when I go as a Chamber member to some of these businesses that have popped up now and I ask them to get involved in one of our events, they say, ‘Oh. We have to contact corporate. I’m not sure. . . .’ People come to Sag Harbor for a unique experience and the personal nature of the shops.”

Lisa Field, an owner of the Sag Harbor Variety Store and president of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce, stressed that some of the worrying about changes to Sag Harbor is human nature and ignores that “change doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing.”

Ms. Field, like Ms. Berry, also acknowledged that landlords have the right to charge whatever they like. “The landlords are not always the bad guys,” Ms. Field said. 

But at some point, she added, the needed synergy that Sag Harbor’s Main Street businesses have traditionally depended upon to survive risks being altered if the village’s businesses and landlords are operating with hugely disparate aims.

“Sag Harbor is a walking village,” Ms. Field said. “When stores are closed, it does hurt everybody. For the most part, our stores are year-round businesses. . . . That’s what you need for a thriving village. The more stores that are here, the more reason different people might come here.”

The community group Save Sag Harbor was started nearly a decade ago in response to precisely the sort of business pressures the town is feeling again now.

“We founded Save Sag Harbor when there were rumors that a major retail store wanted to buy the American Hotel, a bank wanted to take over another space on Main Street, and a major drug store wanted to take over the 7-Eleven,” Barbara Roberts, a village resident, expert on retail businesses, and one of the co-founders of the group, said. “If any of those things happened, it would have been the end of Sag Harbor.”

Save Sag Harbor was instrumental in defeating those attempts, in part by pushing for changes in village zoning laws and enforcement of new ones. Along the way, spinoff groups such as the Sag Harbor Partnership have risen up and found creative solutions to, for example, fund the reimagining and rebuilding of the Sag Harbor Cinema after it burned down.

Canio’s Books and Cultural Cafe, which lies a short walk outside Sag Harbor’s central business district, has survived since becoming an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2009. Ms. Waddington said the Wharf Shop would no longer be in business if her family and the other tenants hadn’t banded together in 1987 to buy their building and turn it into a condominium to better control their costs.

Numerous merchants have said finding creative solutions like those — and landlords not looking to maximize every dime — will be integral to maintaining what Sag Harbor has.

Maybe complementary businesses will have to co-share spaces on Main Street to cut costs. Maybe folks can explore building the sort of landlord-tenant partnership that has revitalized Bleecker Street in the West Village after even corporate tenants were priced out by sky-high rents. As The New York Times reported in a Dec. 4 story, Brookfield Properties, with the help of the creative strategy firm Skylight, targeted new tenants with online followings, then worked out short-term leases and revenue-share arrangements with them.

For now, though, the unbudging business reality in Sag Harbor is the push-pull over the rent, the rent, the rent.

“In the end, retail is all arithmetic,” said Lynda Sylvester, who has operated her Sylvester & Co. store for 30 years and partially rebranded it as “Modern General” not long ago, adding the web address returntomainstreet.com.

Ms. Sylvester says her businessman father frequently told her as a kid that retail is “double jeopardy” because entrepreneurs gamble that they can sell the merchandise they buy at the price they need to get, and they are also gambling that customers will materialize to buy it. 

“But operating a store in a village like this is triple jeopardy, because here you have only 108 days to pay for your entire year,” Ms. Sylvester said, referring to the Memorial Day to Labor Day crush.

Ms. Sylvester said a general rule of thumb in retail is if you are paying more than 8 percent of your annual gross sales in rent, “You can’t make a living. Anything more than 8 percent, you’re probably working for the man — the landlord that’s charging you the rent.”

Now look at the math for Harbor Books: Ms. Berry said she is paying “in the high teens” — somewhere beyond $15,000 a month — for her 2,200-square-foot space. She’s also responsible for repairs to the building’s heat and air-conditioning systems. There have been incorrect reports that she and her landlord worked out a new lease after he offered to freeze her rent the first three years once she said she was leaving. But, Ms. Berry said, even then her rent still would have been “unsustainable.” 

In year four, she said, the cost would have crept “beyond $20,000 a month, give or take.”

Using Ms. Sylvester’s rent-to-gross-sales formula of 8 percent, that means Harbor Books would have had to gross $200,000 a month to afford its current rent.

That’s a lot of books to sell. Especially when the price of books — unlike a $16 glass of wine or $18 cocktail or $45 rib-eye — can’t be adjusted at will.

And so Ms. Berry will keep looking for a new home. She isn’t willing to concede Harbor Books is done.

“As personally devastating as this has been, I’m very grateful for the abundance of love and support the community has shown me,” she said. “Sag Harbor is a magical place. If there’s a silver lining in any of this for me, it’s that we’ve been part of sparking a discussion about what kind of town and community we want to be.”

King Kullen, the family-controlled 88-year-old company that proudly called itself America's first supermarket, announced on Friday that it has been bought by its regional competitor, the Stop and Shop Supermarket Company.

For now, the fate of King Kullen's local stores and employees remains unclear.

A press release issued by Stop and Shop's corporate office on Friday said the company, which is headquartered in Quincy, Mass., will purchase the King Kullen Grocery Store Co., which includes King Kullen's existing corporate office in Bethpage, 32 supermarkets, and five Wild by Nature stores throughout Suffolk and Nassau Counties.

On the East End, King Kullen has stores in Bridgehampton, Cutchogue, Manorville, Eastport, and Hampton Bays (where a Stop and Shop and Wild by Nature stores are located nearby as well). The chain was founded in 1930 by Michael J. Cullen, a former Kroger executive who felt his vision for a better way of doing business went unheeded by his bosses. Mr. Cullen decided to start his own company, beginning with a flagship store on Jamaica Avenue in Queens that the Smithsonian has since recognized as the first in America "to fulfill all five criteria that define the modern supermarket: separate departments, self-service, discount pricing, chain marketing, and volume dealing."

King Kullen had been exploring more innovations such as online shopping and delivery service in some areas before the sale was announced.

"As a family-owned and operated business, we are very proud of our heritage and extremely grateful to all of our associates and customers for their support over the years," Brian Cullen, co-president of King Kullen, said in a statement. "We are confident the Stop and Shop brand will carry on our legacy of service in the region."

The transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of this year. No purchase price was given.

Jennifer Brogan, Stop and Shop's director of communications, has said it is too early to know what Stop and Shop's plans for any existing King Kullen locations will be. "We're just focused on announcing the acquisition for now," Ms. Brogan wrote via email. "We'll be evaluating stores and making those decisions in the near future."

According to the company's website, Stop and Shop is an Ahold Delhaize holding that employs more than 61,000 people and operates over 400 stores throughout New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.

AMAGANSETT

U.S. Bank National Association to 321A Barbey Street, 20 Laurel Hill Lane, 1.63 acres, Oct. 8, $1,100,000.

A. and W. Doherty Trusts to ELGNY L.L.C., 566 Montauk Highway, .82 acre, Oct. 31, $1,055,000.

R. and C. Rudkin to P. Edelman and L. Krasin, 32 Leeton Road, .17 acre, Nov. 19, $1,877,001.

90 Indian Wells L.L.C. to B. Martini Trust, 90 Indian Wells Highway, 2.33 acres, Dec. 4, $10,460,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

J. and J. Gault Trusts to MLOR L.L.C., 2 Mill Path, 3.3 acres, Oct. 29, $3,450,000.

F. Figueroa (by referee) to H.S.B.C. Bank USA, 65 Woodruff Lane, .54 acre, Nov. 1, $1,242,708.

B. Funk to T. Monahan, 139 Meadows East, .92 acre, Nov. 2, $1,800,000.

A.B.J. L.L.C. to Prime Storage Bridge, 229 Butter Lane, 3.11 acres, Nov. 13, $16,500,000.

M. and R. Dalton to CMJ Halsey L.L.C., 715 Halsey Lane, .93 acre, Nov. 28, $4,700,000.

CVR FIRST L.L.C. to COCO MIA L.L.C., 64 Birchwood Lane, .57 acre, Nov. 20, $3,050,000.

EAST HAMPTON 

H.S.B.C. Bank USA to M. and D. Daly, 642 Stephen Hand’s Path, 4.5 acres, Sept. 20, $1,350,000.

P. and P. Schwartz to L. and G. Helfgott, 82 Springy Banks Road, .62 acre, Oct. 19, $749,000.

P. and A. Gidion to C. Miller, 485 Hand’s Creek Road, 1.93 acres, Oct. 31, $999,000.

Miller Lane West L.L.C. to A. Silverstein, 51 Miller Lane West, 1.3 acres, Nov. 16, $3,275,000.

P. Pilson to J. West and R. Gajewski, 166 Accabonac Road, .94 acre, Nov. 21, $805,000.

R. and C. Gottlieb Trusts to A. and T. Passaretti, 15 Old Hollow Lane, 1.97 acres, Dec. 6, $1,900,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

R. McCann and M. deRuvo to Pondview 15 L.L.C., 15 Pondview Lane, .92 acre, Oct. 5, $4,638,480.

MONTAUK

D. Fiorentino to Town of East Hampton, 67 Gilbert Road, .44 acre (vacant), Sept. 27, $225,000.

P. Clemenz (by executor) to A. Kirsch, 221 West Lake Drive, .34 acre, Nov. 5, $710,000.

L. Malouche Trust to G. and J. Vatore, 236 Edgemere Street, Unit 330, Nov. 14, $177,500.

C. and A. Moriarty to D. and T. Costello, 236 Edgemere Street, Unit 143, Nov. 29, $237,000.

NOYAC

P. Kelsey et al. (by referee) to Bank of N.Y. Mellon, 62 Ridge Road, .23 acre, Sept. 11, $531,250.

Rotondi Properties to Town of Southampton, 3225 Noyac Road, 1.5 acres (vacant), Nov. 7, $1,750,000.

Herringbone Crescent to D. and C. Morse, 41 Crescent Street, .61 acre, Nov. 26, $4,065,000.

Bishop and Chattman to J. and A. Acierno, 21 Burke Street, .2 acre, Dec. 3, $1,875,000.

SAG HARBOR

T. and W. Sears and C. Byrnes to P. Gallagher and C. Gill, 207 Jermain Avenue, .2 acre, Oct. 15, $907,500.

M. Hess to T. Greenawalt and Licitra, 5 Archibald Way, .79 acre, Nov. 29, $1,500,000.

SAGAPONACK

550 Parsonage Lane to Redus One L.L.C., 550 Parsonage Lane, 9.98 acres, Dec. 5, $16,000,000.

SPRINGS

S. and D. Loewenberg to B. Ford, 11 Harbor Hill Lane, .92 acre, Oct. 16, $935,000.

O. and M. Del Prado to Rolling Tides L.L.C., 172 Waterhole Road, .86 acre, Oct. 18, $1,675,000.

M. and J. Cofresi to L. Buckworth and T. Fisher, 143 Norfolk Drive, .5 acre, Nov. 16, $1,275,000.

A. and B. Iger to V. and S. Burriesci, 18 Manor Lane, .71 acre, Nov. 26, $590,000.

A. and A. Schuppe to D. Fabiszak, 21 Manor Lane, .72 acre, Dec. 3, $900,000.

S. and L. Palmese to A. and H. Giaimo, 25 Hartley Boulevard, .32 acre, Dec. 6, $1,040,000.

WATER MILL

H. Rothkopf to K. Baltimore, 8 Old Trail Road, .84 acre, Oct. 3, $900,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton.

Brittany Torres’s candle business, Hamptons Handpoured, began as a side project, driven by her passion for aromatherapy and essential oils, but it quickly developed into a full-time job. 

The turning point came when Ms. Torres realized she could no longer continue her day job in retail and also fulfill the increasing number of orders for her scented candles.

A Southampton native who now lives in Springs, she produces the candles herself in small batches of 12. She also packages, delivers, and ships them, and runs all of the company’s social media accounts. 

Made from American-grown soy and plant-based oils, the candles come in a wide array of scents, including a series inspired by the villages and hamlets of the East End. The East Hampton candle features scents of cashmere, fig, and strawberry, while the Springs candle smells of lily, lemon, and sandalwood.

Ms. Torres sells them in businesses across the East End. Her retailers include Petit Blue, the Golden Eagle, Hildreth’s Home Goods, Simply Sublime, and the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, and the Springs General store. The candles are also available online on the e-commerce site Etsy. Eight-ounce candles in glass tumblers coast $28 on Etsy, with smaller votives selling for less. 

Ms. Torres has developed the company’s social media presence to mobilize the market of online shoppers who are unable to smell the candles. Hamptons Handpoured’s Instagram and Pinterest page are filled with images of both the candles and the East End, which helps in creating a brand and lifestyle behind the product. The company’s social media accounts “are an extension of myself, and what I think about it out here,” Ms. Torres said earlier this month. 

Etsy has provided a platform for the company to grow beyond the local market, and by the spring Hamptons Handpoured will have its own e-commerce site, too.

While discussing her experience as a fairly new business owner, Ms. Torres emphasized her surprise in the support and willingness of other local businesses to make connections and help one another. There seems to be a mutual understanding of the pressures of running your own business here, specifically the financial burden and urgency to create enough revenue to support yourself year round despite the seasonal economy.

AMAGANSETT

A. and R. Weintraub to M. Salama and I. Wallach, 14 Ashwood Court, 1.74 acres, Nov. 9, $2,700,000.

H. and I. Sands Trust to VP Realty Associates, 31 Shore Road, .17 acre, Nov. 19, $1,525,000.

L. Strauss Trust to P. Goodwin, 95 Shore Road, .34 acre, Dec. 7, $1,860,555

13 Katie Lane L.L.C. to Starvest41 L.L.C., 13 Katie Lane, .99 acre, Dec. 13, $3,650,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

M. and S. Blumencranz to 51 Sandpiper Lane L.L.C., 51 Sandpiper Lane, 1.15 acres, Nov. 6, $5,750,000.

EAST HAMPTON

Flex Development L.L.C. to A. Hamilton, 12 Main Street, .32 acre, Oct. 24, $1,940,000.

J. McCue Trust to C. and N. Cruz, 28 Miller Lane, .13 acre, Dec. 4, $775,000.

C. Fletcher to J. Rivkin, 48 

Sherrill Road, .44 acre, Dec. 5, $3,450,000.

H. and J. Roth to N. Kim, 9 Hardscrabble Close, .92 acre, Dec. 6, $1,367,500.

North Woods Lane L.L.C. to S. and C. Wasserberger, 19 North Woods Lane, 1.43 acres, Dec. 11, $2,500,000.

E. and C. David to M. Garcia, 17 North Cape Lane, .58 acre, Nov. 8, $990,000.

A. Casper to W. Tian and G. Harvey, 3 Powder Hill Lane, 1.38 acres, Dec. 16, $651,000.

M. Lagomasino to 9 Old Pine L.L.C., 9 Old Pine Drive, 1.7 acres, Nov. 16, $1,950,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

Recanati Foundation to 34 Darby L.L.C., 34 Darby Lane, 2.2 acres, Dec. 5, $4,500,000.

59 Georgica L.L.C. to 59 Georgica Road L.L.C., 59 Georgica Road, 1.08 acres, Dec. 5, $4,000,000.

MONTAUK

Cavco Trust to V. and C. Mazzaro, 32 South Geneva Court, .52 acre, Dec. 6, $1,855,000.

NORTH HAVEN

Sunset Beach Road L.L.C. to Casablanca Sag Harbor, 72 Sunset Beach Road, .73 acre, Nov. 1, $3,375,000.

NOYAC

C. and M. Paini to A. and O. Federico, 42 Mill Road, .54 acre, Dec. 6, $834,000.

SAG HARBOR

D. Kelley to 50 Harbor Drive L.L.C., 50 Harbor Drive, .23 acre, Nov. 1, $1,285,000.

W. Connelie to P. and A. Donohue, 74 Ridge Road, .25 acre, Nov. 8, $600,000.

J. Renner Jr. to D. Isidro, 

1618 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turn­pike, .35 acre, Dec. 7, $600,000.

Cilli, Sperling, and Castor to 38 Meadowlark L.L.C., 38 Meadowlark Lane, .39 acre, Nov. 16, $1,300,000.

B. Spitz to 19 Deer Path L.L.C., 22 Howard Street, .2 acre, Dec. 3, $2,040,000.

SAGAPONACK

79 Erica’s Lane L.L.C. to 79 Erica One and Trusts, 79 Erica’s Lane, 1.38 acres, Nov. 27, $9,500,000.

SPRINGS

M. Alpert to N. Chacona and Campanaro, 33 Camberly Road, .43 acre, Nov. 20, $545,000.

R. and S. Brownell to E. Rubach, 107 Cedar Drive, .22 acre, Dec. 7, $850,000.

1112 SFP L.L.C. to 1112 Springs Fireplace L.L.C., 1112 Fireplace Road, .8 acre, Nov. 23, $1,445,000.

J. Miller to B. Crumbling, 16 

4th Street, .92 acre, Nov. 9, $590,000.

Jemcap SD II L.L.C. to A. and J. Inamagua, 25 Hollyoak Avenue, .4 acre, Nov. 20, $515,000.

R. Lander and P. Pilkonis to J. Dominkewicz and McGirl, 115 Isle Of Wight Road, .4 acre, Nov. 29, $915,000.

M. McDermott (by executors) to D. and J. Mirabella, 8 Gallatin Lane, .44 acre, Nov. 30, $1,242,500.

R. Hong to D. Rabb and J. Kushnirsky, 63 Rutland Road, .45 acre, Nov. 30, $729,000.

WAINSCOTT

A. Kessler to J. and E. Rudolph, 48 South Breeze Drive, .86 acre, Dec. 10, $965,000.

WATER MILL

R. Langham to P. Bell, 265 Mill Pond Lane, .86 acre, Dec. 14, $1,800,000.

The prices below have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

AMAGANSETT

G. Zwirko to R. and P. Pino, 12 Napeague Lane, .5 acre (vacant), Oct. 23, $785,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

M. Bernstein Trust to M. and L. Shapiro, 132 Sea Farm Lane, .37 acre, Nov. 2, $1,213,750.

EAST HAMPTON

P. and R. Gargano to BCD Management L.L.C., 69 Ely Brook to Hand’s Creek Road, 4.33 acres, Nov. 20, $2,370,000.

WO I L.L.C. to A. Benjamin, 1 Country Lane, 1.45 acres, Dec. 7, $2,125,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

S. King and J. Power to 84 Egypt Lane L.L.C., 84 Egypt Lane, 1.17 acres, Nov. 28, $8,150,000.

MONTAUK

Cangelosi and McCormick to R. and B. Doran, 95 Washington Drive, .44 acre (vacant), Nov. 19, $671,000.

NORTH HAVEN

D. Richards and M. Wehner to C. Marcus, 110 Ferry Road, .38 acre, Dec. 5, $1,200,000.

NOYAC

MTGLQ Investors L.P. to M. Idasiak and A. Srodecka, 2821 Noyac Road, .37 acre, Nov. 15, $476,000.

1899 Noyac Path L.L.C. to Legacy Productions 437, 1899 Noyac Path, 1.88 acres, Nov. 15, $1,112,500.

SAG HARBOR

Cartus Financial Corp. to B. and B. Levin, B and B, 24 Fordham Street, 1.03 acres, Oct. 30, $2,600,000.

H. Sheffield to Cartus Financial Corp., 24 Fordham Street, 1.03 acres, June 25, $2,600,000.

Water Street Development to C. Livingston, 21 West Water Street, Unit 1B, Dec. 11, $2,359,400.

Farrin Cary and Co. L.L.C. to Thames Partners L.L.C., 39 Suffolk Street, .25 acre, Nov. 30, $3,750,000.

SPRINGS

W. Rustin to J. Price, 19 Ren-frew Lane, 1 acre, Oct. 22, $1,375,000.

A. and M. Cassidy to R. and S. Brownell, 36 Briar Croft Drive, .92 acre, Sept. 12, $1,457,675.

U.S. Bank National Assocation to S. Forsberg, 23 Montauk Boulevard, .4 acre, Nov. 9, $480,900.

L. Weisbord to A. Hayes, 8 Bever-ly Road, .45 acre, Dec. 17, $625,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton.

The East End real estate market is experiencing the biggest slowdown since the 2008 financial crisis, according to the latest quarterly report from the Douglas Elliman agency, which cited “uncertainty about the impact of the new tax law, volatility in the financial markets, [and] the higher cost of financing” as reasons for a decline in sales. Brown Harris Stevens, however, saw an uptick in sales after a “sluggish” previous six months.

According to the Douglas Elliman report, the number of home sales in the fourth quarter of 2018 was down nearly 35 percent from the same period in 2017, the greatest drop in a year of increasingly lower sales. “Momentum right now has stopped,” said Paul Brennan, the executive manager of sales at Douglas Elliman. “Everyone’s a little shaky and holding onto their money.” 

The slow pace of sales, said Mr. Brennan, has led to an increase in inventory, which means that “sellers are going to have to reduce their prices significantly from where they were six to seven months ago.” 

The Corcoran Group reported a 15-percent drop in home sales on the South Fork compared to the fourth quarter of 2017, and Town and Country, which  analyzed the year as whole rather than the quarter, described the market as “flat.” In an interview earlier this month, Judi Desiderio, the chief executive officer and president of Town and Country, said she expected the fourth quarter to be the slowest of the year.

Brown Harris Stevens, on the other hand, saw an increase in sales of more than 12 percent during the same time frame. Nearly three-quarters of sales, the report stated, were of homes priced at under $2 million. 

Even when told of the upbeat report from Brown Harris Stevens, Mr. Brennan said that such results shouldn’t necessarily be taken as a sign of a healthy market.

“The number of deals doesn’t indicate how far the market has gone down in terms of pricing,” he said. 

Despite a strong national economy, and relatively low interest rates, Mr. Brennan said that potential homebuyers are experiencing fear, which he defined as “false evidence appearing real.” The market will bounce back, he said, when people “get tired of their own fear and shift their thinking.” Then they will realize that money is better spent on East End real estate than in an unpredictable stock market. 

“I’ve been at this 40 years, and I’ve seen that kind of change happen 10 or 12 times,” he said.

Jeremy Blutstein, the chef de cuisine at Almond in Bridgehampton and a fixture of the South Fork culinary world since he was a teenager, has been named the executive chef of Gurney's Star Island Resort and Marina. The resort, which was formerly the Montauk Yacht Club, was purchased by Gurney's in May. It is undergoing renovations and is scheduled to open in the spring. 

Mr. Blutstein will oversee the entirety of the resort's food service, including a cafe for hotel guests only, a catering operation, and the main restaurant, which will feature a seafood-centric menu, according to Edible East End. 

His career in the restaurant business began in Amagansett at age 14, when he started working at the Farmhouse. “I was basically running the place by the time I was 20,” he told The Star recently. 

Mr. Blutstein, who has been nominated for a James Beard award, previously helped open the Surf Lodge and Ruschmeyer's, and he ran the Crow's Nest, all in Montauk. He also worked in New York City at the Palm, Del Frisco's, and Blue Fin, but, ultimately, he prefers working on the East End, he told The Star. "There’s no better place to be. Period," he said. "It’s the best place to cook as far as I’m concerned.”

He will continue at Almond through Feb. 24.

"Couldn't have asked for a better two years," Mr. Blutstein wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday, referring to his stint at Almond. "So much love and respect for my time spent here at Almond. Nice knowing that I will always have Jason Weiner & Eric Lemonides in my corner."