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No rest for the realty. Here’s what’s new.

Real estate is king here. And here are the latest reported moves.

Two of the most visible properties at the entryway to Sag Harbor, at 2 Main Street and 22 Long Island Avenue, are in contract to be sold, the listing agent, Hal Zwick of Compass, confirmed on Thursday.

Kmart, a longtime anchor tenant in the Bridgehampton Commons, has hired the liquidator Eldon W. Gottschalk & Associates to handle the sale of the store contents in advance of the store's permanent closure on Oct. 20.

For all those curious about recent real estate transactions on the South Fork, this week's recorded deed transfers.

The Springs General Store achieved a victory at the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals last week, being granted its request for a natural resources special permit. It was needed because parking, fencing, and decking would be installed within 150 feet of wetlands. Don’t expect them to start churning out coffee and egg sandwiches just yet, however. The store still needs site plan approval from the town’s planning and architectural review boards.

A noticeable uptick in sales is here recorded, for all you real estate watchers out there.

Real estate, real estate, and more South Fork real estate.

“This has been a longtime problem on the South Fork,” Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. said in reference to a universal truth about Long Island: that gas prices generally get higher the farther east you go. The change in gas prices between UpIsland and the South Fork can be startling, and the change from just Southampton to Montauk even more so.

Much of summer on the South Fork is associated with crowded beaches, packed shops and restaurants, and people flooding in from elsewhere to spend time in the fresh air and sunshine. However, when the summer gives way to fall and winter, it becomes a whole different place.

Originally a small storefront on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton, Damark’s Market has been transformed into a spacious food store — and, now, an award-winning business — over the last 75 years.

By the time most of East Hampton is just waking up, Marlon Castaño, a sanitation worker with National Waste Services on Springs-Fireplace Road, is already on his route, collecting garbage from about 100 houses.