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The artsy New York City apartment that belonged to the heiress Gloria Vanderbilt quickly found a buyer after just about a month on the market, the New York Post reported.

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Selling your home when you still need to shop for a new one can feel daunting to even the most seasoned homeowner––especially when the demand for new homes keeps rising, but the supply feels like it's dwindling.¹ You're not alone either if you're already feeling drained by the complex logistics of trying to sell and buy a new home all at once.

Searching for a new home can be exciting, but many homebuyers admit that it can also be stressful, especially if you live in an unpredictable market with plenty of competitors. Unfortunately, waiting out a competitive housing market isn’t always the best idea either since listings are expected to remain limited in the most coveted neighborhoods for some time.²

That doesn't mean, though, that you should just

The Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck’s sweet retreat in Sag Harbor, NY, is on the market. The quaint cottage on 1.8 acres is available for $16,750,000.

Steinbeck purchased the home, built in 1953, with his third wife, Elaine, in the mid-1950s. He split his time between the waterfront property and his home on the Upper East Side until his death in 1968, the New York Times notes.

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Everything Must Go: Calvin Klein Sells the Last of His Hamptons Real Estate. The fashion designer Calvin Klein has sold out of his Hamptons real estate inventory.

In two off-market deals, Klein walked away from two glorious oceanfront estates.

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All hail the queen. Oprah Winfrey has worked her magic again. This time in a boffo real estate transaction.

The TV personality’s picturesque property on Orcas Island, WA—part of the San Juan Islands—has sold in an off-market deal for $14 million, according to Business Journals.

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It’s the old supply-and-demand predicament: Home sales in the U.S. continue at a torrid pace, but the availability of listings remains limited. Buoyed by historically low mortgage rates, buyers keep shopping for homes, reducing the available inventory and sparking a rise in home prices across the country.

News website The Atlantic summarized the sizzling home market this way:

“Pick a housing statistic at random, and it’s probably setting an all-time record. Home prices: record high. Inventory: record low. Percentage of homes selling above asking price: record high. Average time on market: record low.”¹

Meanwhile, homebuilders are contending with an increase in material costs and a shortage of labor. These issues come amid an ongoing shortage of

The former “Today Show” co-host Matt Lauer is once again trying to change the channel on his Hamptons home. His compound in Sag Harbor, NY, has returned to market with a price of $43,995,000.

The property had been listed in June 2019 for $44.8 million, following the former anchor’s divorce from Annette Roque. But that price failed to attract a buyer. The waterfront abode came back on the market in the fall of 2019, with a slightly lowered asking price of $43.99 million.

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Raise your cosmo! With filming underway of the HBO Max show “And Just Like That,” a sequel to “Sex and the City,” Cynthia Nixon has also been busy off-camera.

The actress and her wife, Christine Marinoni, have reportedly picked up a Manhattan multiunit townhome for $4.4 million, according to the New York Post. Located on the East Side Kip’s Bay neighborhood, the posh property offers a total of 4,000 square feet and exposed brick walls, and is currently configured as three apartments. 

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Back in the mid-1990s, the legendary actor and director Robert Redford scooped up a ranch in Charleston, UT.

The rustic (yet refined) property is just a 15-minute drive north of Sundance, UT, where he famously founded the Sundance Mountain Resort and Sundance Institute, which organizes the Sundance Film Festival.

Known as Horse Whisper Ranch, the 30-acre parcel—which Redford transformed into a horse ranch—is now on the market for $4.9 million.

The offering includes four buildings: a 1,460-square-foot cottage with two bedrooms) a 1,996-square-foot garden/hobby house, a wood shop spanning 3,200 square feet, as well as a garage to store boats and an RV. Horse riding facilities include a pasture, hay barn, four-stall breezeway barn, and covered

The manor was built by the celebrated Black architect Paul R. Williams in 1936, for the businessman Jacob “Jay” Paley, who paid about $100,000.

Built in a grand English Georgian style, the property is set on over 2.5 acres and spans 15,000 square feet.

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