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"THE REAL DEAL"...Or Is It???
"THE REAL DEAL"....or is it???
I just read an article in The Real Deal, a New York real estate news paper, and found that the front page article (which was covering the Hamptons real estate market) covered only 2 offices: Sothebys and Corcoran (both owned by REALOGY) and showed ONLY the top agents from those 2 firms, calling them the top agents in the Hamptons. Loaded with amunition regarding the volume each holds in listings, the point was made that these are the only agents worth their salt in the Hamptons. Meanwhile nothing is mentioned about the agents who had record sales for 2010 from Elliman....We sold more than either of the other firms!
Because of the competative nature of the real estate business here in the Hamptons and because the readership is concentrated in Manhattan,  (the main source of Hampton's buyers) this one-sided issue of The Real Deal has me steaming!!! Talk about free advertising!
Click here to flip through The Real Deal's June issue in a new format. 
....Meanwhile, Prudential Douglas Elliman, which is the largest firm in the Hamptons and New York City, was not mentioned until the 2nd page and then there was only a brief paragraph talking about the "difficulties" the company is having!!! With 319 agents here (more than any other ... more

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