THE ESCAPES NETWORK · FROM THE PEOPLE BEHIND SOUTHERN ESCAPES

The East End,
on quieter terms.

A relocation intelligence publication for Hamptons owners and buyers. The carry, the cliff, the exit math, and honest comparisons of what your money does here versus where the taxes end. No listings theater. No invented anything.

$2.2MMedian sale in the $1M–$5M band that now makes up 67.8% of all East End sales.Miller Samuel / Douglas Elliman, Q2 2026
2.5%Peconic Bay CPF transfer tax in East Hampton and Southampton, with no exemption on purchases of $2M or more.Town of Southampton; effective April 2023
−$9.9BNet adjusted gross income that left New York in one year of IRS filings.IRS SOI 2022–2023, via Tax Foundation

THE LETTERS

Two letters. One honest ledger.

Monthly · First Thursday

The Hamptons Ledger

The analytical letter. One piece of tax or carry math done properly, the East End market in plain English, a cross-market Split, intel from our partners on the ground, and one door out. Written for the household quietly deciding what comes next.

First issue: October 2026

Seasonal · The Lifestyle Letter

The Weekend Escape

The network’s lifestyle letter, East End edition. Where we actually stayed, ate, and wandered, rated on the same stars we use everywhere else. It begins when our first real trips do, because we do not review places we have not been.

Begins after our first East End field trip

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THE SPLIT · CROSS-MARKET NO. 01

$2.2 million here. What does it buy where the taxes end?

The Hamptons’ middle market just set a record. We translated it into the Southeast, line by line: purchase taxes, carry, income math, and who should absolutely stay put.

Read the comparison

THE RULE

Every comparison names who each place is wrong for. A verdict where everyone wins is an advertisement, and we do not publish those.

COMPLIMENTARY DOWNLOAD

The East End Field Guide

Hamlet by hamlet, from Southampton Village to Montauk: market tier, character, and the one line most guides will not print, who each hamlet is wrong for.

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THE INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

The numbers, sourced and dated.

Briefing No. 01: the Q2 2026 market, the cost to buy in, the cost to stay, and the exit math. Every figure carries its source, because confidence without sourcing is just tone of voice.

Read Briefing No. 01