A brokerage within the Hamptons and one other in Palm Seashore are formally bridging the hole between their respective luxurious enclaves.
Hamptons-based agency Saunders & Associates and South Florida’s Premier Property Properties are forming a partnership that can enable the 2 to share referrals and itemizing info, the corporations introduced on Wednesday. Beneath the alliance, the brokerages can even host joint networking alternatives and different associated occasions.
The partnership announcement comes as different unbiased corporations have teamed up with counterparts in complementary markets, strikes they made to increase their attain because the business’s largest brokerages proceed to get greater by way of elevated consolidation.
Earlier this month, the Modlin Group, which has operations in Manhattan and the Hamptons, launched a joint venture with Knight Frank, a London-based consultancy and property agency. New York Metropolis townhouse specialist Leslie J. Garfield additionally has a partnership with London-based agency Russell Simpson.
The Hamptons and Palm Seashore have lengthy shared a symbiotic relationship among the many nation’s wealthiest class, and that connection has only grown stronger in recent times. A number of brokers throughout each markets have begun spending time on each coasts, chasing shoppers corresponding to hedge-funder Scott Schleiffer and Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, who personal properties in every market.
Each Saunders and Premier Property are among the many prime operators of their respective markets. Saunders positioned fourth among the many prime brokerages within the Hamptons with almost $1.4 billion in gross sales throughout greater than 420 transactions, in accordance with The Actual Deal’s latest ranking.
Premier Property had three of the highest 20 brokers and groups in Palm Seashore on its roster in TRD’s 2026 ranking, together with the Pascal Liguori Property Group, D’Angelo-Ligouri crew and Margit Brandt.
Premier Property was based in 1993 and is owned by Gerard Liguori, Carmen D’Angelo Jr. and Joseph G. Liguori. The agency opened its second outpost in Palm Seashore final summer time, which Brandt leads. It additionally has 5 different places of work unfold throughout the area, together with in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton.
Saunders has been within the Hamptons since 2008, when it was based by Andrew Saunders. It’s the most important unbiased agency on Lengthy Island’s East Finish with roughly 200 brokers.
Late final 12 months, one in every of Saunders’ prime brokers, Ed Bruehl, left the firm to move Christie’s Worldwide Actual Property Group’s East Hampton outpost, which it opened in 2023. Earlier than leaving the agency, Bruehl labored intently with one other of the brokerage’s prime brokers, Jennifer Wilson.
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