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Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty Welcomes MaryBeth O’Hara

NYACK, N.Y. (March 8, 2019) – Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty today announced that MaryBeth O’Hara has joined the luxury brokerage firm as an associate broker.

MaryBeth O’Hara real estate broker

Prior to joining Ellis Sotheby’s, O’Hara managed a real estate office in Orange County, New York, coaching and training agents. She has been in the real estate business for 25 years, specializing in New York City and the Hudson Valley.

O’Hara represents a range of homes and price points, having sold luxury residential real estate, co-ops, condos, notable historic homes, classic townhouses in Manhattan and one-of-a-kind Hudson Valley homes.

“MaryBeth takes pride in doing her very best to represent each client, and no property is too big or too small,” said Nancy Bashian Bunin, Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty director of business development. “She is a polished negotiator, always looking for the most strategic approach to each deal and always respecting her clients’ privacy and individual needs.”

O’Hara, who has a keen eye for interior design and decorating, recently purchased a mid-century home in Sarasota, Florida. In the process, she has become very knowledgeable about the Sarasota real estate market and can guide and refer anyone interested in learning more.

“I am proud to be affiliated with Sotheby’s International Realty and look forward to sharing my experiences and passion for real estate to serve my clients, regardless of their price point,” said O’Hara. “Luxury real estate is less about price and more about delivering attentive service, innovative technology and personalized experiences.”

O’Hara is an avid and longtime supporter of The Lower Eastside Girls Club in New York City and member of the American Irish Society, Classical Choral Society, Sarasota Architectural Foundation and the Marie Selby Botanical Garden.

She is a member of the National Association of Realtors and the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors and its multiple listing service.

O’Hara resides in the Hudson Valley.

 

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Evy Apostolatos
RDR PR LLC
Evy@rdrpr.com
973-452-7208

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An Iconic 1780s Hudson Valley Landmark Hosts One of the Oldest Surviving Barns in the Country

The 7-acre property also has a carriage house with two rental units.

Crawford NY Hopewell Farm

PHOTO COURTESY OF JUMP VISUALS

Location: 678 State Route 302, Crawford, NY

Description: Built in the mid-1780s, the historic Hopewell Farm, which is also known as the John I. Crawford Farm, is one of the best preserved farms in the Hudson Valley and remains an iconic landmark in the Orange County town of Crawford, named for its founding family.

Continue reading on Hudson Valley Magazine.

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Upper Nyack riverfront estate highest priced sale in Rockland since 2013

UPPER NYACK – A 6.42-acre waterfront estate has been sold for $5.2 million, the highest residential transaction in Rockland County since 2013, according to real estate agents involved in the deal.

“This prominent sale is the perfect start for 2019,” said Laura Weintraub of Weld Realty, who represented the seller of the property at 641 N. Broadway.

Real Estate Upper Nyack

The Hudson Riverfront estate at 641 North Broadway in Upper Nyack has been sold for $5.2 million. (Photo: Vinny Garrison)

The 4,488-square-foot, five-bedroom modern home features 30-foot ceilings and a wall of windows overlooking views of the Hudson River and Hook Mountain. The property has 723 feet of shoreline, a private boat dock, a sandy beach and an in-ground pool.

The estate is set in an old sandstone quarry from the 1800s; artist and Nyack native Edward Hopper is said to have painted views of Hook Mountain from this location, according to the listing.

Continue reading on Rockland/Westchester Journal News.

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Ellis Sotheby’s Reports Record Sale of $5.2 Million Estate in Upper Nyack

NYACK, N.Y. (Jan. 16, 2019) – Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty today announced the record-setting sale of a 6.5-acre, waterfront home on the Hudson River in Upper Nyack, New York, for $5.2 million.

641 N. Broadway

The luxurious estate at 641 N. Broadway, one of the largest privately owned parcels on the west bank of the Hudson, represents the third-highest selling price recorded by the Hudson Gateway Multiple Listing Service for all of Rockland County and the highest selling price recorded by the service since 2013, when Ellis Sotheby’s sold neighboring 649 N. Broadway, Upper Nyack, for $6.2 million.

“Upper Nyack, Nyack and South Nyack on the Hudson River are strongholds for estate properties selling at peak prices,” said Richard Ellis, owner of Nyack-based Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty, which also listed and sold the home of comedian, actress and TV personality Rosie O’Donnell for $5.1 million in South Nyack in 2018.

“Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty has sold the highest-price homes in Rockland County during 12 of the last 13 years,” he said. “This sale gives us confidence in the 2019 luxury market. In the last 10 days, we’ve seen more properties over $1 million dollars being shown and several offers made.”

Just 40 minutes from New York City, 641 N. Broadway occupies 723 feet of shoreline in a private setting that was a sandstone quarry during the 1800s. The home offers spectacular vistas of the river as well as Hook Mountain and features 30-foot ceilings with glass walls, antique barn beams and blue stone floors.

The five-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath home also includes a spacious master bedroom suite that opens to the Hudson River and a rear yard that also faces the water. Amenities include a dock, in-ground pool and sandy beach.

Local artist Edward Hopper, widely acknowledged as one of the most important painters of 20th century America, painted the view from the home, and the British came on shore and fired their cannons there during the Revolutionary War, as documented in a letter to George Washington. “A cannonball was found at the property – truly a trophy home,” said Ellis.

Seta Tunnel of Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty was the selling agent. For more information, contact 917-575-2694.

About Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty

Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty is a leading luxury real estate broker located in the Hudson Valley village of Nyack, approximately 22 miles from New York City at 76 N. Broadway. The firm lists and sells extraordinary properties in New York’s Rockland and Orange counties, specializing in the lower Hudson Valley, from Upper Nyack through Snedens Landing to Tuxedo Park. The firm sells the area’s most extraordinary real estate, from fine country estates, waterfront homes, historic properties, farm houses and contemporaries to Victorians, Greek Revivals and log cabins. Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty associates have extensive knowledge of the lower Hudson Valley, including Nyack, Piermont, Grandview, Palisades, Snedens Landing, New City, Tuxedo Park, Warwick, Goshen, Cornwall, Greenwood Lake, Pierson Lakes, Suffern, West Nyack, Blauvelt and Tappan.

 

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Rosie O’Donnell sale, Bill Gates purchase among 2018’s biggest residential real estate stories

Celebrity deals

1 Gesner Avenue in South Nyack

Rockland’s priciest residential transaction in 2018 was the $5.1 million sale of a former home of Rosie O’Donnell at 1 Gasner Avenue in South Nyack.

The comedian and actress, who called South Nyack home for more than a decade, listed her riverfront mansion for $5.3 million in the late 2017, along with her four other nearby properties.

The seven-bedroom Dutch Colonial estate was sold in February, according to the property records filed with Rockland County Clerk’s Office.

Continue reading on Rockland/Westchester Journal News.

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Orange County’s Hopewell Farm Home to One of the Oldest Barns in the United States

Hopewell Farm Ellis Sotheby's

Built in the mid-1780s, Hopewell Farm — also known as the John I. Crawford Farm — is a well-preserved example of an early Hudson Valley farm, and remains a landmark in Crawford, New York, the town named for its founding family.

Looking for a weekend retreat, with tons of historical charm and significance? And a barn that may be among the oldest in the country?

Hopewell Farm in Orange County’s Crawford, is on the market for $695,000.

Built in the mid-1780s, Hopewell Farm — also known as the John I. Crawford Farm —  is a well-preserved example of an early Hudson Valley farm, and remains a landmark in the town named for its founding family.

Now on seven acres, the five-bedroom, three-bath main house features wood-hewn beams, wide-plank floors and a large hearth-style fireplace with a mantel imported from England. But, there are modern necessities such as updated bathrooms and kitchen.

Built by Crawford’s son Jonathon, who served in the Revolutionary War, the home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Continue reading on Rockland/Westchester Journal News.

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A Slice of History

Crawford’s historic Hopewell Farm is for sale

Hopewell Farm Crawford New York

Built in 1780, the Hopewell House is a little slice of Crawford history and charming country retreat.

The Hopewell Farm, a little slice of Crawford history and charming country retreat, is up for sale.

The property includes a 3,400-square-foot five-bed, three-bath farmhouse; a loft studio and two-bed, two-bath unit in the carriage house; a smokehouse and a barn complex. Located outside of Pine Bush at 678 on Route 302, the 7.2-acre country farmstead offers stunning views of the Shawangunk mountains.

 

Continue reading on Wallkill Valley Times.

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Living In Snedens Landing, Palisades, N.Y.: Wildflowers, Artists and Celebrities

A small enclave with a big personality, the riverside neighborhood is a “live-and-let-live kind of place.”

The Big House Snedens Landing

201 ROUTE 9W | The Big House, a four-bedroom, four-bathroom house with a wing probably dating to the 17th century, on 4.4 acres, listed for $2.25 million. 914-393-0438 Credit: Stefano Ukmar for The New York Times

In 1937, the writer E.B. White described Snedens Landing as “steeped in Hudson Valley mists and memories — people make their own wine, stamp out their own copperhead snakes, go picking Dutchman’s breeches in the spring. On summer evenings, you can hear the trains across the river, grumbling. There is a good deal of talk about shad.”

Continue reading on The New York Times.

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Orange County’s Historic Sengen House Listed Publicly for the First Time

Orange County's Historic Sengen House Listed Publicly for the First Time

Four generations of the same family have lived in the sprawling compound since it was built in 1902.

Location: 6 Sengen Lane, Cornwall-on-Hudson

Description: The Hudson Valley is justly famous for its grand and historic estates from bygone eras, many with still spectacular views of the Hudson River in every season. In the Orange County village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, a historic family estate known as Sengen House is being listed publicly for sale for the first time since it was built at the turn of the last century.

The stone and timber house was built by the Ledoux family, one the early families of Cornwall. Renee Ledoux married Army Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Sands, a 1929 graduate of nearby West Point. Sands, who died in 1984, commanded troops in the Korean War and was a senior member and administrator of the War Department at the Pentagon. He was also an accomplished fencer who participated in the Olympic Games of 1936. His wife died in 1979.

And now the fourth generation of the family, the Sands’ granddaughter Renee Sands Tobin and her husband, Brad Tobin, have decided to sell the home.

Continue reading on Hudson Valley Magazine.

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A Colonial Manner in the Hudson Valley

This estate in New York’s Cornwall-on-Hudson, with easy hiking and views of the Catskills, has been in the same family for over a century. It is asking $2.395 million. —Sarah Tilton

Sengen House in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York

Renee Tobin’s great-great-great-grandfather built this house in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., around 1904. She grew up spending weekends here with her grandparents and eventually inherited the nearly 20-acre estate. ‘The house breathes an incredible history,’ says Dr. Tobin, a learning specialist with a private practice in New York City.

Continue reading on The Wall Street Journal.

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