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About Long Island Real Estate

Long Island real estate is highly influenced by the many miles of coastline on the North and South shores and has created exciting summer resorts and second-home communities.  Real estate on Long Island  includes many historic areas, incorporated villages, as in Port Jefferson, as well as modern, gate-guarded, Long Island sound and ocean view estates. Known for Long Island ’s top rated school districts, family neighborhoods, condominiums, horse ranches, golf course communities and wineries.  The real estate market on Long Island is enhanced by the huge number of tourists that visit Long Island each day.  Visitors love the museums, theaters, gardens, farms, lighthouses, beaches, and ferries around Long Island .

 

Long Island is known for its affluence and high quality of life.  It includes many communities located on its beaches including Port Jefferson, Stony Brook and Setauket.  Long Island is also known for its strong middle class accenting a strong dedication to hard work, suburban homeownership, investment in schools and education and a dedication to family living. The real estate market on Long Island reflects the areas geography, the history of the area and the values of its residents.

In the 1940s William Levitt, the man who built modern day Long Island,  turned 1,200 acres of Long Island’s farmland into a self-sufficient residential community of about 17,000 homes which he called Levittown.  The community was a great success and led the rest of Long Island to create these Levittown-type communities. Today, Long Island real estate is located primarily in small communities of houses on small lots. The Real Estate Market in some of these communities, Port Jefferson, Stony Brook and Setauket is described in more detail on this Website.