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Buying and selling real estate in the communities of Long Island

Gas is crucial to real estate agents' work

A new survey indicates that gas prices are

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As real estate agents return to work after days of spotty phone and Internet service, they — along with other Long Islanders — face yet another obstacle: long gas lines.

“We are literally afraid to waste gas and not be able to service our clients,” says Hector Gavilla, broker-owner of Long Island Professional Realty in Melville.

Cristina Callegari of Keller Williams Realty Landmark says...

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Why You Should Buy Their House: Massapequa

Michael and Peggy Shapiro stand in the living

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Sellers Mike and Peggy Shapiro

Address 10 Shelley Dr., Massapequa

Asking price $949,000

The competition A similar-size home on nearby Exeter Road is on the market for $1.25 million.

Recent sale in the area A five-bedroom 2½-bath splanch on Biltmore Bouelvard sold in late August for $750,000.

Taxes $22,498

Time on the market Since last September

Listing...

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News 12 clip: See Glen Cove home kids will love, more

Little boys and girls can feel equally at

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Newsday's LI Home editor Valerie Kellogg appeared on News 12 Long Island Tuesday, as she does every Tuesday around 7:15 p.m., to talk about three high-end homes on the market. Here's the clip, in case you missed it, with a list below of the agents representing each of the properties:

GLEN COVE HOUSE:

Michael Piccolo, Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty, 516-376-2926

SANDS...

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Rich Cribs: A musician's paradise in Greenport, and more

This is the interior of a log-cabin studio

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WALLS OF SOUND. For a musician, this 7.6-acre waterfront Greenport property, on the market for $2.597 million, offers the best of both worlds. Not only is the bucolic setting inspiring for a composer, but there’s an actual recording studio on the grounds.

The owners, who are local musicians, are leaving the sound equipment behind, says listing agent Kimberly Crail of Keller Williams Realty,...

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