Real Estate

Most of the house has been updated within five years, including adding high hat lights throughout the house, including in the closets.

The Fairview Drive house has one bathroom, plenty of storage in a shed, garage and unfinished basement and sits on just under a quarter of an acre.

The neighborhood is home to many people whose children grew up and came back and bought in the area because they love the location so much, the agent says.

Station Square, a project formerly known as the Ronkonkoma Hub near the LIRR, has opened, and the first phase of the work — 489 housing units in six buildings — is complete.

Because there's usually more horizontal space, lots of things find their way onto the counters until the surface almost disappears.

Made from carved wood and resin templates, the intricate moldings were installed throughout the house and then hand painted by artists.

With some clever changes you can carve out more storage in your closets.

Younger brokers make up a growing chunk of professionals in the field, using the technology they grew up with to track trends and get clients into new houses using cellphones, laptops and online tools.

"Merrick is the perfect suburban community in the sense that it is a hardworking, middle- and upper middle-class community with good schools," Nassau County Legis. Steve Rhoads says.

The Trafalgar Drive home has three bedrooms, two full bathrooms and a spacious fully fenced back yard.