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CAT NOT INCLUDED

If you plan to view this Bayville home, which is on the market for $629,000, you may have to cross paths with this black cat in the online listing for the property. "The landing faces a southern exposure window and is a favorite hangout for our 6-year-old cat, Rufus," says homeowner Lisa McLoughlin, who is selling the home herself.

"Rufus is a native of Bayville," says McLoughlin. "I adopted him from the Bayville Animal Clinic. He was crying so loud, I couldn't leave without him."

The Colonial, circa 1905, is on more than half an acre. It has a rebuilt wraparound porch with a ceiling fan as well as three bedrooms, 11/2 baths, a formal dining room with a built-in hutch, hardwood and ceramic floors, new gas furnace and hot water heater, an outdoor pond and waterfall and a detached, one-car garage.

"The cat does not stay with the house," says McLoughlin. "He is nonnegotiable."

GRANDMA'S FOR SALE

North Fork locals probably remember Grandma's Vegetable Stand, a Main Road farm stand in Aquebogue that once sold strawberries and sweet corn every summer and cauliflower, cabbage and potatoes each fall. The working farm had been in operation since the 1920s and sold the crops from a trailer until the 1960s, when a farm stand was built.

Although it's closed for business now, the little red structure still stands on the 1.04-acre property, now on the market for $324,000.

There's also a white, four-bedroom cottage with one bathroom and a spectacular view, says listing agent Kate Carpluk of Town & Country Real Estate. "It's backed up by 190 acres of preserved farmland," she says.

Carpluk says the land is zoned for horses and other farm and nursery uses. "And the Main Road exposure is excellent," Carpluk says. There's also a two-car garage and a chicken coop.

HISTORIC HOUSE REHABBED

An 1877 Carpenter Gothic style house in Sea Cliff, listed for $1,149,000, was brought back to life over the past year by current owner Frank Scavone. The home, which is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, hadn't been on the market for more than seven decades when Scavone purchased it in 2011.

"The house was falling down," he says.

He restored and updated the grand old lady from her root-cellar basement to the widow's watch that tops the house.

On a 98-by-120-foot parcel, the 10-room home with four bedrooms and 21/2 baths overlooks Hempstead Harbor. There's also a chef's kitchen, formal dining room with fireplace and tin ceiling, living room, den and hardwood floors.

Buying and restoring older homes in Sea Cliff has become a hobby for Scavone, who runs a real estate hedge fund. He said he hopes to "inspire others" to take up the cause.

The listing agent is Kim Vigliotti of Sherlock Homes Realty Corp.