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Christine Houston: ‘Shelter Island has been the constant. It makes me so happy when I step on the ferry and realize I’m home.” (Credit: Courtesy photo)
Although Christine Houston grew up in Garden City, she had never heard of Shelter Island until she was invited to visit with friends, and then, she recalled recently, “I just fell in love with it. I didn’t want to leave.”
She and her husband rented a place in the Heights for three years while looking for their own home. But in late 1993, the international executive search consultancy in which she was a partner asked her to move to Asia.
“It’s a riot,” Georgiana Ketcham said about the Shelter Island real estate market.
A broker operating on the Island for decades, Ms. Ketcham is seeing startling changes in pricing, among other alterations, including a number of people coming from the city and buying when they were once seasonal renters.
If there’s a silver lining in the pandemic, it’s a thriving real estate market that has changed all the norms.
COVID-19 opened doors to people who view the Island as a place of safety and comfort, along with a solid elementary and high school for their children.
The general agreement among most real estate professionals is what’s happening today may not be a harbinger for the future when vaccines have reached most of the population and people become less fearful. But for now, they’ll take it, and gladly.