CLOSING TIMES: THE ADAM MILLER GROUP TOUTS HALF-BILLION IN CONTRACT NOW PRESERVATION OF JOHN STEINBECK'S SAG HARBOR HOME EXPLORED
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V OL UME I X / IS SUE 2 / M A R CH 2021
HAMPTONS REAL ESTATE & LIFESTYLE...STEP INSIDE
CLOSING TIMES:
THE ADAM MILLER GROUP TOUTS
HALF-BILLION IN CONTRACT NOW
PRESERVATION OF JOHN STEINBECK'S
PHOTO BY OLIVIA CRUMM
SAG HARBOR HOME EXPLORED
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CLOSING TIMES
THE ADAM MILLER GROUP TOUTS HALF-BILLION WORTH OF REAL ESTATE IN CONTRACT
BY TAYLOR K. VECSEY since we’ve closed since
COVID, certainly hundreds
A dam Miller brought
an elevated level of
expertise to the Hamptons
of millions,” he says. In one
deal, a client bought an
Amagansett property in April
when he relocated here, while
for $45 million.
maintaining the laid back
Miller also attributes the
vibe that attracts people to
GAVIN ZEIGLER FOR SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
firm’s success to relationships.
the area. Since opening his
“I say that without your
own law firm in 2007, the
word or your honor, you have
Adam Miller Group has acted
nothing,” he says. “So I can
as counsel on more than
honestly say that we pride
$4.5 billion in real estate
ourselves on that.” Members
transactions on the East End.
of the Adam Miller Group are
During the COVID-19
known to be approachable.
pandemic, the
“There’s not a polarizing
Bridgehampton-based firm
person here.”
has been in even greater
The year has been
demand, as there was an
incredibly busy as people fled
incredible boom. While it has A $45 million deal the Adam Miller Group handled in 2020. the city for the Hamptons
been a challenging time for
in the city and bought in East paralegals.” during the COVID-19
all, Miller understands how to
pandemic. For Miller, he started off
get deals done in a time of extreme Hampton, where they have now He started his firm from his house,
lived for the better part of 19 years. using a spare bedroom as an office. 2020 in Jamaica celebrating his
transition.
After finding his footing in the He had two paralegals who took 50th birthday (one he shares with
Miller was one of the many
East End real estate market, he “a leap of faith to come sit in my Bob Marley, he notes). “Then we got
people who relocated to the
opened his own firm in 2007. A kitchen and living room every day.” back from Jamaica and everything
East End after the September 11
three-sport captain in high school, It was an interesting time. sort of flipped,” he says.
terrorist attacks. At the time, he was
leadership is something he has “If you recall, 2007 was the year “The first two weeks, there was
working in the real estate division
always enjoyed, he says. He wanted of the crash,” he says. “The timing nothing but panic about people
at Proskauer Rose, a very large
to brand a firm on his own. couldn’t have been worse.” Asked wanting to get out of their deals
and prestigious international firm
“Being professionally casual is how he got through that difficult and me wondering what I was
in New York City, and spending
always what I wanted to do,” he period, he says, “I just continued going to do with the rest of my
summers and weekends in
explains of his philosophy. “I’m in to do good work and I think the life,” he says. Then came the influx
Montauk. In the year before the
Birkenstocks right now,” he says to a dedication and the prior skill, I don’t of buyers, ready to make the leap,
attacks, he spent many months in
chuckle. know, I think it won out.” much as Miller had done in 2003, to
the Twin Towers working on a deal
“To me, what people want when As the real estate market move to the South Fork.
for a client who wanted to buy the
they’re out here is professionalism emerged from the economic crisis, “The local community rallied in
World Trade Center, involving a
and responsiveness because they Miller moved the firm to an office a way that made me so proud of
level of easements that make the
are in their happy place. They don’t space in Bridgehampton. There being here. It became a safe haven
standards ones in the Hamptons
care what you wear,” he says. “I just are now four attorneys and four for people,” he says. “From mid-April
seem small.
decided it was time to sort of blaze paralegals that the firm took over to now, it’s been none-stop. To the
“I recall having, in the city, the
my own path.” three office spaces, and he would point where the real estate industry
beach cam on the corner of my
The firm name was strategic. take a fourth if there was one. is grateful and exhausted, both at
computer and saying, ‘I think it’s
“I named this firm a Group for a Centrally located, they work from the same time.”
time I really put some effort into
reason because I know this work Quogue to Montauk. He does not see the pace slowing
this move,’” he says.
takes a group effort,” he says. “I’m a It has become one of the top down anytime soon. Even with the
In the end, it was a fire in his
little bit of a nonconformist in that three firms on the East End in arrival of the vaccines, he thinks
building during which he had to
people will continue to make
carry his 13-year-old Labrador down way. I started a group, as opposed terms of volume. He’s proud of
to just a law firm. I believe we’re the Rolodex the firm has built and the South Fork their permanent
28 flights of stairs that cemented
residence or at least live here in
his decision to move out of the city. only as strong as our weakest link. credits broker relationships.
My paralegals are second to none When Behind The Hedges spoke some hybrid way.
By 2003, he had an opportunity
and I know that. . . These larger to Miller, he had $611 million in “Everyone has evaluated lifestyle,”
to manage a satellite office of a
deals require a lot of attention deals in contract. he says. “It’s another shift. A 9/11
large firm in Bridgehampton. He
not only from lawyers but from “God only knows how much kind of shift.”
and his wife sold their apartment
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