Hamptons home sales plunge in ’06

Home sales in the Hamptons dropped 18 percent during the first half of 2006, Bloomberg News reported, despite the record Wall Street bonus season of earlier this year. (The bonus season is often a barometer of the sales potential on the East End.) Nationwide, home sales dropped 4.3 percent during the first half of 2006, making the Hamptons’ slide all the more acute.