Q&A WITH HAMPTONS REAL ESTATE JUGGERNAUT TIM DAVIS

THE CORCORAN BROKER WHO’S SOLD SOME OF THE TOP PROPERTIES IN THE COUNTRY.

- NATALIE GALE

Tim Davis knows a thing or two about Hamptons real estate. A lifetime Hamptons resident, he’s one of the top brokers in the region after selling real estate there for more than four decades. Recently, the Wall Street Journal ranked Davis as the top real estate agent in the Hamptons, and tenth in the country. He’s brokered 38 transactions on the ocean in Southampton alone.

Davis has negotiated more than $4 billion in sales over his career. His priciest sale clocked in at $137 million, and he’s sold such distinctive properties as Wooldon Manor in Southampton, owned by Gilded Age tycoons like the Woolworths and Edmund Lynch of Merrill Lynch and once considered the most opulent estate in the Hamptons. He’s also twice sold Westerly, a Southampton Georgian estate, most recently in 2010 for around $40 million to its current owner, fashion designer Tory Burch.

Davis himself lives with his family in a modest Southampton cottage. “I’m often inspired by what I see on the market,” he told