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Jessica Fingleton, they owner-broker of Au-Delà Real Estate. KRISTIN GREY
Au-Delà Real Estate, a new boutique real estate firm based in East Hampton, is now serving the East End.
Broker-owner Jessica Fingleton got her real estate license in 2018 and worked at Douglas Elliman and, more recently, Compass, before founding her own firm in January. She said on Friday that she decided to go out on her own because she felt she could help clients better and provide better service because, now, she can make decisions she wasn’t able to make before. “We like to help our clients out,” she said, explaining that means she can do favors she might not have had the freedom to do before.
Clare Ambrose, who was Fingleton’s sales partner at Compass and Douglas Elliman, joined Fingleton at Au-Delà. The new firm now has five agents, including Fingleton, and plans to grow.
“Our clients are all very happy for us and excited that we went out on our own,” Fingleton said.
Au-Delà has a lot of knowledge of the area and caters to local people who live and work out here, according to Fingleton.
“We’re really here to help out the local people and make sure they get a good deal,” she said.
Fingleton had another name for her firm picked out originally, but her trademark attorney told her it wasn’t available. So she went through a list of 300 possible names before finding one she really liked: Au-Delà.
“I think it suits us really well because it means ‘beyond’ in French, and we go above and beyond for our clients,” she said.
For example, the firm is helping a client who just sold her house by running an estate sale to help her empty the contents. “They don’t have to worry about anything,” Fingleton said.
She can also offer advice on which tradesmen to use to guide clients after completing a home purchase, she noted. She and her husband, Donal Fingleton, have owned an electrical contracting business for 20 years, Fingleton Electric.
“We try to make it a very easy transaction,” she added. “Because buying a house will probably be one of the biggest transactions a person will have in their life.”
Fingleton grew up in Amity Harbor, on the border of Nassau and Suffolk Counties, and began visiting her grandparents, Clem and Gloria Schuerlein, in the Clearwater Beach neighborhood in East Hampton when she was 5. She moved to East Hampton when she was 21 and lives down the road from where her grandparents had lived.
Au-Delà’s temporary office is at 320 Three Mile Harbor Road while the permanent office at 144 North Main Street will be ready in the coming months.
