About South Fork Courts

South Fork Courts finds the right builder for a Hamptons court — built, resurfaced, lit, or maintained — and puts the two of you in touch. We do not pour concrete, spread Har-Tru, or teach tennis. The company takes its name from the fork of Long Island, not from any builder on it, and it is not connected to any court builder, tennis club, or coaching business that shares a word with our name.

A court is a building project

A tennis court reads like a surface — pick a color, pick a material — but 7,200 square feet of graded, drained, fenced ground is closer to a small building than a driveway. The base decides almost everything after: whether the court still drains in year ten, whether a crack that reappears each spring is cosmetic or structural, whether the surface reaches the long end of its 10-to-25-year life or the short one. Nobody builds that base for the price of a coat of paint.

Where the permit actually lives

Every Hamptons municipality requires a building permit and a certificate of occupancy for a playing court. The Village of East Hampton doubles its accessory setback for a court, expressly for the noise; the Town of Southampton counts a court against the rear-yard coverage limit and bars it from required side yards. The Town of East Hampton's clearing limit lets a 7,200-square-foot enclosure eat a third of what a lot may clear, and its permit desk ran sixteen to twenty weeks behind its statutory clock in 2026. Sagaponack settled its own fight over court noise in 2012: sink a court four feet below grade and keep the ordinary setback, or build at grade at 150 percent of it — a trade priced at about $100,000 extra.

Who builds courts out here

The trade on Long Island is maybe a dozen serious companies, and they specialize more than you would expect: some pour post-tensioned concrete beautifully and have never dressed a clay court; some are Har-Tru specialists who subcontract the fence; one or two do the whole job and are booked through next spring for it. We check for a current Suffolk County Home Improvement Contractor licence, liability and workers' compensation insurance, local references for the surface, and courts of theirs still playing well years later. One licensed, insured builder who works your town calls you back within one business day. Nobody else gets your number.

What it costs

Nothing, for homeowners. Participating builders pay us a referral fee for the introduction. You pay the builder for the work, on their quote, and we do not sell your details to anyone.

The numbers on this site

A tennis court is priced by the site, and sites are private, so the published numbers here are thin. The two national cost guides everyone quotes publish the same by-surface table, which we treat as one dataset, not two confirmations. Where we could read a primary source — a village's own zoning booklet, its 2026 court guidelines, a newspaper report on the Sagaponack fight — we cite it directly. Elsewhere we say so plainly: no Long Island builder publishes a price, and nobody has put a number on how loud a pickleball court actually is. South Fork Courts launched in 2026 and is run from the East End. We are new and small; tell us if something here is wrong and we will fix it.