Big Ambitions Hamptons: The 1.0 Seventh Neighbourhood

Updated 2026-09-08 · Last verified 2026-09-08 · Steam Big Ambitions

The Hamptons is the seventh neighbourhood in Big Ambitions, added by the 1.0 release on 28 August 2026, and the official changelog describes it as mostly residential with a fancy retail strip attached. The single mechanic worth knowing before you go: buying a home there is the prerequisite for both new sports minigames, so golf and tennis are locked behind a property purchase that the changelog prices only as "a few million dollars".

This page is written from the official 1.0 changelog and the Steam achievement data, because there is nothing else to write it from. The community Fandom wiki has no Hamptons article at all.

What 1.0 actually adds

Every row below is from the official Hovgaard Games 1.0 changelog, published on Steam on 14 August 2026 under the title Big Ambitions Full Release is TWO WEEKS AWAY. The title reads like a teaser; the body is the full 1.0 changelog, and the 28 August launch post links to it as such.

Feature	Official wording	Version
Seventh neighbourhood	"our seventh neighborhood, The Hamptons"	1.0
Character of the area	"mostly a residential area, but it still has a fancy retail strip as well"	1.0
Business space	"some new spots for you to run your businesses"	1.0
Shops	"a few new luxury stores"	1.0
Mansions	"Do you have a few million dollars to spend? Then come buy a home in the Hamptons"	1.0
Top-end housing	"a home in a gated community with a private dock"	1.0
Residents	Uncle Fred, "his golf nemesis Richard", and the homes of your special rivals	1.0
Golf	Halcyon Fairway driving range, "once you've purchased a home in the Hamptons"	1.0
Tennis	A Racket of Love, "another exclusive for Hamptons homeowners"	1.0

Two independent sources confirm the seventh-neighbourhood claim: the changelog itself, and PCGamesN's 30 August 2026 write-up, which states that 1.0 "has introduced a seventh neighborhood, The Hamptons, comprising a residential area and a fancy retail strip." The wording is close enough to the changelog that it reads as corroboration, not an independent measurement.

The seven neighbourhoods and when each arrived:

#	Neighbourhood	Added in
1 to 5	Garment District, Hell's Kitchen, Murray Hill, Midtown, Lower Manhattan	Base game
6	Industry City	Early Access 0.9
7	The Hamptons	1.0

The gate nobody has written down: golf and tennis

Three minigames shipped in 1.0. Two of them are Hamptons content and one is not, and the difference is a property purchase.

Minigame	Where	Prerequisite	Scoring
Brick Breaker	Your home computer	None stated	Passes time as an alternative to skipping it
Halcyon Fairway	Golf driving range	Own a home in the Hamptons	"Land your ball inside targets to earn points"
A Racket of Love	Tennis court	Own a home in the Hamptons	Win matches against opponents

The changelog is explicit on both gates and uses the word purchased, not rented. No source anywhere states an alternative route in, and no source states a minimum house size or type. If you want to hit balls, you buy a house first.

The chain is short, but it sits behind a wall of money the game does not quantify: the official post asks for "a few million dollars" and stops there. What follows is the evidence that almost nobody has crossed it.

Achievement data: how untouched this content is

Big Ambitions has 126 achievements, confirmed by two independent Steam endpoints. Global unlock rates below were pulled from the Steam achievement stats page on 8 September 2026, eleven days after launch. Steam displays one decimal place, so 0.1% is the floor of what it will show, and the true figures may be lower.

Achievement	Requirement	Global unlock
Just Tap It In, Bronze	Score at least 250 points in a single golf game	0.1%
Just Tap It In, Silver	Score at least 500 points in a single golf game	0.1%
Just Tap It In, Gold	Score at least 750 points in a single golf game	0.1%
A Game of Love, Bronze	Win at least 1 match of tennis	0.1%
A Game of Love, Silver	Win at least 2 matches of tennis	0.1%
A Game of Love, Gold	Win at least 3 matches of tennis	0.1%

Six tiers, all pinned to the display floor, including the two easiest ones in the set.

For scale, here is what the same dataset says about other things players do, ordered from common to rare:

Achievement	Requirement	Global unlock
Product Pusher, Bronze	Run 1 successful retail business	75.9%
Blue Cheese, Bronze	Reach a total personal wealth of $1,000,000	23.5%
Blue Cheese, Silver	Reach a total personal wealth of $10,000,000	11.2%
Private Mansion, Gold	Own an apartment of at least 500 square metres	8.4%
Bricks and Mortar, Bronze	Own at least 2 buildings	6.7%
Blue Cheese, Gold	Reach a total personal wealth of $100,000,000	3.8%
Sea Bling, Gold	Own a boat worth at least $90,000,000	1.4%
They See Me Rollin', Bronze	Use your private driver at least 10 times	1.4%
Home Sweet Home, Gold	Rent at least 20 apartments	0.6%
A Game of Love, Bronze	Win 1 match of tennis	0.1%

Read the last three rows together. Renting twenty apartments and buying a ninety-million-dollar boat are both more common than swinging a tennis racket once. The private driver, which is also brand-new 1.0 content but carries no property gate, sits at fourteen times the tennis rate at its bronze tier.

Both minigames must be among the 27 achievements the changelog says 1.0 added, because neither existed before 1.0. Hovgaard Games also wrote in the 1 September patch notes that "we have a few more achievement fixes coming in the next patch", so treat the descriptions above as accurate on the pull date rather than permanent.

Buying a home there, and the price figure you will see quoted

The honest answer is that no verified price exists. Hovgaard Games published no numbers for Hamptons property, only the phrase "a few million dollars to spend".

A specific range does circulate: 18.4 million dollars for a T1 rising to 85.5 million for a T11. It comes from the community Fandom wiki's Buildings page, edited on 7 September 2026 — at least 1.0-era, not an Early Access leftover. More importantly, the rival site that repeats the identical range labels its own source as that wiki's text: two pages carrying the same figure are one source, not two, and neither is the developer. We are not reproducing it as a fact.

What the range does reveal, incidentally, is that Hamptons homes use a T1 to T11 building code series, at least eleven variants, which does not appear in the same wiki's own building code table. That structural detail is more durable than the dollar figures attached to it.

The achievement data gives an indirect sanity check on affordability. Only 11.2% of players have ever reached ten million dollars in personal wealth and only 3.8% have reached a hundred million. Loans exist and 1.0 raised Vantander Bank's maximum loan size, so wealth is not a hard requirement. Even so, if the circulating range is anywhere near right, the population that can comfortably buy is a small fraction of the player base, which is consistent with golf and tennis sitting at the display floor.

Related achievement thresholds that people confuse with Hamptons property: Private Mansion measures apartment floor area at 90, 200 and 500 square metres, and Bricks and Mortar counts owned buildings at 2, 10 and 30. No source states whether a Hamptons house counts towards either, so we do not claim it does. See achievements for the full 126-entry table and real estate for the building code system.

Running a business on the retail strip

The changelog promises new business spots and "a few new luxury stores" among them. Two entries in the 1 September 2026 patch, Builds 3672 and 3674, tell you the strip is genuinely playable rather than decorative:

"Fixed sometimes no retail buildings were available in Hamptons"
"Fixed issue with tutorial if your first business is in Hamptons"

The second one matters. The developers built and repaired a tutorial path for players whose very first business is out there, so the neighbourhood is not purely endgame content. The same patch cycle also fixed Hamptons store parking lot entrances, a driver collider in the dining area, and a map bug inside Hamptons homes.

One structural advantage is documented. The Fandom Rivals page, edited 6 September 2026 and genuinely current, lists Industry City, Lower Manhattan and the Hamptons as the three neighbourhoods where opening businesses does not trigger a special rivalry. That is single-source and developer-unconfirmed, but it fits the changelog, which places rival homes in the Hamptons while assigning their business territories elsewhere. 1.0 also made rival attacks more aggressive, raising the value of a rivalry-free neighbourhood if the claim holds.

Supply is the open question, and it is open because the numbers disagree with each other. If you stock a Hamptons store from a warehouse elsewhere in the city, three separate community pages give three different answers on how many destinations one vehicle can serve:

Source	Claim
Fandom Delivery Driver and Logistics Manager pages, edited September 2026	Freight Truck T1 covers 4 destinations, rising to 8 with a 100% Logistics Manager
Fandom Importers page, October 2025	Every vehicle covers "up to 4"
Fandom Warehouse page, September 2026	One warehouse can reach 16 destinations

The delivery time contradicts too: one page says drivers run at 02:00 daily, another says schedules go out at 08:00. We publish none of these numbers as fact. The shape of the mechanic is what holds across all of them: a bigger truck plus a higher-skilled Logistics Manager reaches more stores, and deliveries fire automatically at a fixed time each day. See logistics.

Why every other wiki is blank here

The community Fandom wiki has 550 main-namespace articles and 11 active editors, two of whom have been retrofitting it for 1.0 since early September, tagging edits with notes like "not in 1.0 anymore". That work has not reached this neighbourhood. Queried through the Fandom API on 8 September 2026, the titles The Hamptons and Hamptons both return MISSING, as do Industry City, Speedy Bites, Onyx Luxury Chauffeurs and Pricing Manager.

Worse, its Neighborhoods page was last edited on 21 February 2025 and still opens by stating that New York City in Big Ambitions is separated into five neighbourhoods. That was wrong from Early Access 0.9 onwards and it is wrong by two now. Its neighbourhood category lists only those five, so neither Industry City nor the Hamptons is even categorised, and its subway station table dates to November 2024 and covers five neighbourhoods, which is why this page makes no claim about how you travel there.

One thing we will not do is fill the gap with guesses. There is a hidden achievement called Hostile Takeover with no Steam description, sitting at 0.1% like the rest of the hidden set, and a community page speculates that it involves owning a former rival's Hamptons home. That is an unverified single-source guess about an achievement Steam deliberately does not describe, and it is recorded here as a guess, not as a condition.

What this page deliberately does not state

Per-property prices. No developer figure exists, and the circulating range is single-source.
Rents. The Fandom apartment table dates to October 2024, covers four neighbourhoods, and contains at least one row whose rent was copied from a much larger unit.
Map positions or addresses. No source documents Hamptons street addresses.
Whether specific business types are viable there. That needs measured profit data nobody has published, and 1.0 reworked banking and taxation on top of Early Access 0.11's profitability changes. See businesses.

For the full list of what 1.0 changed, see version 1.0. For the other six neighbourhoods, see the map.

Change log

8 September 2026: Page created from the official 1.0 changelog of 14 August 2026 and the Steam achievement stats pulled 8 September 2026. Golf and tennis gating documented, circulating price range identified as single-source, Fandom's five-neighbourhood error corrected.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Hamptons in Big Ambitions?

It is the seventh neighbourhood, added by the 1.0 release on 28 August 2026. Hovgaard Games describes it in the official changelog as mostly a residential area with a fancy retail strip attached, containing mansions you can buy, a few new luxury stores, and homes in a gated community with a private dock. It is separate from Industry City, which was the sixth neighbourhood and arrived in Early Access 0.9.

How do you unlock golf and tennis in Big Ambitions?

Buy a home in the Hamptons. The 1.0 changelog states the Halcyon Fairway driving range opens 'once you've purchased a home in the Hamptons' and calls the A Racket of Love tennis court 'another exclusive for Hamptons homeowners'. Renting is not mentioned; the official wording is purchase. The third 1.0 minigame, Brick Breaker, has no such gate and runs on your home computer anywhere in the city.

How much does a house in the Hamptons cost?

Hovgaard Games has never published a figure. The official 1.0 post only asks whether you have 'a few million dollars to spend'. A range of 18.4 million dollars for a T1 up to 85.5 million dollars for a T11 circulates widely, but it traces to a single community wiki edit, and the rival site that repeats it labels its own source as that wiki's text. Two pages showing the same number here are one source, not two.

Are there rivals in the Hamptons?

Your four special rivals own homes there, but the neighbourhood is not one of their business territories. The community wiki's Rivals page, edited on 6 September 2026 for 1.0, lists Industry City, Lower Manhattan and the Hamptons as the three neighbourhoods where opening businesses does not trigger a special rivalry. The official changelog adds that rival homes are absent if you have already driven those rivals out of the city.

Why is there no Hamptons page on the Big Ambitions Fandom wiki?

Because nobody has written one. Every 1.0 addition checked against the Fandom API returns MISSING, including The Hamptons, Speedy Bites, Onyx Luxury Chauffeurs and Pricing Manager. Its Neighborhoods page was last edited on 21 February 2025 and still says New York is split into five neighbourhoods, and its neighbourhood category contains only those five, so Industry City and the Hamptons are not even categorised.

Can you run a business in the Hamptons?

Yes. The official changelog promises 'some new spots for you to run your businesses' on the retail strip, and the 1 September 2026 patch fixed a launch bug where retail buildings sometimes failed to appear there. The same patch fixed the tutorial for players whose first business was in the Hamptons, so the game does allow it from the opening hours of a save.