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...Vail Resorts, the largest ski operator in North America, is planning to shake up the equipment market by piloting a scheme that does away with rental shops....
...In 2012, he donated close to 167,000 acres of land on his Colorado ranch to the US Fish and Wildlife Service for conservation purposes, marking the largest ever easement in the US....
...to capitalise on investment opportunities thrown up by the savings and loans crisis, Colony made its name investing in iconic real estate including London’s Savoy Hotel and Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch...
...The ranch is still on the market; in February a real estate agent cut the asking price by 70 per cent, to $31m. (People close to Colony insist the ultimate outcome is still unknown.)...
...Mark Spindel is founder and chief investment officer at Potomac River Capital LLC, a Washington-based investment firm....
...The latest round of investment in DAH was led by Jefferson River Capital, a family office named after the river that runs through the Montana ranch of Mr James, one of the most powerful figures in the private...
...They had a justification: markets. To defenders of economics orthodoxy, markets are thought to have magic powers. There is a version of this magic market argument that I call the invisible hand wave....
...Uber’s rapid revenue growth (20 per cent a month) is pegged in part to that of the smartphone market....
...Mr Bacon is in the process of returning the ranch to its antebellum-era glory as a rice plantation....
...Heinz has downplayed suggestions that it would seek to acquire Pfizer’s infant nutrition business, saying it would invest more in condiments and sauces rather than “bet the ranch” on a big deal....
...Summers spent on his grandfather’s ranch in Yoakum, Texas, instilled in him a love of the land and horses....
...expanded his concept of stylish “Americana” in Paris by including a restaurant in his store serving his favourite American dishes, including hamburgers and steaks, with meat flown in from his Colorado ranch...
...which, as the FT notes, is better known for its real estate investments than for celeb artist rescues) will provide loans to help clean up Leibovitz’s finances, becoming her sole creditor and helping her market...
...In May 2008, Colony purchased a loan with a face value of about $23.5m on Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch....
...Another segment of the business, Jacobs Ranch mine, was sold to Arch Coal in October for $764m....
...“He intended to, and did, use plaintiffs’ money to fund [his] lifestyle, which included the development of a ‘swingers ranch’ in the Catskills and other pornographic-related endeavors.”...
...“At the low end, buyers are more sensitive to what’s happening in the broader mortgage market,” says Gregory Heym, chief economist at Terra Holdings LLC, a privately held real estate services company in...
...The 1950s ranch-style property in the township that he and his former wife bought in 1994 for $200,000 is now worth about $500,000....
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