Top home sales: Architect couple who designed own house sell it for $7.9M
Courtesy of Goodacre & Co. Real Estate)
A couple who designed and built a Hamptons-inspired home in Boulder sold it for $7.9 million last month, earning the top spot among local home sales in April.
Dennis and Annette Martin, both of whom are architects, sold their newly built 5,665-square-foot home at 1810 Norwood Ave. on April 15 to Vinay Nair, according to property records.
Nair is the founder of New York-based The TIFIN Group, which invests in and operates financial technology companies, according to his LinkedIn.
The Martins purchased the property for $2.03 million under their respective trusts in 2017, according to public records. They designed a three-bedroom, four-bathroom home for the half-acre lot in the foothills and hired Jamey Valentine Construction to complete it in 2019.
Top home sales: $6.5M Boulder property was the priciest purchase in March
Courtesy of LIV Sotheby’s International Realty)
A video game designer in Boulder leveled up last month with the $6.5 million purchase of a modern custom-built home sitting on five acres, earning the top spot among local home sales in March.
David Speyrer, a programmer and designer for Washington-based video game developer Valve Corp., bought the 6,247-square-foot house at 1357 S. Cherryvale in Boulder on March 5.
Speyrer has worked for Valve since 1999 and has helped develop first-person shooter games, such as “Half-Life 2” and “Left 4 Dead,” according to his LinkedIn.
Sellers Mark and Angela Heisten purchased the property in 2016 for $2.75 million, according to property records. Mark Heisten is a scholar in residence for advertising strategy at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Scales lifts 2020 profit, bad weather could weigh on 2021
25 Feb, 2021 08:45 PM
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Apple exporter Scales has reported a slight gain in operating earnings for 2020. Photo / Hawke s Bay Today
Scales Corp eked out a slight gain in its operating earnings over the 2020 year but the agribusiness group said bad weather and shipping delays would weigh on the current year s performance.
The company s underlying ebidta for calendar 2020 came to $53.9 million, up from $52.7m in 2019, while its underlying net profit fell to $33.8m from $36.4m.
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