What’s the Big Deal: $10.5 million gets Difficult Lane property

Address: 110 Difficult Lane

Price: $10.5 million

Buyer: Robert Bridger and Wendy Dransfield

Seller: Maureen McCluskey

Property type: Residential

Year built: 1990

Total heated area: 4,300 square feet

2014 property tax bill: $8,071.60

Worth noting: The new owners can build as big as a 10,700-square-foot home on the property, which is surrounded by U.S. Forest Service Land and next to the Roaring Fork River about 3.5 miles east of Aspen. The existing home has three bedrooms and two baths and sits on 2.9 acres of land. Shane Real Estate had the listing, which most recently advertised the property for $11.5 million. The property had been under McCluskey’s name since May 1983, when it was bought, undeveloped, for $220,000, according to county records.