What’s the Big Deal: $5 million lands West End home

Editor’s note: “What’s the Big Deal?” runs Sundays and is based on the most expensive property transaction recorded in Pitkin County through 3 p.m. each Friday.

Price: $5.065 million

Date recorded: Feb. 22

Address: 401 W. Bleeker St.

Neighborhood: West End

Buyer: Stephen M. Vance

Seller: Robyn Hudgens

Property type: Single-family residential

Year built: 2000

Total heated area: 4,232 square feet

Lot size: 7,500 square feet

Property tax bill: $14,098.96

Buzzworthy

• Longtime Aspen real estate broker Ed Foran has been hired as the managing broker for New York-based Douglas Elliman’s offices at Aspen, Aspen Highlands and Snowmass Village.

Most recently, Foran worked at Aspen Snowmass Sotheby’s International Realty.

“We are so excited to have Ed as a member and leader of our team,” Joshua Saslove, president of Douglas Elliman Colorado, said in a statement. “Ed has been part of the Aspen real estate community for over 20 years and is one of its most highly respected brokers. I look forward to working with him.”

Foran has served as the president of the Aspen Board of Realtors and was named Realtor of the Year by the board in 2006.

“Joining the Douglas Elliman team is a truly significant milestone in my real estate career,” Foran said in a statement. “I’m looking forward to sharing my knowledge of Aspen’s real estate market and working alongside this team of Aspen brokers.”

• Rowland+Broughton Architecture/Urban Design/Interior Design has added three members to its studio. Kurt Peterson and Derek Keil have joined as project architects, and Jan Pfeifer as accountant.

Most recently, Peterson was job captain at Land + Shelter in Carbondale. He also has worked as carpenter at Tom Rubin Construction in Carbondale and framer at Grand Avenue Builders in Glenwood Springs.

Keil previously worked as an architect at Revuelta Architecture International in Miami and, before that, as COO/Project Manager at Luckey LLC and intern architect at Svigals + Partners, both in New Haven, Connecticut.

Pfeifer had been controller at the Aspen Square Condominium Association. Before that, she provided financial services to The Inn at Aspen and Aspen Skiing Co., as well as her own company.

Rowland+Broughton has offices in Aspen and Denver.

rcarroll@aspentimes.com