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Price: $7.25 million

Date recorded: April 19

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Address: 134 N. Spring St., Aspen

Buyer: 134 North Spring LLC

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Seller: James Berlin Trust, Madeline Berlin Trust

Property type: Condo

Year built: 1992

Total heated area: 5,389 square feet

Amenities: Three bedrooms, five baths

Property tax bill: $15,272.12

Buzzworthy

• Think your rent is high? Try leasing the home at 150 White Horse Springs Lane in Pitkin County, which is commanding $150,000 a month. That’s according to the website RENTCafe, which recently compiled a list showing the priciest rental homes in every state. The five-bedroom, six-bath home was the third-most expensive in the U.S., according to RENTCafe, which ranked a Miami Beach estate charging $300,000 a month as the costliest. Property records tie the White Horse property to the ownership of the Melvin Knyper Revocable Trust.

• New York-based Compass, a technology-driven luxury real estate company that acquired Shane Aspen Real Estate in March, has hired local brokers Doug Leibinger and Heidi Houston. Leibinger, once the No. 6 ranked broker at Sotheby’s, accounted for more than $88 million in closed sales in 2015, according to a company statement. Houston is the former president and owner of boutique brokerage Aspen Sales & Rentals.

rcarroll@aspentimes.com