The dollar volume of real estate sales in Pitkin County soared by 81 percent in June compared to 2009, according to a report released Friday.

Born during the Depression in a northeast Louisiana plantation town of 3,000, Charles Wyly and his younger brother Sam have been inseparable since childhood: numbers 3 and 13 on the state-championship high school football team, business partners who turned ideas into billion-dollar companies, philanthropic champions and benefactors of politicians, including the Bush political dynasty. Now the ...

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Real estate investment trust Starwood Property Trust said its chief financial officer, Barbara Anderson, has resigned. Anderson left to "pursue different career options," said Andrew Sossen, the company's head of investor relations. "It was a completely... Real estate - Investment trust - Business - Investing - Investor relations

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