Eric OKeefe

Promontory Club Seeks Bankruptcy Protection

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

What a difference a mortgage meltdown can make. A few years ago, I was touring the high country meadows outside Park City with Jack Nicklaus and his design team as the Golden Bear crafted one of his Signature Courses at…

Sale of the Forbes Trinchera Ranch

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Land Report Editor Eric O’Keefe discusses one the biggest sales of 2007, the 171,000-acre Forbes Trinchera Ranch in Colorado to hedge fund manager Louis Bacon.

Tagged with: Forbes Ranch, Land Report 100, Louis Bacon, Sangre de Cristos, Trinchera Ranch
Posted in Conservation, Eric OKeefe, Hunting, Minerals, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Taxes, Topics, Video, West

Editor’s Note: Buy High

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

One of the consequences of our August cover story on Harrison Ford’s gorgeous 800-acre property along the Snake River in Jackson Hole was that I got a much better understanding of the dynamics of the real estate market in that…

Posted in Eric OKeefe, Magazine

Sold! Forbes Trinchera Ranch

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

The Forbes family has sold the ranch. In the largest transaction involving The Land Report 100 in 2007, the four sons and one daughter of Malcolm Forbes signed off on the sale of their 171,400-acre Trinchera Ranch in Southern Colorado…

Corn Drives Land Prices Higher and Higher

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

It’s official. The New York Times proclaimed in August that the market for Midwestern farmland was “hot,” a declaration akin to labeling Hurricane Katrina “dangerous” two weeks after it devastated the Gulf Coast. Anyone remotely familiar with the Corn Belt…

Interview: Jill Rappaport

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

The Land Report, September 2007 Patience pays off as Jill Rappaport parcels together an 18-acre sanctuary on Long Island. By Eric O’Keefe. Photography by Linda Solomon. Things got Western when Katie Couric left the Today Show for the CBS Evening…

Posted in Eric OKeefe, Interviews, September 2007

How to Buy a Napa Vineyard

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

I came across this little ditty from the June 2007 issue when Julie Blacklidge profiled Francis Ford Coppola and we got some great interview footage of FFC that is now in our Video Archives. I think a more complete How…

Interview: Tom Brokaw

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

The Land Report, May 2007 He has a front-row seat at some of the most momentous events in recent history, yet to hear him tell it, what happened on a river bank on his Montana ranch a couple of years…

Posted in Eric OKeefe, Interviews, May 2007

Going Off the Grid

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

Four miles from the nearest road. No electricity. No running water. Not even cell phone service. No matter. “It took me more than a year to find this place,” Chet Morrison says as he gestures toward the larger-than-life views…

Tagged with: Big Bend, Chet Morrison, Eric O'Keefe, West Texas
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Magazine, May 2007, News Desk, Regional News, Southwest

Tom Brokaw: The Land Report Interview

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

BY ERIC O’KEEFE PUBLISHED MAY 2007 Tom Brokaw has had a front-row seat at some of the most momentous events in recent history, yet to hear him tell it, what happened on an isolated river bank on his Montana ranch…