{"id":19207,"date":"2013-04-12T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/lance-armstrong-lets-go-of-estate\/"},"modified":"2013-04-12T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:01:08","slug":"lance-armstrong-lets-go-of-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/lance-armstrong-lets-go-of-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Armstrong lets go of estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong has sold his Austin estate to an oil-and-gas rights agent.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin American-Statesman reports a deed of trust filed with Travis County last week showed Al Koehler obtained a $3.1 million loan to buy the property, Armstrong\u2019s home since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Although county tax rolls listed the 1.7-acre property\u2019s value at $3.9 million, local real estate agents say the house was listed at $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>However, in an e-mail to the American-Statesman, Koehler says he paid nothing close to the listed value.<\/p>\n<p>Koehler is a founder of Royalty Clearinghouse, which buys oil and gas royalties and mineral rights on behalf of clients.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong spokesman Mark Higgins confirmed the sale and says Armstrong plans to remain an Austin resident.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong has admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs. He was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in August and is banned for life from sports. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/C\/CYC_ARMSTRONG_ESTATE_SOLD?SITE=APSECTION=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong has sold his Austin estate to an oil-and-gas rights agent. The Austin American-Statesman reports a deed of trust filed with Travis County last week showed Al Koehler obtained a $3.1 million loan to buy the property, Armstrong\u2019s home since 2004. Although county tax rolls listed the 1.7-acre property\u2019s value at $3.9 million, local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-19207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}