Published Articles – Tim Estin

Aspen-Snowmass Condos: Summer 2007

Tim Estin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:00:00 +0000

The Aspen/Snowmass condo market is as hot as ever. If you are a visitor or an Aspen local thinking about a condominium purchase, here’s some background and current market information. Summary – summer 2007: The focus of this article is on “middle market” condos which cost approximately $750,000 to $3,500,000 million. In general, inventory is low and demand is surging. At present, we are in a fast...

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Socio-Economic Trends Affecting the Roaring Fork Valley, Summer 2007

Tim Estin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Locally, the past 3 1/2 years have been unprecedented in the Aspen/Roaring Fork Valley’s upward trajectory of real estate values. Prices are at record levels – although at any point in time in the past 50 years in Aspen they have been – and inventory is tight. The state of the housing market in much of the country may be gloomy but in the Roaring Fork Valley (Aspen, Basalt, Carbondale...

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Aspen Land Values and Opportunities: Winter & Spring 2007

Tim Estin — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Land value drives real estate prices. And as vacant land in Aspen is almost impossible to find, much of the existing home stock built in the 1960’s through the ‘80’s becomes attractive to builders and developers for what lies beneath, not the structures themselves in spite of their apparent livability. This is not just an Aspen phenomenon. Most high end localities and resorts around the country...

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Pitkin County 2006 Land Use Code: A Primer

Tim Estin — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:00:00 +0000

By Tim Estin mba, gri| Broker Associate |Mason Morse Real Estate, Aspen | 970.920.7387 office Authors note: In 2005 and 2006. I was the Aspen Board of Realtors liaison for the extensive 2006 Pitkin County Land Use Code (LUC) Rewrite. As such, I communicated policy, political issues, code changes, and their consequences to the Aspen Realtor community, property buyers and sellers.The new code was...

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Aspen Real Estate as a Safe Harbor

Tim Estin — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 07:00:00 +0000

In last week’s column (Dec 21-26th), I focused on major demographic and socio-economic trends strongly favoring continued growth in real estate demand in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley. This week, I’d like to make a case – subjective, not entirely quantifiable – for Aspen as ‘safe harbor’, as a relatively safe and prudent arena from a wealth preservation perspective to buy and hold real estate...

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