The Estin Report Aspen Snowmass Residential Real Estate 1st Quarter 2010 versus 1st Quarter 2009 Jan 1 – March 31, 2010 (See: 1Q 2010 Summary Chart) By Tim Estin mba, gri / Broker Associate,Mason Morse RE Contact: 970.309.6163 –… Read More
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The Estin Report Aspen Snowmass Real Estate Weekly Market Update Closed (6) and Under Contract (10): Nov. 6 – 13, 2011
Tim Estin is an active Aspen real estate broker with Coldwell Banker Mason Morse located in the center of Aspen. This blog, www.AspenRealEstateBlog.com or Tim Estin’s blog, is released Monday mornings and sometimes in-between. The Estin… Read More
The Estin Report © – Aspen Real Estate: State of the Market and Trends, 3rd Quarter 2008
By Tim Estin mba, gri | Mason Morse Real Estate, Aspen | 970.920.7387 office Oct 28, 2008 (Updated from the original article, Mountain Business Journal, January 2nd, 2007) Immediate Market Highlights: Our market may have slowed but it has not stopped … we are not immune but we are insulated. Here’s what Aspen property is moving now. The overall theme is “ instant gratification” sells Superb, Aspen in-town locations and drop dead new remodels and new construction Trophy purchases, $$ seemingly no object. Realistic priced properties with motivated sellers who understand marketplace conditions and realities. Great perceived ‘value’ buys. Buyers are absolutely more discriminating than ever. West End single family homes: transactions are off -20% YTD, but off -50% from the peak YTD 2006. However, price/sq ft is higher; new product is selling; people want to be in-town, walk to everything. Aspen downtown core sales have plummeted, down 70% YTD, -76% 3Q08 and -61% below the lowest YTD 2004 Snowmass Village (SMV) single family home activity is on the uptick as sellers mark down prices and inventory begins to move. New Snowmass Base Village sales YTD have been off the chart upwards. Unknown: if developers and builders start to capitulate, how will it affect existing home prices and sales? Read More
The Estin Report Aspen Snowmass Weekly Real Estate Sales and Statistics: Closed (9) and Under Contract / Pending (16): Jan 06 – Jan 13, 2013
Last weeks sales activity is published below. Scroll down page for photos and details of weekly solds and under contract /pending Aspen properties in the past 4 weeks. For earlier dates, use the down arrow to search the blog archives by year and date. Read More
Residences at the Little Nell (RLN) – Sales and Solds to Date
As of 2018, developer inventory at Residences at the Little Nell is sold out and all fractional sales now are re-sales. As in most real estate transactions, prices are negotiable. A buyer or seller would want an advocate on their side to best appreciate the product, to understand… Read More
The Estin Report © – Aspen/Snowmass Condos: Summer 2007
By Tim Estin, Broker Associate / Mason Morse Real Estate Aspen / 970.920.7387 office June 1, 2007 (updated from original article in Mountain Business Journal, February 28th, 2006) 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. Read More
Aspen 2008 Economic Outlook: Will the Rich Keep Spending, ADN
By Brent Gardner-Smith, Jan 2, 2008, Aspen Daily News
For Aspen’s gold-plated economy to continue to purr along in 2008, thousands of wealthy people will need to once again decide to build or buy large expensive Homes, entertain lavishly in those homes, purchase luxury goods such as jewelry and art, and continue to spend freely in the local resort marketplace.
While there are signs that some Americans may now be hesitating before making such decisions, there may be other off-setting factors, including the fact that even Aspen’s real estate prices may now look like a bargain to European consumers.
Designing, approving, building, selling, buying, maintaining and using large luxury homes in Aspen, Snowmass Village and Pitkin County is the main economic engine of the Roaring Fork Valley.
And one of the leading indicators for that sector of the economy is real estate sales.
It appears as if 2007 will have produced the second largest sum of real estate sales in Pitkin County, just behind 2006. In 2006, a record $2.4 billion worth of real estate in Pitkin County changed hands.
Through November 2007, there was $2.3 billion in real estate sales recorded, according to Land Title Guarantee Co.
And it appears as if 2008 might bring a slight chill to the local market, which is still very robust, if not surreal.
Consider that just five years ago, the amount of annual real estate sales in Pitkin County was “only” $1.2 billion.
“We’ve seen a weakening in the numbers of sales and in dollar volumes compared to where we were in 2006,” said Randy Gold, the president and owner of Aspen Appraisal Group Ltd., who recently completed a year end analysis of the Aspen and Snowmass Village real estate markets. “2006 will probably remain the record year, but so what? It doesn’t mean that 2007 was bad and it doesn’t mean the 2008 will be bad.” Read More
The Estin Report Aspen Snowmass Weekly Real Estate Sales and Statistics: Closed (8) and Under Contract / Pending (8): Nov 11 – 18, 2012
Scroll down page for photos and details of sold and under contract (pending) Aspen properties in the past 4 weeks. For earlier dates, use the down arrow to the blog archives and search by date. Or use SearchEstinAspen… Read More
Russian Billionaires Buy U.S. Estates as Overseas Wealth Flows, BB
International buyers purchased an estimated $82 billion worth of U.S. homes in the 12 months ended March 31, a 24 percent increase from the year-earlier period, the National Association of Realtors reported May 18…Foreign buyers are also turning to resort locales such as the ski area of Aspen, Colorado,… Read More
Market Activity – (3) Closings, (5) Under Contracts/Pending, Thunderbowl/Aspen Highlands Big Price Reduction: Feb 8-15, 2009
The info in this weekly blog, with the exception of my opinions, is generally available to the public from a number of sources but disseminated here at a single location. It’s my intention to report the significant week’s activity but not everything. Quality and accuracy over quantity and hype. Read More
“Looking Up at Last” – Merrill Lynch Wealth Mgmt Luxury Home Report
Published by Merrill Lynch Private Banking and Investment Group, Oct. 25, 2012 An exclusive city-by-city analysis of the high-end residential real estate market suggests that those waiting for a meaningful recovery to set in need wait no longer. Click for Report pdf Resort Report Mixed Excerpt: Venerable high-end resort towns, while too small to be included in Merrill Lynch's survey of Zillow data, share the same long-term appeal of properties in Manhattan or San Francisco: a natural supply limit. As Michael Feder, president and CEO of research and analysis firm Radar Logic Inc., puts it, "They aren't making new oceanfront property in the Hamptons anymore." That's not to say such areas weren't hit hard during the crisis. "Prices in Aspen, Colo., dropped 25% to 40% after 2008", says Tim Estin, a broker at Coldwell Banker Mason Morse Real Estate in Aspen, Colo., and the publisher of The Estin Report, a monthly and quarterly analysis of the Aspen/Snowmass home market. Since then, the recovery has been a bit all over the map, Estin says. The total amount of money spent on Aspen homes surged 20% year over year in 2011, then retreated 37% year over year in the first half of 2012, then surged 55% this past summer. A lot of this has to do with the degree to which a very few number of very expensive homes can skew the market in an area like Aspen. For example, through the first half of 2011, 12 properties sold for more than $10 million, whereas during the same period this year, there were just five transactions of that magnitude. But perhaps a more telling statistic is the total number of units sold. That number — which was up 26% for the summer of 2012 vs. the summer of 2011 — suggests to Estin that while some high-end buyers may still be putting their vacation dreams on hold amid lingering uncertainties about the economy, more are recognizing that now may represent "an unprecedented opportunity" to acquire properties at prices not seen in nearly a decade. Read More
Colorado Resort Homes Sell at Slower Pace, Lower Prices, DP
A different type of value hunter is propping up the market in Pitkin County. The county as a whole endured a flat year, but the high-end markets in Aspen and Snowmass Village saw dollar volume climb 15 percent and transactions climb 25 percent. The two tony enclaves saw 16 sales over $10 million in 2011, compared with only 10 in 2010."High-end buyers realized they could get great value," said Aspen broker Tim Estin, who writes a quarterly market analysis called the Estin Report. "What was once $30 million was selling for $15 million or $20 million." Signs for January 2012 are varied. San Miguel County saw the slowest January in several years, with 24 sales stirring only $9.6 million, compared to January 2011's 33 sales worth $25.3 million. But Aspen-Snowmass saw a very strong January, with 29 deals worth $98.26 million. That's up from 20 deals worth $79.48 million in January 2011, a month that floated hope for a rebound after a dismal 2010. "But back in January 2011, there was just as much positive news as this past January, so while I'm optimistic, things could be derailed just as they were last year," Estin said. By Jason Blevins, March 4, 2012, Denver Post Read More
