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Use this site as an Aspen real estate resource. The Estin Report has been accumulating Aspen real estate information online since 2005, and the reports include historical market information dating back to 2003-2004. Search by MLS #, date, topic, address, condo complex, development name, etc. If it is Aspen Snowmass real estate related, it is likely to be here.
The Estin Report Aspen Snowmass Weekly Real Estate Sales and Statistics: Closed (6) and Under Contract / Pending (11): June 09 – 16, 2013
Last week’s sales activity is posted 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… Read More
Excerpt: The billionaire manufacturing executive David MacNeil said, ”There’s really no bad time to buy great properties. No one ever regretted buying the very best, whether it is a premium collector car or a piece of premium real estate. Scared money chases bargains, and smart money chases excellence.”… Read More
September Sales Jump Due to Snowmass Base Village Closing, ABJ
Breaking down the statistics illuminates further trends. ASPEN REAL ESTATE — In the upper valley market, from Aspen to Old Snowmass and including Snowmass Village, the number of sales—235—is even with last year through September, according to Tim Estin, a broker with Coldwell Banker Mason Morse who does his own monthly and quarterly reports. Overall dollar volume is down 12 percent, mainly due to 30 percent fewer big-ticket sales this year, which Estin claims accounts for almost the entire dollar volume difference between this year and last. Still, overall third-quarter sales were strong, up 25 percent in dollars ($240.4 million) and 13 percent in unit sales (81) compared to the period of July 1 to Sept. 30 last year, according to Estin. The past few years have started out strong and sputtered to a close, but this year had the strongest third quarter of the past four years, Estin reported. A particularly strong segment is Aspen single-family home sales. Aspen (which for Estin includes Woody Creek and Old Snowmass) accounted for 83 percent of the overall dollar volume in the third quarter, and Aspen single-family home sales accounted for 56 percent of that dollar volume. Aspen homes sales were up 46 percent in dollar volume and 22 percent in number of sales in the third quarter. And the surge appears to have continued in October—Estin recently reported 15 sales of single-family homes in Aspen compared to six in October 2011. Commensurate with this was a 3 percent increase in the median home price ($3.8 million) and a 13 percent increase in the price per square foot ($1,013) in the third quarter. “Both metrics … can be seen as positive signs of home price stabilization,” Estin wrote. By Catherine Lutz, Nov. 7, 12 ABJ Snowmass Base Village Read More
Real estate frenzy in Colorado resorts is changing mountain character, Colorado Sun
(Read and print full article PDF) Colorado Sun, By Jason Blevins, May 11, 2021 Excerpt from Tim Estin interview: Wealthy urban refugees spending big: The wealthy from big cities such as Chicago, New York, Miami and Dallas are driving some of the biggest shifts. In Eagle County in… 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
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
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
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
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
COVID-19 AS THE GREAT ACCELERATOR, ASPEN JOURNALISM & ADN
Mar 21, 2025 article (Estin interview excerpt): …The effects were not only physical and emotional, but economic, especially in destinations such as Aspen, where urbanites flocked for a feeling of refuge and relaxation during a moment of global tumult. By the summer of 2020, it was evident… Read More