Excerpt: “I think you can say confidently that there is nothing like this in North America,” says Randy Gold, a long-time Aspen real estate appraiser. He noted that in 2024, roughly 1/3 of the single-family-home transactions in the Aspen market went for over $20M. “And there is no way that billionaires aren’t driving that,” he added. In a first-quarter 2025 analysis, Aspen real estate broker Tim Estin reported that the average asking price for a single-family home in Aspen soared to $17.2 million, up 67 percent from 2021.”