Tim Estin
MBA, GRI
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Phone: (970) 920-7387
Cell Phone: (970) 309-6163
Fax: (970) 925-7027
E-mail: testin@masonmorse.com
Aspen Office
514 East Hyman Avenue
Aspen, CO 81611
Tim Estin mba, gri / Broker Associate - www.EstinAspen.com
Tim Estin is an active Aspen real estate broker with Mason Morse Real Estate, the local firm selected as the exclusive Aspen Snowmass Board of Regent representative in the Aspen Snowmass area for LuxuryRealEstate.com, the leading luxury real estate site on the web.
Since 2005, Tim has authored The Estin Reportand more recently the AspenRealEstateBlog.com (Tim Estin's Blog). Under this umbrella name, The Estin Report is a continually evolving sales, marketing and research platform for Tim's listings and for Aspen Snowmass luxury real estate in general. It is a fact-based Aspen Snowmass real estate market resource widely read by sellers and buyers, attorneys, appraisers, brokers, bankers, planners, developers, builders, journalists and others. Tim has also contributed articles and comments on Aspen real estate in the Mountain Business Journal, Aspen Times, Aspen Daily News, Aspen Sojourner Magazine, Aspen Magazine, Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Bloomberg, WSJ and interviews on NPR/Colorado Public Radio and KAJX/Aspen Public Radio.
From 2005 - 2007, he served as the Aspen Board of Realtor's (ABOR) Liaison to the City of Aspen. Before this, he was the ABOR Liaison for the extensive 2006 Pitkin County Land Use Code (LUC) Rewrite approved after a three year review. Tim was the only broker representative of the 700 member Aspen Board of Realtors selected by Pitkin County to serve on the Land Use Code/Technical Advisory Committee advising the Pitkin County Board of Commissioners and P & Z. These volunteer positions have involved communicating policy, political issues, code changes and their consequences to buyers, sellers and the Aspen real estate community.
In the 1980's, Tim worked as a market analyst for Sno-engineering, Inc, the well-known mountain resort planning & consulting firm, then based in Aspen and Lyme, New Hampshire.
Tim has long-time family roots in Aspen with an insiders knowledge and connection to the local real estate scene - it's history, geography, people and networks. He learned to ski before he could walk and went to elementary school at the Yellow Brick in Aspen's Historic West End. For his high school Choate Rosemary Hall senior year project, he returned home to Aspen and was an architect's apprentice for his friend and mentor, Fritz Benedict, Aspen's noted architect for whom the Aspen Music Festival Benedict Tent is named. With Fritz, Tim was an original member and one of the founding Directors of the Tenth Mountain Hut & Trail Association (www.huts.org) between Aspen and Vail. See recent fall 2010 Financial Times article on the TMTA / Aspen Huts.
Tim's father, Peter Estin, was born in Prague, and the family emigrated to Boston in the early forties. After attending Dartmouth as ski team captain, in the late 1950's and early 60's he was the Director of Ski School at both Sugarbush, Vt and Portillo, Chile. He wrote "Ski the American Way", considered by many a ski teaching classic. He was also a New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and Colliers cartoonist in the 1950's and held an MS in International Relations from Harvard. The Peter Estin Hut, part of the Tenth Mtn Hut System, was built in his loving memory by his family.
Tim Estin is an active Aspen real estate broker with Mason Morse Real Estate, the local firm selected as the exclusive Aspen Snowmass Board of Regent representative in the Aspen Snowmass area for LuxuryRealEstate.com, the leading luxury real estate site on the web.
Since 2005, Tim has authored The Estin Reportand more recently the AspenRealEstateBlog.com (Tim Estin's Blog). Under this umbrella name, The Estin Report is a continually evolving sales, marketing and research platform for Tim's listings and for Aspen Snowmass luxury real estate in general. It is a fact-based Aspen Snowmass real estate market resource widely read by sellers and buyers, attorneys, appraisers, brokers, bankers, planners, developers, builders, journalists and others. Tim has also contributed articles and comments on Aspen real estate in the Mountain Business Journal, Aspen Times, Aspen Daily News, Aspen Sojourner Magazine, Aspen Magazine, Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Bloomberg, WSJ and interviews on NPR/Colorado Public Radio and KAJX/Aspen Public Radio.
From 2005 - 2007, he served as the Aspen Board of Realtor's (ABOR) Liaison to the City of Aspen. Before this, he was the ABOR Liaison for the extensive 2006 Pitkin County Land Use Code (LUC) Rewrite approved after a three year review. Tim was the only broker representative of the 700 member Aspen Board of Realtors selected by Pitkin County to serve on the Land Use Code/Technical Advisory Committee advising the Pitkin County Board of Commissioners and P & Z. These volunteer positions have involved communicating policy, political issues, code changes and their consequences to buyers, sellers and the Aspen real estate community.
In the 1980's, Tim worked as a market analyst for Sno-engineering, Inc, the well-known mountain resort planning & consulting firm, then based in Aspen and Lyme, New Hampshire.
Tim has long-time family roots in Aspen with an insiders knowledge and connection to the local real estate scene - it's history, geography, people and networks. He learned to ski before he could walk and went to elementary school at the Yellow Brick in Aspen's Historic West End. For his high school Choate Rosemary Hall senior year project, he returned home to Aspen and was an architect's apprentice for his friend and mentor, Fritz Benedict, Aspen's noted architect for whom the Aspen Music Festival Benedict Tent is named. With Fritz, Tim was an original member and one of the founding Directors of the Tenth Mountain Hut & Trail Association (www.huts.org) between Aspen and Vail. See recent fall 2010 Financial Times article on the TMTA / Aspen Huts.
Tim's father, Peter Estin, was born in Prague, and the family emigrated to Boston in the early forties. After attending Dartmouth as ski team captain, in the late 1950's and early 60's he was the Director of Ski School at both Sugarbush, Vt and Portillo, Chile. He wrote "Ski the American Way", considered by many a ski teaching classic. He was also a New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and Colliers cartoonist in the 1950's and held an MS in International Relations from Harvard. The Peter Estin Hut, part of the Tenth Mtn Hut System, was built in his loving memory by his family.
Professional Memberships
ABOR - Aspen Board of REALTORS
CAR - Colorado Association of REALTORS
NAR -National Association of REALTORS
Tim is also a regular contributor to the LuxuryRealEstate.com blog on Aspen and Snowmass real estate.
REALTOR Designations
GRI - Graduate REALTOR Institute
CNE - Certified REALTOR Negotiation Expert
ePro - REALTOR Internet Specialist
Education
MBA - Masters of Business Administration, Boston University Graduate School of Management
BA - Bachelor of Arts, Political Economics, Honors Thesis, Colorado College