Blog :: 2010
Winter Arrives in Aspen, Colorado

Monday's storm left Aspen with over a foot of fresh snow on some ski mountains. The snowstorm shut down the airport and Highway 82 over IndependencePass. Great news for The Aspen Skiing Co. as they took advantage of the cold temperatures and fired up the snowguns on Aspen Mountain a week earlier than planned! Count down to ski season...
Mason & Morse Ranch Company Announces Areas Largest Land Auction in Kansas
Mason & Morse Ranch Company has announced the upcoming auction of over 15,500 acres of top-quality cropland in the northwest territory of Kansas. The size of the acreage being set for absolute auction sale represents one of the largest amounts of cropland acres ever offered at auction at one time in western [...]
Mason Morse Lists Rare Aspen Ranch Property
Woody Creek, Colorado. Mason Morse Real Estate has listed the historic Craig Ranch, located only 20 minutes from Aspen in the pristine Woody Creek Valley. At 838 acres and bordered by US Forest Service designated road less areas, it is one the few remaining Aspen legacy ranches of this caliber, size and diversity with abundant resources and [...]
Brian Hazen of Mason Morse Real Estate Closes Significant Sale in Aspen

ASPEN,CO Mason Morse Real Estate is proud to announce the sale of Aspen Lakes Ranch for $24.5 million. Brian Hazen, Vice President/Broker Associate of Mason Morse represented the Buyer. The sale represents the highest priced single family home sale in the Aspen/Snowmass market since July of 2009. "I judge Aspen by its quality of life and
[...]The Estin Report: Aspen Snowmass Vacant Land Report 2004 - 2010 YTD (June 18, 2010)

"Because there continues to be sufficient inventory of great homes available for purchase, although rapidly thinning, and not to mention the hassles of the permitting and building process with a particularly onerous Pitkin County Land Use Code, buyers, in general, do not want to buy land and build at present. In addition, credit markets continue to be locked up making many land purchases all but impossible."
Mason Morse Broker, Bryan Peterson, shares NBC interview of Heath Calhoun
Bryan Peterson reports on his travels and coaching at the Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games.
The following article is related to an interview with Heath Calhoun. He trains with Challenge Aspen during�the winter. Amazing person and athlete. He lost his legs in Iraq.
Challenge Aspen is an organization in Aspen dedicated to impacting [...]
Broker Bryan Peterson reports on Vancouver Paralympic Games

Bryan Peterson, a broker with Mason Morse in Aspen, has been selected as a Coach for the Paralympic Team in Vancouver in March 2010. While there, Bryan's agreed to be a correspondent on the latest happenings and keep us up to [...]
The Estin Report: Aspen Real Estate "White Paper" 2009/2010 Year End Summary
"Yes, there are challenges and the real estate business will be choppy because as mentioned we've found we are not immune from national and global economic events as previously thought. Aspen offers a small town community with world class amenities within a highly restrictive zoning environment that for the past 40 years has has successfully protected its unique beauty and historic charm. There is every reason to believe that in an over-crowded and homongenous world Aspen's unique attributes will be in ever-increasing demand in the future."




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