Aspen property sales have broken record after record in recent years as super wealthy incoming residents and investors decide they want a piece of the Colorado mountain town’s booming popularity.
Sitting nearly 8,000 feet above sea level, the town was already the most expensive ski resort in America, boasting an area dubbed ‘billionaire mountain’ where notable property owners have included the chewing gum scion William Wrigley Jr Walmart heiress Ann Walton Kroenke and Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’ parents. But the pandemic-fuelled drive for space and a year-round outdoorsy lifestyle have helped propel house prices to stratospheric heights.
