Archives for December 2013

Today, Erik Cavarra Features Modern vs. Historical: 1. Take a walk down your block Your home probably fits right in with many other historic or period homes on your same block or in your neighborhood.  If you are working to restore your home to its original structure or need help adding-on without the addition looking garish, take a stroll in your neighborhood.  Study the homes surrounding Continue Reading

Today, Erik Cavarra features an article regarding World Real Estate: Over the past few years, we have become all too familiar with housing bubbles. When markets go bust, it gets ugly. Rapidly rising home prices in the early 2000's got the U.S. and parts of Europe into lots of trouble; these economies slumped into recession when prices crashed. Nobody wants to relive another economic disaster, Continue Reading

Sleek stainless appliances and shiny granite counters may get all the attention, but the real star in any kitchen is the cabinetry. Cabinetry affects the way your kitchen looks, feels and functions. “There’s a huge range in cabinetry today,” said John Morgan, 2013 president of the National Kitchen and Bath Association and owner of Morgan Pinnacle, a Maryland-based manufacturers’ representatives’ Continue Reading

Basalt, Colorado: Willits Today, Erik Cavarra discusses the Willits Development and the setback regarding future building constraints for affordable housing and free market unit inventory. The Denver Catholic Archdiocese’s plan to build a 66-unit, low-income rental housing project at Willits Town Center in Basalt has suffered at least a temporary setback. The Colorado Housing and Finance Continue Reading

Snowmass Village, Colorado: Today, Erik Cavarra has successfully brokered the transaction for a Buyer who closed on a beautifully designed and furnished Owl Creek Townhome. Property Type: RES w/Improvments Townhouse Address: 304 Streamside Court 25 Snowmass Village, CO 81615 Status: Closed Asking Price: $3,450,000 List Continue Reading

Despite some decent helpings of early snowfall this autumn, what locals and visitors had been hoping for finally came ­— an estimated 14-inch dumping of powder atop Aspen Mountain and 12 inches on Snowmass ski area late Tuesday and much of Wednesday. If fact, Mother Nature was generous throughout the Roaring Fork Valley, dropping about 11 inches in the city of Aspen, 9 or 10 inches in the Continue Reading

Basalt, Willits: Today Erik Cavarra features a proposed alteration to the Willits Plan: The owner and developer of Willits Town Center is seeking some major alterations of the project’s approvals from the Basalt Town Council in a process that will kick off Tuesday night. Mariner Real Estate Management Inc., of suburban Kansas City, Kan.,said in its application that it wants to build off Continue Reading

Today, Erik Cavarra highlights Bill Koch's story of adventure: The controversial businessman is building an Old West town near Paonia that’s a full-scale reproduction of a 19th-century settlement. But is the town simply the project of an eccentric billionaire, or is there more to the story? 5280 got an exclusive look at the controversial project—and spoke with the man behind the classic Continue Reading

Aspen, Colorado: Today, Erik Cavarra features the newest Hotel/Lodge Acquisition in Aspen. Operators of two local hotels have acquired the Mountain House bed and breakfast out of bankruptcy, and are appealing to the Aspen city government for more incentives to keep the property a lodge. Michael Brown, who along with brother Aaron and their group HayMax Capital, owns the Molly Gibson Lodge Continue Reading

The city of Aspen is looking to purchase three studio condominiums on East Hopkins Avenue for $309,000. The three units, ranging from 417 to 428 square feet, are located in “the Edge of Ajax” complex and are for sale by the Ulrych Estate. Deed restrictions associated with the units require rents of $402 and $412 per month, which are below the city’s Category 1 rent level of $460. The deed Continue Reading