by Hugo Cox, Financial Times
December 2, 2021
A big part of the appeal of Basalt is the discount it offers on Aspen, whose popularity with America’s super-rich has pushed prices beyond the budgets of most buyers. According to the Aspen Board of Realtors, the median price of a detached home sold in Aspen in the year to October was $9.6m, compared with $1.43m in Basalt.