During this pandemic, our small mountain town has been affected in ways we could have never envisioned. While Aspen’s international appeal sustains its long term vibrancy, it also has created a situation where we wish it was just a small village high in the Colorado Rockies...safe from the outside world for just a month or two or three.
While we are social distancing and self-isolating, the internet offers the best connection to the outside world and we are spending hours surfing, connecting and shopping. Shopping for real estate has now become a national past time, offering an escape as we dream about possibly living in a village high in the Rockies.
An effective tool for “touring” a house today is Matterport. The revolutionary platform allows you to step in a home and virtually walk through it, look out the windows, look up to the ceiling, peek around a corner, look in every nook and cranny and even measure the walls...all without leaving your home. Just follow the ghosted white circles, by clicking, scrolling up/down and right/left, and walking through a home: