A 4-bedroom, 3-bath home on 2.3 acres at 7,200 feet, built in 1998 and...
A 12.4-acre raw land parcel above Palmer Lake with a valid well permit...
A 2-bedroom, 1-bath cabin on 5.1 acres at 8,800 feet, built in 1974 with a...
Closes a maximum of eight transactions per year, by choice
Former title examiner: reads easements and CC&Rs before recommending any offer
Turns down overpriced listings rather than take them and wait
"Claire told us the first house we wanted to offer on had a shared well agreement that would complicate resale. We were annoyed at the time. Six months later we closed on a better property with a private well and we are very glad she said something."— Marcus and Diane Hollowell
Colorado mountain properties, honestly represented
Browse PropertiesToday Larkspur Granite View operates as a boutique practice. Claire works with a maximum of eight active clients at any given time, which is a deliberate constraint. The foothills corridor between Sedalia and Divide is a specific, sometimes quirky market: properties can sit for 200 days and then receive multiple offers in a weekend when the right buyer appears. Understanding that rhythm takes patience and local knowledge that does not transfer from the Denver metro. If you want a fast transaction above all else, there are larger teams better suited to that. If you want someone who will tell you the truth about a property before you fall in love with it, that is what this office does.
I will tell you the truth about a property before you fall in love with it.Raw land in the Colorado foothills looks straightforward on a listing sheet: acreage, zoning, price per acre. In practice, the gap between a parcel that is genuinely buildable and one that will cost you years of permitting headaches is not visible from the road. This guide covers the five things we check on every land parcel before recommending an offer.
Read more →Most relocation guides for Colorado focus on the scenery and the lifestyle. This one focuses on the practical realities that affect whether a property works for your household on a Tuesday in February. If you are moving from sea level or from a flat-state city, some of what follows will surprise you.
Read more →Automated valuation tools like Zillow's Zestimate are built on large datasets of comparable sales. In dense suburban markets, they can be reasonably accurate. In the foothills corridor, where two properties on the same road can differ by $300,000 because one has a private well and the other has a shared well agreement, they are often wrong by a significant margin. Here is how we actually price a mountain property.
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Claire Ashworth was born and raised in Monument, Colorado, and spent eight years as a title examiner at Pikes Peak Title Services in Colorado Springs before earning her real estate license in 2014. She founded Larkspur Granite View the same year, drawing on her title background to build a practice focused on the foothills corridor between Castle Rock and Woodland Park. She has closed transactions ranging from a 0.4-acre in-fill lot in Larkspur to a 160-acre horse property outside Divide. On weekends she hikes the Palmer Lake Reservoirs trail and keeps a small vegetable garden that, she admits, produces more zucchini than any household needs.