I will tell you the truth about a property before you fall in love with it.
Claire Ashworth grew up in Monument, Colorado, and spent her twenties working as a title examiner at a small firm in Colorado Springs. That job taught her how transactions actually fall apart: unclear easements, missed HOA disclosures, title defects that nobody caught until the week of closing. When she got her real estate license in 2014, she already knew what most agents learn the hard way. She started Larkspur Granite View with one rule: never list a property she would not personally buy at that price.
The name comes from the stretch of Highway 83 between Larkspur and the granite outcroppings above Palmer Lake, a drive Claire made every morning for three years while working out of a shared office in Castle Rock. The business grew slowly by design. In the first two years she closed eleven transactions. She turned down three listings because the sellers' price expectations were not grounded in the market. Two of those sellers came back six months later and listed with her at the number she had originally suggested. That pattern repeated itself enough times that it became the foundation of how the business works.
Today 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.
