Aerie was founded on a single conviction: that the best mountain houses ought to be matched to the right people, and that nobody is served when that match is rushed. Fifteen years on, we still represent fewer than fifty residences a year — across three continents and a handful of valleys we know by name.
“A house is not a transaction. It is the place a family will be on the first morning of a hundred winters.”
We accept perhaps one in twelve homes brought to us. Each is visited in person — in the season the buyer will live there, not the season it photographs well.
Most of our buyers take eighteen months to find the right home. We're alright with that. The right match is worth the season it takes to surface.
Every Aerie home comes with a working relationship with the local builder, caretaker, and — when it matters — the watershed council. We are still on call ten years later.
Elin Voss returns from a decade in the Engadin and quietly opens a one-room office on East Hopkins. The first listing — a 1924 lodge in Snowmass — sells without an advertisement.
A practice begins with a single restoration: an old miner's cottage above Castle Creek.
Marcus Eklund joins as senior broker and we begin representing properties along the Sea-to-Sky and the Cheakamus valley.
First Pacific Range representation. A small floatplane is sometimes involved.
We open an office above the lake in Austria and begin our European book. The first listing is the Highmoor Estate — still on our roster today.
Aerie becomes a three-continent practice, still with fewer than ten staff.
We formalize what we'd been doing all along: a long-term care relationship with every Aerie home, regardless of who currently owns it.
A program for the lifetime of the house, not just the transaction.
Nine brokers across three continents, each chosen for what they knew before they were brokers — a structural engineer, two architects, a former park ranger, and an inn-keeper who still keeps the inn.
Meet the team