John Denver guest house gets fixes; buyer sells for $8.2M

John Denver’s former guest house and music studio in Aspen, Colorado, has proved to be a valuable piece of real estate. The home, which sits on a 5-acre lot in Starwood, was once part of the singer’s estate, where he lived from the early 1970s until his death in a plane crash in 1997. The Aspen home was never his main residence, so the absence of a functional kitchen is understandable. The previous owners sold it ‘as is’ with some ‘deferred maintenance’, listing agent P.J. Bory of Christie’s International Real Estate Aspen Snowmass told Mansion Global.In April 2023, a Florida-based physician bought it for $4.75 million, then repaired the roof, replaced the sliding glass doors that face the mountains, and added a modern kitchen, a hot tub and a new deck. A year later, in June 2024, the property was listed for $8.495 million, but ended without a sale.