My family’s roots in the San Juans trace back to the founding of Ouray. From mine claim holders at the Brooklyn Mine to a four-decade family business in Durango, this region and lifestyle is not somewhere I found. It’s somewhere I came from.

I’m Jonathan Yaseen (known locally as Jonny), a real estate advisor with Telluride Properties and co-founder of the Yaseen Brothers team alongside my brother Ryan. We built this team from the ground up, on our own terms, because we believed in what we were doing and where we were doing it.

Most people who work with me say the same thing afterward: they felt like they were making decisions, not being guided toward them. That’s intentional. My job is not to sell you on something. It’s to make sure you understand what you’re looking at, what it means for your situation specifically, and what your real options are. The right decision usually becomes obvious when the noise clears.

My background is not a typical real estate story. Before entering the market, I worked within a family investment office with holdings across real estate, hospitality, and life sciences. During that chapter, I provided direct support to the co-founder and Executive Chairman of a biotech company through its $1.6B IPO, gaining firsthand exposure to valuation, investor dynamics, and the full arc of a high-stakes capital-markets process. Prior to that, I served as Operating Partner at There Telluride, one of the region’s most respected hospitality businesses, where I shaped guest experience, operational culture, and brand identity for over a decade, and can still be found entertaining and serving up a shotski.

What that background gives a client is judgment. The questions that actually matter in this market about value, timing, structure, and long-term fit are rarely answered by a market report. They are answered by someone who has done that kind of thinking before and brings it to every conversation.

I work with buyers and sellers across the full range of Telluride real estate: Mountain Village estates and ski-access homes, historical and renovated legacy properties, condominiums, new development, and lifestyle ranches. What most clients find is that the process feels less complicated than they expected. Not because it is, but because having the right context makes the right moves easier to see.

My community involvement is not incidental. I have served on the San Miguel Bicycle Alliance, the Town of Telluride Open Space Commission, and the Town of Telluride Ethics Commission. Those roles gave me a working knowledge of local land use, policy, and development considerations that shapes how I think about every listing and every negotiation. In a market defined as much by geography and regulation as by demand, that knowledge matters in ways that show up in real transactions.

My wife and I are raising our two children here. That is not a tagline. It is the reason this work means something beyond the transaction.

If you are thinking about buying or selling in Telluride, I would rather have a real conversation than send you a brochure. The best ones usually start with a simple question.