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Santa Fe Neighborhood Quick Sketch: South Capitol

by Malissa Kullberg on February 4, 2010

Rail traffic and an expanding middle class fueled the development of South Capitol in the early twentieth century. A rich and appealing collection of single family homes, condos, and small compounds, South Capitol charms with its architectural diversity. Craftsman bungalows intermingle with Pueblos,  Pueblo Deco revivals, Victorians and Territorials. Construction materials run the Santa Fe [...]

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What It Takes to Sell a Home in Santa Fe

by Malissa Kullberg on January 29, 2010

Ready to get radical?
You think you’ve done it all: decluttered, staged, priced and marketed your property appropriately, and it’s still not selling.  What now?
Through open houses, in-house broker tours, MLS tours and showings, your agent has had opportunities to gather feedback as to what people do and do not like about your home.  In some [...]

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Selling Your Santa Fe Home in a Buyer’s Market

by Malissa Kullberg on January 14, 2010

Abundant inventory is described as a buyer’s market: great if you’re a buyer, but what if you’re a seller?  The tough news is that the value and appeal of your home will be measured against a greater number of homes than in a neutral or seller’s market.   You’ve got competition and potentially lots of it.  [...]

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State of the Santa Fe Real Estate Market at start of 2010

by Malissa Kullberg on January 7, 2010

On Sunday, January 3rd, The Santa Fe New Mexican rang in the new year with the article Promising Signs in Santa Fe’s Housing Market Slide.  Statistics compiled by Alan Ball, a title officer with Southwest Title and Escrow, showed the number and price volume of Santa Fe residential home sales at their lowest point in [...]

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Christmas Eve on Santa Fe’s Canyon Road

by Malissa Kullberg on December 29, 2009

The cold was frightful.  Snow and ice covered much of the ground.  But those who braved Nature’s buffets for the annual Christmas Eve walk on Canyon Road in Santa Fe reaped the rewards of a sweet, community ritual that defines the winter holiday for many in the City Different. Tradition reports that luminarias, the little [...]

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Santa Fe Local Biz Review: Violante + Rochford Interiors

by Malissa Kullberg on December 11, 2009

We met Paul Rochford and Michael Violante through “The South Capitol Treehouse:” their moniker for the second home and rental property they own at 111 East Santa Fe Avenue.   Paul’s persistent good nature, preternatural politeness, and highly attuned sense of responsibility made me want to know more about him. In time, I met Michael–gracious and [...]

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Mad Science Brewing in Downtown Santa Fe

by Malissa Kullberg on December 2, 2009

In the heart of downtown Santa Fe’s South Capitol district, a Mad Scientist is stirring a cauldron of mind-spurring experiments and impressionable young minds to create a new generation of revolutionary thinkers.
At least that’s her hope.
Once a week, age-clustered groups of students gather to  build electric motors, dissect plants, peer at small things through microscopes, [...]

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Emerging artist Phillip Vigil lands new home at downtown Santa Fe Gallery

by Malissa Kullberg on October 21, 2009

Phillip Vigil swept into our lives last Spring via Facebook. Focused and prolific, Phillip has been a one-man band of production and promotion, furiously churning out work all the while gathering its audience.  Less than a year later–three years since he began his career in earnest, he has scored the big score: a new home [...]

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Barrio La Canada, Santa Fe: more neighborhood details

by Malissa Kullberg on October 13, 2009

More nuts and bolts on the Barrio la Canada neighborhood in downtown Santa Fe:
The local elementary school is the once struggling  Larragoite STEMM, now a magnet school, which has partnered with the University of New Mexico, Highlands University, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, to reinvent itself.   Through “rigorous and relevant instruction in science, [...]

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Santa Fe Neighborhood Quick Sketch: Barrio La Canada

by Malissa Kullberg on September 15, 2009

Location, community, possibility–that’s my REALTOR’S gut take on Barrio La Canada: a neighborhood I can’t claim to know, but plan to discover. I sense that Barrio la Canada is a good, longterm bet for a home purchase in greater downtown Santa Fe, and here’s why:  It’s quiet, but not without activity.  Its park, The John [...]

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