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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Neighborhood Market Watch: Casa Alegre

by Malissa Kullberg on August 26, 2009

2.5 miles from the Plaza  is another desirable denizen of downtown Santa Fe, Casa Alegre. A residential oasis close to the bustling heart of Santa Fe, Casa Alegre strikes a winning balance between access to the action and serene removal.  Although bounded on the south by Cerrillos, one of the city’s major commercial arteries, Casa [...]

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Neighborhood Market Watch: Casa Solana

by Malissa Kullberg on July 22, 2009

Close to the Plaza, comparatively affordable, blessed with broad streets, mature trees and an old-fashioned neighborly feel, Casa Solana is one of our top picks for a first home, trade-up or investment in downtown Santa Fe. Located about a mile west of the Plaza, Casa Solana’s streets finger northward from West Alameda toward the neighborhood’s [...]

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