Santa Fe Homes & Santa Fe Real Estate Newsletter – TalkingSantaFe.com

By Bruce Krasnow | The New Mexican  This article was syndicated from The New Mexican, click here for a copy of the original article. Posted: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 – Lower interest rates have boosted home ownership in Santa Fe, but they also have reduced sales inventory as more families refinance and stay put. “A lot [...]

In 2010, Bloomberg Businessweek projected that Santa Fe would be among the Housing Markets that Will Be Strongest by 2014. Business Insider echoed that take in 2011 by declaring Santa Fe one of The 15 Best Housing Markets for the Next Five Years. Then,…

Like many other sites you’ll run across, this one is going to tell you how things went in 2011. What follows are statistics for the sale of residential properties in the areas north of Santa Fe including Espanola, Abiquiu, Ojo Caliente, Hernandez, Dixon, Velarde, Truchas and Chimayo. In 2011 a total of 91 homes were [...]

SANTA FE, N.M.  -  In a town known for upscale New Mexican cuisine, the best holiday dishes might be the simplest. By:  Ashley Parrish, World Scene Editor, Tulsa World, published 12/18/11.  This article was syndicated from the Tulsa World, click here for the original article. Tamales are traditional. Cover them in red and green chile and they’re [...]

You can buy more house for the same money with interest rates under 4%! Check it out . . . Mortgage rates fall to record lows By Les Christie @CNNMoneyDecember 15, 2011: 1:44 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Mortgage rates sunk to record lows again this week. The average rate on the 30-year fixed [...]

The Santa Fe Association of Realtors’ 3rd quarter MLS real estate statistics are out.  There is good news for both sellers and for buyers. First for sellers, inventory levels are down having shrunk 21.1% to 1,794 units, a positive supply-side improvement.  New listings were down, too, with 687 properties listed in the 3rd quarter of [...]

Leave it to Santa Fe to build a recreational center that is an icon to Santa Fe values.  The Genoveva Chavez Community Center (GCCC) is at once a art piece of exquisite design, a testament to environmental sensitivity, and a supporter and champion of …

Richard Florida, Senior Editor of The Atlantic, posed the question in November, 2011 “which U.S. cities and metros have the most extensive artistic communities?” With the help of Kevin Stolarick from the Martin Prosperity Institute,  he used data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to rank the leading metros areas for their numbers of artists [...]

Here it is . . . beautiful, productive land within half an hour of Santa Fe.  And, it has Santa Cruz River frontage. And, it has irrigation. And, it has pasture land. And, it has easy access from State Rd 76, the scenic highway known by tourists and locals alike as the High Road to [...]

Business Insider recently reported that the latest data from Fiserv Case Shiller shows that national home prices are expected to grow at an annualized rate of 3.2% between 2011 and Q2 2016. Business Insider combed through Fiserv’s data and picked the 15 best housing markets for the next five years.  Santa Fe ranked number 11 [...]