For those who revel in the brightest and sharpest stars (due to the city’s 7,000-ft. elevation), glorious sunlight almost every day, incredible turquoise skies and billowing clouds overlooking gentle pinon-covered foothills, pine-covered mountains and the meandering Rio Grande Valley – what other place will do?

In this dry, high desert air (meaning some powdery snow in the winter with warm days and cool evenings in the summer) one will discover a delightful small city of earth-colored, softly-rounded homes set snugly into the landscape. Visitors and residents alike enjoy world-class opera, dance, theatre, music, and visual arts of all types. Afterwards, relax for dinner at one of Santa Fe’s hundreds of restaurants with variety and quality on par with any city. But most favored is New Mexican fare – blue corn enchiladas smothered in red or green chile with refried beans, posole (hominy cooked with pork or chicken) and of course sopapillas (hot puffed fried bread, hollow inside) with a squeeze of honey. A margarita or cerveza completes this scene…

Many visitors become so enchanted with Santa Fe they find they simply have no choice but to buy a home here. Luckily the New Mexico real estate market seems eternally buffered from the sharp spikes and drops found elsewhere. While prices do move up and down a bit and the housing supply may drop or occasionally become slightly overloaded for a time, generally a “Santa Fe Continuum” maintains a steady supply of nice adobes and keeps prices increasing at a rate beneficial to sellers and buyers, while not setting off alarm bells. It’s almost always a good time to buy – or sell – Santa Fe homes.

Home buyers seeking property in Santa Fe may wish to visit Brad Bealmear’s beautiful and entertaining new website, High-Desert-Properties.com. Brad is an Associate Broker with Sotheby’s International Realty. He was raised in New Mexico (fourth generation) and has been an advertising photographer in New York City for 22 years. These days Brad’s lens is turned to those comfortable and unique Santa Fe homes he lists for his clients. High-Desert-Properties.com showcases the finest New Mexico real estate offerings and features all the area’s newest listings along with the ability to search the entire Santa Fe MLS.

For additional information please contact:
Brad Bealmear, Associate Broker
Sotheby’s International Realty
215 Washington Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA
505 577-3127
Fax 505 946-4099