Land For Sale in Santa Fe, New Mexico 2024

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A Brief History of Land Developments In Santa Fe, New Mexico

Las Campanas came online in the early nineties. So all of a sudden there was land for sale where there hadn’t been. And all of a sudden people wanted to build houses. So these little builders had to scale up and become much better and start building and Las Campanas because suddenly when Las Campanas, you know, when Lyle Anderson opened. That was like ‘Wow! We’re going to build custom homes’. Well, that hadn’t been a big thing in Santa Fe. It’d been a thing, but not the way the Las Campanas made it happen.

Then Monte Sereno happened, and then hills of Bishop’s Lodge happened, and they were big chunks of land that hadn’t existed before. So there was all this work for builders that hadn’t been there. Anyone who was halfway good had to get better and then start getting in Las Campanas is Monte Sereno. And now all of those are mostly built out which is back to why the Historic East Side is looking so good. Monte Sereno still has lots, but they told their builder that they want to do like a resort hotel, and they want to get a resort hotel builder. They don’t want local people building it.

You know there’s still land in all those places, but not like there was in the nineties and the 2 thousands, you know. I mean, when each one of those developments would open. I can’t remember when hills official slides, but every time one would open. Wow! Then people would buy, and then they build houses. They were both new subdivisions around 2012, 2013, and they were both booming.

But that’s not happening anymore, either. So it’s very fascinating times, because not only had all these young guys moved here wanting to be builders, and they were maybe building passive solar houses in Eldorado, or doing remodels. But when all those subdivisions came open suddenly and appealed to people from out of state or in state, or wherever there was a big demand for builders which now there is not. Maybe it’s good that a lot of them are retiring right? Because we don’t have all the empty land is on South side, and that’s going to poultry and things like that, you know.

All 14 off Cerrillos- nobody wants to build a fancy house down there, I mean, no one even wants to. In La Siena. Go where there’s that nice subdivision. But, Pete, there’s sort of people don’t want to be that far south. So in a way, it’s lucky that the boom happened, and probably the boom happened because there were those because the hills of Bishop’s Lodge happened. There was land being held that got developed. And that gave all these guys who are now hitting 70. It gave them their livelihoods.

We’re going to have to be really creative, because there’s not that boom that there was for maybe till 2,008, you know. that was a boom Las Campanas suddenly, you know, was just nothing. There was latiara when that was being built up slowly but suddenly. Las compartments was this giant new fancy? Lyle Anderson thing with golf course and club house. I mean. That changed like Santa Fe completely.

I moved here in 88, I remember, is like Whoa. All of a sudden you got some fancy subdivision like, it’s Scottsdale or something unbelievable. Yeah. So that’s good.

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