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When I look at the map, I have sort of been using Albuquerque Academy as a reference point--perhaps areas east and north of there?
Yeah, that's about where the high priced homes really kick in. Continue East and north if you would like to pay more. The NE Heights is not a hiding place from crime and violence. The very first night I moved in to a fine Far NE Heights neighborhood (1991), my car and garage were broken into and they stole several large moving boxes which we hadn't yet unpacked.
On Monday La Cueva High was locked down in a SWAT situation because a student was reported to be waving a gun.
Prestigious Albuquerque Academy has a reputation as the NE Heights bastion of drug use and sales by affluent teenagers (that info from my own children and Academy grads who worked for me).
Please don't drink the NE Heights KoolAid until you have least toured the neighborhoods of the NW Heights, Paradise Hills and Rio Rancho.
There is an article in today's Business section of the Albuquerque Journal which is headlined: "Home Slump Not Hitting N.M. as Hard: Market Expected to Rebound"
And begins: The Albuquerque metro area appears to be sidestepping the worst of the national housing slump."
....."construction will pick up again, likely in the second half of the year"...
With all this discussion of real estate, neighborhoods, schools, etc., with varying opinions, and conflicting "facts", I am curious to find out what your reference points are.
As for me, I helped my 4 children progress from elementary school through high school in 3 different APS districts, east and west sides. 2 of these kids are full-time students at UNM.
I have been a NM Licensed real estate agent since 1996, currently inactive, but I compile monthly market statistics for use by agents.
Raysgal, good luck with the move and welcome to NM. If you want to get an idea of what home prices are like in the ABQ area, the ABQ MLS has a very good public search window. Check out Greater Albuquerque Association of REALTORS® - Greater Albuquerque Area Homes for Sale. This website has current listings in MLS, so you'll be able to look at properties around the metro area.
The house featured as the "highest-altitude house in Albuquerque" is on Paseo del Puma, NE which is off the Sunset Canyon Dr, NE and Cedarbrook Ave, NE area at the terminus of Montgomery. It's a trophy house, but nothing like the monstrosity just under it. It's a realy eyesore from the Embudito trailhead.
Ahh, my friends and I refer to that as the "Jabba the Hutt house". Frankly, it looks like it is going to fall off that perch someday soon; or a giant boulder is going to come down the slope at it. It also has a perilously steep driveway but I suppose a house like that has a heated driveway so you can use it in winter.
Ahh, my friends and I refer to that as the "Jabba the Hutt house". Frankly, it looks like it is going to fall off that perch someday soon; or a giant boulder is going to come down the slope at it. It also has a perilously steep driveway but I suppose a house like that has a heated driveway so you can use it in winter.
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When I was still riding racing bikes, that home was a favorite training target for racing cyclists with its extremely steep, high altitude roads.
On Monday La Cueva High was locked down in a SWAT situation because a student was reported to be waving a gun.
Please don't drink the NE Heights KoolAid until you have least toured the neighborhoods of the NW Heights, Paradise Hills and Rio Rancho.
Yes, but that gun turned out to be cardboard that was made for a class project. Ironically the day after, Rio Grande actually had a person with a gun that was simply apprehended by school security. So La Cueva thought they saw the gun and called swat. Rio Grande actually saw a gun, and called no one. The moral of the story I learned was that these Northeast Heights homes are so unused to guns and violence that they turned nothing into a swat situation.
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