If you know an artist or love an artist or are an artist, please share this widely. Friends of Contemporary Art’s biennial, “Art on the Edge”, is open now for submissions from artists in New Mexico and its bordering states (OK, TX, UT, AZ, CO).

Toby Kamps, a fantastic curator at the Menil Collection, will be jurying. The New Mexico Museum of Art will host the exhibition in January 2013. Here is a link to the prospectus: http://www.nmartmuseum.org/artontheedge/.

I happen to be on the steering committee of FO [...]

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Santa Fe ranks highly on the www.livability.com list for towns that help their residents keep their New Year’s resolutions. Really. Santa Fe is number nine on the list. Here’s the actual blog. The editors study most well-known cities and rank them based on population growth, general happiness, cultural aspects, recreational activities possible, financial well-being and the health of residents.

The high marks Santa Fe rece [...]

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Richard Florida, an editor at the Atlantic Magazine, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau has ranked cities based on the number of artists who live and work here, comparing that number to the overall city population.

Santa Fe has over 7 ½ times more “artists and related workers” living here for its population size than the national average!

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Throughout his career, James Drake has examined the theme of humanity in all of its triumphs, failures, and follies—including violence and war; love and desire; greed and gluttony; and the realities of life along the U.S.-Mexico border. The exhibition James Drake: Salon of a Thousand Souls includes sculptures and works on paper by the Santa Fe-based artist dating from the 1980s to the present day. Among the dozen works to be shown are a never-before-exhibited 21-foot red pastel drawing and a wall drawing done in t [...]

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The new Housing and Urban Development site (HUD) combines local Santa Fe real estate data with local economic statistics.  Local (Santa Fe), regional (Santa Fe County and other New Mexico counties) and general Statewide data from a wide range of government sources.

The local data comes from U.S. Census Bureau, the Labor Department and HUD data, as well as statistics from state and local municipalities as well as “housing industry sources”, according to the announcement from HUD. Please visit their site Read the full article

Great news for Santa Fe walkers, hikers and general outdoor enthusiasts.  Work is to begin this year on a new walking trail that extends from the Dale Ball Trail North to the Little Tesuque Creek Trail in the Santa Fe ski basin.  This will mean that you can walk from the city of Santa Fe to the Santa Fe Ski Basin without treading on paved roads.

The new trail will be about three miles in length, over land that the Santa Fe Conservation Trust now owns and is conveying to Santa Fe County in order to accomplish this extension.  The na [...]

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The World Health Organization places Santa Fe among the healthiest places on earth for air quality.  This is great news for the health of people who live here and for the health of the Santa Fe real estate market.

Besides the new World Health ranking Santa Fe has been on the American Lung Association’s “State of the Air” Annual Reports ranking  as the second best city to live in with re [...]

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Recently Wells Fargo upgraded the Santa Fe area to a Market Class 1.  The classification earlier in the year was a Market Class 2, and last year for at least part of the year was a Market Class 3.  It is our understanding that they use this rating to quality people for conforming loans and it means that in the foreseeable next 6 months that they expect the values of residential properties to stay the same and to not go down. 

One can extrapolate from this change the idea that perhaps they don’t have a whole lot of home [...]

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In the heart of it all but above the hubbub of restaurants and galleries along the road, this remodeled 2 bedroom, 2 bath residence with 2nd floor den and a view deck overlooking the neighboring treetops shines. From the moment you step into the gated front courtyard you are transported into a lush world. This outdoor space, with rocked pathway, kiva fireplace and seemingly “wild-with-intention” plantings sets the tone for the entire home.

A grand living room overlooking the garden welcomes you. A handsome fireplace, wood [...]

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In its latest real estate and economic forecast, the National Association of Realtors anticipates that sales of existing homes, after falling 4.8 percent in 2010, will rise 7.9 percent this year, to 5.3 million, and another 4.5 percent in 2012, to 5.53 million.

The median price of existing homes, meanwhile, rose 0.3 percent in 2010 after a 12.9 percent drop in 2009, and is expected to rise 0.5 percent this year, to $173,800, and another 2.4 percent in 2012, to $177,900.

Sales of new single-family homes are expected to rebound f [...]

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