A great agent reads your vibe. A great real estate agent understands market timing. A great real estate agent reads the target area’s vibe, and knows it by heart. A great real estate agent handles all ancillary needs. Finally, and most importantly, a great real estate agent is in it for the long haul and will be there no matter what happens along the way.The agent who talks to you and learns what makes you tick is going to know your motivation in ways that no machine can.That ability drives the success of the entire transaction and is the ultimate indicator of whether or not the right deal is achieved. Sure an app can spew numbers,but what good is that without the sounding board that you need to weigh all the competing factors?

Humans aren’t herd animals, but let’s face it, there are some trends and tendencies that do infiltrate the marketplace, with resulting profound effects on the kinds of deals that are out there. A great agent understands economic issues, geopolitical landscape questions, and long-range planning. Sure an app might be able to tell you how many building permits have been pulled,or whether business license applications are up…but a great agent knows BEFORE some government worker has slogged through a pile of paperwork to type them into the “system.” Case-in-point: one neighborhood in downtown Santa Fe has two new antique shops, a custom guitar-making facility, and a jewelry shop…all preparing to open but not yet official. As the economic recovery continues, there will be waves of activity, or percolating hotspots and a great agent will not only know about these opportunities before anyone else, he will be able to integrate that information with your own personal information to achieve the perfect storm of a deal.

We all want to work and live in communities with great institutions,shopping,amenities, and so forth. But if you need to dig deeper, if you want to do more than scratch the surface, a great real estate agent will take you down a few strata to the real bedrock, and to depths that an “app” can’t take you to. A great real estate agent knows that we are in the together, for the long haul. Long after the deal closes, life changes will require the abilities of someone with a knowledge of YOU. Someone you can help you decide if you should you upgrade,downsize, buy your college kid some living quarters in a faraway state, or otherwise repurpose your real estate holdings to expand and contract along with changes in the economy. So don’t forget to upload the greatest app at your disposal: your Realtor.

Anthony Atwell, Associate Broker, ABR,CRS,ePRO,GREEN   505-670-2177

Serving you Santa Fe Real Estate and Santa Fe Style for 21 Years.

Sotheby’s International Realty

Sotheby’s International Realty is comprised of the most qualified and experienced brokers in the Santa Fe, New Mexico marketplace.

Our commitment to our clientele:

- To offer a quality business environment of trust, responsibility and professionalism.

- To foster teamwork, innovation and accountability.

- To be affiliated with career-minded individuals who are deeply committed to delivering superior service and achieving exceptionally high productivity.

- To serve our diverse clientele and customer base with mutual respect and discretion.

- To demand the highest ethical standard from our brokers.

Anthony Atwell, Associate Broker, ABR,CRS,ePRO,GREEN   505-670-2177

Serving you Santa Fe Real Estate and Santa Fe Style for 21 Years.

Sotheby’s International Realty

Compliments of  Ginger Bowe Sullivan, ANASAZI MORTGAGE

Phone:      505-995-8888,  Toll-Free: 800-995-8888 (if calling outside Santa Fe)

ginger@anasazimortgage.com, www.anasazimortgage.com

Anthony Atwell, Associate Broker, ABR,CRS,ePRO,GREEN   505-670-2177

Serving you Santa Fe Real Estate and Santa Fe Style for 21 Years.

Sotheby’s International Realty

For those who still couldn’t put on a happy face, Friday’s data should have done the trick. Existing Home Sales were UP 5% in December, their third consecutive gain, to their highest level since January 2011. The inventory of existing homes is down 21% from last year and the months’ supply dropped to 6.2, the lowest level since April 2006. For all of 2011, sales of single-family homes, town homes, condos and co-ops rose 1.7%, to 4.26 million units.

This information is courtesy of  Troy Lepisto at  Prime Lending. Contact him at: tlepisto@primelending.com, 505-670-6399.

Anthony Atwell, Associate Broker, ABR,CRS,ePRO,GREEN   505-670-2177

Serving you Santa Fe Real Estate and Santa Fe Style for 21 Years.

Sotheby’s International Realty

Projected annualized growth from 2011 – 2016 +9.1%

Santa Fe has a low unemployment rate of 5.4%.

Santa Fe home prices are only down 17.7% since they peaked in Q4 2007.

Anthony Atwell, Associate Broker, ABR,CRS,ePRO,GREEN   505-670-2177

Serving you Santa Fe Real Estate and Santa Fe Style for 21 Years.

Sotheby’s International Realty

Bruce Krasnow, famed real estate columnist for The Santa Fe New Mexican, notes that: “Lower interest rates in Santa Fe have reduced sales inventory as more families refinance and stay put.”

Apparently, many Santa Fe home sellers are taking advantage of five year adjustable rate mortgages, that lower monthly payments now, but with the intent of selling when the market recovers.

Santa Fe home buyers be aware, the Santa Fe home market is very small relative to other US markets. Fewer homes on the market mean fewer buyer choices. The screaming deal phase is dying down with fewer and fewer opportunities. Also be aware Santa Fe home sales rose 10% in the 4th qtr, and rose 2.4% overall, 2011 versus 2010.

Anthony Atwell, Associate Broker, ABR,CRS,ePRO,GREEN   505-670-2177

Serving you Santa Fe Real Estate and Santa Fe Style for 21 Years.

Sotheby’s International Realty

Consider an energy clearing, on land/home/people. Shift the natural forces we do not perceive, but can and do affect us.

I will be the first to give testimonial for Jane Phillips, Medical Intuitive, Geyser Holistic Living. Jane visited my home, cleared the space and shifted my energies. Within 3 hours and thereafter, the home feels lighter and brighter. Personally I feel clearer,  energetic, and happier. Also, my listing clients at Sotheby’s International Realty have cleared their homes, facilitating the sale of their homes.

Some of the services offered by Geyser Holistic Living:

- Geopathic Zone Neutralizing

- Energy Release

- Battle Energy Release

- Soil Balancing & Stabilization

- Atmospherice Balancing and Stabilization

- Ghost Busting and Spirit Dimensional Retrieval

- Animal communication and healing

- Guide memory healing

- Hands on healing

Contact Jane for your complimentary consultation

Jane Phillips, CMI, CQO, Medical Intuitive, Geyser Holistic Living

505-471-4826/w, 505-204-2059/c, jane@geyserllc.com

Anthony Atwell, Associate Broker, ABR,CRS,ePRO,GREEN   505-670-2177

Serving you Santa Fe Real Estate and Santa Fe Style for 21 Years.

Sotheby’s International Realty

Sierra del Norte is nestled in the foothills overlooking the Rio Grande Valley. New Mexicans thrive on a daily diet of spectacular views, and residents count themselves as lucky if they can see one mountain range out the living room window. The beauty of Sierra del Norte is that you have unparalled views of not one, not two, but three mountain ranges: the Jemez, the Sandia,and the Manzanos.

This exquisite scenery connects you to a grand landscape of a terrain dotted with juniper trees, and as the eye ascends to the sky, the landscape gradually turns to alpine foliage and then to aromatic ponderosa pine. On the proverbial clear day, you can even see to Colorado.

Sierra del Norte offers a wide range of architectural styles. Pricing runs $800,000 – $4,000,000.

Sierra del Norte offers the best of both worlds;  while living with peaceful vistas and surrounded by grand landscapes, you are still only 5 minute drive to downtown Santa Fe and a 20 minute drive to the Santa Fe ski basin.

For listing specifics, check satellite mapping, Home Junction, on SantaFeOne.com.

I  understand how important it is to match you with the exact property that will resonate perfectly with your personality.  I can help you focus on the key criteria to match with with the very best in Santa Fe Lifestyle and Santa Fe Real Estate .

Anthony Atwell, Associate Broker, ABR,CRS,ePRO,GREEN   505-670-2177

Serving you Santa Fe Real Estate and Santa Fe Style for 21 Years.

Sotheby’s International Realty

Your Key to the City

The amazing web tool “Home Junction” is  now ready for your search and mapping of desirable locations in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This fantastic program allows you to search any community in the United States.

To jump start your search, go to the home page of SantaFeOne.com, and on the middle of the page entitled “Find a Great Place to Live”, you can type in the name of the city that you are interested in and also the kinds of amenities that you would like to search for.

The program will then take you through a quick registration and onto a satellite mapping program. In this map program, you are able to  modify your home search criteria; for example, by using price, home size and many more factors you can rapidly zero in on the right properties. By seeing your targets on the screen, you can efficiently organize your search and, most importantly, you can easily visualize your dream location.

In addition to rapidly finding the  areas that match your Santa Fe Lifestyle goals, you can also save your search results for later use or further refinement.

If you need help with this state-of-the-art satellite mapping program, let me know. I know that you will have lots of fun using this unique real estate tool, Home Junction. Then, by contacting me with your targets, we can easily find  your dream home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Renovations for Home Sellers

Here are some expert tips from Alex Wolfe on how to choose the right types of work to boost the profitability on your home sale:

• Expert color matching and touch-up of existing paint.
• Invisible repairs on interior plaster and exterior stucco.
• Cleaning, repairing, refinishing woodwork.
• Faux blending repairs on many surfaces.
• Replacement and/or refinishing tiles.
• Refinishing tubs and sinks.
• Replacement of lighting & plumbing fixtures.
• Floor repair & refinishing.
• Cabinet, door adjustment and weatherizing.
• Replace glass, remove/replace mirrors, bath enclosures
• Concrete, masonry repair
• Rain gutter, minor roof repair
• Flagstone, brick repair

I would like to thank Alex Wolfe for these professional recommendations. Call Alex for your complimentary home evaluation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He can be reached at  505-466-1929.

For more information on Santa Fe Lifestyle and Santa Fe Real Estate -

Anthony Atwell, Associate Broker, ABR,CRS,ePRO,GREEN   505-670-2177

Serving you Santa Fe Real Estate and Santa Fe Style for 21 Years.

Sotheby’s International Realty