Listing updated to include entirety of property!Huge views, picturesque stone outcroppings and desert solitude. Listing is now for the entirely of 40 acres, two houses, two wells, with life-estate/use agreement to be granted to two residents who will have use of the smaller of the houses and 13 acres. Primary residence will have use of 27 high-desert acres with off-grid adobe and stone home in the round built into the earth for efficiency, with high ceilings, framed addition and attached greenhouse. 3 bedrooms and 1 bath, solar panels. Loved by the same owners/builders for four decades, the home needs work and is ready for new energy and care. Start your off-grid homestead. Less than three rough miles from pavement, where you might see grazing cattle or horses, and fifteen to twenty minutes to Interstate 25, depending on how you drive. Will not qualify for a normal mortgage, owner may finance with $65k down. Second home shown upon acceptance of offer.
Once home to the large mining community, Madrid is now a sleepy little town of artists. With an ice cream parlour and old fashioned businesses, Madrid feels other-worldly to visitors. Homes here are early 20th century wooden structures painted a variety of colors. Just north of Madrid is Cerrillos, a traditional New Mexico village of older adobes and quaint shops.
The Turquoise Trail! A beautiful road from Santa Fe all the way to Albuquerque. With many lots 2.5 acres or more, this area is perfect for raising horses on wide open spaces with fewer building restrictions than in the city of Santa Fe. The famous Eaves Movie Ranch where movies like “The Cheyenne Social Club” and “Silverado”were filmed completes the Old West feeling.
This rapidly growing area with plans for expansion extending into the 2050’s is largely made up of rolling hills dotted with pinon and juniper. Most of the communities located here have extraordinary views of the Jemez, the Sangres and the Sandias.