180 closings
Verified transactions over the prior five years, 112 of them buyer side.
Relocating to Albuquerque goes wrong in one predictable way: people choose a house before they choose a side of town, and the commute does the rest.
Melissa Salazar sells across the whole metro, from Rio Rancho and Cabezon on the west side out to Edgewood in the East Mountains and south to Los Lunas.
She will tell you where your money goes furthest for what you actually want.
Rio Rancho is its own city with the newest housing stock and the lowest price per square foot for that age of home.
The Northeast Heights has the deepest inventory and the shortest commutes. The North Valley trades newer construction for mature trees and bigger lots. Edgewood and the East Mountains buy acreage, well and septic, and a real winter drive.
Comparable sales from the wrong one will mislead you by tens of thousands of dollars.
Most relocation buyers have one short trip, or none at all.
Melissa attends inspections and walkthroughs in person, shoots walkthrough video herself, and closes remotely. A large share of her buyer business is people who had not yet moved.
Sometimes it is.
Six months renting in the wrong area costs far less than buying in it. If that is the right call for your situation she will say so, which is not what you will hear from everybody.
Verified transactions over the prior five years, 112 of them buyer side.
Total verified sales volume across those transactions, averaging $423,100.
Licensed in New Mexico since 2018, and a professional real estate photographer since 2016.
It depends on commute and what you want weekends to look like. Rio Rancho gives you the newest housing per dollar. The Northeast Heights has the deepest inventory and the shortest commutes. Edgewood and the East Mountains buy you acreage and pine trees at the cost of a real drive. Los Lunas trades commute for price and lot size.
Sixty to ninety days is comfortable. Thirty is workable. Melissa runs remote purchases routinely, so arriving without having seen the house is not unusual.
Often the right call, and she will say so if it is. Renting for six months in the wrong part of town is cheaper than buying in the wrong part of town.
Evaporative coolers instead of refrigerated air, flat roofs, well and septic once you are outside city limits, and how much the elevation changes the weather between one side of the metro and the other.
Tell Melissa what you are trying to do and when. If the answer is that you should wait, she will say so.