Victoria Murphy, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Are you feeling like me - working, working, working, and occasionally feeling like your just spinning your wheels?  Well - that was me last week.  Today - I am bright eyed and bushy tailed as they say.  Full of vim and vigor.  Re-energized!  I took the weekend off.  I went out of town, left my bu...

Last year I lost my most wonderful father.  Today would have been his 85 birthday - so please indulge me while I tell you a little bit about this wonderful soul.  My father was the type to not speak ill of people and in fact he loved people and he loved to entertain.  He was even tempered and nev...

Enter a bygone era in this adobe and jacal built home so beautifully restored by Patrick Mehaffey and Erica Carol and featured in Casa Adobe.  Forty minutes from Santa Fe brings you to this once famed dancehall and home in the enchanting village of Ribera.  Double portals, radiant heated mud and ...

The Taos High Road Having grown up in Northern New Mexico I had a tendancy to stay around my city of Santa Fe and when I went up to Taos it was along the traditional hiway.  Imagine my delight when years ago some friends invited my husband and I to take the Taos High Road with a visitor from New ...

This weekend was the opening of the Santa Fe Opera Season, and since I have a listing next to the SFO I thought it woudl be a great idea to hold an open house.  Over 30 people came by in the two hours, and many were in town for the opera.  I stood in the massive living room and smiled like I had ...

Today is my Birthday, and while I am not looking for all of you to wish me a Happy Birthday I would of course be thrilled.  After all who really doesn't like to have this special day acknowledged.  My family has always been a big fan of celebrating birthdays.  They should always come with some so...

Santa Fe is in the Top 10 Recently Santa Fe was named as one of the top 10 cities to appreciate within the next 10 years by US News and World Report.  This news could not have come at a better time considering the state of the housing market across the country.  Santa Fe has long been considered ...

I will come out and say it I am a registered Democrat and that is about the gist of it.  I serve as the chair of our local real estate government affairs committee, the vice-chair (incoming chair) of our state associations legislative committee, and finance chair of our county democratic committe...

Imagine being moments away from the wonderful and world reknowned Santa Fe Opera.  Opening the antique doors to views of the Sangres behind the beckoning swimming pool in a classic grand hacienda. With high vigas and split latilla ceilings are additional views of the badlands. A large gourmet kit...

Last year in August I lost my daddy.  He was a terrific man very loving and with a gap tooth smile that everyone adored.  I was daddy's girl of course so was my sister Felicia, and my sister Raquel, and my sister Kathy, and the granddaughter's but needless to say he loved each of us.  And he rela...