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Ever wonder what's actually happened to Farmington home values?Here's the twenty-year picture, pulled straight from SJC ...
06/23/2026

Ever wonder what's actually happened to Farmington home values?
Here's the twenty-year picture, pulled straight from SJC MLS. The headline: prices are up 69% since 2006, but almost all of that move happened after 2020. The market that froze in February of 2023 with twelve days on market, full list price and has settled to a steadier rhythm: roughly a month on market, prices still climbing.

Good news for sellers. Workable news for buyers. Either way, knowing the cycle matters.
Happy to talk through what this means for your home, or your next one.
Jodi Brown · Real Estate Pros 📞 505.860.6642 · NM Lic. 45463

Nettie Locke spent her life preserving things that don't keep.Fruit is fragile. A peach is glory for a week, and then it...
06/23/2026

Nettie Locke spent her life preserving things that don't keep.
Fruit is fragile. A peach is glory for a week, and then it is gone. What Nettie did, season after season at the Sunnyside Orchard, was catch that fleeting sweetness and hold onto it: jams and jellies put up by the barrel, sealed in glass, sent out across the territory under the Sunnyside label.
It sounds like a small thing. It wasn't. Farmington in those years was a young, uncertain place, the kind of settlement that either takes root or quietly empties out. What lets a place take root is not only the big gestures, the orchards planted and the stores built, but the steady, daily work of making the harvest last. A shelf of full jars is sustenance through a long winter. It is proof that the labor paid, and a reason to plant again come spring.
So while William grew the fruit, Nettie made it keep. And in doing that, she helped preserve something far larger than fruit: a household of thirteen children, a family business, and a fragile young community's belief that it was worth staying.
Whole ways of life have been carried forward on smaller things than a jar of jam.
What is the small, ordinary thing that kept your family going? I would love to hear it.

Behind everything that makes this community thrive, there’s a quieter layer of people and programs making sure no one fa...
06/22/2026

Behind everything that makes this community thrive, there’s a quieter layer of people and programs making sure no one falls through the cracks. I wanted to shine a light on three of them, including a shelter built specifically for kids and teens in crisis.
Childhaven keeps children and teens safe 24/7. Farmington Municipal Schools makes sure a housing crisis never becomes an academic one. And PATH helps families rebuild toward independence.
Every one of these runs on community support. If you’re looking for a meaningful place to give this year, here are three, with exactly how to help. Save this post and share it forward.

Will you have to pay capital gains tax when you sell?
06/20/2026

Will you have to pay capital gains tax when you sell?

The hard road of building something first:It is easy to see a “first” and notice only the win. First store, first post o...
06/19/2026

The hard road of building something first:

It is easy to see a “first” and notice only the win. First store, first post office, the first place in town a traveler could get a hot meal and a bed. It is harder to see what it asked of the person who built it.

A.F. Miller came out to the Animas valley alone in 1876, put up a house, then turned around for the long haul back to Colorado to bring his family west. For years, every item on his shelves had to be freighted in by wagon from Pueblo, hundreds of miles each way. His home and his store were the same building, so his family’s front room belonged to the whole settlement. There was no clocking out.

That is the trade almost every founder makes. To build something bigger than yourself, you spend a fair amount of yourself doing it. Miller paved the way for a Main Street that kept growing long after him, and a good part of the town we love today was built on the back of that quieter, harder work.

What kind of man was F.M. Pierce? The old county record tells us what he did more than who he was, but a life leaves fin...
06/18/2026

What kind of man was F.M. Pierce? The old county record tells us what he did more than who he was, but a life leaves fingerprints.
The clearest one is persistence. Pierce opened Farmington's second store in 1879, sold it, watched it pass to owners who failed, and took it back. He sold it again, and again it came back to him, and that time he kept it for good. A man who gives up easily does not end up owning the same store three times over.
He was restless with it, too. One venture was never quite enough. Alongside the store he planted fruit orchards and ran herds of sheep, keeping a hand in trade, growing, and livestock all at once.
And people trusted him with what mattered. They made him county treasurer, the man who minds the public's money, for four years, then seated him on the board of commissioners. Those are not jobs a town hands to someone it doubts. He brought his sons Harry and James in beside him, building something steady enough to pass down.
Not the loudest pioneer in the valley, maybe. But the dependable, hardworking, trusted kind a young county could not have grown without.

In Farmington, the year is not evenly spread.Across twenty years of closings, nearly half of the market's activity lands...
06/17/2026

In Farmington, the year is not evenly spread.

Across twenty years of closings, nearly half of the market's activity lands in five months — May through September.

January moves at about 34 homes a month. June and August run at 57. That is a forty-percent swing, year in and year out.

We are inside that window right now.

If you are a buyer, the next four months will show you more inventory, and more of it moving, than the rest of the year combined.

If you are a seller, the competition is also heavier. That is exactly why preparation is the lever. The houses that win the summer are the ones that were ready before they were listed.

Positioning. Preparing. Planning.

Is it the season that would move you this year, or a specific number?

Where Farmington beganThis spot had a name long before it had a town: Totah, the place where the waters meet, where the ...
06/17/2026

Where Farmington began
This spot had a name long before it had a town: Totah, the place where the waters meet, where the San Juan, Animas, and La Plata come together. (Tóta in Navajo.)
People have lived at this confluence for thousands of years, and the Diné, Ute, and Jicarilla Apache are still very much a part of life here. The settlers came later to that story. In the 1870s, families drifted down from southern Colorado looking for ground worth farming.
William Locke was one of them, and he was stubborn about it. He hauled fruit trees over the mountains, lost most of a 1,200-tree order to a brutal wagon haul, and tended what survived for three seasons before a single peach proved the valley would bear. That persistence is the whole point. One man's orchard became an industry, and an industry is what gives a place a reason to grow: work to do, goods to ship, families putting down roots and staying.
He didn't find an empty place. He found a good one, and the industry he started is a big part of why a river valley became a town.

Reality check: How old will your next San Juan County home be? 🏠🤔Plot twist: Probably older than you think!Most buyers s...
06/16/2026

Reality check: How old will your next San Juan County home be? 🏠🤔
Plot twist: Probably older than you think!
Most buyers start their search dreaming of that perfect 10-year-old home, but here's what you'll actually be touring:
📊 The reality:

25% of sales = 50+ years old
Average home sold = 38 years old
New builds (0-10 years) = Only 437 sales vs. 3,584 vintage homes

This isn't a bad thing! Vintage homes often have:
✅ Larger lots and mature landscaping
✅ Solid construction (they've survived decades!)
✅ Character and unique details
✅ Better value for square footage
Just good to know going in, right?
When you tour that "perfect" house, you'll appreciate the craftsmanship instead of being surprised by the age. Knowledge = confidence! 💪

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