Albuquerque's High Desert sits tucked in at the base of the Sandia Mountains and is one of the newest places to own real estate and "have an address". You know you have "arrived" when you can say you own a piece of High Desert real estate. Contemporary southwestern architecture offers luxury living with magnificent views of sunsets, city lights, and towering mountain peaks and ridges. High desert air and cool summer evenings, with a whiff of desert flowers, mingle with scented pinon smoke.An early morning or evening walk is a great way to start or conclude your day. Within minutes one can be in a canyon amongst ponderosa pines with the breeze blowing through needles and happy birds singing. When searching listings in Albuquerque real estate, select area 31 in your SWMLS search for High Desert real estate. Area 10 offers Sandia Heights real estate, which is immediately adjacent to the north and also a part of Albuquerque's high desert