833 Canada Ancha, Santa Fe, NM – SOLD

About the property

833 Canada Ancha sits high above Santa Fe in Vista Canada Ancha, the gated community reached by way of Hyde Park Road and Canada del Sur, on the road that eventually becomes the run up to the ski basin. The house holds four bedrooms and four baths across 4,000 square feet, on nearly three quarters of an acre, and it was built in 1992.

What the site buys is the view. From this elevation the mountains do not sit at the end of the property so much as open out past it, and the light changes across them all day.

The Webster Estates team represented the buyer in 2018.

The house

The entrance sets the tone, with vigas and carved wood overhead. Past it the plan opens up: hardwood floors running through the living area, a formal dining room, and a cook’s kitchen with built in appliances and a gas oven, all reading as one connected space rather than a series of closed rooms. The windows are doing real work here, because a house at this elevation is mostly an argument about how much light and how much view you can get into it.

The house is split level, arranged over three half stories. All four bedrooms have en suite baths, which is the configuration that makes a house genuinely workable for guests or for more than one generation at a time. Downstairs there is a large room with a kiva fireplace that reads as either a bedroom or a studio depending on who is living there. Three fireplaces in total, central air conditioning, and a two car attached garage.

The neighborhood

Vista Canada Ancha is a gated enclave in the foothills northeast of town, off Hyde Park Road, with an annual association fee. It is a specific kind of Santa Fe address: not the historic center, not the open ranch land, but the piñon hillside in between, where the houses sit far enough apart to feel unobserved and the trailheads start at the end of the street.

The Dale Ball Trails, Ten Thousand Waves, and the Santa Fe Ski Area are all close, and the Plaza is a short drive down the hill. Our Northside neighborhood guide covers this side of Santa Fe, and the Northside market archive collects our work in it. Nearby Webster Estates Select Solds include Brownell Howland Road and the Circle Drive estate. Buyers weighing the foothills against town usually start with our guide to the best Santa Fe neighborhoods for second homes. We handled 304 Callecita and 1104 Bishops Lodge on this side of town in the same year.

The schools are Atalaya Elementary, Capshaw Middle, and Santa Fe High.

About the transaction

We represented the buyer at 833 Canada Ancha. Buyer side work in a gated foothills subdivision is mostly a question of what the view is actually worth, and of being honest about the house underneath it. A 1992 split level is a specific proposition: the bones are good, the plan has real separation, and the things that date a house of that generation are knowable in advance rather than discovered afterward. Our client bought with that picture in front of them. We advised from our office at 54½ Lincoln Avenue on The Plaza.

Frequently asked questions

Q: Where is 833 Canada Ancha? A: In Vista Canada Ancha, a gated community in the foothills northeast of Santa Fe, reached by way of Hyde Park Road and Canada del Sur.

Q: How large is the house? A: 4,000 square feet, with four bedrooms and four baths, on 0.74 of an acre. It was built in 1992.

Q: Which side did Webster Estates represent? A: We represented the buyer.

Q: Is there a homeowners association? A: Yes. Vista Canada Ancha is a gated community with an annual association fee.

Q: What is nearby? A: The Dale Ball Trails, Ten Thousand Waves, and the Santa Fe Ski Area, with the Santa Fe Plaza a short drive down the hill.

Q: What are the schools? A: Atalaya Elementary, Capshaw Middle, and Santa Fe High.

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The Webster Estates Team handled this transaction. Chris Webster, Patti Webster, Christopher Webster III, and Paisley Mason Webster, Associate Brokers at Sotheby’s International Realty, operating from 54½ Lincoln Avenue on The Plaza since 1976.