10701 Malaguena Lane NE

Academy Ridge sits just south of Academy Road NE, in the stretch between Eubank and Juan Tabo. Anyone shopping Academy Ridge homes for sale should know up front that this is a small place — a few streets off Carruthers, Academy Ridge Road and Academy Ridge Drive, and that's about it. Drive east on Academy and you'll go right past the turn. The whole pocket falls in 87111. You're at roughly 5,800 feet up here, a few hundred feet above the valley floor. That does more than it sounds like it does. The Sandias fill the east windows, the west-facing rooms catch the volcanoes and the sunset, and summer evenings let go of the heat faster than they do down by the river. The houses themselves It all went in from the late 1980s into the early 1990s, and it looks it in the good way: pueblo-influenced stucco, tile and flat roofs, walled front courtyards, rock and gravel instead of turf. Three bedrooms is the norm. Sizes run mostly in the high 1,700s to low 2,000s in square feet, on modest lots....