2255 Perry Road SW

An older Albuquerque, and it still farmsDrive south on Isleta Boulevard and the city loosens its grip. Fences get longer. You'll pass a horse in a side yard, a ditch running full in June, an adobe sitting crooked to the road because the field mattered more than the street did. That's the valley. Anyone looking at South Valley homes for sale is shopping for land and water as much as square footage, and it helps to know that going in.This place is older than Albuquerque itself. Atrisco, Pajarito and Los Padillas began as plaza settlements on the 1692 Atrisco land grant, farming villages strung along the Rio Grande before the Villa de Alburquerque was founded. Families were given long narrow strips running perpendicular to the river so everyone touched water. You can still read that pattern in the parcel lines today. It's why so many lots here are deep and skinny, and why a half-acre can be 60 feet wide and 400 feet long.Where it is and how it's laid outMost of the South Valley is unincor...