590 Hewlett Drive NE

Where Vista Hills actually sitsYou don't have to guess at the boundaries here, because the city publishes them. Rio Rancho's register of neighborhood associations defines Vista Hills as everything bounded by Northern Boulevard on the north, the Los Montoyas Arroyo on the south, NM 528 on the east and 13th Street on the west. All of that is 87124. Anyone shopping Vista Hills homes for sale should keep that rectangle in mind, because the name gets used loosely once you drift north of Northern into Loma Colorado, which is a newer and different animal.Agents write it a half-dozen ways in the MLS. Vista Hills 1, Vista Hills 2, Vista Hills West 1 through 3. Those are plat units, not separate neighborhoods. Same streets, same era, same feel.The houses, and how old they areAMREP Southwest recorded the plat for Vista Hills West Unit 1 in 1985, a detail that resurfaced years later in a New Mexico Supreme Court case over a drainage easement in the subdivision. That date tells you most of what you...