Chamberino House for Sale

Chamberino rests in the Mesilla Valley about halfway between El Paso, Texas, and Las Cruces, New Mexico. “It’s located really well — you have options for work either way,” says Eli Berger, a third-generation Las Cruces resident and Realtor with Coldwell Banker Legacy Elite. Despite the proximity to city jobs, he says, “Chamberino is basically a farming community.”Early residents came to the area in the mid-1800s, and they cleared the fertile land along the Rio Grande to make fields. In the 1880s, a flash flood swept through the area, destroying crops and many of the early homes. Residents rebuilt their houses along the hillside to the west, where the community is still centered today. Pecan orchards, vineyards and farms cover most of the remaining land. In the hillside portion of Chamberino, stucco-sided ranch-style and old adobe homes line a compact grid of streets. Throughout the rest of the community, Spanish-style farmhouses and manufactured homes are mixed in between wide fields and orchards. Though land sometimes comes up for sale, houses rarely come on the market, Berger says. According to a Homes.com calculation, which uses a combination of estimate data, the average home