Butterfield Park House for Sale

In the heart of the sprawling expanse of Chihuahuan desert between Las Cruces and the Organ Mountains is Butterfield Park. This small community rests along the southern edge of U.S. Route 70. “You don’t have a lot of services, but you have space,” says Doug Jones, Realtor with Saenz & Smith Real Estate, who has spent most of his life in Las Cruces. “It’s good for people who don’t want to live in cookie-cutter neighborhoods in the city.” Along the flat, paved streets of the community, chain-link fences and cinderblock walls surround rustic yards edged with palo verde and pine trees. There are a few mid-1900s ranch-style homes, a handful of brick residences built in the past 30 years and a good stock of manufactured homes. Very few listings come on the market, but recent sales have ranged between $70,000 and $220,000. The median lot size is around a quarter acre, and “looser building codes” allow homeowners to use their land as they wish, Jones says. The community has water service, but owners maintain their own septic systems and take their trash to the collection center, just south of the neighborhood. Butterfield Park has a CAP Index Crime Score of 1 out of 10, compared to 4