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The sale of a four-bedroom home in the Sonoma Ranch-Jornada area of east Las Cruces will be featured on an episode of the television series “House Hunters” at 8 p.m. MDT Wednesday, April 20, on HGTV, said Levi Nolasco, owner of Nolasco Real Estate at Keller Williams Realty-Las Cruces, who sold the home.
Nolasco, owner of Nolasco Real Estate, the Las Cruces franchise of Keller Williams Realty, Inc., sold the home in 2021 to a Native American couple from Ruidoso. The episode was filmed last November and December. The couple can’t be identified until the show airs.
A member of the first graduating class of New Mexico State University’s Creative Media Institute (CMI) in 2010, Nolasco worked in the House Hunters’ casting department 2017-19, and managed to get an episode filmed in Albuquerque during his tenure with the company. Nolasco returned to work in real estate in 2019.
Nolasco said he knew helping the couple find their dream home in Las Cruces would make for an entertaining episode of “House Hunters” because the husband and wife “had different ideas about what they wanted on everything.”
Here is what the “House Hunters” website said about the episode: “A couple tries to find common ground as they search for a home in New Mexico. She’s looking for a house that feels right for their blended family of five, but he’s more concerned and focused on the bottom-line price.”
“We looked at many options,” Nolasco said.
The process was also challenging because Las Cruces has a highly competitive real estate market, he said. The pandemic made it even more difficult.
Nolasco said the episode, titled “Heart vs. Head in New Mexico,” is unique in “House Hunters” history because it focuses on the buyers’ Native American history and traditions while telling the story of their rise from humble beginnings to first-time homeowners.
Nolasco said he is hopeful the episode will generate interest in Las Cruces from all over the country. It could bring more entrepreneurs and tourists to Las Cruces, he said, along with people looking to relocate to the Southwest.
Nolasco said he has developed a “deep connection” to Las Cruces, which he called “the last frontier for affordable housing” and a “laid back relationship-centered community. The rest of the U.S. is so crazy,” Nolasco said. “Las Cruces is such a hidden gem.”
A native of Silver City, Nolasco began his real estate career with David Parnes and James Harris of Million Dollar Listings: Los Angeles in 2016.
“House Hunters” began production in 1999 and has filmed nearly 2,000 episodes.
Contact Nolasco at Levi Nolasco levinm@kw.com.
Visit www.hgtv.com/shows/house-hunters and https://levilascruces.kw.com/.
