A multi-broker family team in Las Cruces, NM. Led by Qualifying Broker Manny Patino. We work with every active Las Cruces home builder, list and sell homes across Doña Ana County, and represent buyers at every new-home community in the city.
A snapshot of who we are, what we cover, and how to reach us.
Patino Real Estate is a Las Cruces, NM real estate firm built around one principle: representation that actually represents the client. We're a multi-broker family team, not a single agent with a logo, and not a national franchise running off a template. Every transaction goes through brokers who know Las Cruces by name, by neighborhood, by builder, and by the actual conditions in this market.
The firm is led by Qualifying Broker Manny Patino, a listing and new home expert who earned NAHB National Rookie of the Year selling new construction before building this brokerage. Together with Associate Brokers Gilbert Patino (buyer representation and construction), Brandon Grajeda (creative financing and first-time buyers), Brian Salazar (buyer representation and sales), and Erika Melissa Moya (buyer representation and land), plus preferred lender Jeff Sauer, Patino covers every part of a Las Cruces real estate transaction in-house.
What separates us in Las Cruces is depth across every active builder. Most agents specialize in one or two builders. We've represented buyers at every active production builder in the city, plus custom builds. The Builder Guide we publish (free PDF download on the homepage) is the most comprehensive Las Cruces builder reference in print or online, because we live in those communities every week.
Patino was built to prove a point: that a Las Cruces brokerage can give its clients national-level marketing and give its agents a real path to ownership at the same time. That is why we invest in the technology, training, and systems most local firms never touch, and why the agents who join us tend to stay.
For other brokers, we run Patino Academy, a real estate training program that shares what works: listing strategy, buyer representation, new construction, negotiation, contract review, and the systems that turn a part-time agent into a full-time producer. Direct mentorship from a Qualifying Broker.
Five brokers. Five real specialties. One family-led firm. Plus a preferred lender. Every Patino client gets matched with the right specialist for their actual situation, not whoever picks up the phone.
Manny is the firm's Qualifying Broker, the highest license tier in New Mexico, and a new-home sales expert who earned NAHB National Rookie of the Year selling new construction. He prices Las Cruces homes correctly, markets them properly, gets them sold, and trains every Patino broker to do the same.
Gilbert is the construction specialist. He reads every Hakes Brothers, French Brothers, KT Homes, Edwards Homes, and Desert View Homes contract before our buyers sign. Walk-throughs, punch lists, builder negotiations, Gilbert.
Brandon makes financing work. FHA, VA, USDA, MFA down-payment assistance, builder rate buy-downs, lender shopping. First-time buyer? Talk to Brandon.
Brian is the buyer's agent and sales specialist. Real sales experience, sharp on negotiation, the broker who matches buyers with the right home and walks them all the way to closing.
Erika is a dedicated, bilingual Associate Broker with a background in education and a patient, client-focused approach. She helps buyers, sellers, and families with land, build-ready lots, and homes across Doña Ana County. Founder of Performers of the Mesilla Valley, a 501(c)(3) youth nonprofit.
Jeff originates the majority of Patino's purchase loans across FHA, VA, USDA, conventional, construction, and jumbo. Long-standing personal and professional relationship with Manny.
The Qualifying Broker is the highest license rank in NM, the broker legally responsible for the entire firm. Most LC agents work UNDER one. With Patino, you're working with one.
Five brokers, five specialties. A QB for listings + new homes, a construction specialist, a creative-finance specialist, two buyer specialists, plus a preferred lender. Every situation gets the right person.
Hakes Brothers, French Brothers, KT Homes, Edwards Homes, Desert View Homes, plus custom builders. We've closed buyer-side at all of them.
We don't dabble in new construction, we specialize in it: contracts, walk-throughs, builder negotiations, and punch lists on every active Las Cruces community.
Patino is not only where we serve clients. It is a brokerage we built for agents who are tired of paying for tools they never get, splits that never end, and a broker they never see. Here is what changes the day you join us.
85/15 to a $12,000 cap, then you keep 100% for the rest of your year. No desk fees, no monthly tech fees, no franchise cut.
A website we build and rank for you, an AI assistant that answers your buyers at 11pm, and a weekly listing email to your whole network, sent automatically.
Manny earned NAHB National Rookie of the Year selling new construction. He teaches you new-home sales, builder relationships, objections, and closing, personally.
Bring a producing agent and earn 30% of their company dollar, up to $3,600 a year each. One tier, no downline games. Founding seats are limited and lock for life.
20 founding seats per market. When they are gone, they are gone.
Buying, selling, building new, or relocating to Las Cruces. Call us. We answer the phone.
Manny Patino, Qualifying Broker. Our team , Gilbert Patino, Brandon Grajeda, Brian Salazar, Erika Melissa Moya , works with every active builder and represents buyers free. Meet the team →
