I’d love to work with you to make your dreams come true!
BONNIE J MCGOWAN is the founder and developer of Birds of a Feather, an LGBTQ Community located in Pecos, NM…one of the first residential communities in the country designed for people of like minds to “age in place”.
The daughter of a Minnesota builder and granddaughter of a developer, Bonnie had the real estate seed planted early in life. She started out buying, remodeling and flipping homes as a hobby while pursuing other careers, but the passion for real estate and her dream of developing an LGBTQ community would eventually define her future efforts.
After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1974, Bonnie spent ten years as Director of one of the first advocacy based programs designed to find alternative treatment options for juveniles and adults involved in the criminal justice system. She left that program to pursue a career as an investment banker/broker advising banks on investments in bonds and mortgage-backed securities. For more than a decade she continued to develop her investment banking career, successfully acquiring multiple security and insurance licenses. She holds the distinction of being one of the first female partners in a Minneapolis based investment banking/brokerage firm.
Fate stepped in to divert Bonnie’s attention from the high powered banking/investment sector and back to her real passion. When the firm was sold in 1994, she decided to use all of her skills in real estate and finance to pursue her dream of creating an LGBTQ community. In 1999, after several years of conducting surveys and focus groups, she began her search for just the right property in sunny Northern New Mexico. She discovered a magnificent 140 acre pine forested property in Pecos… and just 30 minutes from Santa Fe and the rest is history. Since then, Bonnie has been actively developing the community with 44 lots and 12 homes, as of 2022.
Bonnie originally obtained her NM Real Estate license to assist with re-sales of lots and homes at Birds of a Feather. She worked as an Associate Broker with City Different Realty in Santa Fe for 8 years, but now that she has sold all of her lots in the community, she applied to become a “Qualifying Broker” and started her own real estate firm called Hawk’s Landing Realty. Bonnie will continue to assist with not only re-sale lots and homes at “Birds”, but to also actively work for those folks who prefer city living in Santa Fe to our more rural setting tucked into the foothills of the Santa Fe National Forest.
Bonnie would love to work with you in finding the perfect location for your next dream home!