Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market

I’m the first agent in the office most days and often at my desk working away by 7 AM 6 days a week. With that routine comes the task of making the morning coffee and at least once or a 1000 times, I’ve heard the joke around the office about how important I am for my coffee-making reliability. With all the joking though comes the reality that on many days my most productive hours are put in early mornings. It sometimes makes me think about those old army commercial from the 1980′s…


As a kid that commercial really made me think Army guys must be the toughest guys in the world. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be one or run the other direction because, well, those guys do more before 9 AM than most people do all day!
Who knew how much I’d come to enjoy mornings and how productive I’m able to be so early in the day. You really can get a lot more done with no distractions around. Getting such an early start allows me to often get in a solid 6 hours of work before I begin my scheduled afternoon appointments. So First Sergeant, if you’re reading this and it’s 7 AM, feel free to give me call!


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Amber Meadows Community Market Stats
Amber Meadows Is A Subdivision In Overland Park KS

Looking over the Amber Meadows market stats dating back a year to January 2011, 14 homes were listed for sale and 10 homes were Sold (closed) over the same 12-month period. The average sales price in Amber Meadows was $233,810 and the home community had sales prices that ranged from a low of $215,000 to a high of $265,000.

Comparing the 3 Active homes for sale in Amber Meadows to the past year’s sales rate in the home community, there’s 3.6 months of inventory on the market. This amount of inventory indicates a seller’s market in the Amber Meadows area. The average current list price of $236,000 is in line with the average sales price the past 12 months in the home community. Amber Meadows is a popular Overland Park Kansas subdivision and located near parks, dining and shopping amenities and near access to 69 Highway in Overland Park.

Amber Meadows In Overland Park KS

Amber Meadows In Overland Park KS

Amber Meadows is located in southern Overland Park Kansas and served by the Blue Valley School District. There’s approximately 347 homes in Amber Meadows and many of the homes in the community were built from 1988 to 1999. If you are planning to buy or sell a home in Amber Meadows or in another community in the surrounding Overland Park Kansas area, my group will provide you expert real estate guidance.

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Real Estate Statistics On Overland Park Kansas
15 Day Glance At The Overland Park KS Real Estate Market

After calculating the absorption rate over the past 15 days in Overland Park Kansas, we find the city has 5.9 months of inventory currently on the market. This amount of inventory is considered a balanced real estate market, which is great news for Overland Park home sellers. Seeing 94 homes go under contract the past 15 days is even more impressive than 63 homes sold (closed) during the past 15 days. These market stats in Overland Park are all the more impressive considering the time of year.

Type # Average $ Avg DOM
Listings Past 15 Days 117 $267,812 -
Total Active Listings 744 - -
Newest Contracts Written 94 $272,704 131
Newest Sold (Closed) 63 $245,390 163

* The Average $ of Newest Contracts Written considers the list price when the homes went under contract. Data pulled from Heartland MLS and deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Low samplings in a category can skew results. Stats cover approximately 15 days from post date. DOM = Days On Market.

The average sales price the past 15 days in Overland Park was about $245,000, while the average new listing came on the market at nearly $268,000. If you are making plans to buy or sell a home in Overland Park Kansas, my group looks forward to guiding you through the process. Here’s information on how we can assist you with selling your Overland Park home or with buying an Overland Park home. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have.

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Are you relocating to the Shawnee Mission School District, Olathe School District or Blue Valley School District? Many buyers new to the area specifically inquire into these areas and some have even narrowed things down to specific elementary schools within a school district before they even get to town. If this is you, you can ask us to send you a link to just the homes for sale within the school areas that most interest you. Whether your search parameters include a high school, middle school or elementary school area, we can save you the time of sifting through the other homes that simply won’t work for you.

Click one of these links if you’re generally looking for Blue Valley School District homes for sale, Shawnee Mission School District homes for sale or Olathe School District homes for sale. Once you do, you can change the price range parameters so you see just the homes that most interest you. If you do need homes specific to an elementary school area, the public side of the search system does not yet allow you to manipulate that data that deeply. We’ve sent a request to have the system changed to allow you to do so and for now you can just email me your specific elementary school boundaries and we’ll send you a link to just the homes that fit your needs!


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Loch Lloyd Community Market Stats
Loch Lloyd Is A Subdivision In Loch Lloyd MO

Looking over the Loch Lloyd market stats dating back a year to January 2011, 21 homes were listed for sale and 11 homes were Sold (closed) over the same 12-month period. The average sales price in Loch Lloyd was $564,355 and the home community had sales prices that ranged from a low of $283,000 to a high of $1,005,000.

Comparing the 12 Active homes for sale in Loch Lloyd to the past year’s sales rate in the home community, there’s 13.1 months of inventory on the market. This amount of inventory indicates a buyer’s market in the area. The average current list price in Loch Lloyd is $969,000. Loch Lloyd is a popular south Kansas City home community and located near parks, dining and shopping amenities and near access to 71 Highway in the south Kansas City area.

Loch Lloyd In Kansas City

Loch Lloyd In Kansas City

Loch Lloyd is located in Loch Lloyd Missouri and there’s approximately 261 homes in the subdivision. Many of the homes in the community were built from 1992 to homes currently under construction. If you are planning to buy or sell a home in Loch Lloyd or in another community in the surrounding Kansas City Missouri area, please contact my real estate group for assistance. We look forward to guiding you through the real estate process.

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Knowing where your home is going to be advertised is a critical part of the home selling process. We go to great lengths to promote our sellers homes because we know home buyers aren’t just using the same old methods to locate homes. Knowing which sites are most popular with home buyers is very important and what’s popular today may not be tomorrow. So we’re constantly studying the trends to help our sellers maximize their real estate investments.

Over the past several months, there’s been a lot of fluctuation among the most popular real estate sites. When I had a seller tell me another listing agent told them the only places their home needed to be advertised were MLS and Realtor.com, it took just a few minutes to show them how severely they’d be limiting themselves if they relied solely on that marketing plan. Though Realtor.com is still a popular site, it’s no longer #1 in home buyer’s hearts. That distinction falls to Yahoo Real Estate. In fact, Zillow is now consistently ranking ahead of Realtor.com so you can see the importance of having a thorough marketing plan.

You may be surprised to hear that if you add ALL three of these top sites together, they still only account for 20% of the market share. This means that even if an agent is marketing your home in ALL three of the most visited real estate sites online, you’ll still be missing out on 80% of the market share if nothing else is done. Real estate has really changed in recent years and I’d look forward to sitting down with you and showing you where the other 80% of home buyers are searching for homes.


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Verona Gardens Community Market Stats
Verona Gardens Is A Subdivision In Leawood KS

Looking over the Verona Gardens market stats dating back a year to January 2011, 23 homes were listed for sale and 12 homes were Sold (closed) over the same 12-month period. The average sales price in Verona Gardens was $249,958 and the home community had sales prices that ranged from a low of $202,000 to a high of $290,000.

Comparing the 10 Active homes for sale in Verona Gardens to the past year’s sales rate in the home community, there’s 10.0 months of inventory on the market. This amount of inventory indicates a buyer’s market in the area. The average current list price of $240,995 is lower than the average sales price the past 12 months in the subdivision. Verona Gardens is a popular Leawood Kansas home community and located near parks, dining and shopping amenities and near access to I-435 Highway in Leawood.

Verona Gardens In Leawood Kansas

Verona Gardens In Leawood Kansas

Verona Gardens is located in southern Leawood Kansas and served by the Blue Valley School District. There’s approximately 452 homes in Verona Gardens and many of the homes in the community were built from 1972 through 1987. If you are planning to buy or sell a home in Verona Gardens or in another community in the surrounding Leawood Kansas area, please contact my real estate group for assistance.

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Green Meadows Community Market Stats
Green Meadows Is A Subdivision In Overland Park KS

Looking over the Green Meadows market stats dating back a year to January 2011, 17 homes were listed for sale and 13 homes were Sold (closed) over the same 12-month period. The average sales price in Green Meadows was $218,027 and the home community had sales prices that ranged from a low of $130,500 to a high of $284,000.

Comparing the 3 Active homes for sale in Green Meadows to the past year’s sales rate in the home community, there’s 2.8 months of inventory on the market. This amount of inventory indicates a seller’s market in the Green Meadows area. The average current list price of $234,100 is higher than the average sales price the past 12 months in the subdivision. Green Meadows is a popular Overland Park Kansas home community and located near parks, dining and shopping amenities and near access to 69 Highway in Overland Park.

Green Meadows In Overland Park Kansas

Green Meadows In Overland Park Kansas

Green Meadows is located in southern Overland Park Kansas and served by the Blue Valley School District. There’s approximately 413 homes in Green Meadows and many of the homes in the community were built from 1987 to 1999. If you are planning to buy or sell a home in Green Meadows or in another community in the surrounding Overland Park area, please contact us for assistance.

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Real Estate Statistics On Shawnee Kansas
15 Day Glance At The Shawnee KS Real Estate Market

After calculating the absorption rate over the past 15 days in Shawnee Kansas, we find the city has 12.1 months of inventory currently on the market. This amount of inventory represents a buyer’s market in Shawnee Kansas. Slow sales (closings) are to be expected at this time of year, since most of the home closings will reflect contracts written during the holiday season. An interesting aspect of these stats is the 39 homes that went under contract the past 15 days. That’s a huge number for the city of Shawnee. If we were to use that sales rate (assuming all of them will close) to recalculate the months of inventory on the market in Shawnee, it would be a much improved 4.1 months of inventory on the market.

Type # Average $ Avg DOM
Listings Past 15 Days 54 $230,371 -
Total Active Listings 315 - -
Newest Contracts Written 39 $171,694 182
Newest Sold (Closed) 13 $168,572 109

* The Average $ of Newest Contracts Written considers the list price when the homes went under contract. Data pulled from Heartland MLS and deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Low samplings in a category can skew results. Stats cover approximately 15 days from post date. DOM = Days On Market.

The average sales price the past 15 days was $168,572, while the average price of the new listings to hit the market was $230,371. If you are making plans to buy or sell a home in Shawnee Kansas, we look forward to guiding you through the process. Here’s information on how we can assist you with selling your Shawnee KS home or with buying a Shawnee KS area home. Please contact us with any questions you may have and we look forward to assisting you.

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If you’re narrowing down your Johnson County Kansas home search, it’s important to know which school districts serve the homes that interest you most. There are definitely abrupt jumps from one school district to another as you drive the city streets. Many relocation home buyers assume that the city of Olathe is served by the Olathe School District. This is partially correct as much of Olathe is served by the Olathe School District, however portions of Olathe are also served by the Blue Valley School District and the Spring Hill School District.

Johnson County KS School District Map

Johnson County KS School District Map

Click on the map above and you’ll see that the Blue Valley School District covers portions of Overland Park, Leawood and Olathe. The Olathe School District covers portions of Olathe, Overland Park and Lenexa. The Shawnee Mission School District covers portions of Overland Park, Lenexa and Shawnee and all of Prairie Village, Mission Hills, Mission, Merriam, Roeland Park, Fairway, Westwood, Westwood Hills, Lake Quivira and Mission Woods. The Desoto School District covers portions of De Soto, Lenexa and Shawnee. The Spring Hill School District covers Spring Hill and portions of Olathe and Overland Park. The Gardner-Edgerton School District covers Gardner and Edgerton.


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