Posts Tagged ‘Leawood Real Estate’

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market What kind of Kansas City real estate market are we heading into this spring? The demand for homes is high, the supply of homes is low and new home construction is returning to be a player in our local market. Homes are selling in Kansas [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market The most recently released real estate market stats (covering the month of November) show the state of Kansas had further improvements in both average sales prices and volume of home sold across the state. The volume of homes sold rose 23.2% in November in comparison [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market Housing has led the way for every major economic recovery in U.S. history. To be sure our government is not overlooking the importance of housing, there’s a seven city Rally For Homeownership event across the U.S. and it’s making a stop in Kansas City next [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market The April housing market stats for Kansas have been posted by the Kansas Association of Realtors and indicate continued improvement in both the home sales rate and increasing home sale prices. State-wide, home sales rose 3.2% compared to April of 2011, which follows last month’s [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market It’s estimated that 30% of mortgage loans on home purchases today – 50% in some real estate markets – are FHA loans. That’s incredible when you think that just 5 years ago FHA backed about 5% of home loans. FHA loans have become such a [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market If you’ve heard about the new real estate tax scheduled to go in effect in 2013 and you’re wondering how it might affect you, you’ll be relieved to know the majority of home sellers will NOT be affected in any way by the new tax. [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market Though our ever-volatile economy makes it impossible to say for sure what the future holds for the housing market,  I’m feeling confident that when we look back on 2012, it’s going to be one of the best we’ve seen in Kansas City, Johnson County Kansas, [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market As I’ve pulled market stats for clients the past several weeks, there’s been a recurring theme of improved market stats for area home sellers. We’ve been in a buyer’s market for several years but we’ve definitely transitioned recently into a balanced real estate market in [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market If you’ve been following my real estate updates on Kansas City, Johnson County, Overland Park and the surrounding area, you’ve probably noticed that the months of inventory in most areas has been improving for several months now. An improved home sale rate coupled with fewer [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market The January real estate market stats have been posted by the Kansas Association of Realtors and they show a much improved sales rate state-wide. Home sales rose an astounding 15.5% in the state compared to January of 2011, far out-pacing the national average of a [...]