Overland Park Kansas Real Estate Market Update – March 2013 Update

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market

Overland Park Kansas Real Estate Update
Recent Real Estate Market Activity In Overland Park KS

Looking at the past 15 days of real estate sales activity in the city of Overland Park Kansas and comparing it to the current volume of homes for sale in Overland Park, we find there’s 3.2 months of inventory in the city. This amount of inventory indicates a clear seller’s real estate market in the city of Overland Park. The average new listing the past 15 days came on the market around $249,000, while the average sales price during the same period was around $256,000.

Type # Average $ Avg DOM
Listings Past 15 Days 179 $291,065
Total Active Listings 549
Newest Contracts Written 183 $256,223 66
Sold (closed) Past 15 Days 85 $249,395 84

* 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 last 85 homes sold (closed) in Overland Park were on the market an average of 84 days. If you’re looking to buy or sell a home in Overland Park, let us know the area of Overland Park that most interests you so we can send you market stats relevant to your home purchase or sale. You can also find more details on our website regarding selling an Overland Park Kansas home and buying an Overland Park Kansas home.

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Searching Villas For Sale In Overland Park, Johnson County KS Or A Surrounding Kansas City Area?

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market

If you’ve tried locating Villas for sale in Johnson County Kansas, Overland Park or the surrounding Kansas City areas, you may have run into the problem of having the Villa listings  lumped together with all the single family homes. This can mean a lot of wasted time when searching through the list of homes that fit your needs.  There are ways however to make the home search more productive and you can do this yourself when searching online or you can have a local Kansas City Realtor like myself help.

Kansas City & Johnson County KS Villas

Kansas City & Johnson County KS Villas

If you’re in the preliminary stages and want to do the searching on your own, our search tools have been drastically improved in recent years. You can eliminate single family homes from the results and just search the available Villas for sale and priced in just the range that you need. For example, you can search just for homes for sale over $300,000 in Johnson County KS and doing so nets you these results… Johnson County KS Villas & Towhomes priced $300,000+.

You’ll see homes in area communities like the Villas Of Shadow Glen In Cedar Creek, Afton Hill, Prairie Brook Villas, Club Villas At Lionsgate, Avignon, Villas of St. Andrews,  Crescent Court, Villas of Highlands Ranch, Ashford Villas, Links of Cedar Creek, Deer Creek, Ranch Villas at Nall Hills, Hallbrook, The Woods Villas,  Villas of Falcon Valley, Tuscany Reserve, Villas of Whitehorse, Willowbrooke, Village At Ironhorse, St. Andrews Court, Prairie Villas At Falcon Valley,  Corinth Downs, The Cottages Of Cedar Creek, Leabrooke Preserve, Mission Reserve, Heather Glen, Patrician Woods, Linden Place, Camden Woods, Brighton’s Landing and Falcon Ridge Villas.

The search we did above is just one example of what you can do to narrow down the available homes for sale. You can also play around with the homes that get fed from the Kansas City MLS and make the search work many different ways to benefit you. After clicking the link above, you can search either by selecting a map area or you can take control of the search by selecting specific cities to search. To do that latter, click on the Refine Your Search button and then select Overland Park, Lenexa, Olathe, Shawnee, Leawood, Kansas City… or any combination of these or other metro areas that you want to see.

You can also save any searches you’ve done by clicking on the SEARCH SAVER button. In addition to letting you come back later to view the searches you’ve done, creating an account also allows you to start receiving automatic email updates whenever a NEW listing comes on the market that meets the parameters you’ve entered.  You are able to add,  edit or delete searches. When you’re really ready to hit the home search trail, you’ll want to have your Kansas City real estate agent doing the searches via MLS because agents can search additional parameters that are not available on the consumer version.

Posted by Jason A. Brown