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The Jason Brown Group works every day with the best contractors, vendors and salespeople in the metro area. We have an army of help at our side that ensures we’re able to quickly get our clients with the right people to help get their homes ready to go on the market, deal with issues that arise while on the market and help navigate through the real estate inspection process with home buyers. We only recommend companies who consistently provide our clients with honest and reliable work at competitive prices.

We can point you in the right direction for virtually any issue you face or any need that may arise with your home… From the interior of your home to the exterior, from contractors who do the work to vendors who provide services. In almost all cases, we’ve had another client already go through whatever you may be dealing with and we have someone who’s ready to help you. It’s difficult to get on our vendor list but easy to be removed… We have strict requirements to get on our list and only vendors who are able to satisfy our past clients remain on our list… And satisfaction is determined in many ways, a few of those ways being honesty, reliability to timeliness and price.

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Prairie Village KS real estate update for January 2017… See details on the strong Seller’s market & search Prairie Village homes for sale

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Prairie Village KS Real Estate Update

There were 11 homes sold (closed) in Prairie Village Kansas the past 15 days. Comparing this sales rate to the current 34 homes for sale in Prairie Village, the city has 1.6 months of inventory on the market. This volume of real estate inventory indicates a strong seller’s real estate market in Prairie Village. The average new listing the past 15 days in Prairie Village Kansas came on the market around a $696,000 list price, while the average sales price during the same time period was nearly $253,000.

Type # Average $ Avg DOM
Listings Past 15 Days 5 $695,990
Total Active Listings 34
Newest Contracts Written 5 $541,980 15
Sold (closed) Past 15 Days 11 $252,636 47

* 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 11 homes sold in Prairie Village Kansas were on the market an average of 47 days, while the last 5 homes to go under contract did so in 15 days on average. We look forward to helping you assess the effect these market stats have on your your real estate investment and the decisions you make when buying or selling a Prairie Village Kansas home.

The Jason Brown Group gives Prairie Village home sellers powerful representation and we get the majority of our homes sold in 30 days and for nearly 99% of list price. We represent Prairie Village home buyer’s best interests throughout the home buying process and help with locating all area homes for sale that fit our buyer’s needs. Get an overview of how we will assist you in selling a Prairie Village Kansas home or buying a Prairie Village Kansas home and contact us for personal real estate assistance.

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Selling Your Kansas City Area Home? Where It’s Advertised Is More Important Than Ever

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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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Prairie Village Kansas Real Estate Market Update – January 2012

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

After calculating the absorption rate over the past 15 days in Prairie Village Kansas, we find the city has 5.6 months of inventory currently on the market. This amount of inventory is considered a slight buyer’s market. The average sales price the past 15 days was around $177,000, while the average new listing came on the market at nearly $249,000. The last 6 homes to go under contract in Prairie Village did so with an average list price around $231,000.

Type # Average $ Avg DOM
Listings Past 15 Days 12 $248,796
Total Active Listings 124
Newest Contracts Written 6 $231,212 180
Newest Sold (Closed) 11 $177,182 106

* 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 homes that sold (closed) the past 15 days in Prairie Village were on the market an average of 106 days. If you are making plans to buy or sell a home in Prairie Village Kansas, we look forward to providing you the market stats that will help you make an informed real estate decision. Here’s details on how we can assist you with selling your Prairie Village Kansas home or with buying a Prairie Village Kansas home. Please contact us with any questions you may have and we look forward to assisting you.

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Buying A Prairie Village KS Home? Consider A Sewer Line Inspection Or Sewer Warranty

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Older homes, like those found in Prairie Village Kansas, are wonderful homes often with lots of character and the appeal of mature tree-lined streets. While these features are precisely what draws many home buyers to the area, older homes on tree line streets are the homes that most often encounter sewer line problems. When buying a home, it’s important for your home inspector to run the sinks and tubs for a long period of time and be sure everything is draining properly in the home. If there’s any slow draining, it’s recommended that a home buyer have a professional company come out and complete a sewer line camera inspection.

Sewer lines don’t last forever and on homes that are 40, 50, 100 years old, someone is eventually going to get stuck with paying for sewer line repairs. And by sewer lines we aren’t just referring to the plumbing inside the home or under the basement concrete floor… We’re talking about the sewer line that runs from the home and through the yard to the street. But the homeowner’s responsibility doesn’t stop there either. Because main sewer lines run on one side of the street or the other, there’s a a 50-50 shot a homeowner’s sewer connects on the OTHER side of the street.  If your sewer line goes bad, imagine the costs involved if the repairs require replacement of the sewer line under the street, tearing up the street, etc. It can happen.

It’s possible that a slow drain can be dealt with by having the lines rootered out or hydrojetted out, but the simple fact that there’s any issues should put a home buyer on notice that more expensive repairs could be coming. A root of a tree may have penetrated the sewer line or maybe the ground has collapsed underground and caused a sewer line connection to separate. Some older sewer lines are made of clay and simply not designed to hold up 100 years. Cleaning out the lines could be a temporary fix and the permanent fix could cost a homeowner thousands of dollars.

To find out what’s truly needed, have an inspection done where a small camera is run through the plumbing lines and out to the main sewer line. If major repairs are required, a good rule of thumb is $100 per foot to repair or replace the damaged pipe. But it could certainly be much more or even less, so be sure to get a couple bids before proceeding. Though I have never recommended this company, here’s a Kansas City sewer repair company with a web site that does a good job of explaining a homeowner’s options. You may be able to re-line the existing sewer line without trenching the yard. If you have to excavate and install a new sewer line, $100 per foot is probably a minimum cost.

Prairie Village Kansas has recently begun promoting to its residents the option of purchasing a Sewer Line Warranty. According to a Kansas City Star article, 12% of Prairie Village residents have already done so. The warranty is provided by a third-party and the current cost of the warranty is $59 per year. If there’s a problem, the warranty company sends out a local plumber and the warranty will pay up to $4000 of repairs to repair a broken line. Should the job require cutting up the street, the warranty would also cover the first $4000 of that portion of the repair.


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Prairie Village Kansas Real Estate Update – August 2011

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

After calculating the absorption rate over the past 15 days in Prairie Village Kansas, we find the city has 5.8 months of inventory currently on the market. This amount of inventory indicates a slight buyer’s market in the Prairie Village area. The average price of the new listings was around $235,000 and the average price of the homes that sold was closer to $218,000.

Type # Average $ Avg DOM
Listings Past 15 Days 33 $234,623
Total Active Listings 186
Newest Contracts Written 18 $188,139 107
Newest Sold (Closed) 16 $218,098 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.

If you are making plans to buy or sell a home in Prairie Village Kansas, we’ll guide you through the process. Here’s details about how we assist Prairie Village home sellers and Prairie Village home buyers. Please contact us with any questions you may have and we look forward to assisting you!

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90% Of Kansas City Home Buyers Will First View Online The Home They Purchase

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In today’s buyer’s market, Kansas City home sellers need to be sure they hire a listing agent who’s up on current real estate trends and prepared to market a home in the places buyers are looking. If you’ve interviewed a Kansas City listing agent recently and the Realtor told you that open houses are going to be a prime basis for getting your home sold, that’s a farce. Open houses sell between 1 to 2 percent of homes and agents who are doing them are looking to turn the tire kickers into buyers many months down the road. That’s just the reality of open houses.


My group’s marketing plan is extremely thorough and goes far beyond the traditional marketing methods most home sellers have come to expect. We know that 90% of Kansas City home buyers will first view online the home they end up purchasing. Many agents have started putting their listings in a few prominent places, but we put our listings in ALL of the prominent places. I tell sellers to check a few weeks after we have their homes listed and let me know if they see anywhere important that we don’t have their home listing. I can go months without hearing any suggestions from home sellers and that reinforces that we’re marketing our listings well.

Whenever a home seller does have a suggestion, we thoroughly review it and make a decision on either adding it to our marketing plan or explaining why it’s not worth the investment. One of the reasons we’re so organized is because we have one marketing plan for our homes. We don’t blow in the wind and do ineffective print advertising when the occasional seller asks about it. Every moment and dollar that we’d spend on such things would take resources away from doing the things that truly get homes sold in today’s real estate market. This means that we provide the same marketing plan whether the home is a $100,000 home or a million dollar home. So the next time you speak with a listing agent be sure the agent isn’t basing their marketing plan on ineffective marketing methods like open houses, print advertising and relying on the MLS as the only real tool for getting your home sold.

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No Amount Of Marketing Will Overcome a Grossly Overpriced Kansas City Real Estate Listing

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There’s no amount of marketing I can do to overcome a grossly over-priced home. In the past 15 years as a land developer and Kansas City real estate agent I’ve sold more than 1,000 properties. In all of those home sales, I don’t recall ever saying to myself, wow that marketing just got us an extra $10,000 out of that home!  I’ve heard agents claim that their marketing generated such excitement in a home that it led to multiple offers, a higher sales price, etc… OK, maybe. But I’ll debate that the multiple offers were made because the home was perceived to be a great deal once the buyer’s viewed the home, rather than because of the home’s marketing plan.

I’m not saying marketing is unimportant. It’s critical in getting buyers interested in a home and I believe less than 5% of Kansas City real estate agents can compete with the marketing I do for my sellers. So I obviously find it important. But I’m not so naive as to think that knowing the how, when and where to market a home is going to get the home sold. It can get a buyer interested but from there buyers will be analyzing several critical factors in determining whether it’s the right home for them. The first thing most buyers ask themselves is whether the location is great. By location I mean the part of the city the home is located, the part of the home community the home is located, the direction the home is facing, what’s behind the home, etc.

From there, buyers start looking closely at the functionality of the home… by that I mean the size, layout and curb appeal of the home. If all of the works, buyers start eying the condition of the home more closely. Usually a home has to be in poor condition for a buyer to rule the home out if it’s met all the other factors.  Besides, that can be overcome by the factor I’ve yet to mention… the most important factor of all… price. Pricing of a home is absolutely THE most important in getting your home sold. Price must factor in everything I’ve mentioned plus the current market conditions. You see, if a home is priced 15% above comparable homes in the area, it won’t matter if the home is located on a cul-de-sac lot, if it’s the largest home in the neighborhood, if the home is completely updated with appealing decor, etc.

So, the progression most buyers will go through in buying their home is…
1. Marketing.
2. Location.
3. Condition.
4. Functionality.
5. Price.

But, if you asked me to rank them in order of importance, the first and last factor are flipped…
1. Price.
2. Location.
3. Condition.
4. Functionality.
5. Marketing.

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Thinking Of Taking Your Kansas City Home Off The Market For The Holidays?

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It’s that time of year! The leaves are down. It’s getting really cold outside. And the holiday season is here! For home sellers who didn’t get their homes under contract before December, showings typically slow down heavily this time of year. Many sellers analyzing their situation decide it makes sense to take their homes off the market for 30 days or so. Others simply pull it off the market completely and choose to restart in the early spring. Some will wait 90 days so the days on market starts over on their listing. But savvy Kansas City homes sellers will consider all the factors when deciding whether to take their home off the market.


Remember, there may be fewer home buyers out shopping this time of year but there’s also typically far fewer listings – one of the reasons being the sellers who pull their homes temporarily off the market for the holidays! Less competition of course means higher prices for Kansas City home sellers. Probably more important to me, the buyers who ARE out looking are likely not just out kicking tires. If they’re going to be out looking in 20 degree weather, I’m betting they plan to buy a home very soon. The buyers I work with during the holiday season are usually in a great mood too, thinking about family and excited about the prospects of getting into a new home.

Kansas City MLS stats show the month of December is great for sellers in regards to volume of new listings compared to home sales. Corporate transfers are also in the works at this time of year and usually remain abundant through the month of January. As far as the inconvenience, don’t let it be. There’s nothing wrong with picking a day or two – or even a week – during the holiday season where you won’t permit showings. Most people understand it’s the holidays. While taking your home off the market is never ideal, it can be a good compromise to taking your home off the market for a longer period of time.

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