Kansas City Real Estate and Community News

Lenexa Real Estate Foreclosures Lenexa, Kansas foreclosures are at an all-time high, yet property values continue to increase.....Can both be true? Absolutely!  Though property values have not increased as quickly as we would like, the door is wide open for Buyers to secure great deals on purchases, while savvy Sellers, utilizing the ...

Clients are asking if the falling interest rates will improve the chances of sellng their Kansas City homes closer to fair market value, and conversely, will the falling rates make investing less attractive? The experts agree that falling rates enable more buyers to take advantage of home ownership....But lenders have slowly but surely ...

The National Association of Realtors reported last week that the national median home values of pre-owned homes in fell 1.8% in 2007. The national median home value was $217,000, the first decline in the national median home value since the National Association of Realtors started tracking the figure back in 1968. Locally, I calculated median ...

Even as the market opened on Tuesday, the Federal Reserve attempted to come to the rescue by making a surprising announcement - an emergency cut to the Fed Funds Rate and Discount Rate by .75%, in an effort to prevent a global market meltdown. The surprise announcement and magnitude of the rate cuts led to a week of exceptionally volatile trading ...

With 18 years of real estate experience, I have never seen the real estate market like this. Everywhere I read I hear about how slow the real estate market is today. That maybe true in some areas, but not in all of them. It is true that builders are lowering list prices. The last few new home contracts I have negotiated the builder has come down ...

If you believe the news media there is no good news about the real estate market. After piling through the numerous pages of Johnson County, Kansas real estate data, I found some good news. The average sales price of homes sold in the 3rd quarter went up from $270,900 in the 2nd quarter to $273,300 in the 3rd quarter. Also homes sold on ...

How is the Johnson County, Kansas real estate market? The average sales price decreased from $254,790 to $250,571 the past year on average in Johnson County, Kansas. With more homes on the market and the average days on the market increasing, this is a great time to buy a Kansas City home. Information obtained from the Heartland MLS.To view more ...

[expires:2007-04-13:Note that this information is outdated.] That*s right! We are working for food. From December 1, 2006 through March 31, 2007. We will be donating part of our commissions and running food drives to help our local food pantry. We will be annoucing food pick ups on our website. If you are thinking of buying or selling property, ...