Although only a few of our Urban Living Center peeps showed up today, they are a great bunch. Always keeping up with the most recent market information. We meet every Tuesday morning to float ideas and share our buyers and sellers desires.
Feel free to contact me for any of your Real Estate needs. Heather Cook 913.499.9011
This week I returned to Extra Virgin. Visiting Spain and Central America multiple times, I’ve never been truly satisfied with Tapas in the United States. Once you experience this little gem, you’re sure to return for years to come.
Down the street from my office, we love to hit happy hour for 1/2 priced tapas and $2.00 off all cocktails and vines by the glass. And on Monday nights hand-crafted wood fired pizzas for only $8 each.
www.extravirginkc.com
Last Tuesday night the weather was absolutely wonderful and I had the chance to attend a function at the Kansas City Southern Railroad headquarters lead by the CEO Michael Haverty. Kansas City Southern is located downtown next to the Quality Hill neighborhood and has replica of the car Harry Truman used to travel throughout the US. The property it’s located on is beautiful and a must for any train enthusiast .
The history of this Railroad is very interesting.
http://www.kcsouthern.com/en-us/KCS/Pages/History.aspx
If you have any questions please contact me at hc@hcsellskc.com
Kansas RealtorAugust 2010
Kansas home sales fell by 24.3% percent in August 2010 compared to August of 2009, according to new figures released by the Kansas Association of REALTORS®. Sales totaled 2,180 units in August, down from 2,879 units in 2009. In comparison, sales on a national level decreased 19.9% for the month.
Across the state there were 20,588 active listings at the end of the month. Supply of new and existing homes on the market — which is determined by taking the number of active listings and dividing it by the number of sales — represents 9.4 months.
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Looks like prices and sales are slowly increasing. The average new home price for August was $313,007, 2% higher than one year ago. Combined home sales of existing and new homes were 1,773 for August, which is up 8% from one month ago.
KANSAS CITY, Missouri – “Money Magazine” has released its newest edition of the 100 Best Places to Live , and two Johnson County communities made the Top 20.
The Magazine polled users on their website about what was important when choosing a place to live, and they overwhelmingly picked safe streets, good schools, ample job opportunities and affordable real estate, so that is the criteria they used, Money assistant managing editor Elizabeth Fenner told Matt Lauer on Monday’s “Today Show” on NBC.
Coming in at No. 7 on their list was Overland Park, while Shawnee took No. 17.
Both were noted for their accessibility to jobs, with Overland Park taking praise for its schools and Shawnee for its farmland heritage.
Johnson County was not the only metro county to place communities on the list. Two cities in Jackson County also made the list.
Lee’s Summit ranked at No. 27 while Blue Springs landed at No. 49. Both received high marks for thier schools and housing markets.
Overland Park and Lee’s Summit both got docked for their job market, with massive cuts to Spring affecting OP and a higher-than-average unemployment rate in Lee’s Summit.
“It’s tough to be great in everything,” Fenner said. “We did the analysis to see across the board who’s the best.”
Also making the list in Missouri were O’Fallon at No. 26 and St. Peters at No. 60. No other Kansas communities appeard on the list.
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