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Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With 33,713 people, 13,304 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $787,407, Leawood house prices are not only among the most expensive in Kansas, Leawood real estate also is some of the most expensive in all of America.
Leawood is a city of large, single-family homes. In fact, there is a higher proportion of four, five or more bedroom homes in Leawood than is found in 98% of the communities in America.
The large homes that make up Leawood are primarily owner-occupied ( 90.72%).
There is a lot of housing in Leawood built from 1970 to 1999 so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Leawood built between 2000 and later ( 27.72%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 22.43%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Leawood have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 100.73%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Leawood house appreciation rate of 7.22%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Leawood's appreciation rate, at 6.38%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Leawood's appreciation rate has been 2.29%, which annualizes to a rate of 9.46%.
Relative to Kansas, our data show that Leawood's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 50% of the other cities and towns in Kansas.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Leawood differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Leawood - or in any city or town - that have the best track record of real estate appreciation, by the latest quarter, the last year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, or even since 2000, to assist you in making the best Leawood real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$787,407
for Kansas
for nation
13,304
$2,917 / per month