RECENT BLOG POSTS
If your Brookside/Waldo home has a front porch—you know how relaxing and welcoming the space can be. For those of us without that amenity, please enjoy the new front porch at HJ’s Youth and Community Center, 6425 Wornall. The sleek new building joins the campus of St Andrew’s Episcopal Church a...
04/25/2018
Our locally owned Brookside/Waldo shops are so generous in giving back to our community. They donate gift cards to school fundraisers, host fundraising events for local organizations and really go beyond the usual grind of being an independent shop to actively helping others who need it. World's ...
04/22/2018
Brookside continues to be a strong, desireable location for home buyers in the Kansas City area. Prices continue to edge up, and multiple offers are common for those homes listed at $350K or less. Here are the sales stats for March 2018, single family homes, with year-to-date comparisons as wel...
04/19/2018
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You may have heard Bella Napoli is 'closing' it's coffee bar. Not true! It's the concept and the hours that are changing! Starting Monday April 16, the coffee bar will open at 10am, along with the deli and market. You can get coffee (or expresso, latte, etc) but no pastries or drinks with syru...
04/16/2018
Another sign of Spring! The Brookside Farmers' Market opens tomorrow, Saturday April 14, 2018 for the season. Location is the same: southeast corner of 63rd and Wornall, at Border Star elementary school. There are many farmers' markets in the metro area; what makes this one a bit different i...
04/13/2018
Wornall Road in the heart of Waldo seems to be a never ending construction site, and will continue to be for the next few years. Here's a summary of what's going on:*This week, contractors will start drilling around 75th and Wornall. The work is related to the bigger (and much needed) 75th/Wor...
04/09/2018
The numbers for these stats are ...very unusual ! I double checked all of the figures. You'll see the numbers prices are identical--what are the chances of that? Here are the February and YTD figures for the Armour Hills subdivision in Brookside: February 2018 ...
03/28/2018
Waldo is again in high demand for home buyers--final sales prices are (at times) thousands of dollars over the list price. Here are the Feb 2018 single family home sales stats for Waldo, using the area of State Line to Holmes and Gregory to 85th St: February 2018 ...
03/22/2018
It's early in the year, however home buyers are out shopping--traffic during open houses is very heavy! There still isn't very much inventory in the highly sought after $200-$350K price range -- and those that do pop on go under contract almost immediately. Here are the February single family h...
03/19/2018
Today’s blog will tell you about the planned renovation changes for the southwest corner of 85th and Wornall in Waldo—where the Price Chopper is located. This shopping area (“Wornall Village Shopping Center”) has been looking a bit shabby and run down over the years, and I’m excited share the ne...
03/12/2018
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Mary Hutchison, SRES, ABR
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I love to write about my neighborhood, the Brookside area of Kansas City, where I live in the Armour Hills subdivision.
I keep it short, simple, and to the point with articles about general real estate topics so you have current, useful information about real estate trends and news. Sometimes I write about local politics, new homes for sale, and of course, my clients!
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