Move to Northland? (Gladstone, Liberty, Parkville: comparable sales, sales, houses)

[MeikoMom]

I am a transplant to KC area. I have lived in Johnson County since 1997. Currently live in Southern OP and I'm kind of losing it. It is SO vanilla here. Tons of houses on a prairie - not enough big trees and hills. Hardly any diversity. Sure, it has been a safe place to live and the schools are fantastic...but, way too vanilla and 'Keepin' up with the Jones' for me.

For work I telecommute - do bank consulting work from home. My husband started working at Cerner in NKC last year and sees a lot of opportunity for growth there.

I see this as our shot to get out of Jo Co. I am particularly interested in Parkville.

Can anyone give me feedback on the area and schools? It could take a while to sell our home and find something up there. But, potentially could be builders willing to take our home on trade to move new inventory. I was looking at arial shots of Thousand Oaks this morning and just drooling at the rolling hills and TREES.

What neighborhoods might be family friendly for a household with a Cerner commute?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

[kcmo]

Anything in the Northland would be a quick commute to Cerner. But it sounds like the Parkville "area" would be a great place to start. Riss Lake, Thousand Oaks, The Bluffs, etc. Most of that area is served by the relatively new Park Hill South High School and the highly rated Park Hill District. That area has downtown parkville, english landing riverfront park, the new Tulleries shopping center. Platte County is widening 64th (Tom Watson Pky) to four lanes west of Route 9 and the county has also built many bike trails in that area.

Also in a few miles north you have the Tiffany Springs Athletic Complex and the Tiffany Springs Aquatics Center (some of the nicesest suburban parks in the metro). Of course there is Zona Rosa, Boardwalk, Tiffany Springs Market Center, Barrywoods etc for tons of shopping and entertainment including KC's Improv comedy club and a new for and screen theater.

If you like trees and hills, check out the Bluffs just west of Downtown Parkville and one of the few developments actually in Parkville and not in KCMO or un-incorporated Platte.

Also check out Old Briarcliff (169 and Briarcliff Parkway east of 169). It's an amazing area in a very hilly and forested area with amazing skyline views, would be very close to Cernter. Briarcliff Village shopping center is very nice. Old Briarcliff has homes in all price brackets, mostly 250-millions. If you are ok with new construction, you almost might look at Briarcliff West (west of 169). It's new construction but all custom housing in a very hilly area with tons of trees. Very expensive though.

Briarcliff
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Bluffs
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[kcmo]

Here are a couple more areas of the northland with beautiful topography, very nice neighborhoods, good schools and good locations that are less known because they don't associate with Liberty or Parkville. Just KC North. But VERY nice areas.

The Waukomis corridor (including Lake Waukomis) is a very wooded area nestled in the heart of the Northland with many upscale areas as well as established areas. You also have Lake homes too.

Waukomis, MO - Google Maps


I forget what it's called, but the area of northeast Gladstone and the portion of KCMO that touches Gladstone is also very nice and very wooded with good schools and new as well as more established areas to choose from.

Gladstone, MO - Google Maps

[MeikoMom]

KCMO - Thank you so much for taking the time to reply and providing so much information. I am hoping my husband and I can get some time away from kiddos this weekend to go up there and explore a bit.

I really appreciate you taking the time to share this information!

[famusdarlin]

Love Old BriarCliff. It is my fave northland neighborhood, but I beleive KCMO is speaking of the area just south of 152 east of MapleWoods. There some newer neighborhoods that might fit the bill and some older neighborhoods with lots differientiation in housing types.

I think both of those areas and most of the established neighborhoods up north will give you some of the diversity you want as well. Housing prices up north vary so much that you naturally end up with socio-economic and other diversity.

Good luck with your search.

[MeikoMom]

We spent some time on Saturday venturing in the northland. We drove through Thousand Oaks, Riss Lake, The Bluffs, Hills of Monticello and The National. We also spent some time in downtown Parkville. Very exciting to see some of the new retail/restaurants downtown up there!

We're considering putting our house on the market. Before I do so, I want to visit some of the schools up there and do some more homework on comparable sales in our current area. We have a lot of equity on paper on our home...but not sure we can sell our home for what we paid for it and then there are commissions, moving costs, closing costs. Uck.

We may put our house on fsbo site and keep sign out of yard for now (and indicate that on site) not to freak our kids out and just 'fish' a little bit for now.

I will check out the old Briarcliff area and also Liberty area.

[famusdarlin]

Thanks for the report. Good luck in your search!

[ForestMama]

Do you have an update, MeikoMom?

[dpanethiere]

Originally Posted by kcmo

Here are a couple more areas of the northland with beautiful topography, very nice neighborhoods, good schools and good locations that are less known because they don't associate with Liberty or Parkville. Just KC North. But VERY nice areas.

The Waukomis corridor (including Lake Waukomis) is a very wooded area nestled in the heart of the Northland with many upscale areas as well as established areas. You also have Lake homes too.

[url=http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=parkville,+mo&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Parkv ille,+Platte,+Missouri&gl=us&ei=vD1ITJfCE4T68AawjM 3cDg&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA&safe=on&ll=39.235411,-94.635329&spn=0.019545,0.029783&t=k&z=15]Waukomis, MO - Google Maps[/url]


I forget what it's called, but the area of northeast Gladstone and the portion of KCMO that touches Gladstone is also very nice and very wooded with good schools and new as well as more established areas to choose from.

[url=http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=parkville,+mo&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Parkv ille,+Platte,+Missouri&gl=us&ei=vD1ITJfCE4T68AawjM 3cDg&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA&safe=on&ll=39.233882,-94.556537&spn=0.019546,0.029783&t=k&z=15]Gladstone, MO - Google Maps[/url]

Maple Woods and Maple Park Place are located directly behind Maple Woods College. There are hills and trees. The communities are very family friendly. The homes are an amazing value due to the economy.

[dpanethiere]

Maple Woods and Maple Park Place are located directly behind Maple Woods College. The hills and trees are beautiful. The neighborhoods are very family friendly. Right now the homes are an amazing value due to the economy.