Paul Sidwell Parkville

Parkville, Missouri 64152

Know Parkville street by street before you make a move

Paul Sidwell lives in Parkville and has been licensed since 2014. He came out of home construction, so he reads a house the way a builder does and prices it the way the micro-market actually behaves.

Bluff lots, lake homes, golf villas and new builds all price differently here, and a 64152 address can sit in three different jurisdictions. Paul walks you through which streets fit your number before you fall for a house.

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Parkville rewards precision. Well-prepared homes here have been going under contract in about 15 days at close to list, and the price you set in week one is the one that does the work. Paul walks the house first, then prices it.

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Since 2014
licensed in Missouri and Kansas
CRS
Certified Residential Specialist
Lives here
Parkville resident, Northland since 2001
Co-author
The Hidden Costs of Overpricing

The builder came first, the license came second

Paul Sidwell has lived in the Kansas City area since 2001 and makes his home in Parkville. Before real estate he worked in home construction and remodeling. He has been licensed since 2014, in Missouri and in Kansas, with RE/MAX Revolution.

That order is the whole difference. When Paul walks a Parkville house he looks past the staging to the grade of the lot, the age of the mechanical systems, the finished lower level and whether the work behind the drywall was ever permitted. Buyers get a read on repair scope while they are still standing in the room. Sellers get the inspector's findings before the inspector writes them down.

He holds the Certified Residential Specialist designation along with ABR, CFSP, AHWD, CPS, RENE and e-PRO training, and he co-authored The Hidden Costs of Overpricing. His office is at 2 Victory Drive in Liberty and his practice covers the Northland across Clay and Platte counties. Parkville is where it runs deepest, because it is where he lives.

Four things that make Paul uniquely different in Parkville

He reads the house, not the listing

A career in construction and remodeling came first. At showings and inspections Paul separates routine maintenance from real repair scope and can usually size a finding on the spot, which is the difference between a nervous guess and a number you can negotiate with.

He knows which side of the line you are on

A 64152 address can sit in Parkville, in Kansas City or in unincorporated Platte County. That decides the earnings tax, the city services and who maintains your street. Paul confirms the jurisdiction on every property before an offer is written.

He prices to the micro-market

Two similar Parkville homes a half mile apart can sell $150,000 apart because of a view, a lot or a boundary. Paul prices to the pocket rather than to the ZIP code, which is the subject of the book he co-authored.

He handles new construction start to finish

Building is a regular part of his practice. Paul attends the builder meetings, asks the questions buyers do not think to ask and keeps the schedule honest in communities like Creekside, Thousand Oaks and The National.

A river town, a college town and a Northland suburb in one ZIP code

Where it is
Southern Platte County, about 20 minutes from downtown Kansas City and 15 to 20 from KCI
The ZIP
64152, which also covers Kansas City and unincorporated Platte County addresses
The schools
Park Hill School District, with almost all of the city in the Park Hill South boundary
The housing
51.3 percent built in 2000 or later; 74.2 percent single-family detached (ACS 2023)
The catch
Jurisdiction, water provider, sewer type and flood designation all change street by street

Parkville sits in southern Platte County on a bend of the Missouri River, about 20 minutes northwest of downtown Kansas City. George S. Park bought the old English Landing steamboat stop in 1838 and platted the town in 1844. Main Street still runs down to the river, and Park University's limestone Mackay Hall watches over it from the hill.

Around that core the city climbs the bluffs and spreads north and west along Highway 45 and Route 9: a 134-acre lake at Riss Lake, two Tom Watson golf courses at The National and The Bluffs, ridge-top streets in Thousand Oaks and nearly 300 acres filling in at Creekside. Almost all of it is served by the Park Hill School District.

The census describes a settled town where most people own, with about 8,000 residents and roughly four in five homes owner-occupied. The market describes demand: Parkville sells at the top of the Northland and well-priced homes do not wait long.

Start with the pocket, not the price filter

Parkville is six or seven different markets wearing one ZIP code. Pick the one you are looking at and Paul's read on it opens below.

Riss Lake

Typically $500,000 to $800,000

Lake living inside the city limits

  • More than 750 single-family homes wrapped around a 134-acre lake, most built from the late 1980s into the 2000s, often on lots around half an acre.
  • Community pools, tennis courts and a stocked lake for fishing and boating. The Reserve, on the west side, is the maintenance-provided enclave.
  • Listings here commonly show English Landing Elementary with Lakeview Middle and Park Hill South.
What Paul checks here
Dock and lake-access rights, the HOA reserve study, and whether the lot drains toward the water.
Ask Paul about Riss Lake

The National and The Bluffs

Typically $700,000 and up

Golf-course estates and low-maintenance villas

  • Estate homes and villas along Highway 45 around a private Tom Watson Signature course of 7,037 yards, where the ninth drops about 100 feet from tee to green.
  • Its sister course opened in 2001 as The Deuce and was renamed The Bluffs Golf Club in 2024.
  • Monthly dues in communities like this commonly run from about $150 to $500.
What Paul checks here
Which jurisdiction the address sits in, since portions carry Kansas City addresses, plus what the dues actually cover.
Ask Paul about The National and The Bluffs

Thousand Oaks

Typically $500,000 to $750,000

Ridge-top streets and river-valley sunsets

  • Nearly 1,000 homes on a bluff above the Missouri River valley, with wide sidewalked streets and preserved native trees.
  • Two pools, one built for competitive swimming and one for recreation with a clubhouse and waterfall.
  • Portions lie inside Parkville city limits and portions do not.
What Paul checks here
The city line, the slope of the lot and whether the street runs on a grinder pump.
Ask Paul about Thousand Oaks

Creekside

Typically $450,000 to $700,000

New construction at the I-435 door

  • Nearly 300 acres in western Parkville taking shape as The Meadows, Thrive, The Woods and Creekside Village, alongside retail, offices and ballfields.
  • Single-family homes, townhomes and apartments, so the mix on one street can change block to block.
  • Angeline Washington Elementary opened on this side of town in August 2025.
What Paul checks here
The builder's allowance list, the phase release schedule and what the final street will look like once it is built out.
Ask Paul about Creekside

Historic downtown

Typically $300,000 to $600,000

Turn-of-the-century character above Main Street

  • A mix of styles and sizes dating to around the turn of the 20th century, a short distance from the Saturday market at English Landing Park.
  • The Parkville Commercial Historic District brings preservation rules that may shape exterior changes.
  • About 36 BNSF freight trains a day run along the river; the city has secured a $540,000 grant toward wayside horns.
What Paul checks here
The flood designation in writing, the age of the systems behind old plaster, and how the house sounds at different hours.
Ask Paul about Historic downtown

The established streets

Typically $300,000 to $500,000

Smaller pockets with room to negotiate

  • Riverchase on Highway 9 next to Riverside, River Hills Estates off Crooked Road, Pinecrest on Route 9 and Parkville Heights on Highway 45.
  • Mostly individual streets rather than amenity communities, so dues are low or absent.
  • Often the practical entry into Park Hill schools, along with townhomes trading near $309,000.
What Paul checks here
Whether past updates were permitted, the sewer type, and which water utility bills the address.
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The current Parkville read

$649,675

Median sale price, the three months ending July 2026, up 7.0 percent year over year

15 days
Median time on market, nine days faster than a year earlier
99.6%
Of list price, with 32.9 percent of sales closing above asking
$198
Median price per square foot

What that means in practice: a well-prepared Parkville home priced correctly in week one tends to go under contract inside a month, and about a third of sellers end up above their asking price. Above roughly $800,000 the buyer pool narrows and 45 to 90 days is a normal runway. Townhomes near $309,000 remain the genuine way into the ZIP code.

Figures are recent reads from Redfin, Homes.com and Zillow and shift month to month. Parkville closes a modest number of homes each month, so a single estate sale can move a median.

Want this read for your street instead of the whole city?

Paul will pull the comparable sales for your block and tell you what they actually support.

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100 things worth knowing about Parkville

Ten subjects, one hundred specifics, drawn from Paul's answers and public records. Search across all of them, or open the subject that matters to your move.

Market FundamentalsPrices, pace and supply
  1. Over the three months ending July 2026, Parkville's median sale price was $649,675, up 7.0 percent from the same period a year earlier (Redfin).
  2. The median Parkville home sold in 15 days over that stretch, nine days faster than a year before.
  3. Parkville homes recently sold at about 99.6 percent of list price, and 32.9 percent closed above asking.
  4. Redfin scores Parkville 82 out of 100 on its Compete Score and labels the market very competitive. The typical home goes pending in about 22 days and the most sought-after homes in about two.
  5. Price per square foot eased to about $198, down roughly 5 percent year over year even as the median price rose, which usually means larger homes made up more of the recent sales.
  6. Sales volume jumped in July 2026, with 65 Parkville closings against 39 in July 2025.
  7. About 26 percent of recent listings took a price reduction, nearly four points fewer than a year earlier. Homes priced right the first time stay off that list.
  8. Zillow's typical home value for Parkville was $595,774 in June 2026, up 3.3 percent over the year.
  9. The Parkville single-family median runs near $650,000, while townhomes trade near $309,000 (Homes.com), a real entry point into a high-demand ZIP code.
  10. Homes.com counted 192 Parkville sales over the trailing twelve months and about 3.3 months of supply, still on the seller's side of a balanced market.
  11. In the ACS 2023 five-year estimates, 55.5 percent of owner-occupied Parkville homes are valued between $500,000 and $999,999, and 5.7 percent at $1 million or more.
  12. Owners' own estimates put the median Parkville home value at $557,100 (ACS 2023). Census values pool five years of responses, so they trail current sale prices.
  13. Spring, roughly March through June, is Parkville's busiest season, and buyer demand in that window usually outruns the seasonal rise in listings (Paul's market notes).
  14. Above about $800,000 the Parkville buyer pool narrows, and 45 to 90 days on market is a normal runway for a well-priced luxury home (Paul's market notes).
River Town HistoryFrom steamboat landing to college town
  1. Colonel George S. Park, a veteran of the Texas War of Independence, bought the English Landing steamboat stop from the English brothers in 1838 and built his home on the bluffs above it.
  2. Park formally platted Parkville in 1844, and by 1850 the town had warehouses, a large stone hotel and a busy river trade in hemp.
  3. In 1853 Park started the Industrial Luminary, one of Platte County's earliest newspapers. On April 14, 1855, a pro-slavery mob threw its printing press into the Missouri River.
  4. Park went on to found the settlement that became Manhattan, Kansas, and pledged $500 toward the college that grew into Kansas State University.
  5. Parkville once grew faster than Kansas City. The race for the first bridge across the Missouri went to Kansas City's Hannibal Bridge in 1869, and the region's center of gravity followed it.
  6. Park College opened in 1875 on land Park donated, with 17 students in its first year. Students worked up to half a day on the college farm or in its shops in exchange for tuition and board.
  7. Mackay Hall was built by those students from limestone quarried on campus. Construction began in 1886, the building was occupied in 1893, and it joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
  8. The hall is named for Duncan Mackay, an Illinois banker who donated $25,000 in materials. Its clock tower is still the landmark most people picture when they hear the name Parkville.
  9. Angeline Washington, born in 1837 and later freed, married William Washington in Parkville's old Presbyterian church in 1855. The family helped found what became Washington Chapel, dedicated in 1907, and her great-grandson Elmer Jackson became Parkville's first Black elected official.
  10. The Benjamin Banneker School, a one-room brick schoolhouse built in 1885 at 31 West Eighth Street, joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. Many of the Washington grandchildren were educated at the Banneker schools.
  11. The patented Waddell “A” Truss Bridge, built in 1898, now stands in English Landing Park, and the old downtown train depot has served as City Hall and later as an art gallery.
The River, the Bluffs and the LandTerrain, water and stone
  1. Parkville's core sits on a bend of the Missouri River with limestone bluffs rising behind downtown. The same stone built Mackay Hall and Parkville Presbyterian Church.
  2. Park University's old limestone mine now holds the Parkville Commercial Underground: more than a million square feet mined, with 385,000 square feet of leasable space beneath the campus.
  3. The riverfront parks were designed to take high water. During the Great Flood of 1993, English Landing Park and most of downtown sat under more than 15 feet of it.
  4. In March 2019 the river crested at its highest level since 1993. It filled English Landing and Platte Landing parks for several days and spared the downtown businesses north of the tracks.
  5. First Street's national flood model rates about 4 percent of Parkville properties, roughly 134 of them, at severe flood risk over 30 years, which leaves about 96 percent of the city outside that group.
  6. Riss Lake is a dammed reservoir fed by White Aloe Branch, which continues about a mile south through Parkville to the Missouri. The Riss Lake Dam overlooks the Parkville Nature Sanctuary.
  7. The Parkville Nature Sanctuary protects 115 acres of forest, wetlands and reconstructed prairie, open sunrise to sunset, with a seasonal waterfall about 20 feet tall.
  8. Parkville's hills are part of its charm and part of its engineering. Many neighborhoods rely on grinder pump sewer systems because of the grade, and Paul flags them early so buyers understand the upkeep.
  9. In winter, orientation matters. A south-facing driveway on a Parkville hillside clears snow and ice faster, a small detail Paul points out when comparing two otherwise similar homes.
Life Downtown and OutdoorsMarkets, festivals, trails and golf
  1. The Parkville Farmers Market sets up at English Landing Park on Saturday mornings from 7 to noon and Wednesday afternoons from noon to 4, spring through October, and accepts SNAP and EBT.
  2. Parkville Days fills the third weekend of August with a parade from 63rd Street and Highway 9 down Main Street, a carnival and live music on the McKeon Stage in English Landing Park.
  3. Christmas on the River in early December brings live music, Santa and fireworks over the river, supported in part by November's Gallery of Trees fundraiser.
  4. Final Friday brings live music and food to downtown venues through the year, and late November pairs Small Business Saturday with the Mayor's Tree Lighting.
  5. Downtown's lineup includes Parkville Coffee, Rochester Brewing & Roasting, The Craic, Stone Canyon Pizza, Wild Flour Baking Co., The Baker's Table, Parkville Wine House, Prima Facie Bistro and The Parker Hollow.
  6. English Landing Park covers 68 acres of riverfront with a trail along the water, ballfields, shelters, playgrounds and a nine-hole disc golf course. The city created it in 1987.
  7. English Landing and Platte Landing parks share about five miles of crushed-gravel riverfront trail that links to the Missouri Riverfront Trail for routes of more than 15 miles.
  8. Platte Landing Park adds 140 acres with trails, an off-leash dog park and a boat ramp onto the Missouri.
  9. Inside the Nature Sanctuary, the Old Kate Trail loops about 0.9 miles along the valley floor to the waterfall, and the White Tail Trail adds a 1.5-mile climb. The full network runs about three miles.
  10. The National Golf Club of Kansas City is a private club built around a Tom Watson Signature course of 7,037 yards, where the ninth hole drops about 100 feet from tee to green. It hosted the Champions Tour in 2003 and 2004.
  11. Its sister course, a second Tom Watson design that opened in 2001 as The Deuce, was renamed The Bluffs Golf Club in 2024 for the river bluffs it plays across.
  12. Parkville registers golf carts and low-speed vehicles for use on city streets through City Hall, a small-town convenience for households near downtown and the parks.
Getting AroundRoads, rail, airport and utilities
  1. Downtown Parkville is about 20 minutes northwest of downtown Kansas City, reached along Route 9 through Riverside and North Kansas City.
  2. Highway 45 carries western Parkville toward I-435, and the Creekside development sits right at the I-435 and Highway 45 interchange.
  3. Kansas City International Airport is roughly 15 to 20 minutes from most Parkville neighborhoods, and its $1.5 billion single-terminal replacement opened in 2023.
  4. About 36 BNSF freight trains a day run along the river through downtown. The city has secured a $540,000 state grant toward wayside horns, which aim warning sound down the road instead of across town.
  5. Electric service comes from Evergy and natural gas from Spire. Water comes from Missouri American Water or KC Water depending on the address, and the City of Parkville bills sewer service directly.
  6. Kansas City was Google Fiber's first market, and fiber internet is broadly available across the Northland, a quiet advantage for Parkville's remote workers.
  7. The city's Redefine Route 9 project and its sidewalk gap inventory are aimed at better pathways and sidewalk connections between downtown, the university and the neighborhoods above.
Schools and LearningPark Hill and Park University
  1. Almost all of Parkville is in the Park Hill School District, which serves nearly 12,000 students across about 73 square miles, including Riverside, Weatherby Lake, Houston Lake, Lake Waukomis, Northmoor and Platte Woods.
  2. Park Hill South High School opened in the fall of 1998 in Riverside, and its attendance boundary includes almost all of Parkville.
  3. Park Hill's fall 2024 redistricting moved to a direct feeder model of three elementary schools per middle school, with Lakeview and Walden middle schools feeding Park Hill South.
  4. Angeline Washington Elementary opened in August 2025 on Parkville's western edge as the district's 12th elementary school, enrolling 423 students in its first fall.
  5. It is the first Park Hill school named for a woman and for a person of color, chosen from 350 naming suggestions.
  6. English Landing Elementary takes its name from the town's original steamboat landing, and Riss Lake listings commonly show it with Lakeview Middle and Park Hill South.
  7. The last redistricting was projected to move more than 1,500 students, so Paul verifies every address with the district's boundary locator rather than relying on a listing.
  8. Park University, founded in 1875, enrolled 4,949 students in fall 2025 and has long been one of the largest providers of online education to military learners.
  9. Park's Mabee Learning Center, its library, sits inside the university's underground campus in the former limestone mine.
NeighborhoodsWhere the homes are, new and established
  1. Riss Lake surrounds a 134-acre lake with more than 750 single-family homes, including The Reserve, a maintenance-provided enclave on the west side of the lake.
  2. Riss Lake homes date mostly from the late 1980s into the 2000s, often on lots around half an acre, with community pools, tennis courts and a stocked lake for fishing and boating.
  3. The National lines Highway 45 with estate homes, maintenance-free villas and the golf club at its center. Portions carry Kansas City addresses, so the jurisdiction is worth confirming.
  4. Thousand Oaks sits on a bluff above the Missouri River valley with nearly 1,000 homes, wide streets with sidewalks, preserved native trees and sunsets across the valley. Portions lie inside Parkville city limits.
  5. Thousand Oaks runs two pools, one built for competitive swimming and one for recreation with a clubhouse and waterfall. Most sales there fall between $500,000 and $750,000 (Paul's market notes).
  6. The Bluffs climbs the winding roads just west of downtown, where homes sit in the forest above the river with architecture that rarely repeats from lot to lot.
  7. Creekside covers nearly 300 acres in western Parkville with The Meadows at Creekside, Thrive at Creekside, The Woods at Creekside and Creekside Village, alongside retail, offices and ballfields.
  8. Smaller established pockets round out the city: Riverchase on Highway 9 next to Riverside, River Hills Estates off Crooked Road, Pinecrest on Route 9 and Parkville Heights on Highway 45.
  9. Roughly 80 to 85 percent of homes in the Parkville area were built within planned communities, usually by one developer working with a small group of builders and releasing lots in phases (Paul's market notes).
  10. Downtown's housing is the exception: a mix of styles and sizes dating to around the turn of the 20th century, where historic preservation rules may shape exterior changes.
Who Lives HereACS 2023 five-year estimates
  1. Parkville's population is 8,022, living in 2,775 households that average 2.79 people.
  2. The median age in Parkville is 38.8.
  3. Median household income is $170,794, and mean household income is $219,345.
  4. Among adults 25 and older, 70.4 percent hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and 30.1 percent hold a graduate or professional degree.
  5. Owners occupy 80.5 percent of Parkville's occupied homes.
  6. Of working residents, 18.0 percent work from home, and those who commute average 22.2 minutes each way.
  7. Single-family detached homes make up 74.2 percent of Parkville's housing, and the median home has 8 rooms.
  8. More than a third of households, 35.6 percent, moved into their current home in 2018 or later.
  9. Education and health care (23.4 percent) and professional and management services (22.8 percent) together employ nearly half of working residents.
Value and InvestmentWhat holds Parkville values up
  1. More than half of Parkville's housing, 51.3 percent, was built in 2000 or later, including 8.2 percent since 2020 (ACS 2023), so modern systems are the norm across much of the market.
  2. Zillow's typical Parkville value of about $596,000 compares with about $396,000 for Platte County as a whole, a premium of roughly 50 percent.
  3. Rentals are scarce: 19.5 percent of occupied homes are renter-occupied, and the median gross rent is $1,078 (ACS 2023), a five-year figure that trails current lease rates.
  4. The median monthly owner cost for Parkville homes with a mortgage is $2,953 (ACS 2023), a useful baseline when comparing a new purchase at today's prices and rates.
  5. In Paul's experience, bluff-top homes with river views command roughly 10 to 20 percent over comparable homes without them.
  6. Paul's market tracking puts the Parkville median near $400,000 to $410,000 in 2020 and 2021, which makes today's figure near $650,000 a gain of more than 50 percent.
  7. Relocation keeps buyers arriving. In early 2026, homebuyers searching from Los Angeles, Denver and Chicago led inbound interest in Parkville on Redfin.
  8. Officers relocating to the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth are a steady source of Parkville demand, drawn by the short drive and quick access to KCI (Paul's market notes).
  9. Continued building in The Bluffs, Thousand Oaks, Creekside and The National adds inventory without oversupplying the market, because the river and bluffs cap how much land can ever be developed.
What Paul Checks Before You BuyThe address-level details
  1. Which side of the line. A 64152 address can sit in Parkville, Kansas City or unincorporated Platte County. That decides the earnings tax, city services and who maintains the street.
  2. Who supplies the water. Missouri American Water and KC Water both serve parts of Parkville, and rates and billing differ between them.
  3. What the sewer runs on. Grinder pumps are common on Parkville's slopes and a few pockets use septic, so Paul makes sure the system gets inspected.
  4. Flood designation, in writing. For anything near the river, White Aloe Branch or a creek, Paul pulls the FEMA designation and, when needed, an elevation certificate before the offer.
  5. The HOA's books. Dues in communities like The National and Riss Lake commonly run from about $150 to $500 a month, so Paul reads the budget, the reserve study and the architectural rules.
  6. How the house sounds. Downtown sits beside a busy BNSF line and parts of the city sit under KCI approach paths, so Paul suggests visiting at different times of day.
  7. Snow and ice plans. Most streets get public treatment, but some subdivisions contract their own removal, which shows up in the dues and in how fast a hillside clears.
  8. What was permitted. Finished basements and additions are common, and unpermitted work can surface at inspection or appraisal. Paul's construction background helps him spot it at the showing.
  9. The school assignment, verified. After the 2024 redistricting and the opening of Angeline Washington Elementary, Paul checks the district's boundary locator for every address.
  10. Short-term rental rules. Parkville licenses short-term rentals through City Hall, so anyone planning to rent out a home or a room should confirm the rules before closing.

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Parkville questions, answered

What does a home cost in Parkville?

Recent sales put the Parkville median near $650,000, with a price per square foot close to $198. The core of the market runs from about $400,000 to $750,000. Townhomes and smaller homes open the door in the $300,000s, while bluff-view estates, lake homes in Riss Lake and custom builds in The National regularly pass $1 million. Where a specific home lands depends on the lot, the view and which side of the city line it sits on.

Which school district serves Parkville?

Almost all of Parkville is in the Park Hill School District, and almost all of the city falls inside the Park Hill South High School boundary. Park Hill redrew its elementary boundaries in 2024 and opened Angeline Washington Elementary on Parkville's west side in August 2025, so older maps are out of date. Paul checks every address against the district's boundary locator before a client falls for a house.

Do Parkville residents pay the Kansas City earnings tax?

Kansas City, Missouri levies a 1 percent earnings tax on its residents and on wages earned inside its limits. Homes inside Parkville city limits are not in Kansas City, so living there does not trigger the resident tax. The catch is the ZIP code: 64152 also covers Kansas City addresses, including portions of The National, so a Parkville mailing address is not proof. Paul confirms the jurisdiction on every property.

How fast do Parkville homes sell?

Quickly when they are priced right. The recent median time on market is about 15 days, and well-prepared homes in pockets like The National, Thousand Oaks and historic downtown typically go under contract within 10 to 30 days. Above roughly $800,000 the buyer pool narrows, and 45 to 90 days is a normal runway. Paul sets that expectation in the first conversation, not after the first price change.

Is flooding a concern in Parkville?

For most homes, no. The Missouri River floodplain is concentrated along the riverfront, where English Landing and Platte Landing parks were designed to take high water, and they did in 1993 and 2019. National flood modeling puts about 4 percent of the city's properties at severe long-term risk. Paul still pulls the flood designation for any property near the river or a creek, so the answer is known before an offer is written.

What should I do before listing a Parkville home?

Start with a pre-listing walkthrough. Paul's construction background lets him flag what a buyer's inspector will find, so it can be fixed or priced in before it becomes a negotiating point. Then price to the micro-market rather than the ZIP code: in Parkville, two similar homes a half mile apart can sell $150,000 apart because of a view, a lot or a school boundary. Accurate pricing from the first day is the theme of Paul's book, The Hidden Costs of Overpricing.

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