The long closed Bancroft school located at 4300 Tracy Ave. will be renovated into affordable apartments and a community center with the aid of the Make It Right foundaton, founded by Brad Pitt. This is a huge boost to the Kansas City area and what a beautiful building to renovate! Read more about it from [...]

Habitat ReStore is a shining example of perhaps the most difficult of the 3 R’s, Reuse. The Kansas City ReStore accepts donated material from your remodeling projects or general operations that you might normally just dispose of into the landfill.  In fact, the Waldo Habitat for Humanity Restore alone has saved over 24,000 tons of [...]

Here are a few of Dave Liniger’s, the founder of Re/Max International, predictions for the real estate market for the rest of the 2012 year:  The number of home sales will be on the rise.  Inventories will increase, mostly due to a rise in foreclosures.  Distressed properties are expected to make up about half of all sales. [...]

A few pictures from a walk in Shawnee Mission Park the other day.  Yet another beautiful park that Kansas City has to offer.                              

90% of consumers worldwide said they are most likely to trust the recommendations of the people they know, a figure that is WELL above any other form of advertising, according to recent market research conducted by The Nielson Company.  You may have noticed that many real estate agents take a transactional approach to sales – [...]