Big Money Moves Across Bridge: Kansas City Northland Enjoys Luxury Housing Boom

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KANSAS CITY McMANSION COMEBACK ON THE NICE SIDE OF THE BRIDGE!!!

Here's a peek at our neighbors with cash choosing the good life in slightly more affordable pads near the airport . . . In fact, eager locals are selling benefits of Northland living over the JoCo Golden Ghetto. 

Here's a bit of data to back up this assertion . . .

Multiple Listing Service data indicated that Northland housing inventory increased 4% from last year, compared with 2.9% for the entire metro area. Much of the activity was driven by homebuilding: Permits in 2020 and 2021 surpassed prepandemic years.

The Northland was primed for an influx of homebuilding about six years prior, when Kansas City added sewer and utilities infrastructure to the 13,000-acre Twin Creeks area, a swath of what had been farmland in Platte and Clay counties between Interstate 29 and U.S. Highway 169.

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Kansas City area's population migration turns to Northland - Kansas City Business Journal

The Kansas City area wasn't a national magnet for population growth during the height of the pandemic. The Northland, however, boomed as homebuyers - largely from the metro area - sought plentiful land and cheaper real estate.