Gardner, KS · Johnson County
St. Johns Highlands
Built around 2018 · typically 1,510 sq ft above grade · 27 sales in twelve months
In 2022 the city rezoned the ground along the subdivision’s southern edge out of single family - and one of St. Johns Highlands’ own tracts went with it.
The market here, last twelve months
Half of the homes that sold went under contract within 19 days. The median sale closed at 100.0% of asking - at list. 48% closed at or above the original list price, which is the better measure of how much room a buyer actually has.
Aggregated from Heartland MLS closed sales, twelve months to July 2026. Individual sale prices are not shown - Kansas and Missouri are non-disclosure states and MLS rules do not permit their public display. Ask for the full report.
The story of St. Johns Highlandsfrom 2022
The subdivision sits roughly a third of a mile north of 175th Street along Kill Creek Road in Gardner, zoned R-1 single family. In June 2022, when city planners inventoried the land uses around the tract to its south, they recorded St. Johns Highlands to the north as single family houses already standing, St. John’s Trace as the built-out single family ground to the west, and the undeveloped Breckenwood Creek land to the east. source
What makes it distinctiveplanning, architecture and layout
The community’s own marketing website, run under a Reece & Nichols banner, listed one builder: Aruba Homes, a Johnson County company started in 1994 to build affordable houses, which had settled on Gardner as the market that suited its product. The plan mix it offered here was front and back splits, split entries, ranches and two stories, and it counted 90 percent efficiency furnaces, low-E insulated windows and house wrap as standard features rather than upgrades. By the time that page was written the company put its output at roughly 700 houses. source
The 24.79 acres running along the subdivision’s south side were rezoned in 2022 from single family and planned garden apartment districts to RP-4, a planned mixed density neighborhood, for a development called Prairiefire Crossing. The rezoning swept in Tract A of St. John’s Highlands itself alongside a lot and tract of Prairiebrook Village, and the ordinance was adopted on 18 July 2022. source
That southern ground had been platted since February 2007 and never built on, sitting as vacant agricultural land. Two streams cross it, one entering from the west and one from the south, joining near its northeast corner, and both lie within a mapped future conditions floodplain - which constrains where anything new can be placed. source
Where the development standsstill building
The subdivision itself was described by Gardner planners in June 2022 as ground already built out with single family houses. Active development in the immediate area had moved off the plat and onto the 24.79 acres on its southern boundary, replanned that summer as a mixed density neighborhood. source
What the houses are likemedian built 2018
The median home sold here was built in 2018. Most of what sells was built between 2006 and 2018. 33% of sales included finished basement space beyond the above-grade footprint - which matters here, because square footage quoted above grade can understate a house considerably.
By property type: Single Family (27).
Addresses here fall in ZIP 66030.
Compared with Gardner as a wholehow this neighborhood differs
| St. Johns Highlands | Gardner | |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $342,500 | $360,000 |
| Median $/sq ft | $228 | $245 |
| Median days on market | 19 | 14 |
| Median year built | 2018 | 2007 |
| Finished basement | 33% | 51% |
Both columns are medians over the same twelve months, so they are directly comparable.
What this means if you are buying in St. Johns Highlandsspecific to this neighborhood
The thing to examine here is not the house but the southern boundary. Land immediately south of the plat was rezoned in 2022 out of single family and garden apartment into planned mixed density, and one of the subdivision’s own tracts was folded into that rezoning, so a lot that backs to open ground today may not back to open ground in a few years. Before you write on a house along that edge, pull the Prairiefire Crossing development plan from the city, ask precisely which tract the lot abuts, and look at where the two streams and the mapped floodplain run - that drainage decides which parts of the neighboring ground can be built on and which will stay open, and it is a far better predictor of your long-term view than any listing photograph.
What to check in homes of this agerecent stock
With a median year built of 2018, most homes here are recent stock. None of the following says anything about a specific house - they are the questions worth asking of any home of this age.
- Homes this new are generally still on their original systems, which is an advantage now and a cluster of replacements later.
- Where the neighborhood is still building out, check what remains to be built nearby and what the builder controls.
What sold, in more detailsizes, bedroom mix and timing
Of the 27 homes sold, 17 were 3-bed, 10 were 4-bed.
Above-grade size ranged from about 1,111 to 1,682 sq ft across the middle 80% of sales, so the median alone understates how much variation there is.
Closings cluster in March, April and June, with 63% of the year's sales closing between April and September. Because closing typically follows the contract by a month or more, listing activity runs earlier than that.
Other neighborhoods in Gardner3 more with their own data
- Cypress Creek 58 sales
- Prairie Trace 39 sales
- Symphony Farms 29 sales
Thinking about St. Johns Highlands?
These numbers describe what has sold. What they cannot tell you is which street, which floor plan, or what your own house would fetch here. Ask me about St. Johns Highlands, or see the wider Gardner market.