Leawood, KS · Johnson County
Leawood South
Built around 1977 · typically 2,403 sq ft above grade · 40 sales in twelve months
Leawood South was laid out around a golf course while the club was still new, and what its homes association leads with is that the houses deliberately do not match.
The market here, last twelve months
Half of the homes that sold went under contract within 5 days. The median sale closed at 100.0% of asking - at list. 52% 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 Leawood Southhow it came to be
A 2001 Kansas City Star feature by Carrie Kent treated Leawood South as one of the area’s first neighborhoods laid out around a golf course rather than merely beside one, and names Koehler Brothers and J.C. Nichols Residential in connection with it, along with the Leawood South Homes Association and the Leawood South Country Club. source
The private club at the neighborhood’s center dates its founding to 1968, so the club came first and the houses filled in around it over the following decade. source
The Leawood South Homes Association is still operating, and still describes the neighborhood the same way: varied house styles, mature oak-lined streets, and the country club immediately adjacent. source
What makes it distinctiveplanning, architecture and layout
The homes association describes an intentional variety rather than a single builder’s catalog - houses varied in architecture and character, along oak-lined streets. source
The club adjoining the development carries a private golf course, swimming pool, clubhouse and restaurant, and the association presents that adjacency as the organizing feature of the neighborhood rather than as an amenity near it. source
What the houses are likemedian built 1977
The median home sold here was built in 1977. Most of what sells was built between 1969 and 1988. 78% 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 (25), Townhouse (12), Patio/Villa (3).
Addresses here fall in ZIP 66209.
Compared with Leawood as a wholehow this neighborhood differs
| Leawood South | Leawood | |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $609,950 | $775,000 |
| Median $/sq ft | $259 | $299 |
| Median days on market | 5 | 4 |
| Median year built | 1977 | 1988 |
| Finished basement | 78% | 76% |
Both columns are medians over the same twelve months, so they are directly comparable.
What this means if you are buying in Leawood Southspecific to this neighborhood
Two Leawood South questions are worth asking before any others. The first is what you are actually joining: the homes association and the country club are separate bodies, so confirm which dues are mandatory with the house and which are an optional membership you would be choosing to buy. Buyers routinely assume the golf course comes with the address, and it does not. The second is style. Because the houses were built to differ from one another, square-footage comparables mislead here more than in a tract neighborhood - insist that your comparison set matches on plan type and story count, not merely on size. And if the lot backs the course, ask the club directly about ball-strike history on that hole, and read the easement language on the plat, before you plan a pool or a fence.
What to check in homes of this agemid-century stock
With a median year built of 1977, most homes here are mid-century stock. None of the following says anything about a specific house - they are the questions worth asking of any home of this age.
- Aluminum branch wiring appeared in homes built roughly 1965-1973 and is a specific thing to ask an inspector to look for.
- Original HVAC from this era is long past its service life, so the question is usually when it was last replaced rather than whether.
- The pre-1978 lead-paint disclosure applies to the earlier part of this range (40 CFR 745.110).
What sold, in more detailsizes, bedroom mix and timing
Of the 40 homes sold, 9 were 2-bed, 7 were 3-bed, 19 were 4-bed, 4 were 5-bed, 1 were 6-bed.
Above-grade size ranged from about 1,624 to 3,424 sq ft across the middle 80% of sales, so the median alone understates how much variation there is.
Closings cluster in January, April and August, with 50% 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 Leawood2 more with their own data
- Leawood 76 sales
- Leawood Estates 70 sales
Thinking about Leawood South?
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 Leawood South, or see the wider Leawood market.