Independence, MO · Jackson County
Glendale Gardens
Built around 1970 · typically 1,300 sq ft above grade · 31 sales in twelve months
Glendale Gardens took shape in seventeen recorded plats spread over twenty-seven years, from its first fifty lots in 1961 to lots 1167 through 1193 in 1988.
The market here, last twelve months
Half of the homes that sold went under contract within 10 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 Glendale Gardensfrom 1961
Its first year was its busiest: three separate plats recorded in 1961 laid out lots 1 through 261, the largest of them 181 lots at once. source
The pace then stretched out. Plats were recorded in 1962, twice in 1964, three times in 1965, then 1968, twice in 1969, and in 1974, 1977, 1979, 1987 and 1988. source
One of the 1965 filings is a corrective plat covering just four lots, 500 through 503 — a small after-the-fact repair to a layout already on the ground. source
The last two plats, 13 lots in 1987 and 27 lots in 1988, were recorded more than a quarter century after the first, and carried the numbering to 1193. source
What makes it distinctiveplanning, architecture and layout
All seventeen plats lie inside the Independence city limits; the county’s city layer returns Independence and nothing else across the whole of the subdivision. source
What the houses are likemedian built 1970
The median home sold here was built in 1970. Most of what sells was built between 1964 and 1976. 48% 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 (31).
Addresses here fall in ZIP 64055.
Compared with Independence as a wholehow this neighborhood differs
| Glendale Gardens | Independence | |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $240,000 | $219,000 |
| Median $/sq ft | $174 | $179 |
| Median days on market | 10 | 17 |
| Median year built | 1970 | 1962 |
| Finished basement | 48% | 48% |
Both columns are medians over the same twelve months, so they are directly comparable.
What this means if you are buying in Glendale Gardensspecific to this neighborhood
The median year built on this page hides the spread. Lots numbered under roughly 700 came out of plats recorded in the 1960s; lots in the 900s and above came out of the 1970s, and the last two plats were not recorded until 1987 and 1988. Two houses a few streets apart can therefore be a generation apart in construction, which shows up in ceiling heights, insulation, service-panel capacity and whether the basement was finished originally or later. Get the plat year for each parcel and only compare within it.
What to check in homes of this agemid-century stock
With a median year built of 1970, 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 31 homes sold, 26 were 3-bed, 5 were 4-bed.
Above-grade size ranged from about 950 to 1,779 sq ft across the middle 80% of sales, so the median alone understates how much variation there is.
Closings cluster in May, December and January, with 52% 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 Independence4 more with their own data
- Far View Heights 76 sales
- Salem East 28 sales
- Sycamore Hills 27 sales
- Blue Mills 26 sales
Thinking about Glendale Gardens?
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 Glendale Gardens, or see the wider Independence market.