Kansas City, MO · Clay County
Crestview
Built around 1950 · typically 912 sq ft above grade · 35 sales in twelve months
Crestview was recorded block by block rather than phase by phase - twenty separate plats between 1938 and 1953, several of them naming nothing but a range of block numbers.
The market here, last twelve months
Half of the homes that sold went under contract within 17 days. The median sale closed at 100.0% of asking - at list. 60% 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 Crestviewfrom 1938
The first two Crestview plats reached the Clay County record in 1938, one of them covering blocks 1 through 4 and recorded on 7 May. source
Blocks 7 through 11 and blocks 37 through 52 were both recorded in April 1940, blocks 13 to 15 in 1949, blocks 29 and 30 in 1951, and blocks 32 through 35 together with parts of block 19 by ordinance 16880 in July 1953. Between those, another dozen plats were filed under the bare name Crestview across 1938 to 1952. source
Clay County’s parcel file returns 636 parcels whose legal description names Crestview and that sit in the North Kansas City 74 district. source
The subdivision is inside Kansas City and inside the North Kansas City 74 school district. source
What makes it distinctiveplanning, architecture and layout
A separately named Crestview Estates plat also exists in Clay County, well to the north on NE 184th Street, and is coded to a different city and a different school district. It is not part of this subdivision. source
What the houses are likemedian built 1950
The median home sold here was built in 1950. Most of what sells was built between 1941 and 1953. 11% 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 (35).
Addresses here fall in ZIP 64116.
Compared with Kansas City as a wholehow this neighborhood differs
| Crestview | Kansas City | |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $177,000 | $295,000 |
| Median $/sq ft | $206 | $206 |
| Median days on market | 17 | 16 |
| Median year built | 1950 | 1964 |
| Finished basement | 11% | 45% |
Both columns are medians over the same twelve months, so they are directly comparable.
What this means if you are buying in Crestviewspecific to this neighborhood
Legal descriptions here name a block, not a phase, so the block number is what dates a house: blocks 1 to 4 and 7 to 11 are 1938 to 1940 ground, while blocks 29 through 35 were not platted until 1951 to 1953. That is fifteen years of construction practice inside one name. Ask for the block on the deed before pricing one Crestview sale against another, and discard any comparable that turns out to be Crestview Estates on NE 184th Street - different plat, different city, different school district.
What to check in homes of this agepost-war stock
With a median year built of 1950, most homes here are post-war stock. None of the following says anything about a specific house - they are the questions worth asking of any home of this age.
- Footprints are smaller than modern equivalents and closets are noticeably so. Square footage comparisons against newer stock tend to flatter the newer house.
- Garages are often one-car, detached, or absent, and electrical panels may have been upgraded once but not twice.
- The pre-1978 lead-paint disclosure and ten-day inspection window applies (40 CFR 745.110).
A note on older deed languagevoid and unenforceable
Deeds written in this era sometimes carry restrictive covenant language relating to race, religion or national origin. Where it appears, it is void and unenforceable in both states, and has been for decades: Missouri directs that such a recital be “ignored, as if the same never existed” source, and Kansas, where such covenants were already unlawful, added a release procedure effective 1 July 2024 source. An owner in either state may record a certificate of release, which does not alter the original document but restates that the covenant cannot be enforced. It is a paperwork question rather than a live restriction - but it is worth recognizing if it surfaces in your title work. What this language is, and how to release it.
What sold, in more detailsizes, bedroom mix and timing
Of the 35 homes sold, 17 were 2-bed, 18 were 3-bed.
Above-grade size ranged from about 712 to 1,103 sq ft across the middle 80% of sales, so the median alone understates how much variation there is.
Closings cluster in September, December and November, with 51% 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 Kansas City31 more with their own data
- Armour Hills 73 sales
- Ruskin Heights 69 sales
- Marlborough Heights 65 sales
- Woodhaven 53 sales
- Cadence Villas 46 sales
- Somerbrook 45 sales
- Ruskin Hills 45 sales
- Staley Farms 43 sales
- Red Bridge 39 sales
- Gracemor 36 sales
- New Mark 35 sales
- Broadland 35 sales
- Fountain Hills 34 sales
- Sherwood Estates 33 sales
- Brooke Hills 33 sales
- Robandee 33 sales
- Platte Ridge 33 sales
- Ward Park 31 sales
- Rockhill Gardens 29 sales
- Romanelli Gardens 29 sales
- North Creek Village 29 sales
- Wildwood West 29 sales
- North Hampton 28 sales
- Randolph Corners North 28 sales
Thinking about Crestview?
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 Crestview, or see the wider Kansas City market.