Holiday Hills

Kansas City accepted the Holiday Hills first plat by ordinance 20598 on 17 August 1956 and Clay County recorded it on 30 August. A second plat, approved earlier that February, was not recorded until March 1957. source

The third, fourth, fifth and sixth plats followed in May and September 1957 and July and November 1958. The seventh and eighth were accepted on the same day, 28 May 1959, under consecutive ordinances 23905 and 23906, and both were recorded on 11 June 1959. source

Clay County’s parcel file returns 430 parcels whose legal description names Holiday Hills, all coded to the same city and school district. source

Holiday Hills sits inside Kansas City and inside the North Kansas City 74 school district. source

The median home sold here was built in 1959. Most of what sells was built between 1956 and 1972. 69% 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 (26).

Addresses here fall in ZIP 64117.

Both columns are medians over the same twelve months, so they are directly comparable.

Everything here was platted inside three years, so unlike most subdivisions of this size the plat number tells you very little - the eighth plat is only three years younger than the first. That makes the individual house, not the phase, the whole story: two Holiday Hills houses of the same vintage can differ entirely on what has been replaced since. Ask for dates on roof, service panel, furnace and sewer lateral and compare those rather than the plat.

With a median year built of 1959, 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).

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.

Of the 26 homes sold, 1 were 2-bed, 22 were 3-bed, 3 were 4-bed.

Above-grade size ranged from about 864 to 1,556 sq ft across the middle 80% of sales, so the median alone understates how much variation there is.

Closings cluster in December, March and May, 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.

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• 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
• Crestview 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