Romanelli Gardens

The name is Florentine, not local. Nichols bought statuary from the Raffaello Romanelli Studio in Florence and used it in corner landscaping and traffic islands across this part of the Country Club District; the Romanelli name attached to the subdivision, and later to the shops at Gregory Boulevard and Wornall Road. source

It sits inside the Country Club District, the master-planned development Nichols built out between 1906 and 1950 and the reason this part of the city reads as boulevards, set-back houses and landscaped islands rather than as a grid. source

The median home sold here was built in 1928. Most of what sells was built between 1926 and 1940. 41% 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 (29).

Addresses here fall in ZIP 64113.

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

Romanelli Gardens and Romanelli West are neighboring but separate subdivisions with different build eras - Gardens is 1920s, West was laid out around 1951 - and they are frequently conflated in listing copy and portal boundaries. Confirm which one an address actually sits in before comparing it to anything, because the housing stock is a generation apart.

With a median year built of 1928, most homes here are pre-war stock. None of the following says anything about a specific house - they are the questions worth asking of any home of this age.

• Original systems are the usual question at this age: knob-and-tube wiring if it was never rewired, galvanised or cast-iron supply and waste lines, and plaster over lath rather than drywall.
• Federal law requires the seller to disclose known lead-based paint and give you a ten-day window to test in any home built before 1978 (40 CFR 745.110).
• Foundations of this era are commonly stone or unreinforced block. Worth a specific look rather than a general one.

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 29 homes sold, 16 were 3-bed, 13 were 4-bed.

Above-grade size ranged from about 1,848 to 2,924 sq ft across the middle 80% of sales, so the median alone understates how much variation there is.

Closings cluster in October, November and June, 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.

• 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
• 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
• North Creek Village 29 sales
• Wildwood West 29 sales
• North Hampton 28 sales
• Randolph Corners North 28 sales