Kansas City, MO · Platte County
Wildwood West
Built around 1997 · typically 1,505 sq ft above grade · 29 sales in twelve months
A Northland neighborhood off Barry Road, platted in numbered phases with separate associations.
The market here, last twelve months
Half of the homes that sold went under contract within 3 days. The median sale closed at 100.0% of asking - at list. 72% 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 Wildwood Westhow it came to be
A neighborhood off Barry Road in the Kansas City Northland, in the Park Hill school district. It was platted in numbered phases, and at least one of them - the 7th Plat - has its own homeowners association incorporated as a Missouri not-for-profit. source
What makes it distinctiveplanning, architecture and layout
That association is governed by the Declarations of Restrictions of Wildwood West 7th Plat, set by the developer at incorporation and amendable by the homeowners, with an elected board collecting assessments and enforcing the declarations. source
What the houses are likemedian built 1997
The median home sold here was built in 1997. Most of what sells was built between 1993 and 2005. 86% 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 64153.
Compared with Kansas City as a wholehow this neighborhood differs
| Wildwood West | Kansas City | |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $375,000 | $295,000 |
| Median $/sq ft | $241 | $206 |
| Median days on market | 3 | 16 |
| Median year built | 1997 | 1964 |
| Finished basement | 86% | 45% |
Both columns are medians over the same twelve months, so they are directly comparable.
What this means if you are buying in Wildwood Westspecific to this neighborhood
Numbered plats with their own associations mean the governing documents, the dues and the board are potentially different from one part of Wildwood West to the next. Ask which plat the address sits in, get that plat's declarations rather than a neighbor's, and confirm the dues from the association itself.
What to check in homes of this agelate-century stock
With a median year built of 1997, most homes here are late-century stock. None of the following says anything about a specific house - they are the questions worth asking of any home of this age.
- Polybutylene supply piping was used in homes built roughly 1978-1995 and is worth identifying before closing; it affects insurability in some cases.
- First-generation vinyl windows and original roofs from this period are typically at or past replacement age.
What sold, in more detailsizes, bedroom mix and timing
Of the 29 homes sold, 21 were 3-bed, 7 were 4-bed, 1 were 5-bed.
Above-grade size ranged from about 1,260 to 2,285 sq ft across the middle 80% of sales, so the median alone understates how much variation there is.
Closings cluster in May, April and September, with 62% 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
- 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
- North Hampton 28 sales
- Randolph Corners North 28 sales
Thinking about Wildwood West?
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 Wildwood West, or see the wider Kansas City market.