Category: Kansas

Soft home sales and discount priced properties are troubling the housing recovery in Kansas as the center of the Mid-West encounters long term issues over the economy. Employers have been hiring more workers in parts of Kansas, but unemployment in some areas of the state is higher than the national average. High joblessness has put… Continue reading 2011 Kansas Housing Market

Higher employment rates in Kansas are helping to produce the early stages of stabilization in some housing markets even as homeowners are swamped in negative equity and slower home sales. A surge in sales of existing homes produced by the federal tax credit wound down after the credit’s expiration. But housing price erosion is beginning… Continue reading 2010 Kansas Housing Market