One simple fact will never go out of style when shopping for a new home: ch00sing the right community matters.
Critical to the enhancement of your family’s lifestyle—award-winning schools, easy access to shopping, dining and entertaining and a convenient commute to the office—buying in the ideal neighborhood can also help ensure your home not only holds its value but increases.
Rodrock Homes considers all of those components when carefully selecting where to build its premier new home communities like Colton, Gleason Glen, Hills of Forest Creek, Summerwood and Wyngate, among others. The common denominator in all of these neighborhoods is a must-have feature at the top of many homebuyers’ checklist: top-notch schools where kids can get an extraordinary education.
Blue Valley School District
Rosemary Vitale, vice president of New Homes at ReeceNichols Real Estate, notes that Rodrock provides prospective buyers with popular floorplans geared for busy lifestyles, beautifully designed communities and affordable pricing—all in a prime location.
“In addition to the stellar amenities available inside their well-conceived communities, Rodrock Homes is committed to developing neighborhoods and building homes in highly acclaimed school districts like Blue Valley and De Soto,” she said. “This is an invaluable benefit to buyers with children or those planning to have a family—and even empty nesters who consider school performance as an essential part of their home-buying criteria.”
Colton homeowners Chris and Tracy Stine needed a home in a good school system for their four children. When Chris, a Blue Valley native, took a new job in Kansas City, the Chicago couple went online for their initial home search. Anxious to return to his roots, Chris couldn’t wait to introduce his family to the area’s notable standard of living —and enroll their school-age kids in one of the country’s top-rated school districts.
“We came across Rodrock’s website and fell in love with their communities, locations and process,” he said. “It fulfilled our priority of living close to quality schools.”
During a whirlwind spring-break trip to Overland Park, the Stine’s bought the sprawling 3,590-square-foot Hepton floorplan, a two-story, five-bedroom home with custom functionality, ample entertainment space and luxurious bedroom suites.
“We toured several Rodrock communities and settled on Colton, given the proximity to schools such as Blue Valley Southwest, Aubry Bend Middle School and Timber Creek Elementary,” Stine said. “And the Hepton fulfilled our lifestyle requirements.”
Summerwood, another Rodrock Homes community in Overland Park, is a unique suburban retreat nestled within a vibrant community that’s close to Blue Valley schools.
“It’s a perfect choice for discerning homeowners,” said Summerwood community manager Angela Fitzgerald and a real estate agent with Weichert Realtors Graham-Welch, LLC. “This feels like a special escape yet is a short distance from everything you need. The majority of our buyers are seeking an exceptional home in a well-regarded school district.”
De Soto School District
Located between Johnson Dr. and Shawnee Mission Parkway, just west of Woodland Drive, Hills of Forest Creek is a distinctive Rodrock Homes community centrally located to major highways and is in the De Soto School District. Demand for new homes is high in Shawnee—especially those within the Mill Valley High School boundaries. The De Soto School District changed some grade school boundaries that resulted in Hills of Forest Creek changing from Horizon to Clear Creek Elementary, which enables residents’ school-age children easy access to elementary, middle and high schools less than a mile from the community.
“Aside from the fact that we’re close to I-435, K-7 and K-10 highways, and a short commute to the airport, city attractions like Sprint Center and the Country Club Plaza and world-class sporting venues like Children’s Mercy Park and Arrowhead and Kauffman stadiums, people purchase homes here because they want to send their children through school, without moving,” said Hills of Forest Creek community manager and ReeceNichols agent Cindy Newson. “They also like the fact that there are plenty of other kids in the neighborhood.”
Just west of K-7 Highway is Gleason Glen, another Rodrock Homes community in the western suburbs that offers ambience, convenience, appealing floorplans and the De Soto schools.
Kent Welch, president of Weichert Welch & Company, LLC, acknowledges that a number of factors influence a buyer’s decision, including “the look of a home and the feel of the neighborhood, with the local school district often being the main attraction. Purchasing in a rock-solid area, like where Rodrock establishes communities, can have a positive impact on a home-buying investment. Good schools provide stability for a community and that’s a plus for everyone’s property values.”
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