Market

↑ Housing units (including one-unit, two or more units, and mobile homes): 71,187

• Housing units in 2000: 62,586

↑ Homeowner-vacancy rate: 2.1 percent

• Vacancy rate in 2000: 1 percent
• U.S.: 2.7 percent

↓ Single-family-residential building permits: 186

• Permits in January 2007: 355

↑ Multifamily-building permits in MSA (2008): 1,830

• Permits in MSA in 2007: 1,524
• Permits in MSA in 2003: 1,689

↑ Median monthly housing costs: $1,667

• Median monthly housing costs in 2000: $1,296
• U.S.: $1,402

↓ Single-family loan-origination volume (2007): $1.32 billion

• Volume in 2006: $1.51 billion

↓ Single-family refinance volume (2007): $538.4 million

• Volume in 2006: $551.1 million

↑ Refinances as a percentage of total loan volume (2007): 40.7 percent

• Percentage in 2006: 36.6 percent
• Percentage in 2000: 29.8 percent

↓ Loan denials (2007): 2,116

• Denials in 2006: 2,661

Industry

Licensed brokerages:

• Overland Park: 60
• Kansas: 579

Résumé

• Largest employers: Sprint Nextel Corp., Shawnee Mission School District, Embarq, Black & Veatch Corp., Blue Valley School District
• 9th-best U.S. small city in which to live in 2008 (CNNMoney.com)
• Best Kansas city to raise a child (BusinessWeek)

Tony Stasiek is the editor of Scotsman Guide. Reach him at (800) 297-6061 or tony@scotsmanguide.com.

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