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What $400,000 buys: Garden City, Kan.

by Dana Dratch
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What $400K will buy: Garden City, Kan.
Price
Overview
This 2-year-old traditional ranch has seven bedrooms and three baths. Carpeted living room has tile hearth with hardwood mantle flanked by windows. Formal dining room with arched window and tile floor comfortably seats eight. Master bedroom suite sports carpeting and wood trim, along with master bathroom that includes corner garden tub, separate shower and tile floor. Great room/game room with tile floor and lighted ceiling fan, offers space for a pool table, dining area and large entertainment center and opens to deck. House decorated with neutral tones.
Amenities
7 bedrooms/3 baths
2,443 square feet
0.27-acre lot
Features: Built-in microwave; custom window treatments; finished basement; deck and two-car garage plus adjacent storage area.
Listed by: Home Town Real Estate P.A.
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What you could buy in Garden City for $400,000 a year ago.
Price trend
In Garden City $400,000 will buy a home at the top of the market, says Christina Becker, broker/owner of MBA Real Estate. “You’re going to get a very nice house for $400,000 here,” she says.

“Usually, you’ll get the jetted tub or garden tub, one or two fireplaces, the three-car garage,” she says. With “a lot of our new construction, you could get a brand new house for $300,000 with no finish in the basement,” says Becker. “If you finish the basement, you could get it for $400,000.”

In the farming community, which is populated by an abundance of small family farms, “things aren’t really as expensive as in the bigger cities,” she says. The 2008 median home price is roughly $109,516, according to the Garden City Board of Realtors.

In Kansas home sales declined 14.3 percent in 2008, according to the National Association of Realtors. In Garden City sales are down too — mainly because there aren’t many homes for sale, says Becker. “We don’t have the inventory,” she says. “Last year, we probably had twice as many houses on the market.”

But prices “have remained stable,” she says, adding that the area didn’t go through the wild swings in appreciation and depreciation that some other parts of the country have experienced.

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