April 2018
Spring Parade Begins April 28 Meet Potential Employees – page 8 Prepare to Bid! – page 16
Members of the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City will welcome area consumers to tour more than 370 new homes when the 56th annual Spring Parade begins on April 28. Parade entries are scattered throughout the metro, with 201 in Kansas, 75 north of the river in Missouri and 107 south of the river on the Missouri side. The homes on this year’s tour have selling prices ranging from $180,000 to just under $1.5 million; the median price of entries is $460,000. Potential homebuyers will see generously sized houses with the average entry boasting 4 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. A brand new mobile app will assist both consumers and builders during the Spring Parade. For consumers, the app will locate the homes nearest their current location and create an optimized GPS route to get them from house to house the most efficient way. Builders will have access to visitor counts for their homes and other parade traffic data.
Scenes from the Home Show pages 4 & 5
Industry professionals from outside Kansas City will judge contest entries on April 26 and 27. Winners will be announced on May 2 at the Awards Celebration.
Gina Battle, parade director, states that builders should start planning now for the Fall Parade because “you will never have more traffic through your home
than during parade days.” The early bird entry deadline is June 22 for the Fall Parade, which begins on September 22.