Oak Country Estates

Oak Country Estates is a new-construction neighborhood in De Soto, Kansas, in Johnson County’s growing K-10 corridor. Here’s what the community offers, who builds here, the schools that serve it, and what it actually costs to carry a home beyond the mortgage.

Why buyers look here

Oak Country Estates is an acreage neighborhood on the west side of De Soto, Kansas (66018), in western Johnson County along the K-10 corridor. Homes line Oak Country Lane and sit around Oak Country Golf Course, an 18-hole course that opened in 1989. Unlike De Soto’s newer production neighborhoods, it is a large-lot, low-density community of custom homes on roughly one to two-plus acres, served by De Soto USD 232.

• Acreage, commuter-close — minutes to K-10, with room that in-town lots can’t offer; verified sold homes here sit on about 1 to 2+ acres (one 2021 sale was on 2 acres / 87,124 sq ft).
• No HOA on record — 0 of 38 home sales reported association dues. We can pull the parcel’s deed/covenant record on request to confirm any private restrictions.
• Set around a golf course rather than backing to a highway or retail; some homes back to the fairways.

Homes, builders & pricing

• Custom, not a single builder’s product — homes were added over about three decades; MLS year-builts span 1984–2016, so styles and sizes vary lot to lot.
• Home sizes (verified sold): roughly 1,825–4,781 finished sq ft (median ~3,240; median above-grade ~2,306) — larger than De Soto’s production homes.
• Lot sizes: median ~1.5 acres (acreage confirmed, 1–2+ acres).
• Builders (thin 2007–2016 records): Conley Custom Homes, Larry Hewitt. Custom, not a single-builder product.
• Price signal: median $482,500 (38 home sales, 2016–2026; range $175K–$825K); recent median $686,000 (9 sales, 2023–2026 — small sample, directional only). Lot size and finished space drive price here far more than in production neighborhoods. Ask us for today’s actives and comps. (11 land/lot sales were excluded from these home figures.)

Setting & amenities

• Oak Country Golf Course (opened 1989; 18 holes) is the defining feature — homes are set along and around it, and some back directly to the fairways. Course membership/public-access terms vary; confirm current status directly with the course.
• Mature trees and open acreage; rolling terrain typical of west De Soto.
• Everyday services in downtown De Soto and along the K-10 corridor; regional shopping in nearby Olathe, Shawnee and Lenexa.
• De Soto was platted in 1857 and incorporated in 1897, on the Kansas River in Johnson (and Leavenworth) County. It now sits at the center of major regional growth — the roughly $4B Panasonic EV-battery plant and the Astra Enterprise Park redevelopment of the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant.

Schools (De Soto USD 232)

Served by De Soto USD 232. Address-level assignments on sales here have been Starside Elementary School (De Soto’s elementary boundaries split between Starside and Mize), Lexington Trails Middle School and De Soto High School. Boundaries change; confirm the exact assignment for a specific address with the district before relying on it.

What it actually costs to own here

Figures are 10-year MLS medians (homes n=38; tax n=34), not a tax quote. The $686K/$825K bars apply the ~1.33% effective rate to the recent-median and top-of-range prices. Kansas reassesses annually and the actual bill follows the county appraiser’s valuation. 11 land/lot sales were excluded from the home figures; no HOA appears on record.

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