Castle Heights Real Estate - Homes & Condos for Sale
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Snapshot
In 2021, a total of 47 properties sold on the MLS® in the neighbourhood of Castle Heights. The average sold price for Castle Heights homes and condos was $538,858.
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Source: MLS Districts 3502. RES and CONDO Class
Spotlight on the Castle Heights Neighbourhood of Ottawa
The suburbs are not right for you? You prefer spending time with your family and children and listening to their stories rather than the radio host on the way to and from work? Let me help you discover one of Ottawa's best-kept secrets.
The family-oriented neighbourhood of Castle Heights is located just East of Ottawa's Downtown Core. The area offers good size properties on large lots minutes to Downtown Ottawa. The majority of homes in Castle Heights were built in the 1950's and 1960's and include many types of properties including single-family homes such as bungalows as well as multi-family properties like duplexes (both up and down as well as side by side) and purpose-built triplexes.
Transportation and Public Transit
McArthur Avenue which runs in the middle of Castle Heights now has dedicated bike lane and improved safety measures for pedestrians. The neighbourhood is located within a 15 mins car ride to Downtown's Government and other office buildings. Residents of this neighbourhood have access to great public transit including the #14 bus route on McArthur Avenue or the #7 bus route on St-Laurent Boulevard. The nearest Ottawa Light Rail Station is located at the Shopping Centre located on St-Laurent Boulevard. The St-Laurent LRT Station will be a two-level hub station allowing passengers from local buses to hop on a train of the Confederation Line of the Ottawa LRT. Highway 417 is only 5 mins away from this neighbourhood and makes travelling from one end of the City to the other easy.
Amenities
This mature area has nice parks and mature trees. It is in close proximity to schools, as well as lots of shopping around including the St-Laurent Shopping Centre to the South. Other notable businesses of Castle Heights include Coconut Lagoon Indian Restaurant, The Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa, Bel-Air Toyota and many more. Residents of Castle Heights are close to the City of Ottawa's Don Gamble Centre which is located on Coté Street. The City of Ottawa ran sports complex has a multitude of activities for the whole family including a library, a large indoor swimming pool and a skating rink. The St-Laurent Complex also offers classes of cooking, aerobics and indoor cycling. The complex also has weight and cardio room as well as a number of programs for kids.
Education
With many schools nearby, the neighbourhood of Castle Heights is a great place to raise a family. The St-Laurent Complex offers evenings and weekend programs for youth and family.
School options in the area are The Rockcliffe Montessori Pre-School and Robert E. Wilson Public School on McArthur Avenue, the St. Michael School and Ottawa Technical Secondary School on Donald Street, the St-Laurent Academy on Sladen Avenue and the Queen Elizabeth Public School and Rideau High School on St-Laurent Boulevard.
Real Estate
As a real estate agent in Ottawa, I can't talk about neighbourhoods without talking about the real estate market and how it is performing compared to others neighbourhoods.
The location of the Castle Heights neighbourhood being just East of Downtown Ottawa and the large lots that these houses sit on makes it an attractive area for investors and developers to buy in. The neighbourhood has undergone some gentrification in the last few years where some developers have bought older bungalows and have used the land to build new semi-detached properties or other types of multi-family properties.
The Ottawa MLS® has Castle Heights divided into 3 separate MLS® districts:
- Overbrook/Castle Heights (3502)
- Castle Heights (3503)
- Castle Heights/Rideau High (3504)
These MLS® districts of Castle Heights saw a total of 129 sold properties and a total of 25 rented properties in 2017. 7 of these properties we're condominium-class properties while 122 we're residential-class properties. The average property price in Castle Heights was $369,047 while the average asking price was $376,078. Sellers of homes and condos sell for 98.1% of their asking price in about 42 days of being listed on the MLS®.
The construction of multi-family properties in Castle Heights and the neighbouring community of Overbrook have increased significantly in the last few years. Both of these neighbourhoods have also seen many infill projects primarily of semi-detached homes and row house townhomes.
For 2017 the average price of a detached home in the neighbourhood of Castle Heights and Ottawa MLS® districts 3502, 3503 and 3504 was $397,944 while townhomes or semi-detached properties were $362,632.
Castle Heights is said to be an up and coming neighbourhood seeing property values increase rapidly in the last few years. This area is worth investigating for investment potential. If you an investor or just a family looking to purchase in a neighbourhood that will see future growth you can always reach me by email or at 613-889-7732
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