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New Homes in Almonte - Village Life just minutes from Kanata!
Almonte, Ontario is a beautiful old riverside Market Town just 17 minutes from Kanata, and only 40 minutes from downtown Ottawa. Almonte provides the highest quality of life at prices that Ottawa hasn't matched in years!
It's the perfect community for anyone with a growing family, and, because of the short commute, ideal for anyone who works in the West End of Ottawa, or in nearby communities like Kanata.
For retirees looking for a less hectic lifestyle, Almonte provides an historic agricultural Market Town atmosphere, with all of the ammenties within walking distance, but none of the line-ups!
offers three new home communities, providing custom-builder inspired new homes that meet every need - singles, townhomes or bungalows.
Ottawa Housing Market Predictions for 2012 - and a Review of 2011
Over the last year we saw the worst financial crisis in the history of the United States and the European Union.
What saved Canadians from a disaster of this magnitude was continued world demand for our natural resources, but this was not enough to prevent net job losses and a poor rate of growth.
What saved Ottawa, as usual, was the relative stability of the local economy as a consequence of the percentage of those still employed in government.
As for Ottawa's housing industry, it continued to boom, supported by the lowest borrowing rates in Canadian history, which enabled more and more young tenants to become owners of new homes, by paying little more each month for their mortgages than the amount of rent they'd been paying previously.
Ottawa Housing Sales
Housing re-sales through MLS in November turned out to be the best on record for that calendar month, and rose by 13% in December. At year end, sales were 1.7% above the volume of houses sold in the entire previous year. The average price increased by 5.2 % to $343,701.
The annual total of new housing starts fell year-over-year by approximately 10%, despite a sudden increase in construction starts of row houses in December, more than doubling the number of starts at the previous year-end (up by 102% and driven by first-time home buyers), which suggests builder optimism for 2012.
All other types of housing starts fell, with apartments showing the biggest decline (by about 20%). Most construction was undertaken in Ottawa West (Nepean) and the farthest points of Ottawa East (Cumberland).
Local investment in rental properties continued to be advantageous. It had already become common-place to buy a downtown high-rise condo apartment for a rent-paying single working daughter or a townhouse for a married son happy to pay rent to Dad, enabling the accrual of more than the average increase in the value of real estate - possibly yielding 7.7% annually on the investment - with a safe tenant to take care of the property,
Home sales are expected to moderate in 2012 but remain stable. However, much the same was forecast for 2011 when sales rose instead...
Design of the Month Reviews :
The Banfield Single Luxury Home by Cardel 
There is plenty of activity here, now that roads have been completely cut through the wooded areas surrounding
Kizell Pond and leading to
Kanata Estates, a new community shared by several leading and smaller Ottawa home builders. It therefore provides home buyers with plenty of variety in the types of homes and designs they can choose from - whether large families, retired couples, or more discerning buyers who want and can afford more luxurious appointments and finishes in their home. There are also smaller homes for younger singles and couples.
Custom Home Builders
Among the embarrassment of riches in Kanata Estates is a respected custom home builder not often featured on this site. We decided to see what Cardel have to offer at the present moment...
The Forestlane Single Family Home by Mattamy
Mattamy has introduced a handsome new 2 Storey detached home in their
Half Moon Bay community in Barrhaven and also in
Fairwinds, Kanata.
A New Trend
Evidently introducing somewhat smaller home designs or less luxurious ones is a new trend by some of Ottawa's home builders as prices of existing designs shoot up out of reach. The new Forestlane is built on a 34ft lot and has a one-car garage.
Dramatic Frontage
The brick-fronted Elevation'A' features three dramatic gable ends including one above the front porch, and a tall arched window that illuminates a front staircase. Elevation'B' provides a balcony above the front porch. This is quite a spacious home for 2,075 square feet of finished living room; just enough for a small family with children and Nanny or Granny...
The Hudson compact Single by Minto
Minto has released
The Hudson, a neat new design for a single family home. The builder's strategy typifies a current trend to create new and more compact homes to replace larger ones that have risen in price beyond the means of many buyers in this most important market sector.
The Hudson is available in the communities of Avalon, (Orleans), and Chapman Mills (Barrhaven). It includes just about everything that a young couple with small children might require (or an older couple downsizing, for that matter).
Most of the finished space is allocated to the main level, with a master suite that identifies it as having been designed particularly for the retiring boomer generation. That also distinguishes it from all too many 2-story plans in which wasted and costly space is distributed haphazardly across unnecessarily large upstairs bedrooms which home buyers are obliged to pay for.
The Almonte 2-storey Single Home by Holitzner
The
Almonte in Phase 11 of
Hidden Lake Estates is a distinguished 2-storey detached house with an elegant front elevation and floor plans that separate it from many other Ottawa homes consisting of 2,314 finished square feet.
Most of the finished space is allocated to the main level, with a master suite that identifies it as having been designed particularly for the retiring boomer generation. That also distinguishes it from all too many 2-story plans in which wasted and costly space is distributed haphazardly across unnecessarily large upstairs bedrooms which home buyers are obliged to pay for.
In short, this is a better-balanced design than most, because Holitzner's planner is a master craftsman who understands "harmony in the home".
Despite the fact that this is the smallest, and therefore the lowest-priced home in Hidden Lake Estates, its designer has not stinted on his imagination and care to design a beautiful home that anyone would be proud to live in...
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Our New Homes and Ottawa Real Estate listings include Terrace Home Apartment Condos, High-Rise Apartment Condos, 3,4, and 5 Bedroom Single Homes, Semi-Detached Homes (Semis), Townhouses (Townhomes) and Bungalows. We cover 22 Top Ottawa Home Builders from Ontario, and all areas in Ottawa and Gatineau - Ottawa Downtown, Alta Vista, the Glebe, Ottawa South, Ottawa West and East, Barrhaven, Kanata, Westboro, Stittsville, Manotick, Richmond, Gatineau, Aylmer and Hull.
We also feature New Homes and Builders across the Ottawa Valley in Almonte, Carleton Place, Carp, Kemptville, Renfrew and Arnprior.
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