West End Guelph has lots of affordable options and can be seen as a great alternative to both East End Guelph and South End Guelph for those looking for newer homes.
For those that don’t need to commute into the GTA or are heading west towards Kitchener-Waterloo, West End Guelph real estate might be a much better and more affordable fit.
Let’s take a look at the neighbourhoods that make up West End Guelph.
West Willow Woods
Let’s start north of Mitchell Woods PS and west of Dunhill Place Park where you can find mostly 90s-built homes. However, if you’re looking for West End Guelph’s newest homes, If head west of Elmira Road around Mitchell Park, where you will find options that include semi-detached, townhomes and condo townhomes.
This collection of homes puts you just north of Costco and the West End Community Centre, so it’s a hotspot for young families.
As you head east of Dunhill Park and towards Imperial Road North you’ll find affordable, 80s-built homes. A bit further east towards the Willow, Imperial, Westwood triangle is a mix of affordable homes that were built starting in the mid-70s through till the mid-80s.
Sugarbush
One area of importance is the area nicknamed Sugarbush that surrounds Marksam Park and was developed through the 1970s. This is a really nice pocket that puts you closest to the major retail along The Hanlon and north of Speedvale.
As you venture venture south of Willow towards the tracks you reach the area of Margaret Greene Park which is another nice, small cluster of streets and homes developed in the 70s.
Finally, in West Willow Woods you will find lots of pockets of smaller condo towns that are mixed in along with some co-op homes and rental apartments.
Parkwood Gardens
Compared to West Willow Woods, Parkwood Gardens is made up of almost entirely low-rise, freehold homes. There are, however, are a couple of pockets of condo townhomes along Paisley Road both close to the West End Community Centre and The Hanlon.
When looking at the rest of Parkwood Gardens, we can separate this neighbourhood into two areas – west of Imperial Road South (aka West Acres) and east of Imperial Road South.
Starting with the area east of Imperial Road you’ll find homes here were built mostly during the mid-90s through until the early 2000s. The pick of the bunch might be the community just south of Castlebury Park. Here you will mostly find 2-storey brick detached homes (though many with siding on the top half as typical of that era), but there are many bungalows and splits available as the developers here varied home designs quite a bit.
West Acres
West of Imperial Road are homes mostly built in the late-80s to mid-90s. The homes around top schools St. Francis of Assisi and Taylor Evans PS provide nice wide lots (50 x 100-110 is common) on well-matured streets. Some really beautiful and unique homes can be found on streets that back onto Stephanie Drive Park.
As you venture further south towards the southern border of West End Guelph you reach the area around Gateway Drive PS & Springdale Park which is a bit older being first developed in the 1970s.
In both areas though you can find not just 2-storey homes but a good mix of bungalows, raised bungalows, backsplits and sidesplits.
