Terwillegar Towne, Edmonton | Real Estate Listings & Profile

Terwillegar Towne is a newer, fairly dense neighbourhood in south Edmonton that was developed starting in 1997 and effectively completed in 2010. Nearby neighbourhoods include South Terwillegar to (no kidding) the south, Leger to the north, Magrath Heights to the east and Haddow to the west. The area features many houses on smaller lots with front porches and rear drive garages combined with treed boulevards and named streets. It seems to be a very popular area with first time home-buyers. Asking prices in Terwillegar Towne can be anywhere from just under $200,000 for an apartment style condo right up to about a million for a house. Home sizes range from about 720 ft2 single-level apartment up to a large 3000 ft2 house. Average condo sizes are at a reasonable 1033 ft2 and the average house size is around 1330 ft2. Please contact me if you have any interest in selling your Terwillegar home or looking to buy Terwillegar real estate.

Terwillegar Towne Demographics	House Prices and Sizes
• Number of homes: 2375	• Average Asking Price (2017): $456,800
• Population (2012): 6627	• Asking Price Range (2017): $200,000 to $1,100,000
• Size: 1.87 km² (462 acres)	• Average House Size (Approx): 1330 ft²
• Density (2012): 3544people/km² (fairly dense)	• Size Range (Approx): 720 ft² to 3000 ft²

Terwillegar Towne Real Estate & Listings

Terwillegar Towne Housing Market

• Absorption (2017): 34.8% • Buyer Willingness (2017): 90.2% • Desirability Score (2017): 90.8/100 (pretty desirable) • Dilapidation Score (2010): 10 homes out of 2375 are in need of major repairs – 0.4% (nearly perfect)

Amenities

• Accessibility Score: 183 homes per entry/exit road (very good, especially for a newer neighbourhood). • Parking (see below for details): Decent in many areas. • Transit (see below for details): 35 bus stops. • Parks: 4 parks.

Location

The southern boundary of the neighbourhood is Terwillegar Boulevard and Thibault Wynd, the northern is 23rd Avenue. Rabbit Hill Road creates the eastern boundary and Terwillegar Drive creates the western one. Terwillegar Towne started construction of homes in 1997 and peaked in 2004. Almost all lots were developed by 2010 although there were some laggards that went up in 2014. Assessed tax values in the neighbourhood spike in the $400,000 range – these are mostly houses – but there are many condos assessed at around the $275,000 mark as well. There is a lot of diversity in the Terwillegar area. I think there’s a lot of value in Terwillegar Towne and South Terwillegar. 70.9% of the neighbourhood is houses, 13.7% duplexes, 13.4% townhouses and with 2.1% as apartments. Since the area was substantially completed before the census was recorded, this information should be quite accurate.   Lots in Terwillegar Towne are on the smaller size – typically 375 m2 or close to. Terwillegar Towne zoning is crazy for Edmonton. The above chart is just residential zoning, and there are many specific Terwillegar zoning codes that the City of Edmonton made during planning – specific modifications of zoning that already existed or entirely new zoning regulations for this area. The ones we know already are RSL at 7.0%, RPL (Residential Planned Lot) at 4.6% along with it’s counterpart RPLt at 19.5%. You really could combine the ones with the small ‘t’ at the end to get a general idea of what kinds of zoning there is, but the differences, even if they are small, might be important. The largest chunk of the lots in Terwillegar Towne are TSLR, which is Terwillegar Small Lot Residential Zone. There are a lot of townhouses in the area and those will be zoned RF5 or RF5t, depending on if they fit the regular criteria or needed a modification of the RF5 guidelines. RPLt, which is the Terwillegar equivalent of a Residential Planned Lot is up there at 19.5%, while the standard is 4.6%. A list of the special areas can be found here. About 12.4% of Terwillegar Towne was renters in 2012. There isn’t any newer information, but my guess is that that number has increased and will continue to increase. Still, the majority of the community is owners.

Condos in Terwillegar Towne

There are seven condominium complex in the neighbourhood:

• Black Stone – 2-storey townhouses located on Terwillegar Common
• Devonshire Village – Half-duplex units at 1090 Tory Road
• Mosaic Ridge – Townhouses located at 2051 Towne Centre Blvd
• Mosaic Terwillegar Towne – A townhouse complex with ground level garages located at 3075 Trelle Cr in the northwest corner of the neighbourhood.
• O’Sheanna (Osheanna) –  A 4-storey apartment style condo with underground parking located at 5280 Terwillegar Blvd
• Terwillegar Corners – A townhouse complex located at 5260 Terwillegar Bv and 4950 Terwillegar Common.

Schools

• Esther Starkman School – Elementary (kindergarten to grade 6 school) – 2717 Terwillegar Way
• Monsignor William Irwin Catholic School – Elementary (kindergarten to grade 6 school – 2629 Taylor Green

Parks & Recreation

The neighbourhood has 4 parks, one of which Terwillegar Towne Neighbourhood Park is enormous, taking up a large percentage of the land in the community. This helps to make the neighbourhood more desirable and is a draw for families, especially those with young children.

Access & Parking

Many homes have garages in Terwillegar Towne – 81.1%. Even a lot of the townhouses have garages. This is pretty rare for a neighbourhood with so many reasonably priced homes. Parking is ok in Terwillegar Towne. Streets are narrow, but since most homes have front drive garages, there is some space out front. The houses don’t have much frontage, so you can’t park a lot of cars out front and driveways are short so none can go in the back besides in the garage. All in all, I think this is a decent compromise for a higher density neighbourhood with mostly single family homes. It’s pretty well established and there aren’t that many cars parked on the street, so the design seems to be working. Access for to Terwillegar is strange but adequate. There are a decent number of entry/exit points, but traffic is funneled through roads that were not designed for heavy traffic flow. It’s a bit strange to be honest. Access is most common from (the totally inaptly named) Haddow Drive and Towne Centre Boulevard. If you’re coming from the south, you may opt to use Rabbit Hill Road and people living in the fancy Terwillegar Gardens will likely use Tegler Gate. Getting into and out of the neighbourhood is not always quick, but it seems to not get too congested. There is a fair bit of traffic on certain roads, so do be careful where you choose to live if a very quiet street is desirable.

Transit To and From Terwillegar Towne

There are 35 bus stops in the neighbourhood boundaries – one for every 68 homes, which is decent.  

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by +Alan F Macdonald REALTOR® | Copyright © – gimme-shelter.com

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