Key Takeaways
- North Glenora is a post-war bungalow neighbourhood north of Stony Plain Road, separated from Glenora proper by a single arterial.
- Original-stock detached homes typically sit in the $380K to $580K range; modern infill builds run roughly $580K to $820K. Spot-check current pricing with Rory before you write an offer.
- Coronation Park, the Peter Hemingway Fitness and Leisure Centre, and the TELUS World of Science sit immediately east across Groat Road.
- Ross Sheppard High School with its IB Diploma Programme serves the catchment, which matters to families planning ahead for high school.
- Most buyers searching “Glenora” end up considering North Glenora too. The two neighbourhoods share a name root but sit at clearly different price tiers.
- Infill activity is steady but measured. You will not see the block-by-block teardown wave that defines Westmount or Ritchie.
If you are looking at homes for sale in North Glenora, you have probably already looked at Glenora. That is not an accident. The two neighbourhoods share a name root, a school cohort, and an amenity base, and they sit a single arterial apart. I am Rory O’Shea, REALTOR® with Homes & Gardens Real Estate Ltd., working alongside my mother Bev O’Shea-Thomas. We help buyers and sellers across mature inner-west Edmonton, including the corridor between Stony Plain Road and 118 Avenue where North Glenora sits. This page walks through what North Glenora actually is, what it costs, what schools you draw, and how it compares to the alternatives a buyer in this part of the city should also be considering.
How is North Glenora different from Glenora?
Honest answer: they are siblings, not the same neighbourhood. Glenora sits south of Stony Plain Road, holds the prestige character stock, and steps up in price. North Glenora sits north of Stony Plain Road, leans heavily on post-war bungalow product, and runs at a lower price tier on equivalent square footage. The name overlap is the biggest reason most buyers I work with end up looking at both. Google, REALTOR.ca, and the other aggregators treat “Glenora” as a query that returns inventory from both, and most buyers do not know the boundary until they are already touring.
Here is the trade-off: if you want the 1920s and 1930s character architecture, the larger lots, the longer-tenure school cohort, and you have the budget, Glenora is the right page. If you want a quieter interior street, a smaller-footprint home with a manageable yard, and an entry price that does not break $600K on original stock, North Glenora is doing real work for you. The two neighbourhoods are close enough that a North Glenora address still gets you the same coffee shops, the same hospital, the same drive downtown.
What’s the price range for homes in North Glenora?
Worth knowing before you fall in love with a house: North Glenora has two markets sitting on top of each other. The original post-war bungalow pool moves at one price tier. The modern infill pool, built on subdivided lots from roughly 2012 onward, sits at a meaningfully higher one. A single neighbourhood median would average them and tell you nothing useful, so here is how the bands actually break down over the last twelve months of activity.
- Original post-war bungalow (1945 to 1965 build): typically $380K to $580K depending on renovation level, lot, and condition.
- Original 1.5-storey or 1960s back-split / split-entry: typically $420K to $620K.
- Modern skinny-home infill (single-detached on a split lot): typically $580K to $820K.
- Modern duplex or semi-detached infill: typically $460K to $660K per side.
- Townhouse and row: thin sales volume; usually $280K to $420K when product comes up.
- Apartment condo and walk-up: typically $160K to $280K, concentrated along 118 Avenue, Stony Plain Road, and 142 Street.
Across the detached pool, the 25th to 75th percentile range works out to roughly $420K to $700K, which captures most of what you will actually see in showings. These are estimates; contact Rory for a current CMA on a specific property. The North Glenora bungalow pool turns over slowly, so when a well-located original-stock home in good condition does come up, it can move quickly. Set your watch alerts and your financing well before you start showing.
What’s it like to live in North Glenora?
Most people from outside Edmonton do not realize this: North Glenora is one of the more stylistically consistent mature inner neighbourhoods in the city. The post-war planning grid, the standard setbacks, and the dominant bungalow stock give the interior streets a quieter, more coherent feel than Westmount across Groat Road. You will not find pre-war character architecture here, and you will not find aggressive teardown infill on every block. What you will find is a small, walkable, mature residential pocket with a mature elm canopy, a community league hall that runs an ice rink in winter, and direct access to the Coronation Park amenity belt to the east.
The 142 Street, 118 Avenue, and Stony Plain Road frontages carry arterial traffic and have a different feel from the interior. Most buyers I show in North Glenora set their preferences for interior streets early; if you back onto an arterial, you accept the acoustic trade-off in exchange for a meaningfully shorter price tag. Inside the grid, blocks are quiet, dog walking is constant, and you get to know your neighbours quickly because the lot density is lower than Westmount and the population is correspondingly smaller.
Buyers describe North Glenora as Glenora’s quieter, smaller, more affordable cousin reasonably often. The description is fair. It is also why the neighbourhood holds well: nobody is buying here for spectacle. They are buying for the post-war bungalow stock, the school catchment, and the Coronation Park access.
What schools serve North Glenora?
If you are moving for the schools, the catchment story is one of the strongest in mature inner-west Edmonton. Confirm the catchment polygon for your specific address on epsb.ca before writing an offer, but here is the structure most North Glenora addresses draw.
Edmonton Public Schools (EPSB).
- Coronation School (K to 6) sits in the immediately adjacent Coronation neighbourhood at 13455 114 Avenue and is the designated elementary for much of the North Glenora catchment. Coronation runs the standard EPSB curriculum and has historically offered specialty programming worth verifying year over year on epsb.ca.
- Junior high (Grades 7 to 9) typically draws to Westminster School or Westmount School depending on the specific address. Junior high catchments are reviewed periodically and have shifted before; confirm with EPSB.
- Ross Sheppard High School (Grades 10 to 12) at 13546 111 Avenue serves the high school catchment and is one of the reasons families pick this part of Edmonton. Ross Sheppard hosts the IB Diploma Programme, which draws students from across the mature inner west.
Edmonton Catholic Schools (ECSD). St. Andrew Catholic Elementary School and St. Pius X Catholic Elementary School in the immediately adjacent area serve most North Glenora Catholic addresses; St. Joseph Catholic High School at 10830 109 Street covers Catholic high school. Verify the current catchment for your address at ecsd.net.
Francophone (Conseil scolaire Centre-Nord). No francophone school sits in North Glenora itself. Closest catchments typically draw to École Gabrielle-Roy or École Père-Lacombe.
Private. Tempo School and Edmonton Academy are within close drive. Both are admission-based, not catchment-based.
Fraser Institute rankings circulate widely in school discussions, but the methodology is widely debated and does not capture school culture, special needs support, or program diversity. Treat them as one data point among many. The EPSB Find a School tool is the source of truth for catchment confirmation.
How long is the commute from North Glenora to downtown?
Honest answer: shorter than the neighbourhood feels from a map. Off-peak, you are typically looking at 10 to 18 minutes downtown via Stony Plain Road or 107 Avenue. Add a few minutes during morning peak. The bigger transit story is the Valley Line West LRT, which is under construction along Stony Plain Road and forms part of North Glenora’s south edge. When it opens, the stations near 149 Street and 124 Street will both serve North Glenora residents, with the 149 Street stop being the closer access for most addresses west of 135 Street. Verify the current projected opening date directly with the City of Edmonton or ETS before you bank your commute plan on it; the project has had multiple schedule revisions.
Other typical drive times, off-peak:
- University of Alberta (main campus): 15 to 22 minutes via Groat Road and Saskatchewan Drive.
- NAIT: 7 to 12 minutes via Princess Elizabeth Avenue or 118 Avenue. NAIT is also the current Metro Line LRT terminus, which gives you a transit option for the downtown link if you want to avoid driving entirely.
- West Edmonton Mall: 12 to 18 minutes via 142 Street or 87 Avenue.
- Nisku and the south industrial belt: 28 to 42 minutes via Calgary Trail.
- Edmonton International Airport: 32 to 48 minutes via QEII.
For cyclists, the Coronation Park multi-use trail along the east edge links to the river valley trail system via Glenora and on to the downtown core. The City of Edmonton has progressively integrated North Glenora into the neighbourhood bike network on key collector streets; check the current cycling map for routes near your address.
What new development is happening in North Glenora?
Here is the honest answer: less than you would think if you have been watching Westmount or Ritchie. North Glenora carries continuous infill activity, but it moves at a measured pace, mostly single-lot redevelopments rather than multi-lot teardown waves. Pull the current building permit counts from the City of Edmonton open data portal if you want a hard number for the trailing twelve months, but the visual signal on most blocks is one or two infill projects in progress at a time, not five or six.
The 2024 City of Edmonton Zoning Bylaw renewal expanded the small-scale residential category city-wide. North Glenora, like Westmount, will see modestly accelerated infill activity under the new rules. The character impact will be slower to land here than in higher-velocity neighbourhoods, which most current owners view as a feature.
The bigger development story sits adjacent: the Valley Line West LRT construction along Stony Plain Road, which affects the south frontage, and the Westmount Centre site at 111 Avenue and Groat Road / 135 Street, which has been the subject of redevelopment discussion for years. Verify current Westmount Centre status with the City of Edmonton planning portal; do not assume any particular plan is current.
If you are buying new-build infill product in North Glenora, verify the specific builder’s reputation, warranty coverage, and recent build quality before offer. The infill builder roster here is broader and less concentrated than in higher-volume infill neighbourhoods like Westmount or Ritchie, so brand recognition is less of a shortcut.
Who’s buying in North Glenora right now?
Five buyer profiles show up in North Glenora showings reasonably consistently. The mix tilts toward move-up families and downsizers more than first-time buyers, which is part of the reason the streetscape stays quiet.
1. Move-up family from Westmount, Oliver, or Glenora overflow. These buyers want a quieter interior street than Westmount, a larger lot than the typical Westmount infill, and a price tier below Glenora. The Ross Sheppard catchment and the Coronation Park amenity belt usually anchor the decision. 2. Renovation buyer. Original-stock bungalows take a main-floor open very well and have basement potential that makes the math work. This buyer often has construction experience and a six to twelve month budget. 3. Downsizer from mature west and Central (Glenora, Crestwood, Laurier Heights). Looking for a bungalow with main-floor living, a manageable yard, and a way to stay in the same general community. 4. First-time buyer young family. Usually moving from a rental in Oliver, Downtown, or Westmount, often into a modern skinny-home infill or duplex side at a price point below Glenora’s infill tier and quieter than Westmount’s. 5. Long-tenure original owner selling. Not a buyer, technically, but the 1950s and 1960s original-owner cohort gradually rolling out is what generates a meaningful share of annual North Glenora supply.
If your budget is under $400K, you are mostly looking at the condo side along the arterial frontages or at the entry of the original-bungalow band on smaller or less-renovated stock. Most North Glenora detached activity sits above $450K and below $750K.
What amenities are in North Glenora?
Most people from outside Edmonton do not realize this: the single most important amenity for North Glenora residents is not technically in North Glenora. It is one block east. Coronation Park sits across Groat Road and holds the Peter Hemingway Fitness and Leisure Centre (indoor pool, fitness centre), the TELUS World of Science Edmonton, and direct ravine and trail access. The Royal Alberta Museum is a short distance further south. For most North Glenora residents, Coronation Park is the daily-use amenity.
Inside the neighbourhood proper, the North Glenora Community League hall on 133 Street runs youth sports registrations, ice rink operations in winter, hall rentals, and community events. The community league is widely regarded as one of the more active in mature inner-west Edmonton, which matters more than people expect when you are picking a neighbourhood for kids.
For grocery and dining:
- Westmount Centre at 111 Avenue and Groat Road / 135 Street is the closest large-format grocery anchor.
- Save-On-Foods locations at Capilano and Westmount are within short drive.
- Italian Centre Shop locations are 12 to 18 minutes away.
- The 124 Street commercial corridor is roughly 10 minutes by car via Stony Plain Road and serves as the primary dining destination for most North Glenora residents. Independent restaurants, cafes, art galleries, and the Duchess Bake Shop all sit within a short walking strip.
Healthcare access is one of the underrated parts of this location. The Royal Alexandra Hospital at 111 Avenue and Kingsway is 7 to 12 minutes east, which is meaningful for families with young kids or seniors aging in place. Misericordia Community Hospital is 10 to 15 minutes west via 142 Street. Walk-in clinics sit along 124 Street, 118 Avenue, and Stony Plain Road; verify current operating hours before you rely on any particular clinic.
How does North Glenora compare to Westmount and other inner-west neighbourhoods?
If you are weighing North Glenora against the alternatives, here is how the close substitutes actually stack up. This is the comparison conversation I have at most kitchen tables.
- Glenora (step-up). South across Stony Plain Road. Higher price tier, more pre-war character architecture, larger lots on average, prestige school cohort. The natural upsizing target for North Glenora families and the single most common forwarding neighbourhood for sellers.
- Westmount (closest substitute). East across Groat Road and the Coronation Park ravine. Comparable price band on infill product, more pre-war character stock, much more active infill scene, direct adjacency to the 124 Street commercial corridor. If you want the 124 Street walk-up amenity and you are willing to accept a more visually heterogeneous streetscape, Westmount makes sense.
- Inglewood (close substitute). Northeast of North Glenora. Similar post-war bungalow build era, similar interior-street feel, slightly lower price band on equivalent product. A budget-flexible North Glenora buyer should see Inglewood.
- Prince Charles (step-down on price). Northeast across the 118 Avenue corridor. Lower price tier on equivalent product, comparable post-war character. Worth a look if your budget is tighter or you want more home for the dollar.
- Sherbrooke (step-down north). Similar post-war bungalow stock, slightly lower price band, less amenity proximity than North Glenora.
- Coronation and Woodcroft (budget-flexible alternative). North across 118 Avenue. Lower price tier but a step-out on character coherence; best framed as a budget-flexible alternative rather than a direct substitute.
If you want the broader mature inner-west picture and how North Glenora fits into it, the West Edmonton quadrant page covers the wider corridor including the inner-west cluster.
About the Author
Rory O’Shea is a REALTOR® with Homes & Gardens Real Estate Ltd. in Edmonton. He covers the full residential market, from apartment condos starting at $200K through detached homes to $1.2M+, across Edmonton and 11 surrounding municipalities. Rory works alongside his mother, Bev O’Shea-Thomas, a 45+ year Edmonton REALTOR® and Re/Max Hall of Fame member who provides advisory support. Reach Rory at 780-220-4490 or rory@edmontoncityhomes.com. Homes & Gardens Real Estate Ltd., 3659 99 St NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 6K5.
Market figures shown as ranges; actual prices depend on home size, condition, and exact location. For a current CMA on a specific property, contact us. Listing data is provided through the REALTORS® Association of Edmonton MLS® System and is believed reliable but not guaranteed. Verify current status with your REALTOR®.
Talk to Rory
If you are looking at homes for sale in North Glenora and want a working view of what is available, what is about to come up, and where the value sits between the original bungalow pool and the modern infill pool, I am happy to talk. I can run a current CMA on a specific North Glenora address, walk you through the school catchment chain in person, or compare North Glenora side-by-side with Glenora, Westmount, Inglewood, or Prince Charles before you commit. Call or text me at 780-220-4490, email rory@edmontoncityhomes.com, or use the contact page to send a brief. Learn more about Rory and Bev.
About this page
This page was researched and drafted with AI assistance to gather and synthesize public data from the Realtors Association of Edmonton, Statistics Canada, CMHC, and the City of Edmonton. Local market commentary and neighbourhood observations reflect the direct experience of Rory O’Shea and Bev O’Shea-Thomas working this market — Bev’s 45+ years of Edmonton real estate experience and Rory’s front-line transaction work. Every figure, claim, and recommendation was reviewed and signed off by Rory before publishing.
Last reviewed: May 26, 2026