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Who to call about Alta Vista real estate

For a home in Alta Vista or Hunt Club, between Smyth Road and Walkley Road and south toward the airport, one call reaches the agent who covers the area for our team.

Call The Reality Group at 613-704-6145 and ask for Megan Stagg, who leads our Ottawa team. Megan was born and raised in Ottawa and is an eXp ICON agent (August 2025 and July 2026). Our clients rate the team 5.0 on Google (read on 2026-10-13), and every agent on the team works through eXp Realty, Brokerage.

What and where Alta Vista is

An established central neighbourhood with mature trees, mid-century homes, and the General Hospital and CHEO close by. The Alta Vista Community Association draws it as the part of Alta Vista Ward south of Smyth Road, north of Walkley Road, east of the Rideau River and Bank Street, and west of the greenspace under Haig Drive.

The neighbourhood and Alta Vista Drive, its main street, are named for their height: the area sits higher than most of the city.

The name is used loosely. It can mean the whole ward, or only the core around Alta Vista Drive between Pleasant Park Road and Heron Road, so ask which one a listing means. The area takes in smaller neighbourhoods:

• In the north: Rideau Park, Faircrest and Applewood Acres.
• In the south: Ridgemont.
• Also within it: Billings, Canterbury, Guildwood Estates, Heron Gate, Playfair Park and Urbandale Acres.

Why the hospitals matter to Alta Vista buyers

Three hospitals sit on or near Alta Vista’s northern edge. The Ottawa Hospital’s General Campus and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) are on the north side of Smyth Road, in Riverview, and the Riverside Campus is at Smyth Road and Riverside Drive. If you work at one of them, the streets just south of Smyth Road put you closest.

Hunt Club, south of Alta Vista

Hunt Club is a community in River Ward, in the south end of Ottawa, just north of the airport and east of the Rideau River. The Hunt Club Community Organization defines it as bounded by the Rideau River on the west, the Airport Parkway on the east, the CN and Via Rail lines on the north and Hunt Club Road on the south.

It is named for the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club, first developed in 1876.

Like Alta Vista, Hunt Club was part of Gloucester Township until Ottawa annexed it in 1950. It was built from the 1970s as a mainly residential community, and many of its houses date from then. Housing includes detached and semi-detached houses, townhouses, apartment buildings and retirement homes.

• Sub-neighbourhoods, from west to east: Quinterra, Hunt Club Woods, Hunt Club Estate and the Western Community.
• Seven city parks: Cahill, McCarthy, Owl, Paul Landry, Riverwood, Uplands and Uplands Riverside.
• About 16% of the area is accessible green space, including the Sawmill Creek wetlands and the Rideau River shoreline.

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Buy or sell in Alta Vista with The Reality Group

Alta Vista was mostly built in the 1950s and 1960s, so we compare a home with recent nearby sales from the same era, and look at what has been updated in it.

Buyers start on our buying page and can add Buyer Concierge Services; sellers start with how we sell a home and home staging and Seller Concierge Services. Our team of Ottawa real estate agents works with buyers and sellers in Alta Vista and across Ottawa.

Megan Stagg

Real Estate Agent · Founder · Ottawa Team Lead · eXp Realty, Brokerage

Megan leads our Ottawa team. Her bio: “Megan is an Ottawa-born and raised real estate professional with a deep understanding of the local market and a passion for helping clients make confident, informed decisions.”

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