Nepean Homes for Sale

How Nepean grew from a township into a city

Nepean Township, first known as Township D, was established in 1792 and once took in what is now central Ottawa west of the Rideau River. Its town hall stood in Westboro until Ottawa annexed that area in 1950. The township’s centre then moved to Bells Corners, and through the 1950s and 1960s its urban area spread over farmland toward Centrepointe in the east and Barrhaven in the south.

Nepean became a city on November 24, 1978, named after Sir Evan Nepean, a British Under-Secretary of State. It had 124,878 people when it joined the new City of Ottawa in 2001. A Nepean quarry supplied the sandstone that is the principal building material of the Parliament Buildings.

Bells Corners houses for sale, inside the western Greenbelt

Bells Corners is a suburban neighbourhood along Robertson Road, west of downtown and within Ottawa’s western Greenbelt, in College Ward. It had 9,385 people in the 2021 Census. It is named after Hugh Bell, who kept a tavern there from 1834 to 1863, and most of it burned in the Great Fire of August 1870.

Lynwood Village and Westcliffe Estates

Many Bells Corners houses are in Lynwood Village, also called Bells Corners East, which Bill Teron built from 1958 to 1966. It is one of the first examples of tract housing in Ottawa, and it now has more than 1,700 homes. To the west, Westcliffe Estates (Bells Corners West) was founded in 1969, has more than 2,000 homes and is denser than the rest of the community.

• Most homes lie south of Robertson Road, and most of the businesses and industry to the north of it.
• The Robertson Road strip has been a Business Improvement Area since 2009, and it carries commuter traffic between Kanata and the city centre, so rush hour there can be slow.
• Nine public parks, the Bell Centennial Arena, an outdoor pool at Entrance Park and the Lynwood Park Tennis Club.
• Bellwood Estates, a 256-home mobile home park established in 1959, is also in Bells Corners.

Schools and Algonquin College in Nepean

Algonquin College’s main campus is in Nepean, and College Ward is named after it. English schools are run by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Catholic board, both headquartered in Nepean; French schools by the CEPEO and the CECCE. Schools in Nepean include:

• Catholic, English: St. Mother Teresa High School, St. Joseph High School and St. Paul High School.
• Catholic, French: École secondaire catholique Pierre-Savard and Collège catholique Franco-Ouest.
• Public: Cedarview Middle School; in Centrepointe, many students go on to Sir Robert Borden High School.

Confirm the school for a specific address with the board before you offer.

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Buy or sell in Nepean with The Reality Group

Nepean runs from Teron’s 1950s bungalows in Lynwood Village to 1980s Centrepointe townhomes and new towers on Baseline Road, so we compare a home with sales from its own neighbourhood and era. Our office is here, on Colonnade Road.

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 Nepean and across Ottawa.

Sylvia Kachouh

Real Estate Agent · eXp Realty, Brokerage

Sylvia’s bio, in her own words: “a bilingual real estate professional serving Ottawa, Toronto, and surrounding communities, with experience across neighbourhoods including Orléans, Nepean, Barrhaven, Gloucester, and Rockland.”

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