Orleans Homes for Sale

What homes in Orléans are like, by era: Orleans houses for sale

Wikipedia, citing census data, puts single detached houses at more than half of occupied homes, row and townhouses at about 30%, apartments and condominiums at about 9% and semi-detached houses at about 4%. The age of a neighbourhood tells you a lot about its houses:

• Late 1960s and 1970s: Convent Glen and Queenswood Heights, with ranch and split-level homes on comparatively large lots, with attached garages.
• 1980s and 1990s: Fallingbrook and Chapel Hill, mostly two-storey detached homes with brick fronts, and freehold townhouses.
• Since the early 2000s: Avalon, Notting Gate and Cardinal Creek, with narrower lots and a wider mix, including stacked townhouses, apartments and condominiums.
• Apartments and condominiums: growing along Innes Road, near Place d’Orléans and around the O-Train stations being built along Highway 174.

The old village core

Along St. Joseph Boulevard and Carrière Street, the historic core keeps nineteenth and early twentieth century buildings, including former farmhouses and stone and brick commercial buildings. The silver spire of the St. Joseph church, a landmark since the 1830s and the oldest francophone parish in the region, rises above it.

Why Orléans has so much green space

The Ottawa River runs along Orléans’ north side, and the Greenbelt lies to its west and south:

• Petrie Island, in the Ottawa River, with two sandy beaches operated by the City and supervised by lifeguards in summer, nature trails and provincially significant wetlands.
• The Mer Bleue Conservation Area, about 3,500 hectares south of Orléans, with a bog about 7,700 years old that is a Ramsar wetland of international importance, and a 1.2 km boardwalk.
• Princess Louise Falls on St. Joseph Boulevard, with trails to viewing areas.
• Green’s Creek, the Orléans Escarpment and the Cardinal Creek Karst, a cave and sinkhole landscape whose southern part was designated an Area of Natural and Scientific Interest in 2009.
• About 30 to 35 community outdoor skating rinks in winter.

Recreation, arts and shopping

The Ray Friel Recreation Complex, at 1585 Tenth Line Road since 1994, has three NHL-size arenas and a wave pool, and the Bob Macquarrie Recreation Complex is at 140 Youville Drive. The Shenkman Arts Centre, opened in 2009 at 245 Centrum Boulevard, runs English and French programming. Place d’Orléans, at about 740,000 square feet, is the largest enclosed mall in eastern Ottawa.

Cumberland, east of Orléans

Cumberland was a township from 1800, became a city in 1999 and joined Ottawa in 2001; it now exists only as a geographic township. It took in the eastern part of Orléans and the villages of Cumberland, Carlsbad Springs, Navan, Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Sarsfield and Vars. Most of its land is now Orléans South-Navan Ward, which is mainly rural, with historic villages that are now commuter communities.

In Cumberland Village, the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum shows rural village life in the 1920s and 1930s, with a general store, a one-room schoolhouse and a collection of more than 20,000 artifacts. Further east along the river, outside the city, is Rockland.

Market context

What Ottawa’s September 2026 market figures mean for Orléans

The Ottawa Real Estate Board reports the market for the whole city, not for Orléans on its own. Read the figures below as the backdrop. The price of a particular home comes from recent sales of similar homes nearby, which is what a comparative market analysis looks at. The full report is in our September 2026 report, one of our monthly Ottawa housing market updates.