Homes For Sale in Antrim Glen

About Antrim Glen

Antrim Glen is a land-lease adult-lifestyle community in Hamilton operated by Parkbridge. Homes are typically bungalows and low-maintenance designs aimed at the 55+ buyer.

Adult-lifestyle communities turn over steadily as owners downsize or relocate. Every listing below sits inside the community boundary shown on the map.

The homes of Antrim Glen

Antrim Glen is a bungalow community of detached homes in Freelton, just west of Hamilton, and one-floor living is the whole point. Homes are detached bungalow-style designs — a 2004 listing at 136 Glenariff Drive, for example, offered three bedrooms and two bathrooms in 1,339 square feet, with engineered hardwood, a gas fireplace with custom built-ins, an updated kitchen with a breakfast bar, and a private composite deck facing the quiet countryside. Most homes carry a single-car garage with a widened driveway for two-car parking.

Because this is a land-lease community, the purchase price buys the home, not the dirt it sits on — and that structure keeps prices well below comparable freehold bungalows in the Hamilton area. The one recent asking price seen was $529,900 for the Glenariff Drive home described above, but treat that as a single data point, not a community average: condition, age and lot position move prices meaningfully here, so pull comparable sales for the exact street before you offer.

How Antrim Glen works: tenure and fees

Antrim Glen runs on the land-lease model. You own the bungalow itself; Parkbridge Lifestyle Communities Inc. owns the land beneath it and the common elements, and you lease your site under a site agreement. Monthly fees bundle the land lease with maintenance and the property-tax component, and Parkbridge maintains the shared infrastructure — the clubhouse, pool, community well, lighting, roads and snow clearance on the roads — while you maintain your own home. Read the current site lease before you buy: it controls fee-increase rules, transfer and approval requirements, and your responsibilities at resale.

On the age question, hedge your assumptions. Antrim Glen is marketed as an adult-lifestyle, retirement-oriented community, but sources describe Parkbridge as welcoming people of all ages, and no formal age restriction was verified in the material reviewed this session. If 55-plus status matters to your decision, have your lawyer confirm the current site rules and lease rather than relying on marketing language. Financing also works differently here: land-lease homes are typically financed through lenders familiar with the structure, and lease terms (commonly 49- or 99-year options in Parkbridge communities) are part of what your lender and lawyer will review.

Amenities and daily life

The social heart of Antrim Glen is The Glen, the community's 12,000-square-foot recreation centre. Inside you'll find a meeting hall, lounge, library, billiards room, workshop, gym and sauna, with an outdoor saltwater pool just outside — one listing put a home a one-minute walk from the water. The activity calendar is genuinely busy: barbecues, bus trips, card games, clubs, exercise groups, dances and seasonal parties. Residents describe it as an active-lifestyle community if you want it to be — gardening, cards, bowling and golfing groups all run through the social scene.

Day-to-day life leans on the surrounding area. Antrim Glen sits on former farmland — the 200 acres it shares with adjacent Beverly Hills Estates once produced alfalfa, grain and dairy for Silverwood's — and the community was named for Northern Ireland's Glens of Antrim by original partner Gerry Maguire. Groceries, medical care and dining mean a drive into Flamborough, Waterdown, Cambridge or Hamilton; this is country living with a clubhouse, not a walkable village. Residents who want the full picture should visit on an activity day — the difference between reading the calendar and experiencing the social scene is the real test of fit.

Location and getting there

Antrim Glen sits in Freelton, roughly halfway between Cambridge and Hamilton, with access to both Highway 401 and Highway 403. That puts Cambridge, Guelph, Waterdown and Hamilton all within a 20- to 35-minute drive, which matters for buyers who still work part-time, have family in the region, or want specialist medical care in Hamilton. The setting is genuinely rural — concession roads, farmland and woodlots — so winter driving and well/septic-free municipal servicing questions belong on your due-diligence list. For buyers comparing against Hamilton's east-end bungalow neighbourhoods, the trade is straightforward: more house and more community programming for the money, in exchange for a rural address and a monthly site fee.

There is no public transit serving the community directly, and daily errands require a car. Test the drive to the places you'll actually visit — your doctor, your grocery store, your grandchildren — at the times you'll actually drive them, and drive the concession-road approaches in winter before committing. Also confirm how emergency services, home-care providers and delivery services handle the rural address — response logistics and service availability are questions worth settling before you need the answers, not after.

Antrim Glen market snapshot

Antrim Glen is a thin resale market: homes turn over one at a time, and only one recent asking price was seen in this research — $529,900 for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom bungalow at 136 Glenariff Drive. Do not read a community average into a single listing. The honest way to price an offer here is with recent comparable sales of land-lease bungalows inside the community, which your agent can pull from the MLS history. Ask your agent to pull the full MLS history for Antrim Glen rather than relying on current listings alone — in a thin market, the sold history over two to three years tells you more than any single asking price.

The structural point to remember is that land-lease pricing behaves differently from freehold. Asking prices look low next to freehold bungalows in Hamilton, but the monthly site fee is a permanent carrying cost and fee-increase history is part of the valuation. Ask the listing agent for the current fee schedule, the last three years of increases, and the remaining lease term on the specific site — those three numbers tell you more than the asking price alone. Lenders familiar with land-lease will also price the fee into their qualification math, so get pre-approved on the structure early — a pre-approval for a freehold purchase doesn't automatically transfer.

Buying in Antrim Glen: what to check

Land-lease purchases reward careful paperwork. Get the current site lease and read it with a lawyer experienced in land-lease: confirm the lease term and renewal provisions, exactly what the monthly fee covers (land rent, maintenance, taxes, water/sewer), the formula and history for increases, and the transfer process — Parkbridge communities typically require landlord approval of the buyer and a transfer or assignment fee. Confirm what happens to the home if the lease is not renewed, and get your financing pre-arranged with a lender that understands land-lease, since not every lender will touch it.

On the home itself, the usual bungalow checks apply with extra weight: manufactured and modular homes age differently from site-built, so a thorough inspection of the foundation or pier system, roof, furnace and moisture management is money well spent. Ask about pet rules, rental and subletting restrictions, and exterior-alteration approvals before you firm up — in a managed community, the deck or shed you want to add needs permission first. Finally, talk to current residents about day-to-day management responsiveness before you commit — in a community where one landlord maintains all shared infrastructure, the quality of that relationship affects your daily life as much as the home itself.

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