Homes For Sale in Emerald Links / Emerald Creek Estates

About Emerald Links / Emerald Creek Estates

Emerald Links / Emerald Creek Estates is a golf-course community in Greely set around Emerald Links Golf & Country Club. Homes here are typically detached houses and townhomes, many with fairway frontage.

Golf-course buyers are buying a lifestyle: morning tee times, generous lots, and a built-in view. Every listing below sits inside the community boundary shown on the map.

The homes of Emerald Links and Emerald Creek Estates

Emerald Links and the Emerald Creek Estates area form Greely's golf-country address — not a single master-planned subdivision but the estate streets and acreage properties wrapped around the Emerald Links Golf & Country Club in Ottawa's rural south. The stock is custom and semi-custom detached homes on large lots: two-storey brick-and-stone designs of 2,500 to 4,500-plus square feet, many backing onto the course or onto the area's wooded acreage, with the three-car garages, finished basements and outdoor living spaces the rural-Ottawa luxury buyer expects.

Asking prices on 2026 listings show Greely's wide band. A 2,970-square-foot detached home on a 0.94-acre lot at 225 Summerview Terrace — in the Emerald Links orbit — was listed at $1,995,000 in October 2026. Elsewhere in Greely, a detached home at 6936 Mary Anne Drive was offered at $1,299,000 and a bungalow at 1919 Stagecoach Road at $699,900. The pattern: true course-adjacent estates price toward $2M, while the broader Greely market runs from the high-$600Ks for bungalows to the mid-$1Ms for executive detached — the golf setting commands the top of the local band, not a separate market.

The golf connection runs through the Patterson family, who have operated Emerald Links since it opened as an 18-hole course in 1990 (a third nine followed in 2002, making it 27 holes) alongside their sister properties Anderson Links and Cloverdale Links. It is a semi-private club — public play welcome, memberships available — which keeps the course accessible without the private-club economics. For buyers, the honest read: you're buying a golf-view estate lifestyle in rural Ottawa, not a bundled club membership.

Amenities and daily life

Emerald Links itself is the amenity: 27 holes of parkland golf (course directories credit architect Graham Cooke with the design) at 6357 Emerald Links Drive, with a clubhouse, restaurant, pro shop and event facilities that serve as the area's de facto social hub. The Patterson family's three-course operation means reciprocal play options across their Ottawa-area properties — a genuine perk for the golf-obsessed buyer.

Greely is rural Ottawa with suburban services: the Greely Village core has groceries, pharmacy and local restaurants, with big-box retail at South Keys and Barrhaven about 15 to 20 minutes north. The area's character is acreage living — hobby farms, estate lots, the Greely outdoor rinks and community events in winter. Schools are Ottawa-Carleton District and Ottawa Catholic board schools serving the rural south. Daily life is quiet, spacious and car-dependent by design.

Location and the commute

Emerald Links sits in Greely, about 25 minutes south of downtown Ottawa off-peak via Bank Street, Albion Road or Highway 417 connections. The commute to downtown is roughly 30 to 45 minutes off-peak, longer at rush hour; to Kanata's tech employment corridor, about 35 to 50 minutes across the city. For public servants and tech workers, the honest math is that Greely is a lifestyle choice — the commute is the price of the acreage.

The location's strength is the rural-urban balance: 25 minutes to Parliament Hill, five minutes to countryside. Test the Bank Street and Albion Road corridors at rush hour — they're the two-lane reality behind the listing's 'minutes to downtown' — and confirm OC Transpo's rural service level for any address if transit matters to the household.

Emerald Links / Emerald Creek Estates market snapshot

No published market-data source for these streets was seen this session, so the snapshot is built from October 2026 asking prices: course-orbit estates near $2M (225 Summerview Terrace at $1,995,000 on 0.94 acres), executive detached from about $1.3M (6936 Mary Anne Drive), and bungalows from the high-$600Ks (1919 Stagecoach Road at $699,900). The golf-adjacent premium is visible but modest — Greely's market is driven by Ottawa's outer-suburban fundamentals, not by the course alone.

The buyer guidance: price against Greely and rural-south Ottawa comparables, not against Ottawa's inner golf communities. The estate buyer here gets acreage, privacy and a golf setting at roughly half the price of equivalent product inside the Greenbelt — but resale is thinner, marketing times longer, and values tied to Ottawa's employment cycle. Pull sold comparables from the Emerald Links orbit and Greely over the last 12 months, and segment by lot size: the acreage is half the value.

Buying in Emerald Links / Emerald Creek Estates: what to check

First, diligence the rural servicing. Many Greely properties run on wells and septic systems — get specialist inspections (well flow and water quality, septic capacity and condition), confirm the systems' age and replacement cost, and price accordingly. A failed septic field on an acreage property is a five-figure event; verify before you offer.

Second, verify the course relationship from the survey. Confirm lot lines against the Emerald Links lands, check for maintenance or drainage easements, and understand that a semi-private club can reconfigure holes, expand facilities or adjust maintenance schedules. Visit at dawn in season for the maintenance reality, and position the lot relative to tees and landing zones.

Third, think about the long hold. Rural-estate markets are thinner and more cyclical than urban ones — buy the property you'd be happy holding for a decade, keep improvements broadly appealing, and make sure the commute, the well, the septic and the 25-minute drive to everything are a lifestyle you've chosen, not one you've settled for.

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