Homes For Sale in eQuinelle

About eQuinelle

eQuinelle is a golf-course community in Kemptville set around eQuinelle Golf Club (18-hole). 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 eQuinelle

eQuinelle is a master-planned golf-course community in Kemptville by eQ Homes (part of Ottawa's Regional Group of Companies), building family-oriented housing around the eQuinelle Golf Club since 2007, with new phases actively selling — project data showed townhomes and singles from $511,900 to $1,158,924, ranging 1,282 to 3,519 square feet. The product mix is broad: bungalow towns, two-storey towns, bungalow singles, two-storey singles and bungalow semis, with named models like the Willow (a 2,079-square-foot bungalow on a 50-foot lot), the Hamilton (a 1,817-square-foot two-storey single) and the Sawgrass bungalow (about 2,226 square feet finished).

Resale listings show the community's range. A Dumont-model two-bedroom home at 221 Blackhorse Drive was marketed with vaulted ceilings, quartz counters, automated lighting and blinds, and a backyard with a heated saltwater plunge pool; a Sawgrass-model bungalow at 537 Swinley Crescent offered the main-floor primary suite, front den and finished lower level that define the downsizer-friendly product; and a Santa Ana II bungalow at 112 Equinelle Drive sat directly along the first fairway with fairway views from the primary suite. Nine-foot ceilings are standard across the builder's product.

Ownership is generally freehold, and the community is still building out — which means resale buyers purchase into a maturing neighbourhood with ongoing construction nearby. The golf course is the setting rather than a bundled amenity: confirm what's included in any community fee separately, and for townhome phases, apply the standard condominium diligence (status certificate, reserve fund, rules).

Amenities and daily life

The eQuinelle Golf Club is the community's centrepiece — an 18-hole public course the builder's materials describe as among the Ottawa area's most awarded public courses, with the community's marketing citing best-public-course honours from the local golf community. Beyond the course, the 20,000-square-foot Residents Club is the social hub: swimming pool, gymnasium, yoga studio, billiards room, library, cards room and arts-and-crafts room, with year-round programming that gives the community its four-season character.

Daily life is pure Kemptville convenience. The community sits about six minutes from the town's full retail strip — Walmart, Canadian Tire, LCBO, grocery, dining and services — and the area's hiking trails, the Rideau River and Rideau River Provincial Park (about two minutes away) provide the outdoor recreation. Kemptville itself is a growing town with its own schools, hospital and community services; it's a complete small town, not a bedroom outpost.

The buyer profile mixes young families buying new construction, downsizers taking the bungalow product, and Ottawa commuters trading city prices for space. It's a family-oriented, activity-programmed community — the Residents Club calendar and the trail network are the social infrastructure.

Location and the commute

eQuinelle sits in Kemptville (North Grenville), about 40 minutes south of downtown Ottawa via Highway 416 — the community's marketing emphasizes the quick 416 access. That's a genuine commuter distance for Ottawa: viable for hybrid schedules and for workers in Barrhaven and south Ottawa, longer for daily downtown commuters. OC Transpo's rural service is limited, so this is overwhelmingly a driving commute.

Test the actual door-to-door trip at rush hour before you buy — the 416 northbound at peak is the variable. For retirees and remote workers, the location's logic is simpler: small-town completeness with Ottawa accessible when you want it, and the golf course at the end of the street.

eQuinelle market snapshot

The community has two parallel markets: new construction from eQ Homes ($511,900 to $1,158,924 at last project reporting, with quick move-in homes available) and a growing resale market as the 2007-plus phases mature. New-build pricing sets the reference point for resales — resale sellers compete directly with the builder's current releases and incentives, so realistic resale pricing tracks the builder's sheet closely.

For valuation, compare within the product type: bungalow singles against bungalow singles, towns against towns. The fairway-fronting premium exists here as in every golf community — the Santa Ana II on the first fairway is a different product from an interior-lot equivalent — but the dominant pricing variable is simply new versus resale and product type.

Buying in eQuinelle: what to check

For new construction, the standard builder diligence applies: Tarion warranty coverage, the exact specifications and upgrade allowances in your contract, closing timelines, and what's happening with the phases around your lot — you're buying into a community that's still building, so understand the construction horizon for the adjacent streets. Get every sales-centre assurance in writing.

For resales, the usual home-inspection and title review, plus attention to the community-specific items: any community fee structures and what they cover, the Residents Club's access terms, and — for townhome phases — the condominium status certificate with fee history and reserve fund. If the golf course matters to you, confirm current public-play access and any resident arrangements directly rather than assuming.

Finally, price the growth honestly. Kemptville is growing, which supports long-term values, but it also means the quiet rural edges of the community will continue to develop. Check the municipality's plans for the surrounding lands so the setting you buy is the setting you'll keep.

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