Homes For Sale in Stonebridge

About Stonebridge

Stonebridge is a golf-course community in Barrhaven set around Stonebridge Golf Club (~3,450 homes). 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 Stonebridge

Stonebridge is a large master-planned community in Barrhaven — about 3,450 homes built by Mattamy Homes around the Stonebridge Golf and Country Club, an 18-hole course the builder's materials describe as one of the finest in historic Barrhaven. The housing stock is the full Mattamy suburban range: townhomes, singles and executive detached homes, with the golf-course-backing lots as the premium positions. A five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom executive home at 106 Golflinks Drive — built in 2007, backing onto the course with no rear neighbours — was listed at $1,895,000; another golf-course-backing five-bedroom at 790 Kilbirnie Drive, with about 3,900 square feet finished on a 50-by-130-foot lot, was listed in the fall of 2026 after a $25,000 price reduction.

The resale market is Barrhaven's upper-middle segment with a golf premium layered on top. Course-backing lots consistently command more than interior streets — the Kilbirnie and Golflinks listings both lead with the golf-course outlook as the headline feature — and the community's scale means there's genuine market depth: enough annual sales to price from real comparables rather than anecdotes. Newer phases like the Crown of Stonebridge, marketed as the final piece of the community, added the newest product to the mix.

Ownership is conventional freehold (with condominium tenure for the townhome phases). The community's defining structural story is the golf course itself: the Stonebridge community association negotiated the purchase of the golf-course lands from Mattamy for $6 million — a City of Ottawa staff report documented the arrangement, including Mattamy's option to repurchase if the land ceases to be used as golf course or open green space. For buyers, that's actually reassuring diligence context: the community has a formal stake in the course remaining a course.

Amenities and daily life

The Stonebridge Golf and Country Club is the community's centre — an 18-hole course woven through the neighbourhood, with the clubhouse as the social hub. The Stonebridge Community Association manages local life beyond golf: organized events, summer and winter sports programs for kids, and the community programming that gives a 3,450-home development its neighbourhood feel. The Jock River and the area's walking trails and parks provide the green infrastructure.

Daily life is Barrhaven at its most complete. The Barrhaven Town Centre and the area's big-box and boutique retail cover everyday shopping minutes away; the community's own commercial edges add dining and services. Top-rated schools serve the area (confirm catchment with the boards), and the community's family orientation shows in the programming — this is a neighbourhood built for kids' sports leagues and weekend trail walks as much as for golf.

The buyer profile is established Barrhaven families buying up within the suburb: move-up buyers who want the golf-course setting without leaving the area's school and commute infrastructure. It's suburban-executive living with the course as the backyard, not a resort.

Location and the commute

Stonebridge sits in south Barrhaven, about 30 minutes from downtown Ottawa by car via the 416 and Highway 417 — the builder's own materials cite the half-hour downtown run. That's a genuine commuter distance for Ottawa: viable daily for downtown and federal-government workers, with the usual 417-at-peak caveats. Barrhaven's transit connections, including the future LRT extension corridors, serve the wider suburb.

Test the actual door-to-door commute at rush hour before you buy — the 416/417 interchange at peak is the variable. For hybrid workers, the location is straightforward; for five-days-a-week downtown commuters, it's a real but manageable run that thousands of Barrhaven residents make daily.

Stonebridge market snapshot

Stonebridge is large enough to have a real, readable market. Golf-course-backing executive homes have been listed in the $1.8Ms to $1.9Ms (106 Golflinks Drive at $1,895,000; 790 Kilbirnie Drive in the fall of 2026 after a $25,000 reduction), with interior-street detached homes below that and townhomes below that again. The course-backing premium is consistent and visible — it's the first variable in any valuation, followed by lot size and finish level.

Because the community has genuine sales depth, price from its own comparables: have your agent pull recent Stonebridge sales matched on lot position relative to the course first. Barrhaven-wide averages will underprice a course-backing executive home and overprice an interior townhome — the community's internal price logic is what matters for an offer.

Buying in Stonebridge: what to check

Start with the course-backing lot itself: walk the backyard at different times of day, note the proximity to tees, cart paths and maintenance areas, and calibrate the early-morning reality. The premium for true course frontage is real — make sure the specific lot's outlook earns it, and have your lawyer confirm the lot's boundary with the course lands on survey.

Understand the course-ownership arrangement before you buy. The community association's negotiated purchase of the golf-course lands from Mattamy — $6 million, with Mattamy holding a repurchase option if the land ceases to be golf or open green space — is a matter of public record in City of Ottawa documents. It's a stabilizing structure for the community's long-term character, but read the current status of the arrangement rather than relying on summaries: community-association minutes and the association itself are the source of truth.

Then the standard diligence: home inspection, services verification, and — for townhome phases — the condominium status certificate with fee history and reserve fund. In a community this large, the specific street's character (phase, builder, lot position) matters more than the Stonebridge name on its own.

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