Homes For Sale in The Fairways

About The Fairways

The Fairways is a golf-course community in Guelph set around Guelph 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 The Fairways

The Fairways is a small, private enclave of 38 executive residences on Fairway Lane in Guelph's Riverside Park area, built for direct access to the Guelph Country Club. The product is the bungalow condo townhome — single-level living with a finished lower level, double garages and private rear yards facing the course. It's a lock-and-leave design aimed squarely at downsizers, retirees and snowbirds who want the golf-course setting without the maintenance: exterior upkeep, landscaping, snow clearing and even the roof are handled through the condominium.

The resale market is tiny — with only 38 homes, a sale is an event. A bungalow condo townhome at 12 Fairway Lane, offering over 3,000 square feet of finished living across the main and lower levels with an updated kitchen, stone gas fireplace and main-floor primary suite, was listed at $989,000 in the fall of 2026 after being offered at $1,090,000 earlier in the year. That price movement on the same property tells you what you need to know about pricing here: aspirational asks sit, realistic ones move.

Condominium tenure is the structural fact of this community. Monthly fees were $852 at the time of the 2026 listing, covering common elements, Rogers cable and high-speed internet, all garden and exterior maintenance, windows, roof, doors, and snow clearing including the driveway. That's a comprehensive bundle — and exactly why the status certificate matters: fee history, reserve fund health, insurance and the rules on leasing, pets and exterior alterations should all be reviewed before you firm up.

Amenities and daily life

The Guelph Country Club is the community's reason for being — 38 homes with direct access to the club's golf course, a setting the marketing describes as earning the name. For residents, the lifestyle is morning coffee with the fairway as a backdrop and the course as the default recreation; the listing copy for 12 Fairway Lane paints the picture of watching the early golfers from the private outdoor space.

Beyond the course, the Riverside Park area is one of Guelph's established north-end neighbourhoods: parks, trails and the Speed River green spaces are close, and everyday shopping, restaurants and services run along the nearby commercial corridors. Guelph's downtown — with its dining, farmers' market and cultural life — is a short drive south, and the University of Guelph anchors the city's east side.

The buyer profile is specific: downsizers and retirees trading a larger Guelph home for single-level, maintenance-free living in a social, golf-adjacent setting. It's a community of peers rather than a mixed neighbourhood, and buyers should be comfortable with that — the 38-home scale means you'll know your neighbours.

Location and the commute

The Fairways sits in Guelph's Riverside Park neighbourhood in the city's north end, with the Guelph Country Club as its immediate neighbour. Highway 6 runs nearby for north-south travel, and the 401 is accessible to the south via the Hanlon Expressway — Kitchener-Waterloo is about 25 minutes east, and the western GTA is roughly 45 minutes to an hour depending on traffic.

Guelph's GO train service runs from Guelph Central station downtown, a drive from the community, with Kitchener-line service toward Toronto. For most buyers here — downsizers and retirees — the commute is a secondary consideration; the location's value is the north-Guelph residential setting with the course at the end of the street. Test any regular commute at rush hour before you buy, as the Hanlon/401 interchange is the local variable.

The Fairways market snapshot

With 38 homes, there is no statistical market here — there are individual sales. The useful data point is the trajectory of 12 Fairway Lane: listed at $1,090,000 earlier in 2026, reduced to $989,000 by the fall — a roughly 9% adjustment on the same property within months. That tells you sellers' expectations and buyers' reality are still negotiating in this segment, and that overpricing is punished even in a supply-constrained micro-market.

For valuation, the comparables are the community's own past sales plus similar bungalow condo townhomes in Guelph's north end. The condo fee ($852/month at last listing) is part of the price — buyers should compare the all-in monthly cost against detached alternatives, since the fee buys the maintenance-free lifestyle that's the whole point of the product.

Buying in The Fairways: what to check

The status certificate is everything here. With 38 homes sharing the economics of a small corporation, the reserve fund position, fee trajectory, insurance, any pending litigation or special assessments, and the building's major-component ages (roof, windows, driveways) deserve forensic attention. The $852 monthly fee covers a lot — confirm in the documents exactly what it covers and what's excluded, and read the declaration's rules on leasing, pets, exterior alterations and home-based businesses.

Then the golf-course specifics: homes here back directly onto the course, so walk the rear yard at different times of day, note the proximity to tees and cart paths, and calibrate the early-morning maintenance reality. The private outdoor space with the golf-course backdrop is the product's signature feature — make sure the specific lot's outlook is one you'll still love in year five.

Finally, think about resale. A 38-home community with a specific buyer profile (downsizers, golf-adjacent) is a narrow market — wonderful when it matches, slower when it doesn't. The price history of 12 Fairway Lane is instructive: in a micro-market, realistic pricing from day one matters more than anywhere else.

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