Homes For Sale in Corunna

About Corunna

Corunna is a waterfront community in St. Clair Twp. The local market mixes year-round homes with seasonal cottages and condos near the water.

Waterfront inventory moves with the seasons. Every listing below sits inside the community boundary shown on the map.

The homes of Corunna

Corunna is a St. Clair River town in St. Clair Township — a community built around Chemical Valley employment rather than tourism, which shows in both the housing stock and the prices. The homes are practical southwestern Ontario stock: 1960s-to-1980s bungalows and four-levels, two-storeys from the 1970s onward, and newer infill, on generous lots by GTA standards. This is workforce housing in the best sense — solid, affordable, and close to the paycheques.

Pricing is the story. Listings seen in 2026 included a 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom 1972 four-level at 304 Brentwood Crescent at $439,900 — four bedrooms under $450,000, twenty minutes from Sarnia's waterfront. Local market descriptions put single-family homes broadly in a $200,000-to-$1-million range depending on river proximity and condition, with the river-view tier at the top. For industrial and trades families, the math is the appeal: homeownership at prices the GTA left behind a generation ago.

The river is the premium divider. Homes with St. Clair River frontage or views — where the thousand-foot freighters pass — command multiples of the in-town bungalow price. But most of Corunna is comfortably interior: quiet streets, the athletic park, and a community that works in the plants and lives for the river in the off hours. The freighter views are the free amenity — thousand-foot ships passing close enough to read the name on the hull. River-view lots price that spectacle in; interior streets price the quiet.

Waterfront realities

The St. Clair River is a working international shipping channel, and buying near it means buying the working river: freighter traffic, industrial shoreline in stretches, and floodplain mapping that deserves respect. Confirm floodplain status with the St. Clair Region Conservation Authority on any near-river property, review the lot's grading and drainage history, and get an insurance quote before conditions lift.

Shoreline road allowances apply along the river — have your lawyer confirm where the surveyed lot ends and the water begins, and verify permissions for any dock, deck or shoreline structure. Older riverfront homes may carry legacy structures built under earlier rules; confirm what's permitted versus what's grandfathered. The river's industrial history means diligent buyers check the lot's environmental history through the township and the conservation authority — standard practice on a working-river shoreline, and worth the records request.

Services are municipal through the township systems in the built-up areas; rural township pockets can be on well and septic — verify in writing for the specific address. Note the township's own recreation reality: there are no public beaches in St. Clair Township itself (boat ramps and docks serve the river), with Lake Huron beaches a 15-to-45-minute drive away. Buy the river for the river — the beach day is a drive. Short-term rental rules are township-set; confirm before buying with rental income in your plans.

The town and getting there

Corunna's identity is the river and the plants. St. Clair Township positions itself as Chemical Valley's home community — the refineries and petrochemical plants are the employment base, and Corunna's streets are where much of that workforce lives. The St. Clair River Trail and the athletic park handle recreation; the river itself, with its constant freighter parade, is the town's defining visual.

Sarnia is a short drive north for full city services — hospital, college, shopping, the Blue Water Bridge. The 402 connects to the 401 at London for the Toronto run (roughly two and a half to three hours). This is not a commuter market for the GTA; it's a live-here-work-here community with deep local roots. The township's river trail and the athletic park handle daily recreation; the St. Clair itself handles the spectacle. It's a community oriented to the water it works beside.

The surrounding township communities — Mooretown, Port Lambton, Courtright — share the river-town character at varying removes from the industrial core. Buyers choosing between them are really choosing their distance from the plants versus their distance from the river views; drive all four before deciding which trade you prefer. Each has its own relationship to the plants and the river — Port Lambton and Mooretown lean more residential-river, Courtright sits closer to the industrial core. The differences are visible from the car window; drive them all.

Corunna market snapshot

An affordable workforce-housing market priced on river proximity. Recent asking prices seen in 2026 included a 4-bedroom four-level at $439,900 — representative of the in-town tier — with local descriptions ranging single-family homes from the $200,000s to $1 million at the riverfront top. The broader Sarnia-Lambton market's softness (September 2026 sales down 11.7%, benchmark down 3.4%) extends here: buyers negotiate.

The market's logic is simple: Chemical Valley paycheques support steady local demand, but the buyer pool is local and finite, which keeps prices honest. Riverfront and river-view properties are the thin, premium sub-market — few trade, and each one is priced on its specific frontage and view. In-town bungalows and four-levels are the volume market, and condition decides outcomes. Days on market run longer than the Sarnia average — the buyer pool is local and deliberate. Sellers who price to the street's recent sales move; the rest accumulate market time that becomes the buyer's negotiating evidence.

For buyers, Corunna is straightforward value: four-bedroom homes under $450,000 within a short drive of Sarnia's services and waterfront. Pull comparables matched on river proximity — a river-view lot and an interior street are different markets — and price the industrial adjacency honestly. The plants are the reason the prices are what they are; they're also the reason the paycheques are.

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