Homes For Sale in Friday Harbour

About Friday Harbour

Friday Harbour is Ontario's most ambitious resort community: a full marina village on Lake Simcoe with a boardwalk, shops and restaurants, surrounded by waterfront condos, townhomes and detached homes. The Nest golf course — a short-course design — is part of the property.

It's about an hour north of Toronto, which makes it work as both a cottage alternative and a full-time address. Every listing below sits inside the community boundary shown on the map.

The homes of Friday Harbour

Friday Harbour is not a town with a resort attached — it is a purpose-built four-season resort community on the shores of Lake Simcoe at Big Bay Point in Innisfil, and its housing stock reads like a resort's room directory. The backbone is condominium apartments in buildings like Sunseeker, designed by Pemberton: one-bedroom units of roughly 600 to 700 square feet, two-bedrooms in the 800 to 900 square foot range, and larger ground-floor residences with three bedrooms, many with west-facing exposures over the water and green space. Alongside them sit marina townhomes on streets like Riva Avenue, many with private docks and boat slips, aimed squarely at buyers who want their boat at the door. The zoning underneath it all is Resort Residential — this was planned as a resort first and a neighbourhood second, and the housing reflects that priority in every detail.

Recent asking prices sketch the ladder clearly. One-bedroom condos have been listed from the mid-$300,000s (a unit on Sea Ray Avenue was offered at $349,900; a one-bedroom in the Sunseeker building at $423,990) through the low $500,000s; two-bedrooms run roughly $425,000 to $599,000 — a corner suite on Sea Ray Avenue was listed at $425,000 after a $25,000 price reduction in October 2026; and three-bedroom ground-floor residences approach $779,000. Marina townhomes with private docks start around $1.29 million — a waterfront end unit on Riva Avenue with its own dock — and climb to $1.9 million for rarely offered four-bedroom townhomes. Year-round living is the norm here, not the exception: many owners live full-time, and the community's restaurants, Lake Club pools, fitness centre and boardwalk stay open through winter.

One structural detail matters more here than in any ordinary condo: the fee stack. A typical two-bedroom carries monthly maintenance around $622 (the Sunseeker corporation, managed by FirstService, is one of several on site), plus club fees of roughly $230 a month, plus an annual resort fee near $1,880 — and buyers pay a one-time resort fee of about 2% of the purchase price on top, so a $425,000 purchase starts with roughly $8,500 in resort fees at closing. Before you firm up, have your lawyer review the condo documents for the fee history and trajectory, the reserve fund position, the rental and Airbnb rules (the resort's active short-term rental program underpins many purchases), and the parking and boat-slip arrangements — slips are not automatically bundled with every unit, and the slip question changes both lifestyle and value.

Waterfront realities

Waterfront at Friday Harbour is managed waterfront, not wild shoreline. The marina village, breakwaters, docks and boardwalk are resort infrastructure, maintained by the community — you are not individually responsible for a natural shoreline the way a cottage owner on a Shield lake would be, and you don't face the shoreline-allowance, setback and conservation-authority questions that dominate rural waterfront purchases. That is part of what the fees buy: the marina just works, the boardwalk is maintained, and the breakwaters are someone else's engineering problem. But it also means your lawyer should confirm exactly which parts of the waterfront your unit's corporation is responsible for, and what happens to your fees if major marina or shoreline infrastructure needs replacement — shared infrastructure means shared capital risk.

Buying here is closer to buying into a private club than buying a lake house. Short-term rentals are woven into the community's design — many units are purchased explicitly for the resort's rental program, and the community's economics assume a mix of full-time residents, weekenders and rental guests. Confirm the current rental rules, minimum stays and any caps in writing before underwriting rental income, because rental policies can change with the corporation's board. Services are municipal (town water and sewer, natural gas), so the well-and-septic diligence of rural cottage country doesn't apply; the equivalent diligence is reading the status certificate the way you would for any high-amenity condo — fee history, reserve fund, insurance, pending litigation, and the rules on rentals, pets and alterations.

Seasonality runs the other way here than on most lakes: winter is a selling point, not a shutdown. The Nest golf course anchors the summer season, but the resort's winter programming, the Lake Club's indoor pools and spaces, and plowed private roads make this genuinely year-round — many owners live here full-time by choice. If you plan to use the property only in summer, ask the property manager about winterization, parcel handling and unit checks during the months you're away; resort management usually offers concierge-style services for absent owners, but they're services to arrange and pay for, not assumptions to rely on.

The town and getting there

Friday Harbour sits on Big Bay Point in Innisfil, roughly midway between Barrie and the GTA's northern edge, with Highway 400 the main artery — it's an easy drive of roughly an hour from Toronto, so check your own door-to-door drive time at your usual travel hours. What distinguishes it from other cottage lakes is that you barely need a car once you're here: the village core has boutique shops, diverse dining options, a fitness centre, the Lake Club's pools, sauna and games rooms, and wellness facilities, and the marina puts Lake Simcoe at your stern for summer boating. For bigger shopping runs — Costco-scale provisioning, major retail — Barrie is about 15 to 20 minutes north, close enough for a routine errand.

The community's social rhythm follows the resort calendar — marina season, golf season at The Nest, summer boardwalk evenings, winter programming — which suits buyers who want an active, amenity-rich second home or a full-time home with a permanent holiday feel. If your idea of lake life is solitude on a quiet bay with loons for neighbours, this is the wrong address; if it's dinner on a patio after a day on the boat, followed by a walk on the boardwalk, it's exactly the right one. Buy the lifestyle honestly, because the fees mean you're paying for it whether you use it or not.

Friday Harbour market snapshot

Friday Harbour is a thin, event-driven market rather than a deep one. Current asking prices tell the story by building and type: entry-level one-bedrooms in the mid-$300,000s, two-bedrooms in the mid-$400,000s to high-$500,000s, and marina townhomes from the high $1.2Ms to $1.9 million. No community-wide sold medians are published in the material reviewed for this entry — pull recent comparable sales for the specific building and unit type before offering, because a Sea Ray condo and a Riva townhome are effectively different markets, and even within the condo tier, exposures, floors and slip rights move prices.

Read the fee stack into every price comparison before you fall in love with a sticker price. A $425,000 two-bedroom with roughly $850 a month in combined maintenance and club fees plus a $1,880 annual resort fee carries a very different monthly cost than the sticker suggests — annualize the full fee load before comparing Friday Harbour to a freehold cottage elsewhere on Lake Simcoe, where the carrying costs are taxes, insurance and your own maintenance. Well-priced units with boat slips move; overpriced units in a rising-fee environment sit, like everywhere else in the condo world. The investment case here is lifestyle plus rental-program income, not land appreciation — underwrite it that way.

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