Selling in Kanata or Stittsville?A flat fee, not a commission.
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Kanata (about 97,900 people across its two wards) and Stittsville (about 55,700) are neighbouring suburbs at the west end of the City of Ottawa, along Highway 417 west of downtown, and Landian works across both, and in the villages of Carp and Richmond, with licensed local agents. Sellers list on the MLS with a licensed local agent for one flat fee set by the home's price, not a commission: $5,999 flat for a home around $650,000. $7,999 flat for a home around $850,000. $9,999 flat for a home around $1,200,000. The fee is shown before you meet the agent, written into your agreement, and paid only at closing. Buyers get a buyer's agent on the same schedule, based on the price of the home they buy, usually covered by the seller's contribution; anything the seller contributes above it comes back as a rebate or closing credit where allowed. Fees are in Canadian dollars.⁶
Kanata and Stittsville at a glance
The City counts Kanata-Stittsville as Ottawa’s most populous sub-area, about 149,070 people at the end of 2025, and Stittsville is its newest corner: one in three homes counted there in 2021 had been built in the five years before. About 28% of residents in each ward speak both English and French, against 36.4% citywide.
Kanata North
Ward 4, City of Ottawa
Residents
47,770
City estimate, end of 2025
Median home value*
$695,000
Homeowners
73.8%
Detached houses
44.0%
Built 2016-2021
10.2%
Speak English and French
28.5%
Kanata South
Ward 23, City of Ottawa
Residents
50,090
City estimate, end of 2025
Median home value*
$600,000
Homeowners
84.5%
Detached houses
48.7%
Built 2016-2021
6.3%
Speak English and French
27.8%
Stittsville
Ward 6, City of Ottawa
Residents
55,740
City estimate, end of 2025
Median home value*
$700,000
Homeowners
84.4%
Detached houses
66.5%
Built 2016-2021
33.8%
Speak English and French
27.6%
City of Ottawa, 2022-2026 ward boundaries. Residents are the City’s year-end 2025 estimate; the other figures are Statistics Canada 2021 Census data tabulated for the City by ward: *median value of owner-occupied homes as estimated by their owners, homeowners (share of households that own), detached houses and homes built 2016-2021 (shares of occupied homes; our calculation) and residents who can speak both official languages. Citywide, the same figures are 1,116,170 residents, $624,000, 63.9%, 41.7%, 7.7% and 36.4%. Values are from 2021; September 2026 prices are under “Why people are buying here now”.
Living in Kanata, Stittsville and the villages
A tech suburb, its fast-growing neighbour and two old villages, all part of the City of Ottawa, with Canada’s capital a short drive east.
Canadian Tire Centre, Kanata
Kanata
A 1960s plan, a tech park and the Senators
Kanata began in 1964 as developer William Teron’s planned community, was a city from 1978 until it merged into the new City of Ottawa in 2001, and became a centre of high technology during the 1970s microchip boom, when engineers from Bell-Northern Research founded firms such as Mitel (The Canadian Encyclopedia). The Kanata North Business Association now calls the park in Kanata North Canada’s largest technology park; its 2026 study covered 802 companies with 30,978 direct jobs.
North of Highway 417, Kanata North takes in South March, Kanata Lakes, Morgan’s Grant, Marchwood, Beaverbrook and Town Centre; to the south, Kanata South has Katimavik-Hazeldean, Glen Cairn, Bridlewood and Trailwest, with the Bell Sensplex, the Kanata Leisure Centre and Wave Pool and Walter Baker Park. On Kanata’s western edge, the Canadian Tire Centre has been the Ottawa Senators’ home since it opened in January 1996. In August 2025 the Senators’ development group signed to buy about 11 acres at LeBreton Flats downtown for a future arena, with zoning, design and approvals still to come (NCC).
Stittsville began as Stitt’s Corners, named for Jackson Stitt, who kept the local stopping place and became its first postmaster in 1854. After the great fire of 1870 burned the village, families rebuilt about a kilometre and a half south beside a new railway, and by 1910 as many as 16 trains a day came through. Sewer and water arrived in 1984, and the population went from about 3,000 in the mid-1970s to about 12,000 by 2000, a year before Stittsville and Goulbourn Township joined the City of Ottawa (Goulbourn Township Historical Society).
The old rail bed is now the Trans Canada Trail, which crosses Stittsville Main Street at Abbott Street beside Village Square Park and its plaque on the 1870 fire (CBC). The ward runs from Highway 417 south to Fernbank Road and takes in communities such as Deer Run, Crossing Bridge, Amberwood Village and Granite Ridge. The City’s forecast for these ward boundaries expected about 50,400 residents in 2026; its year-end 2025 estimate was already 55,740. The Goulbourn Museum, opened in 1990 by the township’s historical society, keeps the area’s story on Huntley Road.
Two fairs, a Cold War bunker and the county’s oldest village
Carp, in the city’s rural west, keeps a slower pace. The Carp Fair has run since 1863, now each September, and the Carp Farmers’ Market, started in 1990, opens Saturday mornings from May to late October. The village is also home to the Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum: a four-level, 100,000-square-foot bunker built from 1959 to 1961 to shelter 535 government and military officials, about 30 km west of downtown Ottawa.
Richmond, on the Jock River, was laid out in July 1818 for disbanded soldiers of the 99th Regiment who had fought in the War of 1812, which makes it the oldest settlement in Carleton County, and the Richmond Fair has been held on its fairgrounds since the county fair moved there in 1894 (Goulbourn Township Historical Society). The rural wards around the villages are almost all detached houses: 96.4% of homes in West Carleton-March and 92.9% in Rideau-Jock, which includes Richmond (2021 Census).
What the numbers say about demand in Ottawa’s west end.
Ottawa’s biggest suburb
The City estimates the Kanata-Stittsville sub-area had about 149,070 residents at the end of 2025, more than any other part of Ottawa, including Orléans (about 130,390).
Growth ahead of plan
The City’s forecast for its 2022-2026 wards expected about 50,400 people in Stittsville in 2026; its year-end 2025 estimate is already 55,740. A third of Stittsville’s homes in the 2021 Census (33.8%) had been built from 2016 to 2021.
Jobs next door
A 2026 economic impact study for the Kanata North Business Association covered 802 companies in the tech park, with 30,978 direct jobs, more than 63,000 jobs supported in all and $17.9 billion of economic output across Canada in 2025.
More choice this fall
The Ottawa Real Estate Board counted 2,927 new listings in September 2026, 38.1% more than in August, and 4.8 months of inventory. Homes sold for 97.5% of their listing price on average; the citywide average sale was $685,640 and the benchmark single-family home $705,100.
What homes here look like
Mostly family houses, owned by the people who live in them. Detached houses are 66.5% of occupied homes in Stittsville, 48.7% in Kanata South and 44.0% in Kanata North, against 41.7% across Ottawa, and townhouses make up much of the rest (38.2% of homes in Kanata South and 37.5% in Kanata North are row houses). About 84% of households own their home in Stittsville and Kanata South and 73.8% in Kanata North, against 63.9% citywide (2021 Census).
The 2021 Census medians were $695,000 in Kanata North, $600,000 in Kanata South and $700,000 in Stittsville, against $624,000 for the city. They cover every owner-occupied home, so a newer detached house or a large lot can sit well above them.
Kanata North
The most varied: 57.4% of homes were built from 1991 to 2010, and 10.7% are apartments in buildings of five or more storeys, more than in the other two wards. Neighbourhoods include Kanata Lakes, Morgan’s Grant, Marchwood and Beaverbrook.
Kanata South
Built mostly from 1961 to 2000 (67.5% of homes), in Katimavik-Hazeldean, Glen Cairn and Bridlewood. It has the lowest 2021 median value of the three wards, $600,000, and the highest share of semi-detached houses, 8.8%.
Stittsville
The newest: 59.8% of homes were built from 2006 to 2021, and 33.8% from 2016 to 2021 alone, mostly detached houses and townhouses in communities such as Crossing Bridge, Deer Run and Granite Ridge.
Carp and Richmond
Village streets and rural lots: about nine in ten households own in West Carleton-March and Rideau-Jock, and the 2021 medians were $695,000 and $700,000. On a rural property, ask whether it runs on a well and septic system, and for their records.
New townhouses near the Canadian Tire Centre
Schools in English and French
Ontario’s City of Ottawa Act has recognized the city’s bilingual character since 2017, and four publicly funded boards serve the area, two in each language. The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB, English public) has about 77,000 students in 148 learning sites, and the Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB, English Catholic) more than 50,000 students in 97 schools and sites. In French, the Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario (CEPEO) runs public schools and the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE) Catholic ones; the CECCE counts 62 schools.
High schools in the area include Earl of March and A.Y. Jackson (OCDSB) and All Saints and Holy Trinity (OCSB) in Kanata; Sacred Heart (OCSB) and École secondaire catholique Paul-Desmarais (CECCE) in Stittsville; the CEPEO’s kindergarten-to-Grade-12 École élémentaire et secondaire publique Maurice-Lapointe in Kanata; and South Carleton (OCDSB) in Richmond. Each board sets its own boundaries, so check a specific address with its school finder.
Highway 417, the Queensway, ties both suburbs to downtown Ottawa, about 22 km from Kanata North, and the Kanata North Business Association puts the airport about 30 minutes away by car. OC Transpo has stations at Eagleson, Terry Fox, Teron, Innovation and the Canadian Tire Centre, and Park & Ride lots at Eagleson, Terry Fox and Innovation; the Eagleson lot, at Highway 417 and Eagleson Road, has 1,109 parking spaces.
Rail is getting closer. OC Transpo lists its O-Train West extension for 2027: 15 km of new rail and 11 new stations, with Line 1 extended from Tunney’s Pasture to Algonquin and a new Line 3 running from Trim in the east to Moodie, by Highway 417 and Moodie Drive, at its western end.
OC Transpo double-decker signed for Richmond and Stittsville
The National Capital Greenbelt, 20,000 hectares of green space that the NCC mostly owns, has its biggest trail network at Stony Swamp in Ottawa’s southwest end: more than 40 km of trails through beaver ponds, wetlands and forest that the NCC calls the most ecologically diverse protected area in the Ottawa Valley, with a pathway that connects to the Trans Canada Trail and the Rideau Trail.
Closer to home, the Kanata North Business Association lists the South March Highlands Conservation Forest and Monk Woods for walking and biking, and golf at the 27-hole, links-style Marshes, Kanata Lakes and Loch March. In Stittsville, the Trans Canada Trail follows the old rail bed through the village. In the rural west, West Carleton-March takes in the Carp Hills, rocky ridges and marshes along the Carp River that Capital Current describes as Ottawa’s second-largest natural area.
Buying in Ontario: tax, new homes and flood maps
Ontario charges land transfer tax on every purchase: 0.5% on the first $55,000, 1.0% up to $250,000, 1.5% up to $400,000 and 2.0% above that, plus 2.5% above $2 million where the land holds one or two single-family homes. On an $850,000 house that comes to $13,475. First-time buyers may qualify for a refund of up to $4,000.
On a newer home, ask for the original date of possession: Tarion’s one- and two-year warranty coverage runs from that date even if the home has since been sold, and its seven-year coverage for major structural defects ends on the seventh anniversary of it.
The upper watershed of the Carp River is in Kanata. The Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority has redone its Carp River floodplain mapping to replace maps from 1983, citing development in the upper watershed and floods in 1998, 1999, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2017 and 2019. Check a property near the river or its tributaries before you buy or list.
Three example prices in Kanata and Stittsville, from a townhouse to a large detached home, and the listing side at each against a traditional 2.5%. One flat fee instead of a percentage: $5,999 flat for a home around $650,000. $7,999 flat for a home around $850,000. $9,999 flat for a home around $1,200,000.⁶
On a home around $650,000
Traditional listing side (2.5%)$16,250
1% service (about $3,000 minimum)$6,500
Landian flat fee$5,999
$10,251⁵⁶
more in your pocket than a traditional listing
On a home around $850,000
Traditional listing side (2.5%)$21,250
1% service (about $3,000 minimum)$8,500
Landian flat fee$7,999
$13,251⁵⁶
more in your pocket than a traditional listing
On a home around $1,200,000
Traditional listing side (2.5%)$30,000
1% service (about $3,000 minimum)$12,000
Landian flat fee$9,999
$20,001⁵⁶
more in your pocket than a traditional listing
Landian flat fee⁶1% of the price$7,999 flat for a home around $850,000. That’s 0.94%, and it never becomes a percentage.
Under $500,000, the fee you see is final. From $500,000, an agent may propose a different fee before you choose them, with a reason and always under 1% of your expected price. You can say no and wait for an agent who accepts.
The same three steps as everywhere on Landian, with licensed agents who work Kanata, Stittsville, Carp and Richmond.
1
Book online
Enter your address and expected price. Your flat fee shows right away; pick a consultation time.
2
Compare agents
Licensed local agents who accept your fee answer. You compare their cards (rating, experience, response time) and choose.
3
Meet and list
Meet your agent, then decide. Nothing is exclusive until your home is listed, and you can cancel from your dashboard.
Carp Ridge
Moving to Kanata and Stittsville?
Moving for a job in the tech park, the schools or the trails? Tell us which neighbourhoods you are watching and you are matched with a licensed buyer’s agent who works Ottawa’s west end. Budget for Ontario’s land transfer tax, about $13,475 on an $850,000 house, alongside your down payment.
A licensed buyer's agent for a flat fee from the same schedule, based on the price of the home you buy. The fee is usually covered by the seller's contribution, and anything the seller contributes above it comes back to you as a rebate or closing-cost credit where allowed.¹
How much does it cost to sell a house in Kanata or Stittsville with Landian?
One flat fee set by your home's price, in Canadian dollars, not a percentage: $5,999 flat for a home around $650,000. $7,999 flat for a home around $850,000. $9,999 flat for a home around $1,200,000. It is shown before you meet your agent, written into your agreement, and paid from your proceeds at closing. Nothing upfront.
Is the fee the same in Kanata, Stittsville, Carp and Richmond?
Yes. The schedule is set by the home's price, not by the town, so a home at the same price pays the same flat fee anywhere in Ontario. Under $500,000, the fee you see is final. From $500,000, an agent may propose a different fee before you choose them, with a reason and always under 1% of your expected price. You can say no and wait for an agent who accepts.
Does Landian have agents in Kanata and Stittsville?
Yes. Landian has an Ottawa office page and matches you with licensed local agents within about 120 km of your home, so Kanata, Stittsville, Carp and Richmond are covered. Agents who accept your fee answer, and you compare them before anyone calls.
Are Kanata and Stittsville part of Ottawa?
Yes. Kanata was a city of its own from 1978 until it merged into the new City of Ottawa in 2001, the same year Stittsville and Goulbourn Township joined. Today they are three City of Ottawa wards: Kanata North, Kanata South and Stittsville.
Will the O-Train reach Kanata?
Not yet. OC Transpo lists its O-Train West extension for 2027, with Line 1 to Algonquin and a new Line 3 from Trim to Moodie, by Highway 417 and Moodie Drive. Kanata has OC Transpo stations and Park & Ride lots at Eagleson, Terry Fox and Innovation.
Can my children go to school in French?
Yes. Two French-language boards serve the area: the CEPEO (public), with École élémentaire et secondaire publique Maurice-Lapointe in Kanata for kindergarten to Grade 12, and the CECCE (Catholic), with École secondaire catholique Paul-Desmarais in Stittsville. Ask the board about admission. About 7% of residents in each ward have French as their mother tongue, against 13.9% across Ottawa (2021 Census).
Are the Senators leaving the Canadian Tire Centre?
No date is set. In August 2025 the NCC and the Senators’ development group signed an agreement for about 11 acres at LeBreton Flats for a future arena and events centre; zoning, design, approvals and decontamination of the land come next. The Canadian Tire Centre has been the team’s home since January 1996.
How much is land transfer tax on a home here?
Ontario sets it in brackets from 0.5% to 2.0%, plus 2.5% above $2 million for a property with one or two single-family homes, so it is about $13,475 on an $850,000 house. First-time buyers may qualify for a refund of up to $4,000 (Ontario Ministry of Finance).
How does buying a home in Kanata or Stittsville work with Landian?
You get a licensed buyer's agent for a flat fee from the same schedule, based on the price of the home you buy. The fee is usually covered by the seller's contribution, and anything the seller contributes above it comes back to you as a rebate or closing-cost credit where allowed.
Your west Ottawa home. One flat fee.
Set before you meet your agent. Non-exclusive. Cancel anytime. Paid only at closing.
⁶Flat listing fee by expected price: $5,999 from $600K; $6,999 from $700K; $7,999 from $800K; $8,999 from $900K; $9,999 from $1M; $11,999 from $1.25M; $14,999 from $1.5M; $19,999 from $2M; lower below $600K. Based on the higher of the price you enter and a third-party estimate of your home’s value, and written into your Client Agreement before you meet an agent. If your listing price falls in a higher step, the fee follows the schedule; it never rises after your home is listed. Under $500K the fee you see is final; from $500K an agent may propose a different amount before you choose them, always under 1% of your expected price. Payable only at closing. Buyer-side fees use the same steps on the price of the home you buy and are usually covered by the seller’s contribution.
⁵Seller savings are estimated against a 2.5% listing-side commission on the final sale price. Commissions are not set by law and are negotiable, so actual savings vary by market, agent and property. The fee shown is the flat listing-side fee for the home’s price, set on Landian before the seller met the agent.
¹Rebates available where jurisdictional laws permit. Excludes AL, AK, KS, LA, MS, MO, OK, OR, TN. Seller credits may be requested as an alternative to rebates in restricted jurisdictions.
