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Glenmore: the valley floor, and the market’s own median

Glenmore is the valley that runs north from downtown Kelowna between Dilworth Mountain and the Knox Mountain hills, along Glenmore Road and Glenmore Drive. It has the city’s oldest golf club, its biggest natural park, its most sought-after French immersion elementary, and a housing stock that runs from 1970s ranchers to townhomes finished last year. It also sells, almost exactly, at the regional median. Here’s what ten years of data say, and what I’d tell you at the table.

Glenmore by the numbers

Every figure below is a median of single family detached sales recorded on the Interior REALTORS® MLS® for the Glenmore sub-area, as of September 2026, covering sales through July. They describe the market, not any one house.

Glenmore is the closest thing on this site to the Central Okanagan itself. Its median has sat within a few percent of the regional median in every one of the ten years, above it in most, and a touch below in the first seven months of 2026. Over the decade it gained 64% against the region’s 72%, which is the cost of being a mature neighbourhood: it did not have Black Mountain’s new streets or Wilden’s ridge to re-rate on. What it had was volume. More than 1,500 detached sales in ten years and 125 in 2025 make this one of the most reliable medians in the city.

The 2026 number is worth a caution. Sixty-nine sales in seven months at $932,000 is a real dip from a million in 2025. Some of that is the market, which has been soft across the valley this year. Some of it is which houses sold: a thin year for the estate homes on the golf course flattens the median without a single house losing value. Watch the full year before you decide what it means.

Where it is and what it is

The valley floor between downtown and the north end, with Dilworth Mountain to the east and Knox Mountain and the Glenmore Highlands to the west and north. Glenmore Road is the four-lane spine and runs all the way north to Lake Country; Glenmore Drive, Enterprise Way and Dilworth Drive cross-connect to the rest of the city. Downtown is roughly ten minutes, UBC Okanagan about the same up Glenmore Road and John Hindle Drive.

The anchors are old and new at once. The Kelowna Golf and Country Club has been on Glenmore Drive since 1920, the oldest course in the city and the neighbourhood’s green centre. Knox Mountain Park, 385 hectares and about 20 kilometres of trail, is the biggest natural park in Kelowna and the Glenmore Ridge on its east side is the way residents walk in. Brandt’s Creek Linear Park threads 4.3 kilometres of greenway through the middle of the neighbourhood. At the south end, the Parkinson Recreation Centre is being rebuilt as a $242 million facility due at the end of 2027, and the Apple Bowl beside it hosted BC Lions football this summer.

Brandt’s Creek Crossing, at Kane Road and Drysdale Boulevard, is the neighbourhood’s shopping node, a former rail yard rebuilt as homes, townhomes and stores with the Save-On-Foods on Kane Road as its grocery. Buses run the Glenmore Road corridor to downtown and Orchard Park.

What the homes are like

Old Glenmore, closest to downtown, carries the neighbourhood’s original stock: 1970s through 1990s ranchers and split-levels on flat, generous lots, many of them renovated, some waiting for it. North of that the subdivisions get younger, and the infill has arrived everywhere: townhome rows, small condo buildings and the odd retirement complex on the arterials, executive homes in the newer pockets. Around the edges are the orchards. Glenmore still has working farmland in the Agricultural Land Reserve, and an acreage on Sexsmith Road is a different purchase from a lot on Glenmore Drive.

Two things follow from the age of the core. A large share of Old Glenmore was built inside the Poly-B plumbing years, roughly 1978 to 1995, and insurers now act on it. Here is what that means for your offer and your coverage. And a flat 1980s lot in Glenmore is one of the few places in Kelowna where a suite, a carriage house or a full rebuild pencils without a hillside engineering bill. That is why the infill is here.

The school everyone asks about

École Glenmore Elementary is the reason a lot of families search this neighbourhood by name. It runs English and French immersion under one roof, about 650 students in 29 classes, and roughly two-thirds of them are in the immersion program. It feeds École Dr. Knox Middle and then École Kelowna Secondary, both dual-track. Kelowna Secondary has been running well over capacity, which is why there is steady talk of a new high school for the north end. If the immersion program is why you’re here, confirm the catchment street by street on the school district’s map before you write, because the boundary is not the same as the neighbourhood’s.

Buying here: what I’d tell you at the table

Selling in Glenmore

Your buyer is often a family who has already decided on the school, or a household trading up from a condo to a first house with a yard. Both are comparing you to a deep pool of similar homes, because Glenmore sells more than a hundred detached homes in a normal year. That cuts two ways. The comparables are fresh and honest, and a price that argues with them sits.

Show the lot and the updates. On a 1980s house the buyer’s first question is what has been replaced, so document the roof, the furnace, the plumbing and the panel before the photographer arrives. Six years as a journeyman HVAC technician means I read the mechanical room before the listing goes up, and we disclose or fix before the inspector finds it. Scott and Ally sold a 5,300 square foot Glenmore home with me in a market that wasn’t cooperating; their story is on the reviews page. How I price and market a listing applies here in full.

Questions people ask about Glenmore

Where is Glenmore in Kelowna?

The valley north of downtown between Dilworth Mountain and Knox Mountain, along Glenmore Road and Glenmore Drive, running from the Parkinson Recreation Centre area north toward the Glenmore Highlands and Lake Country.

Is Glenmore a good place to live?

If you want to be ten minutes from downtown with a golf course, a mountain park and a greenway inside the neighbourhood, and a school that draws families from across the city, it does that as well as anywhere in Kelowna. The trade is age: much of the core needs the updating that a 1980s house needs.

What is the difference between Glenmore and North Glenmore?

Elevation and era. Glenmore is the valley floor and the older core. North Glenmore is the band of 1990s and 2000s streets climbing toward the Wilden ridge, and it sells below the region where Glenmore sells at it.

Which schools serve Glenmore?

École Glenmore Elementary, with English and French immersion, then École Dr. Knox Middle and École Kelowna Secondary. Catchments are drawn by street and do not match the neighbourhood boundary, so confirm the exact address on the school district’s map.

What is my Glenmore home worth?

Closer to the median than in most of Kelowna, because Glenmore sells enough homes to make the median mean something. Your lot, your updates and whether you are in the immersion catchment move you from there. Send me the address and I’ll tell you what I’d list it at, and why.

Which REALTOR® should I call about Glenmore?

I’m Braden Koop, a REALTOR® with RE/MAX Kelowna (licence 191956). Glenmore is one of the thirteen areas I track every month, and because it sells so close to the regional median, the work is in the house rather than the neighbourhood: the plumbing era, the lot, the infill rights. That’s the read I’ll give you. Call or text 250-801-8725, or send the address through the contact page.

Go deeper

Every area I work is on the neighbourhoods map, with these figures side by side.

Market figures on this page are medians of single family detached sales recorded on the Interior REALTORS® MLS® for the Glenmore sub-area and the Central Okanagan, pulled September 2026 and covering January through July 2026 for the current year. They describe the market, not any one home. Neighbourhood facts were drawn from the City of Kelowna, School District 23, the Kelowna Golf and Country Club and news reporting and were current as of September 2026. Braden Koop Personal Real Estate Corporation operates under RE/MAX Kelowna. Each RE/MAX office is independently owned and operated.