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North Glenmore: the value entry to the Glenmore hills, and Kelowna’s next frontier

North Glenmore is the band of streets between the Glenmore valley floor and the Wilden ridge: Magic Estates, the Yates Road and Valley Road neighbourhoods, and the newer townhome rows going in along Valley Road. It sells for less than the hill above it and less than the region, it has UBC Okanagan and the airport a few minutes away by John Hindle Drive, and the City has just designated the land north of it as Kelowna’s growth frontier for the next fifty years. Here’s the sales record, and what I’d tell you at the table.

North Glenmore by the numbers

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

North Glenmore has sold at a discount to the Central Okanagan for the whole decade, about 8% below in 2016 and about 13% below in the first seven months of 2026, and it gained 63% over ten years against the region’s 72%. Read that beside Wilden, directly up the hill, which sits 61% above the same regional median, and you have the whole story of this neighbourhood in two numbers. Same hills, same schools, same drive to UBC Okanagan, and the price of a house here buys roughly half of one up there.

That gap is the reason to look at North Glenmore. It is also why the buyer pool is competitive: this is where Kelowna households who want the north end and can’t or won’t pay Wilden money end up. Eighty detached sales in 2025 and 53 in the first seven months of 2026 make the median reasonably honest, though a few view lots in Magic Estates can still tilt a quarter.

Where it is and what it is

North Glenmore sits at the north end of the Glenmore valley, above Glenmore Road and below the Wilden ridge, with Knox Mountain Park to the south and west and the Glenmore Landfill on its northern edge. The boundary with Wilden is not a line on the ground so much as a change in construction era and price; real estate convention puts the master-planned ridge in Wilden and the older, lower band here.

John Hindle Drive is the neighbourhood’s quiet advantage: 1.8 kilometres of connector from Glenmore Road to Highway 97 at the UBC Okanagan campus, opened in 2018 with a separated multi-use path. It puts the university, the airport and the highway north a few minutes away without going through town. Glenmore Road itself is being widened to four lanes in stages through 2026, which is a measure of how much traffic the whole north end now carries.

The water comes from the Glenmore-Ellison Improvement District, which joined the City of Kelowna water utility at the start of 2025 with the operational handover running to 2028. And the landfill is a real neighbour. The City’s own material says it can occasionally affect nearby properties with noise, odour and dust; in 2018 the City dropped a plan for about a thousand homes near it for exactly that reason. Some streets never notice it. Ask, and visit on a warm afternoon with the wind from the north.

What the homes are like

Magic Estates is the heart of it: a natural bowl at the end of the canyon between Knox Mountain and the Highlands, with a pond in the middle and homes built mostly between 1990 and 2005, from family-sized to large. The Yates Road and Valley Road streets carry a similar era and a wider range of sizes, with Watson Road Elementary in the middle of them. Newer stock is arriving as townhomes: Glenpark Row on Valley Road is adding 77 three-storey homes across thirteen buildings through 2026, and more infill will follow.

The 1990 to 2005 construction window puts much of North Glenmore past the Poly-B plumbing years, a genuine advantage over the Glenmore valley floor below it, though the early 1990s homes can still carry it and should be checked. What it does carry is the first round of big-ticket replacements: roofs, furnaces and hot water tanks from the late 1990s are at or past their service lives, and on a hillside the retaining walls and drainage from the same era deserve the same look.

The frontier

In June 2026 Kelowna’s council accepted the North Glenmore Sector Study and directed staff to begin amending the Official Community Plan. The study covers roughly 4,000 acres north of the neighbourhood, bounded by McKinley Landing, Highway 97, Lake Country, Quail Ridge and the landfill, and it contemplates 7,000 to 9,000 new homes within thirty years and 14,000 to 16,000 within fifty. It also says nothing is expected to be built before 2041.

For an owner that is quietly the most important fact on this page. North Glenmore stops being the edge of the city and becomes the established neighbourhood the new one is built beside, with the services, roads and schools that come with that. For a buyer it means construction on the horizon for a generation, a busier Glenmore Road, and the new fire hall on John Hindle Drive, due in 2027, as the first piece of that infrastructure to arrive.

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

Selling in North Glenmore

Your buyer has usually already looked at Wilden and decided the gap matters. Meet them there: a well-maintained 1990s home with updated mechanicals, a real yard and a view of the bowl or the ridge is exactly what they came for, so document the updates and lead with the lot. Photograph the setting, because the setting is what you share with the hill above you and what the valley floor doesn’t have.

Then price against North Glenmore’s own sales, not Wilden’s. The temptation to borrow the ridge’s number is the most common mistake I see here, and it costs a season. How I price and market a listing applies in full; the discipline is in choosing the right comparables.

Questions people ask about North Glenmore

Where is North Glenmore in Kelowna?

At the north end of the Glenmore valley, above Glenmore Road and below the Wilden ridge, with Knox Mountain Park to the south, the landfill to the north and John Hindle Drive connecting it to UBC Okanagan and Highway 97.

What is the difference between North Glenmore and Wilden?

Construction era and price, mostly. Wilden is the master-planned community on the ridge, built from 2003 onward and priced well above the region. North Glenmore is the older band below it, built largely between 1990 and 2005 and priced below the region. Same hills, same schools, same drive.

Is the landfill a problem in North Glenmore?

Sometimes, on some streets. The City acknowledges occasional noise, odour and dust for adjacent properties. Many streets never notice it. Visit on a warm afternoon with a north wind and decide for yourself.

What schools serve North Glenmore?

North Glenmore Elementary and Watson Road Elementary between them, depending on the street, then Dr. Knox Middle and Kelowna Secondary, with French immersion from École Glenmore. Confirm the exact address on the school district’s catchment map.

What is my North Glenmore home worth?

Less than a Wilden home and more than the valley floor, and the exact answer depends on your lot, your view of the bowl or the ridge, and how much of the late 1990s mechanical has been replaced. Send me the address and I’ll tell you what I’d list it at, and why.

Which REALTOR® should I call about North Glenmore?

I’m Braden Koop, a REALTOR® with RE/MAX Kelowna (licence 191956). North Glenmore is one of the thirteen areas I track every month, and I know it as the value side of the hill I’ve sold on most, so I can tell you what the same money buys here against Wilden and Glenmore. 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 North 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, the North Glenmore Sector Study, the Glenmore-Ellison Improvement District and School District 23 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.