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Westmount Area homes for sale are one of our cities best real estate investments right now. The Westmount area is currently undergoing revitalization with more modern houses, duplexes, triplexes and property prices here are increasing. Westmount area Edmonton homes for sale and real estate listings are located in one of our city's best places in the northwest to invest right now. Westmount is a mature residential area in west-central and still consists of several beautifully handcrafted war-time houses. Over the last decade, developers have purchased many of our Westmount area real estate listings and replaced them with a vast mix of larger houses, duplexes to infills.
The Westmount area has plenty to offer within 5 minutes of each direction from urban ambiance to the east to suburban ambiance through the river valley on the south, to Huff Bremner Estate Industrial on the northwest. Homes in this portion of northwest Edmonton vary widely from inexpensive war-time semi-bungalows to high-end properties built in the early nineteen hundreds. Here you can still find a few of the original farmhouses. Most of the houses are from the fifties era, but recently more of these great properties are being replaced by newer, modern houses with legal basement suites.
Westmount Area is located in central northwest Edmonton, Alberta in real estate zone 04 and 07. The Westmount area is bordered by the river valley, Stony Plain Road, Yellowhead, and Kingsway Avenue.
Historically, Westmount contained our cities concentration of single family houses built before World War One. It is thought to be named after the suburb of Montréal, the community of Westmount. A large portion of homes in this neighbourhood were built in the land boom of 1912.
Many of the houses in Westmount were constructed without a buyer in mind. It was a new concept appealling to speculators who purchased property from the HBC when they finally opened their reserve for sale in 1912. With Carruther’s caveat, the Groat Estate property interested wealthy and well-established citizens who subsequently erected grand brick country houses or arts and crafts styled manors generally overlooking Groat Ravine. The lots situated across Stony Plain Road and outside the bounds of the caveat appealed to young professionals - doctors, lawyers, and educators at the beginning of their careers.
A global depression devastated the Westmount real estate market in 1913 and much of the developed quite slowly until after the Second World War. The construction of Westmount School was started in 1913 but only finished in 1927, and the Westmount Community League was established in 1919. The Ross Sheppard High School was built in 1957. In 1988 the city implemented several upgrades to the Westmount area including infrastructure repair and replacement, installing traffic control measures, replacing trees and creating park space in the Westmount area along the Canadian National Railway buffer.