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The strongest quiet trend in Regina's premium market isn't a neighbourhood — it's the escape from neighbourhoods altogether. Acreage demand around the city has never been deeper: 12 properties are currently listed over $750K within commuting distance, spanning Pilot Butte, the RM of Edenwold, Grand Coulee, and the developments ringing the city, and the well-executed ones sell to buyers who have often searched for years.
What buyers are purchasing is a category the city can't offer at any price: land measured in acres, a shop or outbuildings, no neighbours over the fence, and the freedom to keep horses, run a home business, or simply park the trailer beside the house. Since the Regina Bypass opened, most established acreage areas sit within a genuine 15–25 minute commute — the historical trade-off between country living and city convenience has largely dissolved.
The market layers neatly. Pilot Butte anchors the premium tier, with newer estate developments carrying custom homes from the mid-$900,000s to $1.7M — town services with acreage-scale lots, currently the strongest acreage submarket in the region. The RM of Edenwold surrounds it with true country residential: established yards, mature shelterbelts, and developments like Stone Pointe and Spruce Creek Estates where new custom builds push past $1.7M. West and south, Grand Coulee and the RM of Sherwood offer closer-in options, while the corridors toward Balgonie and White City round out the east.
Acreage transactions are their own discipline, and it's where our experience earns its keep. Wells and water quality, septic type and compliance, propane versus natural gas, outbuilding value (appraisers and buyers rarely agree), gravel access and school bus routes, and rural financing — lenders treat acreages differently, and financing conditions kill more acreage deals than any other cause. We walk buyers through every one of these before an offer is written, and we prepare sellers so none of them surface as surprises.
Whether you're leaving the city or selling the yard you built over decades, start with the current market below — or request a value report, because no algorithm has ever correctly priced a shop.
Online estimates fail at the top of the market — there aren't enough comparable sales for an algorithm to work with. If you own an acreage near Regina — Pilot Butte, Edenwold, Grand Coulee or beyond, request a detailed value report prepared personally by broker Aaron Habicht — not an algorithm.
Premium acreages currently list between about $795,000 and $1.7M, with Pilot Butte's estate developments and new custom builds in the RM of Edenwold at the top. More modest established yards trade below that range — total inventory spans a wide spectrum of land, home age, and outbuildings.
The big five: well quality and flow, septic type and condition, heating fuel (propane costs differ meaningfully from natural gas), outbuilding condition, and access road maintenance. Add rural financing — lenders often require larger down payments and value land and shops differently than buyers do. We manage all of this diligence as standard practice.
It's different, not impossible. Most lenders cap the land value they'll finance (often 10 acres), may exclude outbuilding value, and can require higher down payments. Getting financing structured correctly before you shop prevents the most common acreage deal failure. We can connect you with lenders who handle rural properties routinely.
Aaron Habicht
Broker/Owner, Optimum Realty Inc. · Serving Regina since 2004
Thinking about buying or selling an acreage? Every conversation starts with the broker — no handoffs, no pressure, just straight answers about your options.