Bungalows for Sale in Ottawa

Ottawa bungalow prices cover a wide range because the category includes everything from modest post-war homes in the established inner suburbs to custom executive builds on acreage. The most attainable options are generally found in Orleans, Carleton Place and Almonte, mid-range bungalows in Barrhaven, Kanata and Stittsville, and the top of the market in Manotick and Greely. The listings above show current active prices, updated daily from the MLS®.

A true bungalow has its main floor at or near ground level, so you enter and live entirely on one level with no interior stairs. A raised bungalow is lifted so that the basement sits partly above grade with full-size windows, which means you climb roughly half a flight of stairs from the entry to reach the main floor. Raised bungalows give you a brighter, more usable lower level and are easier to convert into a suite, but they are not step-free and are not the right choice if barrier-free access is your main reason for buying a bungalow.

A bungalow needs roughly twice the foundation area and twice the roof area of a two-storey home with the same interior square footage, and it needs a wider lot to sit on. You are buying more land and more building envelope for the same floor area, which is why comparing the two on price per square foot alone is misleading. Limited supply adds to it: very few new single-storey homes are built inside the Greenbelt, so most of Ottawa’s bungalow stock is fixed.

Bungalows have historically held their value well in Ottawa for two structural reasons. First, the supply is effectively capped — almost no new single-storey homes are built in the established parts of the city. Second, they draw from several buyer pools at once: downsizers, retirees, multigenerational households, families who want a large lot, and builders who want the land. Wide lots and full basements also give you options that other home types don’t, from a secondary unit to an addition to a rebuild. As with any property, the specific home, street and condition matter more than the category.

Often, yes — a full basement under a wide footprint is the easiest kind of space to convert, and Ottawa’s new comprehensive Zoning By-law (2026-50) permits more units on typical low-rise residential lots than the previous by-law did. Whether it works on a particular property depends on the zoning for that lot, the servicing, and the Ontario Building Code requirements for a legal secondary unit — most commonly ceiling height, egress windows, fire separation and a second means of exit. Confirm the specifics with the City of Ottawa before buying a home on that basis.

The densest concentration of true 1950s and 1960s bungalows is in Ottawa’s inner suburbs — Alta Vista, Elmvale Acres, Applewood Acres, Carlington, Copeland Park, Whitehaven and Manor Park. Beyond that, Orleans and Chapel Hill have a high proportion of raised bungalows, Barrhaven and Riverside South have most of the newer single-level and bungalow-loft construction, and Manotick, Greely, Carleton Place and Almonte offer larger bungalows on private and rural lots.

The recurring items in Ottawa homes of this vintage are foundation movement caused by sensitive marine clay, 60-amp electrical service or knob-and-tube wiring that may affect insurance, vermiculite attic insulation that may contain asbestos, buried or abandoned fuel oil tanks, and drainage that was never designed for current rainfall. If a basement suite is part of your plan, check ceiling height and egress window sizes early, because those are what usually make a conversion impossible. Retain your own qualified home inspector for any property you are serious about.

They can. A bungalow has more roof and more slab area relative to its interior volume than a two-storey home of the same square footage, so there is more surface through which heat is lost. Against that, single-storey homes have no stack effect between floors and heat more evenly, and a newer bungalow built to current insulation standards may outperform an older two-storey comfortably. The age and condition of the building envelope and mechanicals matter far more than the shape of the house.

Yes, though they are concentrated in specific areas. Most new single-level and bungalow-loft construction in Ottawa is in Barrhaven, Riverside South, Kanata and Stittsville, with custom builds available on rural and estate lots in Manotick, Greely and the communities west of the city. New builds give you current insulation and mechanical standards and a layout designed around single-level living, but they typically come with smaller lots than the older stock in the inner suburbs.

Bungalows in the most-searched price bands often sell quickly, so seeing them the day they list matters. Get in touch and I will set up a saved search matched to your criteria — area, price, bedrooms, lot size and bungalow type — so new listings reach you as soon as they hit the MLS® rather than after they appear on the public portals.