Overview
Bayview sits on the south shore of the Glenmore Reservoir in SW Calgary, broadly bounded by South Glenmore Park and the reservoir to the north, 14 Street SW and Heritage Drive to the east, 90 Avenue SW and the Canterbury Drive corridor to the south, and Elbow Drive SW to the west across from Palliser. The postal code is T2V. The community is one of the smallest residential enclaves in SW Calgary at roughly 150 homes, and produced 9 residential sales in the trailing twelve months with the sold range running from $885,000 for an unfinished-basement half duplex on Baycrest Place to $3,950,000 for a 2020-built custom two-storey on Bay Shore Road. One additional 2-storey split was active on Baylor Crescent at $1,899,900 at the time of writing.
The community built out in a tight 1968-1978 window, with almost the entire detached inventory dating to that decade. Most homes are two-storeys or two-storey splits, with a smaller four-level split presence. The signature streets are Bay View Drive (the curving collector that traces the reservoir edge), Baycrest Place (the prestige cul-de-sac), Baylor Crescent, Bayfield Place, and Bay Shore Road on the northern bluff overlooking the water. Lots are noticeably larger than most of the surrounding 1960s-70s SW communities. The trailing-year detached sales sat on lots from 7,760 to 16,060 sq ft, with a median lot of roughly 9,800 sq ft, compared to the 50 to 60-foot frontages typical in Palliser and Oakridge to the west. The combination of larger lots, reservoir adjacency, and a single dominant product type (detached on a generous lot) is what separates Bayview from its immediate neighbours in price.
The defining geographic feature is the Glenmore Reservoir to the immediate north, with South Glenmore Park forming a continuous green edge between the community and the water. The reservoir-loop pathway runs along the south shore and connects east toward Heritage Park and west toward North Glenmore Park and the Weaselhead Natural Area. The Glenmore Sailing School operates from the south shore through the summer. Heritage Park is a short drive east via Heritage Drive, and the Heritage LRT station on the Red Line sits at the same junction.
David’s take
The vibe
Bayview has the daily rhythm of a small, established south-Glenmore family enclave whose commercial life happens entirely at the surrounding shopping nodes. There is no commercial strip inside Bayview. For groceries and daily errands, residents drive to Glenmore Landing at 90 Avenue and 14 Street SW (Co-op, liquor store, restaurants, and professional services), the Southland Crossing strip along Southland Drive to the south, the Chinook Centre regional mall on Macleod Trail about ten minutes east, or the Glamorgan and Westhills clusters to the west. The community is small enough and central enough that most of these options are within five to ten minutes by car.
The Palliser Bayview Pumphill (PBP) Community Association serves the three communities collectively, with seasonal programming, a community garden at the PBP hall, and the annual stampede breakfast. The PBP Association is one of the longer-running south Calgary community associations and has deep ties to long-tenured residents. The Bayview demographic skews to two groups: original owners who bought into the community in the 1970s and stayed (some of the homes in the trailing year were estate sales), and a steady stream of move-up families purchasing the larger-lot detached product as a forever home, drawn by the school designations, the reservoir adjacency, and the lot scale. The community has very low turnover relative to surrounding areas; nine sales in a year is roughly six percent of the housing stock, which is on the thinner side of normal for an established SW community.
South Glenmore Park is the defining outdoor amenity for Bayview as much as for Palliser and Oakridge. The waterfront pathway and trail network sit immediately north of the community, with the Glenmore Sailing School, the aquatic playground, tennis courts, and the off-leash dog area within a five-to-ten minute walk for most Bayview addresses. The reservoir-loop trail connects east to Heritage Park and west to North Glenmore Park and the Weaselhead Natural Area, one of the most intact riparian ecosystems inside the city limits. For households whose weekend life is organised around reservoir running, sailing, or off-leash dog walking, Bayview is essentially at the trailhead.
Recent sales
The Pillar 9 MLS feed shows 9 residential sales in Bayview over the trailing twelve months through May 2026, plus one active 2-storey split on Baylor Crescent at $1,899,900. The thinness of the data is the data: Bayview is roughly 150 homes, and nine sales in a year is normal market activity, not a gap. The mix is heavily detached: 8 detached sales (89 percent), 1 semi-detached half-duplex sale (11 percent), and no apartment or townhouse stock in the community. The six featured sales below span from the half-duplex floor through the detached working range to the 2020-built modern ceiling.
Featured recent sales
- 2004 Bay Shore Road SW. Sold $3,950,000 (100.0% of $3,950,000 list) in 5 days on market. Detached two-storey, built 2020, 4,166 sq ft above grade, 5 bed/5 bath on a 10,494 sq ft lot. The trailing-twelve-month ceiling and the modern-luxury rebuild signal for the community: a 2020-built custom on the reservoir bluff at $948 per square foot, sold at full ask in five days. Not a comparable for the rest of the Bayview market, but a clear indicator of where the rebuild ceiling is.
- 116 Bay View Drive SW. Sold $2,087,500 (104.4% of $1,999,900 list) in 12 days on market. Detached two-storey, built 1974, 3,185 sq ft above grade, 4 bed/5 bath on a 7,760 sq ft lot. A representative top-of-working-range Bayview sale: 1970s two-storey, finished basement, on a tighter-than-average Bay View Drive lot, closed 4.4% over asking in under two weeks.
- 36 Baycrest Place SW. Sold $2,025,000 (92.3% of $2,195,000 list) in 24 days on market. Detached two-storey, built 1972, 3,105 sq ft above grade, 5 bed/4 bath on a 9,741 sq ft lot. The Baycrest Place cul-de-sac at its mid-range: a 1972-vintage two-storey on a 9,700 sq ft lot, closed roughly $170K below original ask after three weeks of marketing.
- 4 Baycrest Place SW. Sold $1,920,000 (87.3% of $2,199,000 list) in 107 days on market. Detached two-storey split, built 1976, 3,623 sq ft above grade, 4 bed/4 bath on a 14,402 sq ft lot. The longest days-on-market in the trailing year, and the largest lot at over 14,000 sq ft. The 13% discount from original ask reflects how Bayview’s largest-lot inventory transacts when priced ambitiously: the lot premium is real but compresses through marketing.
- 20 Bay View Drive SW. Sold $1,686,000 (99.2% of $1,699,900 list) in 0 days on market. Detached two-storey, built 1973, 2,982 sq ft above grade, 5 bed/4 bath on a 10,311 sq ft lot. Notable as a zero-DOM close: priced and structured so the sale went together immediately. A 1973-vintage two-storey with partially finished basement on a 10,000 sq ft lot is exactly the typical Bayview working product.
- 8907 Baylor Crescent SW. Sold $1,467,000 (117.4% of $1,249,900 list) in 2 days on market. Detached two-storey, built 1969, 2,503 sq ft above grade, 5 bed/4 bath on a 9,472 sq ft lot. The strongest sale-to-list pressure of the trailing year: 17.4% over original asking in 48 hours. Almost always means the original list was meaningfully under what the community would carry, and the multiple-offer market did the price discovery. A useful reminder that Bayview can move quickly when an entry-priced 1969 detached comes to market.
Twelve-month aggregates by segment
- Detached. 8 sales. Median sold price $1,803,000, range $1,467,000 to $3,950,000 (median excluding the $3.95M outlier is $1,803,000; including it, the same). Average 23 days on market, 99.5% sale-to-list. The dominant segment. The working detached range was $1.46M to $2.09M, with the Bay Shore Road custom build as a separate top-end tier. Sale-to-list pressure was strongest on the entry priced 1969 listing (117.4%) and softest on the largest-lot ambitiously listed Baycrest Place sale (87.3%).
- Semi-Detached (Half Duplex). 1 sale. Closed $885,000 (94.7% of $935,000 list) on a 1978-built attached side-by-side at 68 Baycrest Place SW Unit#2, 2,617 sq ft above grade with an unfinished basement and a $970 condo fee. The only half-duplex sale in the trailing year. Bayview has a very small pocket of attached product that produces this kind of sale once or twice annually.
- Apartment / Row Townhouse. 0 sales. Bayview does not contain apartment buildings or row-townhouse complexes; for those product types, Palliser and Oakridge to the west are the closest options.
If you want a current valuation on a Bayview home, the home valuation request form pulls in your address and gets you a comparable-anchored estimate from me directly.
Schools
Bayview sits inside one of the most stable school catchments in SW Calgary, with a meaningful local advantage: the CBE 10-12 designated senior high, Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School at 220 Canterbury Drive SW, is physically located inside Bayview itself. For households on the southern Bayview blocks along Baycrest Place, Baylor Crescent, and Canterbury Drive, the high school is walkable. That is unusual for an SW Calgary community and is one of the daily-life advantages of the area: the kids who grow up here often walk to high school.
The CBE K-6 designated elementary is Nellie McClung School at 2315 Palliser Drive SW in adjacent Palliser, which serves Bayview alongside Palliser, Oakridge, and Pump Hill. Most Bayview addresses are 4 to 6 minutes by car from Nellie McClung, with bus service through the area. The CBE 7-9 designated junior high is John Ware School at 10020 19 Street SW, on the eastern edge of the PBP catchment across 19 Street SW. John Ware opened in 1968 and has served the Palliser-Bayview-Pumphill catchment for nearly six decades, one of the longer-running designation patterns in the CBE system. Dr. EP Scarlett offers an International Baccalaureate program option in addition to the regular pathway and pulls from a broad south Calgary catchment that includes Bayview, Palliser, Oakridge, Pump Hill, Cedarbrae, Canyon Meadows, Woodbine, and Woodlands. The school resource page lists the broader SW Calgary school inventory if you want to compare options.
For Catholic families, St. Gerard School at 8944 Elbow Drive SW in Haysboro is the CSSD K-6 designated elementary for the south Calgary Catholic community, with St. Cyril in Cedarbrae handling the junior high years and Our Lady of the Rockies High School at 111 Haddon Road SW in Haysboro (formerly Bishop Grandin) handling Catholic senior high. CBE and CSSD boundaries can be updated between planning cycles; verify the current designation for your specific address with the appropriate Find a School tool before relying on it for purchasing decisions.
Nellie McClung School
Public · K-6
CBE K-6 elementary at 2315 Palliser Drive SW in adjacent Palliser, serving Bayview alongside Palliser, Oakridge, and Pump Hill. Approximately 4 to 6 minutes by car from most Bayview addresses. Confirm current school boundary for your specific address with the CBE Find a School tool before purchasing.
John Ware School
Public · 7-9
CBE 7-9 junior high at 10020 19 Street SW, the designated junior high for the Palliser-Bayview-Pumphill (PBP) catchment. Designation has been stable for the PBP catchment for nearly six decades.
Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School
Public · 10-12
CBE senior high at 220 Canterbury Drive SW physically inside Bayview itself, walkable from the southern Bayview blocks. Serves Bayview along with Palliser, Oakridge, Pump Hill, Cedarbrae, Canyon Meadows, Woodbine, and Woodlands. International Baccalaureate program option.
St. Gerard School
Catholic · K-6
CSSD K-6 elementary at 8944 Elbow Drive SW in Haysboro, designated for the south Calgary Catholic community including Bayview. Confirm current Bayview designation with the CSSD.
St. Cyril School
Catholic · K-9
CSSD K-9 school in Cedarbrae serving the south Calgary Catholic community for the junior high years. Confirm current designation with the CSSD.
Our Lady of the Rockies High School
Catholic · 10-12
CSSD senior high at 111 Haddon Road SW in Haysboro (formerly Bishop Grandin), designated for the south Calgary Catholic community including Bayview. Composite high school with a broad programming base.
Getting around
Bayview has a commute story shaped by its position between 14 Street SW and Elbow Drive on the south shore of the reservoir, with three arterials doing most of the work. 14 Street SW runs along the eastern flank of the community and connects north via the 50 Avenue SW corridor to the Glenmore Trail interchange and the inner SW, and south to the Anderson Road interchange and the Macleod Trail corridor. Heritage Drive runs along the southeastern edge near 90 Avenue SW and provides the most direct route to the Heritage LRT station and the Macleod Trail corridor. Elbow Drive SW forms the western boundary and offers an alternate north-south route into the inner SW via the Britannia and Elbow Park corridors.
By car, downtown is approximately 17 minutes outside peak hours via 14 Street SW north and the Bow Trail or Crowchild corridor. Foothills Medical Centre is approximately 16 minutes via the same route, and the University of Calgary runs about 20 minutes north on Crowchild. Calgary International Airport is the longest trip at approximately 38 minutes via Stoney Trail and Deerfoot Trail. Mount Royal University is approximately 10 minutes east via 90 Avenue SW and 14 Street, and Rockyview General Hospital is a similar distance via 14 Street south.
For commuters using transit, Bayview does not have direct LRT walk-up access. The Heritage LRT station on the Red Line is the closest rapid transit, approximately 8 to 10 minutes east by car or bus via Heritage Drive and 14 Street SW. Southland LRT to the south is a similar distance and offers an alternate Red Line entry point. From either station, downtown is a further 18 to 22 minutes by train, putting the door-to-door transit commute at roughly 30 to 40 minutes. Calgary Transit bus routes connect to both Heritage and Southland LRT stations plus crosstown service to the Westhills and Chinook commercial nodes. The community is car-oriented in practice, but the Red Line proximity is meaningfully better than from west-side SW communities like Discovery Ridge where the closest station is the 69 Street Blue Line.
Property mix
Detached on a large lot is essentially the entire Bayview market. Eight of the nine trailing-year sales were detached two-storeys or two-storey splits, on lots from 7,760 to 16,060 sq ft. Construction sits in a tight 1968-1978 band for the original housing stock, with a small number of selective ground-up rebuilds and comprehensive renovations layered on top. The 2020-built 2004 Bay Shore Road sale at $3,950,000 represents the modern rebuild tier; the rest of the inventory transacts on a renovation continuum from original-vintage through partially updated to substantially renovated.
The streets that produced sales in the trailing year fall into three readable groupings. Bay View Drive is the working-volume street, with three trailing-year sales between $1,640,000 and $2,087,500 on 1973-1975-vintage two-storeys with 7,700 to 10,300 sq ft lots. Baycrest Place is the prestige cul-de-sac, producing two large-lot detached sales at $1,920,000 to $2,025,000 plus the single attached half-duplex sale at $885,000. Baylor Crescent and Bayfield Place produced the more entry-level detached transactions in the trailing year at $1,467,000 to $1,590,000, often on similarly sized lots but with smaller above-grade footprints (2,300 to 2,800 sq ft) and earlier 1968-1971 vintage.
The semi-detached segment is a single small attached side-by-side pocket on Baycrest Place, with one trailing-year sale at $885,000 on a 1978-built unit with an unfinished basement. This is the only non-detached product type that traded in the community in the trailing year. Bayview does not contain apartment buildings or row-townhouse complexes; buyers looking for attached or apartment product in the same school catchment have to step west into Palliser or Oakridge.
| Type | Typical price range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Semi-Detached (Half Duplex), Baycrest Place | $880K - $935K | 1 sale in trailing 12 months. 1978-vintage attached side-by-side units in the small Baycrest Place half-duplex pocket. The only non-detached product type in the community. |
| Detached, original 1968-1975 entry tier | $1.4M - $1.7M | Roughly 3 sales. Baylor Crescent and Bayfield Place product: 1968-1971 vintage detached two-storeys and 4-level splits, 2,300 to 3,000 sq ft above grade, original to lightly updated condition, on 9,000 to 16,000 sq ft lots. |
| Detached, working mid-range Bay View Drive | $1.7M - $2.1M | Roughly 3 sales. 1973-1975-vintage detached two-storeys on Bay View Drive, 3,000 to 3,300 sq ft above grade, partially to substantially updated, on 7,700 to 10,300 sq ft lots. The Bayview working detached median. |
| Detached, large-lot Baycrest Place | $1.9M - $2.1M | Roughly 2 sales. 1972-1976-vintage detached two-storeys on the Baycrest Place cul-de-sac, 3,100 to 3,600 sq ft above grade on 9,700 to 14,400 sq ft lots. The prestige-cul-de-sac premium. |
| Detached, modern rebuild / custom | $3.5M - $4.0M+ | Roughly 1 sale. 2020-built ground-up custom on the reservoir bluff, 4,100 sq ft above grade at $948 per sq ft. The Bayview modern-luxury ceiling. Selective new builds on existing lots; expect the rebuild trickle to continue. |
Frequently asked questions
What schools serve Bayview in Calgary?
The CBE designated K-6 elementary for Bayview is Nellie McClung School at 2315 Palliser Drive SW in adjacent Palliser, which also serves Palliser, Oakridge, and Pump Hill. The CBE 7-9 designated junior high is John Ware School at 10020 19 Street SW, which has served the Palliser-Bayview-Pumphill (PBP) catchment for nearly six decades. The CBE 10-12 designated senior high is Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School at 220 Canterbury Drive SW, which is physically located inside Bayview itself and walkable from the southern blocks. Scarlett offers an International Baccalaureate program option. For Catholic families, St. Gerard at 8944 Elbow Drive SW in Haysboro is the K-6 designated elementary, St. Cyril in Cedarbrae handles the junior high years, and Our Lady of the Rockies (formerly Bishop Grandin) at 111 Haddon Road SW handles senior high. CBE and CSSD boundaries can change; verify the current designation for your specific address before purchasing.
Is Bayview close to Glenmore Reservoir and South Glenmore Park?
Yes. Bayview sits on the south shore of the Glenmore Reservoir, with South Glenmore Park forming the entire northern edge of the community. From most Bayview addresses, the park entrance is a five-to-ten minute walk. The park provides waterfront pathways, tennis courts, an aquatic playground, an off-leash dog area, and the Glenmore Sailing School. The reservoir-loop trail connects east toward Heritage Park and west toward North Glenmore Park and the Weaselhead Natural Area. For households whose weekend rhythm is organised around reservoir running, sailing, or off-leash dog walking, Bayview is essentially at the trailhead. Bay Shore Road and the upper Bay View Drive cul-de-sacs are the addresses with the most direct reservoir-edge access.
How does Bayview compare to Palliser, Oakridge, or Pump Hill?
Bayview shares the PBP school catchment (Nellie McClung K-6, John Ware 7-9, Dr. EP Scarlett 10-12) with Palliser, Oakridge, and Pump Hill, plus the South Glenmore Park reservoir access. The differences are scale of lot, mix of housing stock, and price. Bayview is essentially a single-product detached community on lots of 7,500 to 16,000 sq ft, with a trailing-year detached median of $1.8M. Palliser produced a more mixed inventory with townhouses, apartments, and attached-bungalows alongside detached, with a detached median of $782,000 on smaller lots. Oakridge sits between the two with a deeper bungalow inventory and a wider townhouse spread. Pump Hill is closer to Bayview in lot scale and price tier but with a slightly different street network. Buyers comparing the cluster usually weight Oakridge or Palliser for value, Bayview for lot scale and the prestige enclave feel, and Pump Hill as the direct Bayview alternate.
How long is the commute from Bayview to downtown Calgary?
By car, approximately 17 minutes outside peak hours via 14 Street SW north and the Bow Trail or Crowchild corridor. Morning rush hour can extend that to 28 to 38 minutes. Bayview does not have direct LRT walk-up access; the Heritage LRT station on the Red Line is the closest rapid transit, approximately 8 to 10 minutes east by car or bus via Heritage Drive. From the Heritage platform, downtown is a further 18 to 22 minutes by train, putting a door-to-door transit commute at roughly 30 to 40 minutes. Most Bayview residents commute by car, with 14 Street SW handling the north-south traffic and Anderson Road plus Stoney Trail providing the ring road alternative.
What kind of homes are in Bayview, mostly detached?
Almost entirely detached, yes. Of the 9 residential sales in the trailing twelve months, 8 were detached two-storeys or two-storey splits and 1 was a semi-detached half-duplex on Baycrest Place. There are no apartment buildings or row-townhouse complexes inside Bayview. The detached stock is concentrated in a 1968-1978 build wave, with most homes in the 2,500 to 3,700 sq ft above-grade range on lots from 7,700 to 16,000 sq ft. A small but growing number of selective ground-up rebuilds and comprehensive renovations are layered on top of the original stock, with the 2020-built 2004 Bay Shore Road sale at $3,950,000 as the current modern ceiling. Buyers looking for attached, townhouse, or apartment product in the same school catchment have to look at Palliser or Oakridge to the west.
What's the price range for homes in Bayview?
In the trailing twelve months, residential sales in Bayview ranged from $885,000 for a 1978-built attached half-duplex with an unfinished basement on Baycrest Place to $3,950,000 for a 2020-built ground-up custom on the reservoir bluff at Bay Shore Road. The detached median was $1,803,000, with the working detached range running $1.46M to $2.09M and the Baycrest Place cul-de-sac topping out near $2.03M. The 2020 Bay Shore Road sale sits in a separate modern-rebuild tier and is not a comparable for the rest of the inventory. The trailing-year sale-to-list ratio averaged 98.1% with an average 22 days on market, though individual outcomes ranged from a zero-DOM full-price close on 20 Bay View Drive to a 107-day marketing cycle on 4 Baycrest Place. For a current valuation grounded in comparable-anchored data, the home valuation request form pulls in your address and produces an estimate from me directly.
Are there parks or pathways within Bayview?
Bayview has internal pathway connections plus immediate South Glenmore Park access on the northern boundary. The internal network ties the cul-de-sacs together with smaller green spaces and connects directly into the reservoir-loop pathway at the park edge. The bigger amenity is what sits across the park boundary: the South Glenmore Park trail system, with waterfront pathways, tennis courts, an aquatic playground, an off-leash dog area, the Glenmore Sailing School, and trail connections that loop around the reservoir to North Glenmore Park, the Weaselhead Natural Area, and east toward Heritage Park. For households whose daily life is organised around reservoir running or off-leash dog walking, Bayview has park access measured in minutes rather than the cross-city drive that most SW communities require.
Is Bayview a good community for families?
Yes, for families who want the PBP school catchment paired with a larger lot and a small-enclave feel. The community is roughly 150 homes, very low turnover, and dominated by detached two-storeys on 7,500 to 16,000 sq ft lots. The schools are the structural draw: Nellie McClung K-6 in adjacent Palliser, John Ware 7-9 on the eastern edge of the catchment, and Dr. EP Scarlett 10-12 physically inside Bayview itself (one of the only SW communities where the designated high school is in-community walkable). South Glenmore Park provides immediate reservoir-edge outdoor amenity. The trade-offs are the absence of internal commercial (residents drive to Glenmore Landing, Southland Crossing, or Chinook) and the absence of attached or apartment product for families wanting a downsizing option later inside the same community. The first-time buyer guide walks through the financing mechanics if Bayview is on a stretch budget.
Sales data current as of 2026-05-18. Includes 9 residential sales in Bayview between 2025-05-18 and 2026-05-18. Source: Pillar 9 MLS® System. Copyright 2026 Pillar 9. All Rights Reserved.
Commute times
| Downtown | 17 min |
|---|---|
| University of Calgary | 20 min |
| Foothills Hospital | 16 min |
| Airport (YYC) | 38 min |