Douglasdale/Glen

Overview

Douglasdale/Glen carries one MLS subdivision name over what is, on the ground, two communities built two decades apart. The homes that sold across the whole area over the twelve months to August 2026 carried a median build year of 1997, but that single number hides the real shape: the detached homes that sold had a median build year of 1995, while the apartments that sold had a median build year of 2016. Twenty-one years separate those two medians, inside one guide, one subdivision code, one set of sales figures.

Quarry Park is the reason. Sitting along the Bow River at the northern edge of the community boundary, it is the newest, most recently built portion of Douglasdale/Glen, developed from 2007 onward on a site that spent roughly fifty years as a gravel quarry before Remington Development Corporation bought it in 2005 and built a mixed-use district of homes, corporate office space (Imperial Oil among the tenants) and retail. The City of Calgary’s own property assessment data places all of it, every one of the 1,353 Quarry-addressed parcels in the community, inside Douglasdale/Glen rather than beside it, and on that same assessment roll, 240 of the community’s 343 parcels coded as low-rise apartment condominiums carry a Quarry Park address.

That same boundary explains the community’s price ceiling too. Two hundred and seventeen residential sales closed in Douglasdale/Glen over the past year, at a typical price of $645,000 and an average of $666,038. The most expensive of those 217 sales, at $1,900,000, was not a detached house. It was an apartment, well above the $1,225,000 ceiling on the community’s 140 detached sales.

A third difference follows the same line on the map. The legacy Douglasdale and Douglas Glen area runs on a voluntary community association. Quarry Park runs on something else entirely: a mandatory land fee, registered against title under Alberta’s Land Titles Act, that predates the community association’s own decision to take Quarry Park into its mandate. When was it built, what does it sell for, and what do you owe every year: three different questions, and all three resolve to the same line on the map.

David’s take

The vibe

One name, two organisations

Ask what Douglasdale/Glen’s community association costs, and the honest answer is that it depends which part of the community the title sits in.

The DouglasQuarry Community Association, DQCA, is the community association for the area, and it says plainly on its own site that it is a community association, not a homeowners association. It was established in 1986 as the Douglasdale Community Association, and it runs on a voluntary membership: $25 per household per year at the family rate, $10 per household per year for a senior 50 and over. Nothing on that fee is registered against a title. What the DQCA operates on it is genuinely community-level: ice rinks, gazebos and storage sheds, the Douglasdale Community Garden, an annual Food Truck Festival, and Timbits Soccer among other sports programs. It explicitly does not handle City services like pathway snow removal, which it directs to 3-1-1 instead. A second name surfaces on the DQCA’s own materials, the Douglasdale Maintenance Association, running a separate landscaping program for Douglasdale itself. Whether that body is voluntary, mandatory or secured by anything on title is not publicly documented.

Quarry Park runs on something else. The Quarry Park Land Owners’ Association, QPLOA, is a Societies Act entity the developer, Remington Development Corporation, incorporated in 2007, seven years before Quarry Park was even added to the DQCA’s own community-building mandate in 2014. Membership in QPLOA is not a choice: it is automatic for every owner of land in Quarry Park, residential or commercial, and it does not end with resignation. The mechanism behind it is a real, registered document, an encumbrance filed at the Alberta Land Titles Office under registration number 091084485 on March 31, 2009, secured under section 102 of the Land Titles Act. QPLOA’s own FAQ does not soften the point: the payment of the annual fee is not optional, and it is mandatory for every land owner in the community, appearing as a registered encumbrance on the land title.

The dollar figure has moved with inflation since 2009, when the registered rate was $214 per residential lot plus GST. For 2026 the published rate, unchanged from 2025, is $269.59 plus GST per residential lot, invoiced by February 15th and due immediately, and $1,513.48 plus GST per acre for commercial lots. What that fee buys is genuine infrastructure work the City does not fully cover: QPLOA states it funds roughly 80% of grounds maintenance and repair, with the City’s own annual operating grant covering the rest. In practice that means weekly park mowing where the City’s standard cycle runs biweekly, park irrigation, pathway lighting along the regional pathways, and the stormwater and methane management systems (the dyke, the cell ponds, the pump station) named in the association’s own founding documents. The City keeps responsibility for playground equipment.

One thing is not settled, and not worth guessing at: whether that $269.59 residential rate is billed per condo unit or absorbed at the parcel level and redistributed by the condo corporation as a common expense. The founding documents speak in terms of a Lot, a subdivision-plan term, and tie the residential rate to approved land use density, language that leaves real room for a higher-density lot to be billed differently than a single-family one. Anyone pricing a Quarry Park condo should ask the condo corporation directly what its share of the QPLOA fee actually is; do not assume the $269.59 figure is what lands on a specific unit.

One engineering detail worth knowing if you are evaluating a Quarry Park property specifically: the community’s flood mitigation, on a site that sits along the Bow River, is modeled on Dutch polder design, built to withstand a one-in-100-year flood event.

Housing stock

Four product types traded in Douglasdale/Glen over the twelve months to August 2026: detached, apartment, row/townhouse and semi-detached. Together they account for all 217 sales.

Detached houses dominated the market here: 140 sales, 64.5% of the total, at a median of $692,500. Among those detached sales, the median build year was 1995, and they moved faster than the community as a whole, a median of 16 days on market against a community-wide median of 23. The ceiling on the detached segment for the year was $1,225,000.

Apartments were 36 sales, 17% of the market, at a typical price of $477,400 and a typical monthly association fee of $653. The apartments that sold had a typical build year of 2016, twenty-one years newer than the detached segment beside it, and that gap is mostly Quarry Park: on the City of Calgary’s own property assessment roll, 240 of the community’s 343 parcels coded as low-rise apartment condominiums carry a Quarry Park address. This segment also produced the community’s highest sale of the year, at $1,900,000, one sale well above the rest of the segment, which is why the typical price is the number to use here rather than an average.

Row and townhouse product closed 30 sales, 14% of the market, at a typical price of $522,000 and a typical monthly association fee of $354, with a typical build year of 2013, also on the newer side of the community’s split.

Semi-detached homes closed 11 sales, 5% of the market, at a typical price of $577,400 and a typical monthly association fee of $458, with a typical build year of 1995, matching the detached segment’s era rather than the newer condo product. Eleven sales is a small group, so treat this figure as a real but rougher number than the larger segments.

Worth noting separately, because it measures a different thing entirely: the City’s assessment roll, a count of parcels that exist today, not a count of what sold this year, shows 1,353 parcels across Douglasdale/Glen with a Quarry Park address, every one of them filed under the Douglasdale/Glen community code. That figure describes the stock standing in the community, not the 217 sales behind the rest of this page, and the two should not be read as one number.

Type	Typical price	Notes
Detached	$692,500	140 sales (65% of all sales in the community), up to the community's detached ceiling of $1,225,000. Half sold within 16 days. Typical build year 1995.
Apartment	$477,400	36 sales (17% of all sales in the community), including the highest sale in the community this year, $1,900,000. Typical association fee $653 a month, typical build year 2016.
Row / townhouse	$522,000	30 sales (14% of all sales in the community). Typical association fee $354 a month, typical build year 2013.
Semi-detached	$577,400	11 sales (5% of all sales in the community). Typical association fee $458 a month, typical build year 1995.

Recent sales

The typical price across all 217 sales was $645,000, and the average, the figure shown in the stat block at the top of this page, was $666,038, about $21,000 above that. A handful of sales at the top of the range pull the average up. Half of everything sold between $560,000 and $738,750, and sales for the year ran from $319,900 to $1,900,000.

That top sale is worth repeating. The $1,900,000 sale sits nowhere near the detached segment’s own ceiling of $1,225,000, because it was not a detached sale. It was an apartment, and the apartment segment’s much newer typical build year is the clearest sign that this community’s top end and its bottom end are not the same product.

On timing, the typical home took 23 days to sell and the average across all 217 sales was 34, an 11-day gap. A handful of longer-sitting listings stretch the average up past the typical figure. Detached sales typically sold in 16 days, well under the community-wide figure. Segment-level timing for the other three product types isn’t available, so the community-wide numbers are the best read for those.

Sellers held onto 98.5% of asking at the typical sale, giving up a percent and a half, a tight number for a market with this wide a price range.

None of the community-wide numbers price a single house, and in Douglasdale/Glen that caution matters more than in most communities: the same subdivision code covers a 1995 bungalow and a 2016 Quarry Park condo, and a blended median sits between two markets rather than describing either one. For a read on a specific property, a home valuation is the place to start. On the buying side, the buyer’s guide is a useful next stop, and on the selling side, a home valuation is the first step.

Getting around

Douglasdale/Glen is the rare Calgary community with an existing rapid-transit terminus inside its own boundary, not a planned one. Route 306, MAX Teal, runs today: it launched under that branding on November 19, 2018, on a corridor that had operated as Route 306 since December 10, 2012, and its southeast terminus, Douglas Glen Boulevard Station, sits inside the community, with an intermediate stop at Quarry Park Station also inside it. Route 302, the Southeast/City Centre BRT, runs through Quarry Park as well, connecting toward downtown in one direction and South Health Campus in the other.

Beyond the two BRT lines, the City’s transit stop data lists a working set of regular and express routes through the community. Route 96 (McKenzie) and Route 92 (McKenzie Towne) both run through Douglas Glen, with a stop at the Douglas Glen Terminal, which despite the name sits just outside the community rather than inside it. Route 24 (Ogden) covers Quarry Park Boulevard extensively. Route 117 (McKenzie Towne Express) and Route 131 (East Bow Express) both stop along Quarry Park Boulevard and Douglasdale Boulevard. A handful of additional routes, numbered 711, 718, 719, 825 and 849, are categorised by the City as school routes, timed to bell schedules rather than a general commute.

The Green Line is a different story, and the distinction matters more here than in most communities. Construction on the Green Line’s Southeast Segment began in June 2025, and two of its ten planned stations, named Douglas Glen and Quarry Park, sit inside or immediately next to this community. Station design for the nine stations between Shepard and Ramsay/Inglewood, including both of these, reached a 90% milestone in December 2025 and 100% completion in August 2026. None of that is the same as an open station. The City’s own FAQ states plainly that opening day is expected to be in 2031. As of this writing there is no operating LRT service anywhere in Douglasdale/Glen; the only current rapid transit is MAX Teal.

Schools

Seven designated schools serve a Douglasdale/Glen address across the two boards, and only one of them, on the public side, sits inside the community’s own boundary. Attendance areas reflect the 2025/2026 school year.

The public pathway

Douglasdale School, kindergarten through grade 5, sits inside the community at 400 Douglas Park Blvd SE and is the CBE elementary designation for every Douglasdale/Glen address.

Grade 6 through 9 is Mountain Park School, at 312 Mt. Douglas Close SE in McKenzie Lake, not in Douglasdale/Glen. Worth being precise about the name: Mountain Park is a subdivision inside McKenzie Lake, and the school sits there, not in a place called Mountain Park inside this community. A school’s name does not tell you its location.

Senior high is Lord Beaverbrook High School, out in Acadia, well outside New Brighton, Copperfield and Douglasdale/Glen alike. It is the same senior high all three communities designate to.

The Catholic pathway, and where the split becomes an overlap

Monsignor J.S. Smith School, at 2919 Douglasdale Blvd SE, sits inside the community and holds the CSSD designation for most addresses at both elementary and junior high. At elementary, the rest of the community goes to Holy Angels School in Riverbend instead, a clean either/or with no overlap. At junior high, the rest goes to St. Augustine School in Kingsland, but a small area is served by both schools rather than one or the other. That is a real distinction worth holding onto: the elementary tier is a clean either/or, and the junior high tier is not. No dividing street is published for either tier.

Senior high on the Catholic side is Our Lady of the Rockies High School, in Haysboro. One naming note worth flagging: CSSD’s own records file this designation under the title Bishop Grandin High School Regular Attendance Area, which is not a second school. The school that actually holds the designation, and the one to search for, is Our Lady of the Rockies.

Both boards reset and review designations by address annually, so treat everything above as a snapshot taken in August 2026, and get the live answer from CBE’s Find a School tool and the CSSD school finder before you commit to a purchase. The schools resource sets out how Calgary’s boundaries and choice programmes fit together.

Frequently asked questions

How much do homes cost in Douglasdale/Glen?

Over the twelve months to August 2026, Douglasdale/Glen recorded 217 residential sales at a typical (median) price of $645,000, with half of everything closing between $560,000 and $738,750 and individual sales running from $319,900 to $1,900,000. Four product types traded here, each with enough sales behind it to trust. Detached houses, 140 of the 217 sales, sold for a typical $692,500. Apartments, 36 sales, sold for a typical $477,400, with a typical monthly association fee of $653. Row and townhouse product, 30 sales, sold for a typical $522,000, with a typical monthly association fee of $354. Semi-detached homes, 11 sales, sold for a typical $577,400, with a typical monthly association fee of $458. Those four segments account for all 217 sales. For a read on a specific property rather than on a community, a home valuation is the place to start.

What was the highest sale in Douglasdale/Glen, and why does it matter?

The highest of the 217 sales over the twelve months to August 2026 was $1,900,000, and it was not a detached house. It was an apartment, well past the $1,225,000 ceiling on the community’s 140 detached sales. The apartment segment’s typical build year, 2016, is twenty-one years newer than the detached segment, reflecting how much of that stock is newer condo product. That single high sale is also why the typical (median) price is the more useful number for the apartment segment: one sale that far above the rest would skew an average well past what a typical Douglasdale/Glen apartment actually sells for.

Does Douglasdale/Glen have a mandatory association fee?

It depends which part of the community a title sits in, and this is a community with two distinct answers rather than one. Most of Douglasdale and Douglas Glen carries the DouglasQuarry Community Association, DQCA, a voluntary community association, not a homeowners association in its own words, at $25 per household per year for a family membership and $10 for a senior 50 and over, with nothing registered against title. Quarry Park is different. The Quarry Park Land Owners’ Association, QPLOA, is a mandatory regime: membership is automatic for every owner in Quarry Park and does not end with resignation, secured by an encumbrance registered at the Alberta Land Titles Office, registration number 091084485, filed March 31, 2009, under section 102 of the Land Titles Act. QPLOA’s own FAQ states plainly that payment of the annual fee is not optional. So the honest one-line answer is that Douglasdale/Glen is not a single-regime community: most of it carries no mandatory fee, and Quarry Park carries one that is older than the community association’s own decision, in 2014, to take Quarry Park on.

What does the Quarry Park Land Owners' Association fee cost, and what does it cover?

For 2026, unchanged from 2025, the published rate is $269.59 plus GST per residential lot and $1,513.48 plus GST per acre for a commercial lot, invoiced by February 15th and due immediately. That rate has moved with inflation from the $214 per residential lot plus GST registered in the original 2009 encumbrance. What it funds is real infrastructure work: QPLOA states it covers roughly 80% of grounds maintenance and repair costs, with the City of Calgary’s own annual operating grant covering the rest. In practice that buys weekly park mowing where the City’s standard cycle runs biweekly, park irrigation, pathway lighting along the regional pathways, and the stormwater and methane management systems, the dyke, the cell ponds and the pump station, named in the association’s own founding documents; the City keeps responsibility for playground equipment. One thing is not settled: whether that residential rate is billed per condo unit in a Quarry Park building, or absorbed at the parcel level and redistributed by the condo corporation as a common expense. The founding documents speak in terms of a Lot, a subdivision-plan term, and tie the residential rate to approved land use density, which leaves real room for higher-density buildings to be billed differently than a single-family lot. Anyone pricing a Quarry Park condo should ask the condo corporation directly what its share of the fee is, rather than assuming the $269.59 figure applies per unit.

What schools serve Douglasdale/Glen?

Seven designated schools serve a Douglasdale/Glen address, three on the public side and four on the Catholic side, and only one of them, Douglasdale School, actually stands inside the community. Douglasdale School, kindergarten through grade 5, is the CBE elementary designation for every address, at 400 Douglas Park Blvd SE inside the community. Grade 6 through 9 is Mountain Park School, which sits in McKenzie Lake rather than in Douglasdale/Glen; the name refers to a subdivision inside McKenzie Lake, not a location in this community. Senior high is Lord Beaverbrook High School in Acadia, the same school Copperfield and New Brighton both designate to as well. On the Catholic side, Monsignor J.S. Smith School, inside the community, is the designation for most addresses at both elementary and junior high. At elementary it splits cleanly with Holy Angels School in Riverbend, every address going to one school or the other. At junior high it splits with St. Augustine School in Kingsland, but a small area is served by both schools rather than a clean either/or. Senior high on the Catholic side is Our Lady of the Rockies High School in Haysboro; CSSD’s own records file the designation under the name Bishop Grandin High School Regular Attendance Area, and the school itself is Our Lady of the Rockies. Attendance areas reflect the 2025/2026 school year, and both boards reset designations annually, so confirm a specific address with CBE’s Find a School tool and the CSSD school finder before you commit to a purchase.

Is the Catholic junior high designation the same as the elementary one in Douglasdale/Glen?

Not quite, and the difference is worth knowing before you assume a clean line exists. Monsignor J.S. Smith School is the CSSD designation for most addresses at both tiers, elementary and junior high. At elementary, the rest of the community goes to Holy Angels School instead, a clean split: every address lands on one school or the other. At junior high, the rest goes to St. Augustine School, but a small area is served by both Monsignor J.S. Smith and St. Augustine rather than just one. That is an overlap, not a split, and no dividing street is published for either tier.

How do I get around Douglasdale/Glen without a car?

Better than most Calgary communities, and it is worth separating what is running today from what is still under construction. Route 306, MAX Teal, is a real, current rapid-transit line, and its southeast terminus, Douglas Glen Boulevard Station, sits inside Douglasdale/Glen, with an intermediate Quarry Park Station also inside the community. It launched under the MAX Teal branding on November 19, 2018, on a corridor that had run as Route 306 since December 10, 2012. Route 302, the Southeast/City Centre BRT, also runs through Quarry Park, connecting toward downtown and South Health Campus. Beyond the two BRT routes, regular service includes Route 96 and Route 92 through Douglas Glen, Route 24 extensively through Quarry Park Boulevard, and express Routes 117 and 131 along Quarry Park Boulevard and Douglasdale Boulevard. A handful of additional routes are school routes timed to bell schedules rather than general commuting. The Green Line is a different matter: construction on its Southeast Segment began in June 2025, and two of its planned stations, Douglas Glen and Quarry Park, sit inside or next to this community, with station design reaching 100% completion in August 2026. None of that is an open station. The City’s own FAQ states opening day is expected in 2031, and as of this writing there is no operating LRT service anywhere in Douglasdale/Glen.

Why does the average sale price in Douglasdale/Glen sit above the median?

The typical price is the middle sale once every sale is lined up in order; it doesn’t matter how far the other sales sit above or below it. The average adds every sale price together and divides by the number of sales, so a few very high sales can pull it well above what most homes actually sold for. In Douglasdale/Glen the average, $666,038, sits $21,038 above the typical price of $645,000. The single sale most responsible for that gap is the community’s highest of the year, a $1,900,000 apartment sale that sits far above every other transaction, including every detached sale. The typical price is the more useful number for what a Douglasdale/Glen sale actually looks like; the average, shown in the stat block at the top of this page, reflects the full dollar weight of a market with a genuine outlier at the top.

Sales data current as of 2026-08-24. Includes 217 residential sales in Douglasdale/Glen over the twelve months to August 2026. Source: Pillar 9 MLS® System. Copyright 2026 Pillar 9. All Rights Reserved.