Sundance

Overview

Sundance sits in the deep southeast, a planned lake community east of Macleod Trail and roughly twenty-two to twenty-seven minutes from downtown. It is bounded by Sun Valley Boulevard SE to the north, Macleod Trail to the west, Marquis of Lorne Trail (Highway 22X, part of the Stoney Trail ring road) to the south, and the Fish Creek Park and Bow River corridor to the east. Its closest neighbour is Midnapore directly across Sun Valley Boulevard to the north. Together the two communities form the MidSun area, the cluster of deep-south lake communities, and this is firmly part of the southeast, not the inner southwest.

Sundance was established as a community around 1982, which makes it younger and far more uniformly single-family than its older neighbour Midnapore next door. The centrepiece is Lake Sundance, a private man-made lake carved at the turn of the 1980s for the exclusive use of residents and their guests. The streets run on the community’s distinctive Sun theme: Sunmills, Sunwood, Sunbank, Sun Valley, and the rest. The result is a settled, planned, lake-oriented community where the housing is overwhelmingly detached.

What makes Sundance stand out is that combination of a private four-season lake and a near-pure detached streetscape. It is the more uniform of the two MidSun communities, and its market is tight. Fish Creek Provincial Park, one of the largest urban parks in North America, runs along the eastern edge.

Sundance had 100 residential sales in the twelve months to August 2026, and their blended median was $687,400. Detached houses made up 92 of them, 92.0% of the market, and sold at a median of $705,000. The remaining sales were five row and townhouse homes and three semi-detached homes.

David’s take

The vibe

Sundance reads as a quiet, planned, family-oriented lake community. Because it was built as a single coordinated development, the streetscape is cohesive and overwhelmingly detached, without the patchwork of condo blocks and rental product you find in older mixed communities. The feel is settled and residential, with mature trees, curving Sun-themed streets, and a strong sense that this is a place people raise families and stay.

The setting is the draw. Lake Sundance anchors the community socially, a private lake with a beach, boats, courts, disc golf, cookshacks and BBQs in the warm months, and skating, shinny, and fire pits once it freezes, with adult members able to bring up to twelve guests per house per day. On top of that, Fish Creek Provincial Park runs along the eastern edge, putting one of the largest urban parks in North America and its pathway network directly at hand. Between the private lake and the public park, few deep-south communities match the outdoor access here.

For shopping and services, Sundance shares the MidSun amenities with Midnapore, including the area shopping centres and the Mid-Sun Community Association. Macleod Trail runs the western edge with its full corridor of retail, and the Shawnessy Town Centre and the LRT are a short drive west, so day-to-day errands and bigger shopping trips are both close.

Housing stock

The backbone of Sundance is its detached homes, and the defining fact of the market is how dominant that segment is. Most of the detached stock is original to the community’s build-out, well-kept family homes on planned lots, with renovations and updates layered in over the decades rather than the wholesale teardown-and-rebuild churn you see in the inner-city communities. Attached product is a small minority, a thin band of row and townhouse units and a handful of half-duplexes, and there is very little condo or apartment stock to speak of.

Sundance is a detached market first and almost only. If you want a single-family home with lake access in the deep south, this is a core target community. If you are looking for condo or apartment product, you will find very little of it here and should look to the more mixed communities nearby.

Over the twelve months to August 2026, detached houses accounted for 92 of Sundance’s 100 residential sales, 92.0% of the market. They sold at a median of $705,000 and an average of $729,835, between $492,500 and $2,202,371, and took a median of 17 days to sell. The detached homes that sold carried a median build year of 1989.

Row and townhouse homes closed five sales in the same twelve months, and semi-detached homes closed three. There were no apartment sales. If you want help reading where a specific home sits against these figures, the buyer’s guide is a good starting point.

Type	Median sale price	Sales
Detached	$727,500	84
Semi-detached	$628,000	3
Row / townhouse	$485,000	5
All home types	$706,000	92

Recent sales

Sundance’s 100 residential sales over the twelve months to August 2026 took a median of 17 days to sell, and detached houses matched that at 17. The header shows an average instead, and that community figure was 25 days. At the median, homes sold for 98.71% of their list price.

The blended median came in at $687,400. The header’s price figure is an average, $714,952, which is $27,552 above that median. The middle half of the market closed between $610,000 and $800,000.

Sales ran from $481,000 to $2,202,371. The $481,000 low sits among the smaller row, townhouse and semi-detached sales.

If you own a home in Sundance, a home valuation is the place to start.

Schools

There is a CBE school inside Sundance carrying the community’s name, and it is worth understanding what it actually is. Sundance School holds an Early French Immersion attendance area and not a regular-stream one, which makes it the designated school for French Immersion families at Sundance addresses and a genuine reason for those families to look here. It is not the English-stream catchment school. That designation is Fish Creek School, also inside the community.

From there the public pathway is straightforward. The junior-high designation runs to MidSun School, a CBE school that serves both Sundance and Midnapore and opened in the mid-1990s after area parents petitioned the board for a school of their own. The senior-high anchor is Centennial High School, a CBE 10-12 school inside Sundance at 55 Sun Valley Boulevard SE. For Catholic families, Father Whelihan School at 70 Sunmills Drive SE, inside Sundance, is the designated elementary and junior high, feeding Bishop O’Byrne High School in Shawnessy for grades 10 to 12.

School designations in the deep south are address-specific and shift with enrolment, so confirm the designation for any specific address using the CBE Find a School and CSSD school-locator tools before you buy. For a broader overview of how Calgary school boundaries and programmes work, see the schools resource.

Getting around

Sundance is a car-friendly community with strong arterial access on its edges. Macleod Trail runs along the western edge, Sun Valley Boulevard forms the northern boundary with Midnapore, and Marquis of Lorne Trail (Highway 22X, part of the Stoney Trail ring road) runs along the south, so getting onto a major route is quick from most addresses. Macleod Trail provides a direct route north toward the city centre, and Marquis of Lorne Trail and Stoney Trail connect east and west across the south end of the city and out to Deerfoot.

Transit is provided by Calgary Transit bus routes connecting the community to the wider network and to the nearby CTrain stations on the south LRT line, with the Shawnessy Town Centre and its station a short drive away. The community itself is residential and quiet, so daily errands and commuting are done primarily by car, with the MidSun shopping and the Shawnessy retail close at hand.

Commute times are approximate and depend on traffic and your exact destination. Downtown is about twenty-two to twenty-seven minutes by car. Foothills Medical Centre runs roughly twenty-seven minutes, the University of Calgary about twenty-seven to thirty-two minutes, and Calgary International Airport around thirty-two to thirty-seven minutes; treat these as estimates.

Frequently asked questions

Is Sundance a good neighbourhood for families?

Yes, and it is one of the more purpose-built family communities in the deep south. Sundance is a planned 1980s lake community where 92 of the 100 residential sales over the twelve months to August 2026 were detached homes, so the streetscape is overwhelmingly single-family rather than a mix of condos and rentals. The centrepiece is private Lake Sundance, with a beach, swimming, fishing, tennis and pickleball, disc golf, playgrounds, and winter skating, all for the exclusive use of residents and their guests. Fish Creek School is the designated CBE elementary, Sundance School inside the community is the designated Early French Immersion school, MidSun School handles junior high, and Centennial High School sits inside the community at 55 Sun Valley Boulevard SE. Fish Creek Provincial Park along the eastern edge adds a huge amount of pathway and green space.

How much do homes cost in Sundance?

In the twelve months to August 2026, 100 homes sold in Sundance. The blended median was $687,400, the middle half closed between $610,000 and $800,000, and sales ran from $481,000 to $2,202,371. Detached houses, 92 of those sales, had a median of $705,000, between $492,500 and $2,202,371. Five row and townhouse sales and three semi-detached sales also closed. The $481,000 community low sits among those sales. A home valuation is the place to start for a specific property.

How does the Lake Sundance membership and fee work?

Lake Sundance is a private man-made lake carved at the turn of the 1980s for the exclusive use of Sundance residents and their guests, run by the Lake Sundance Residents Association. Owning a home in the community comes with a mandatory annual lake membership fee tied to the property, and that fee funds the lake and its amenities: the beach and swimming, fishing, boats, tennis and pickleball, basketball, disc golf, playgrounds, cookshacks and BBQs, and a winter skating and shinny hub with fire pits. For the year running July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027 the association lists $333.24 for a regular lot and $451.65 for a lake access or lakefront lot, GST included, due July 1. It says an encumbrance is registered against the Certificate of Title. Adult members can bring up to twelve guests per house per day. It is a genuine four-season private amenity, and it is also an ongoing cost and obligation, so factor the annual fee into your budget.

What is the difference between Sundance and Midnapore in the MidSun area?

Sundance and Midnapore are the two lake communities that make up the MidSun area, divided by Sun Valley Boulevard, with Sundance to the south and Midnapore to the north. They share shopping, the Mid-Sun Community Association, and schools including MidSun School. The main difference is age and mix: Midnapore is older and more varied, with a wider range of housing types, while Sundance is far more uniformly single-family detached. Each community has its own private lake. Measured the same way over the same window, the twelve months to August 2026, 92 of Sundance’s 100 sales were detached, against 44 of Midnapore’s 86. The detached homes that sold in Sundance had a median build year of 1989 and a median price of $705,000. In Midnapore the same two figures were 1978 and $657,500.

What are the schools and how do you get around Sundance?

Fish Creek School is the designated CBE elementary for Sundance addresses. Sundance School sits inside the community, but it holds an Early French Immersion attendance area rather than a regular-stream designation, so it is the designated school for French Immersion families here and not the English-stream catchment school. MidSun School serves junior high for both Sundance and Midnapore, and Centennial High School at 55 Sun Valley Boulevard SE is the senior-high anchor in the MidSun area. For Catholic families, Father Whelihan School at 70 Sunmills Drive SE inside Sundance is the designated elementary and junior high, feeding Bishop O’Byrne High School for the senior grades. School designations are address-specific and shift with enrolment, so verify with the CBE and CSSD locators before you buy. Getting around is car-first: Macleod Trail runs the west edge and Marquis of Lorne Trail (Highway 22X) the south, with the Shawnessy Town Centre and the LRT a short drive away.

Sales data current as of 2026-08-31. Includes 100 residential sales in Sundance over the twelve months to August 2026. Source: Pillar 9 MLS® System. Copyright 2026 Pillar 9. All Rights Reserved.