What Makes Lakeridge Different from Other Regina Neighbourhoods

Lakeridge sits in northwest Regina, on the north side of Rochdale Boulevard. Every listing on this page on 31 August 2026 carried an S4X postal code, and the City of Regina puts the four parks with Lakeridge addresses in Ward 10.

The first thing worth knowing is that the City doesn't treat Lakeridge as its own unit. When you go looking for census numbers on regina.ca, there is no Lakeridge profile. There's a combined profile called Walsh Acres-Lakeridge-Garden Ridge, and it covers three neighbourhoods at once. Every census figure on this page comes from that combined profile, and I've said so every time one appears. If somebody quotes you a population or an income figure for Lakeridge alone, ask them where they got it, because the City doesn't publish one.

The second thing is the water. The neighbourhood is named for it, the two most expensive listings on this page both mention the view, and the City of Regina calls it a stormwater retention pond. In a news release dated 27 May 2026 the City announced six floating treatment wetland islands going into the Lakewood, Lakeridge and Rochdale stormwater retention ponds, working with the Saskatchewan Association of Watersheds and WUQWATR, supported by Environment and Climate Change Canada. The City's own description is that the plants send long roots into the water to help clean it, cutting the nutrient buildup that drives excess algae. That tells you two useful things at once. The water is real, it's a genuine amenity, and there are homes here whose value is tied to looking at it. And it's a managed piece of drainage infrastructure, not a recreational lake. Both of those are true and you should hold both.

The third thing is that "Lakeridge" on the MLS is actually two areas. Eight of the nine listings on this page were tagged Lakeridge RG. One, the condominium at 82-5533 Blake Crescent, was tagged Lakeridge Addition. That's not a data error. The City of Regina publishes a concept plan for the Lakeridge Addition, the newer section built out north of the original neighbourhood, and it's a separate planning area with its own numbers.

Those are projections from a concept plan the City published, not a count of what's standing today, and I'm labelling them that way on purpose. What they're good for is understanding the shape of the place. Roughly three quarters of the planned dwelling units in the Addition are single-family, there's a designated high-density parcel, and just under three hectares was set aside for park and stormwater. That mix is why the listings on this page split so cleanly between condominiums and detached houses, with very little in between.

One more piece of housekeeping, because people arrive at this page from a search that isn't about Regina at all. This is Lakeridge in Regina, Saskatchewan. Other places in Canada and the United States carry the same name, and so do a hospital network and a ski hill. This page is about none of them. If you searched "lakeridge regina" and you're reading this, you're in the right place.

Home Prices in Lakeridge Regina

Here is the whole thing, every listing that was on this page when I checked it on 31 August 2026. Not a selection, not the pretty ones. All nine.

Nine listings, eight of them Active and one, the Nicurity Drive condominium, already a Conditional Sale. The range runs from $209,900 to $2,090,000. The median of the nine asking prices is $499,900. If you drop the conditional sale and look only at the eight that were still Active, the median is $499,950, which tells you the conditional one wasn't doing much work in the middle.

I'd rather you didn't use an average here. The average of these nine is $626,051, and that number is being dragged around by one $2,090,000 house. Nine listings with a ten-to-one spread between the cheapest and the priciest is exactly the situation where an average tells you nothing about what you'd actually pay. The median is more honest, and even the median is a one-day reading.

Now the part that matters most if you're shopping, and the part you won't find in a summary anywhere else. There was nothing listed in Lakeridge between $289,900 and $499,900 on 31 August 2026. That's a $210,000 hole straight through the middle of the market. Below it, four condominiums. Above it, three detached houses within $50,100 of each other. Then a long gap and two homes near or above a million.

Two of those five bands were empty. That's what a small neighbourhood looks like on any given day, and it's the single most practical thing on this page. If your budget is $375,000 and you want to be in Lakeridge, on 31 August 2026 there was nothing here for you, and no amount of looking harder would have changed that. You'd be waiting for the next listing, or looking at Garden Ridge, Walsh Acres or Maple Ridge as well.

Asking price per square foot

Price per square foot is a blunt instrument. It ignores lot size, finish, garage, basement development and what the place backs onto. But it does one useful job, which is showing you whether a big number is big because the house is big or big because the house is expensive.

Those are my calculations off the asking price and the floor area published in each listing, rounded to the nearest dollar. Read down the column and the picture is tidier than the raw prices suggested. The whole neighbourhood on that day sat between $232 and $444 a square foot on asking. The two big homes are at the top, which is what you'd expect when the price includes a triple garage, lake views, and finishes you don't get in a townhouse. The cheapest per square foot was the Rochdale Boulevard condominium at $232, and the cheapest overall was the Blake Crescent one at $209,900 for 786 square feet.

One thing to watch: floor area on the MLS is above-grade living space. Four of these nine listings describe a fully developed basement, and the two most expensive are walkouts. That developed lower level is real living space that never shows up in the square-footage number, so a 1,633 square foot two-storey with a finished basement lives a lot bigger than a 1,633 square foot number implies. When you compare two homes on price per square foot, check whether you're comparing like for like on the basement.

And the caveat I'll repeat as often as it needs repeating: these are asking prices, on one day, from nine listings. They are not sold prices. A seller can ask anything. What a home sells for is a different number, it lands weeks later, and it depends on the offer, the conditions and the possession date. If you want sold comparables for a specific Lakeridge address, that's a conversation, not a web page.

Is Lakeridge a Buyer's or Seller's Market?

I'm not going to hand you a one-word answer, and I want to tell you why rather than just dodging.

To call a market properly you need sold prices, days on market, and the sale-to-list ratio, over months, for that neighbourhood. I have all of that in my own MLS access and I use it with clients every week. What I don't have is a public, citable source for those Lakeridge numbers that I'm willing to put on a page with my name on it and leave up for a year. So I'm not going to publish a market call I can't show you the working for. That would be exactly the kind of confident-sounding claim I'd tell you to be suspicious of if another agent's page said it.

Here's what the 31 August 2026 snapshot does show, and it's genuinely useful.

One of the nine was already spoken for. The condominium at 53-4425 Nicurity Drive showed a status of Conditional Sale, meaning an offer was accepted and conditions hadn't been removed yet. That's roughly one in nine off the board on the day I looked.

One seller published an offer deadline. The listing for 1336 Smishek Drive N, a $500,000 two-storey, stated in its own description that offers were to be submitted by Monday 31 August 2026 at 4 p.m. A seller and their agent don't set a deadline unless they think more than one buyer is coming. That's a real signal about that one house, on that one week. It is not a signal about the neighbourhood, and I won't stretch it into one.

Nine listings came from seven different brokerages. RE/MAX Crown Real Estate, Boyes Group Realty, Sutton Group Results Realty, Realtyone Real Estate Services, 2 Percent Realty Refined, JC Realty Regina and Realty Hub Brokerage. No single office controls this neighbourhood's inventory, which matters more than people realise: it means the listings aren't being fed through one pipeline, and there's no shortcut around actually watching the market.

The choice set is thin at every price. Under $300,000 you're picking among four condominiums. At the $500,000 mark you're picking among three houses. In between, nothing. Thin inventory cuts both ways. It's hard on a buyer with a specific requirement, and it's uncomfortable for a seller too, because the buyers who do show up are looking at a tiny field and they know precisely what the alternatives are.

What I'd actually do with that. If you're buying, get your financing pre-approved before you start looking, not after you find something. In a neighbourhood with two empty price bands, the home that fits you might appear on a Tuesday and be gone by the weekend, and a pre-approval is the difference between being able to act and watching it happen. If you're selling, understand that on 31 August 2026 you'd have had at most two or three direct comparables in your own neighbourhood, and possibly none. That makes pricing harder, not easier, and it's the situation where guessing costs the most.

Schools Serving Lakeridge Regina

This is the question I get most from families, and it's the one where most neighbourhood pages quietly make something up. So let me be precise about what is published and what isn't.

Neither division publishes a list that says "Lakeridge is served by X." Regina Public Schools tells families on its Attendance Boundaries page to "find your neighbourhood school based on your residential address" using its School Locator tool, and publishes its Kindergarten to Grade 12 boundaries as an interactive web map rather than a written list. Regina Catholic Schools points families to its School Finder and says each school has its own boundary map showing attendance, walking and transportation boundaries. Both work from your address, not your neighbourhood name.

That's not me being cagey. That's genuinely how it works, and it matters, because two houses four blocks apart in the same neighbourhood can be in different catchments. Being near a school does not guarantee a seat in it. Run the exact address through both locators before you write an offer, and if you're relying on French immersion or a specific programme, phone the school and confirm.

What I can tell you is what's published and verifiable. The City of Regina's own transit schedule for Route 16 Lakeridge - Hawkstone lists Winston Knoll Collegiate and Michael Riffel High School among the landmarks the route serves, alongside Lakeridge itself. That's a City document connecting this neighbourhood to those two high schools, which is a stronger link than a listing description's claim. Here are the schools with addresses in and immediately around Lakeridge, taken from each division's own site.

Read that table carefully and you'll notice something nobody advertises: no Regina Public school and no Regina Catholic school has an address on a Lakeridge residential street. The closest are the two high schools on Rochdale Boulevard, which is the neighbourhood's southern edge. The elementary schools all sit in adjacent northwest neighbourhoods. That is not a knock on Lakeridge, and it doesn't mean children here are bussed across the city, because the northwest is compact and Rochdale is right there. But if you pictured walking a five-year-old to a school inside the neighbourhood, check the actual route from the actual house before you buy.

One more thing while we're being careful. One of the listings on this page describes itself as "within walking distance to both Riffel and Winston Knoll high schools." That's the listing agent's description, not a school division statement, and it's about that one address on Rochdale Boulevard. Treat listing copy as a claim to verify, not a fact to rely on. That goes for my listing copy too.

Regina Public Schools also notes on its own locator that some addresses in new or proposed residential development areas may not be searchable, and suggests trying an adjacent street or phoning any Regina Public school principal for clarification. Given that part of Lakeridge is the newer Addition, that's worth knowing before you conclude the tool is broken.

Daily Life in Lakeridge: What to Expect

Parks and the pond

The City of Regina's Parks Classification List for 2026 names four parks with Lakeridge addresses, all in Ward 10.

On top of those, the City lists the Lakeridge Outdoor Skate Park at 5255 Rochdale Blvd as one of the four skateboard parks and plazas it names in Regina, alongside the Skate Plaza in Wascana Centre, the Skate Plaza at Norseman Park in Harbour Landing, and the Imperial Park Skate Pod on Broad Street North. Four named, in a city of 226,404 people, and one of them is here. If you have a kid who skates, that is a bigger deal than another green rectangle, and it's a five-minute walk from the Rochdale Boulevard listings on this page rather than a drive across town.

The pond is the other thing people move here for. Listing SK032784 at 1514 N Lakeridge Drive describes a walkout backing green space and walking paths with lake views, and SK040932 at 5516 Leibel Crescent describes a kitchen overlooking the lake with balcony access. Those are the two priciest homes on this page and both of them are selling the water. Whether it justifies the price is your call, but the premium is visible in the numbers: those two are also the top two on price per square foot.

Getting around, and the transit schedule you should read before you buy

Regina Transit runs Route 16 Lakeridge - Hawkstone, a low-floor route, effective 23 August 2026. Its published landmarks are Lakeridge, Winston Knoll Collegiate, Michael Riffel High School, the Rochdale Boulevard shopping area and Hawkstone. Its two time points are Superstore North at Stockton Street and Child Avenue, stop 1432, and the McEachern Drive turnaround at McEachern Drive and Rochdale Boulevard, stop 1574.

I'm putting that table on the page because it's the single most commonly glossed-over fact about this part of the city. Route 16 is a weekday commuter route with a peak-hours shape. It gets you out in the morning and home in the late afternoon, roughly every 30 minutes, and outside those windows it isn't running. There is no Saturday or Sunday service on it at all.

If two people in your household drive, that's a non-issue. If you were planning to sell the second car, or if you have a teenager who'd need to get to a weekend job, read that schedule properly first. It's the kind of thing that looks like a small detail on a Tuesday viewing and turns into a real problem in month three. Regina Transit does publish real-time tracking at TransitLive.com, and you can text a four-digit stop number to 306-596-6136 to get the next arrival, which helps once you live here but doesn't change the hours.

The community association

Lakeridge is covered by the Walsh Acres/Lakeridge/Garden Ridge Community Association, which the City of Regina lists under its West Zone Board. Annual membership is $5.00 and runs from September 1st to August 31st, and the association says it receives an annual grant from the City of Regina. Its programming includes Tae Kwon Do, and it holds city-wide programme registration nights on the second Tuesday in January and September at the Henry Janzen School gym.

The detail worth knowing is what that $5 buys. The association states that membership lets you register in any programme or activity offered by the City of Regina and by any community association in Regina. So it isn't only a Lakeridge thing. If your child wants a programme that runs out of a rec centre on the other side of the city, the membership travels.

Who your neighbours are

All of the following is from the City of Regina's 2021 Walsh Acres-Lakeridge-Garden Ridge neighbourhood profile, so it covers three neighbourhoods, not Lakeridge alone. The City obtained the data from Statistics Canada through the community data programme, and Statistics Canada rounds these values to a multiple of 5 or 10 to protect confidentiality, so percentages may not add to exactly 100.

Two things jump out of that table. The first is that more than half the households here, 2,705 of 4,895, have one or two people in them. This is not only a neighbourhood of four-person households, whatever the size of the houses suggests. The second is the ownership rate. At 90.3 per cent owner-occupied, this is one of the most owner-heavy parts of Regina, and that changes the texture of a street: people stay, they maintain, and turnover is slower.

The dwelling-condition split is worth a second look too. Of 4,900 dwellings recorded on that measure, only 150 were reported as needing major repairs. That's about 3 per cent. It's an honest sign of a housing stock in decent shape, and it's also exactly why I'd still tell you to pay for a full inspection: a neighbourhood-level average tells you nothing about the specific furnace in the specific house you're about to buy.

One figure I'd have liked to give you and can't: how people here get to work. The City's published PDF for this profile area is missing its transportation page. Pages 4, 6, 8 and 9 of that document are Normanview West's pages, not Walsh Acres-Lakeridge-Garden Ridge's, so the commuting table for this area isn't in the file. I'm not going to quote another neighbourhood's numbers and call them Lakeridge's. If you want that figure, ask the City directly.

Lakeridge vs. Other Regina Neighbourhoods

The fairest comparison I can make with published data is to put the Walsh Acres-Lakeridge-Garden Ridge profile area alongside two other City of Regina profile areas and against the city as a whole. I've picked Uplands, another north Regina owner-heavy area, and Coronation Park, which sits below the citywide median on household income. The Regina-wide column is Statistics Canada's 2021 Census for Regina, City.

The northwest area Lakeridge belongs to is, on these numbers, one of the more affluent and more owner-occupied parts of Regina. Its median after-tax household income of $103,000 is about 35 per cent above the citywide $76,500. Its ownership rate of 90.3 per cent is 24 percentage points above the city's 66.4 per cent, and even above Uplands. That's the honest positioning: this is an established, settled, owning neighbourhood, not an entry point into the market and not a rental area.

There's a wrinkle in that, though, and it's the shelter-cost row. Even with the highest income of the three areas, 9.40 per cent of owner households here spend 30 per cent or more of their income on shelter, which is higher than Uplands at 5.80 per cent. Higher income doesn't automatically mean comfortable payments. People here are buying more house, and some of them are stretching to do it. That's a reason to build your own budget from your own numbers rather than from what the neighbourhood average suggests you can carry.

On renter affordability, the picture is harsher: 29.50 per cent of renter households in this area spend 30 per cent or more of income on shelter, against 11.70 per cent in Uplands. With only 475 renter households in the whole three-neighbourhood area, the rental stock is thin, and thin rental stock usually means it isn't cheap. If your plan is to rent in Lakeridge for a year while you look, that's worth knowing going in.

The comparison I can't make properly is on price. I have nine Lakeridge asking prices from one day, and I don't have a comparable published set for Uplands or Coronation Park that I'd stand behind. So I'm not going to tell you Lakeridge is X per cent more expensive than somewhere else. If that's the question you actually need answered, ask me and I'll pull the sold data for both areas and show you where the numbers come from.

Things to Consider Before Buying in Lakeridge

I try to give clients the whole picture, including the parts that would make them not buy. Here's what I'd want to know if I were looking here.

The middle of the market can be empty. On 31 August 2026 there was nothing listed between $289,900 and $499,900, and nothing between $550,001 and $999,957. In a neighbourhood this size that's normal, not alarming, but it does mean your search may be a waiting game rather than a browsing exercise. Set up alerts and be patient. Don't talk yourself into the wrong condominium because it's the only thing available this month.

Transit is weekday and peak-only. Route 16 has no Saturday or Sunday service and nothing between roughly 9:17 a.m. and 3:14 p.m. That is the schedule the City publishes, and it's the fact most likely to change how a one-car household feels about this neighbourhood six months in.

The lake is a stormwater retention pond. The City says so in its own release. It's genuinely nice, it's being actively managed with floating wetlands as of May 2026, and the two priciest homes on this page are priced partly on the view of it. Just go and look at it in person, in the season you'd actually be living here, before you pay a view premium for it.

There's no school on a Lakeridge residential street. The two high schools are on Rochdale Boulevard at the neighbourhood's edge and the elementary schools are in neighbouring areas. Check the specific address in both divisions' locators, and walk the route yourself if walking matters to you.

Four of the nine listings were condominiums, and condominiums come with a second set of homework. One of them, at 5442 Rochdale Boulevard, states that its condo fees include water and sewer. Fees, what they cover and how healthy the reserve fund is differ from complex to complex and from year to year. Before you write an offer on any condominium here, ask for the current fee, the reserve fund study and the last two years of board minutes, and actually read them. The minutes are where you find out about the roof.

The area's population went down, not up. Walsh Acres-Lakeridge-Garden Ridge fell 2.06 per cent between the 2016 and 2021 censuses, from 13,330 to 13,055. That's a small decline and it's a common pattern in established neighbourhoods where children grow up and move out while the parents stay. It isn't a warning sign on its own. It is a reason to be sceptical of anyone selling you Lakeridge as a fast-growing area.

Don't build a budget off an average that includes the outliers. Two of the nine listings were near or above a million dollars. Any "average Lakeridge home price" that includes them will overstate what you'd pay for an ordinary house here by a wide margin. The median of $499,900 is closer to reality, and the three houses clustered between $499,900 and $550,000 are closer still.

Everything on this page has a date on it. The listings were read on 31 August 2026. The census figures are from 2021 and cover three neighbourhoods together. The concept plan projections are from a City planning document, not a count. The transit schedule took effect 23 August 2026 and schedules change. If you're reading this months later, treat every number as a starting point and check the current one.

Where These Numbers Come From

Every figure on this page has a source and a date. Nothing here is an estimate, a rule of thumb or something I remembered. If a number isn't in this list, it isn't on the page.

• Listings, prices, statuses, bedrooms, bathrooms, floor areas, brokerages and listing descriptions: the live MLS results on this page, jennicageorge.com/lakeridge-homes-for-sale.html, read 31 August 2026. Price per square foot and the medians are my own arithmetic on those published figures.
• Population, age, household size, tenure, income, dwelling structure and dwelling condition: City of Regina, 2021 Neighbourhood Profile, Walsh Acres-Lakeridge-Garden Ridge, at regina.ca/about-regina/neighbourhood-profiles/.galleries/pdfs/walsh-acres.pdf, read 31 August 2026. The profile index is at regina.ca/about-regina/maps/neighbourhood-profiles/.
• Uplands and Coronation Park comparison figures: City of Regina, 2021 Neighbourhood Profiles for Uplands and Coronation Park, same folder, read 31 August 2026.
• Regina-wide population, dwellings, ownership rate and median after-tax household income: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, Focus on Geography Series, Regina, City, at www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/as-sa/fogs-spg/, read 31 August 2026.
• Parks, civic addresses and wards: City of Regina, Parks Classification List 2026, at regina.ca/parks-recreation-culture/parks/.galleries/pdfs/Parks-Classification-List.pdf, read 31 August 2026.
• Lakeridge Outdoor Skate Park and the list of Regina skateboard parks: City of Regina, Courts & Outdoor Facilities, at regina.ca/parks-recreation-culture/recreation-facilities/courts-outdoor-facilities/, read 31 August 2026.
• The stormwater retention pond and the floating wetlands: City of Regina news release, "Floating Wetlands Coming to Stormwater Retention Ponds in Regina", dated 27 May 2026, at regina.ca/news/Floating-Wetlands-Coming-to-Stormwater-Retention-Ponds-in-Regina/, read 31 August 2026.
• Community association name, zone board, membership and programme registration: City of Regina, Zone Boards & Community Associations, at regina.ca/parks-recreation-culture/community/associations-boards/, and the association's own site at walshacres-lakeridge-gardenridge.com, both read 31 August 2026.
• Route 16 landmarks, time points, stop numbers, departure times and weekend service: City of Regina, Route 16 Lakeridge - Hawkstone, at regina.ca/transportation-roads-parking/transit/schedules-routes/route-16-lakeridge-hawkstone/, and the printed schedule Route-16_AUG-2026.pdf, effective 23 August 2026, both read 31 August 2026.
• Lakeridge Addition projected population, dwelling units, school population and land use areas: City of Regina, Lakeridge Addition Land Use and Roadway Classification Plan, Figure 2.2, at regina.ca/business-development/land-property-development/.galleries/pdfs/Design-Regina/Concept-Plan-Lakeridge-Addition.pdf, read 31 August 2026. These are planning projections, not counts.
• School addresses, grades and boundary policy: Regina Public Schools Attendance Boundaries and Kindergarten to Grade 12 School Boundaries pages, its High Schools and Elementary Schools lists, and the individual school sites at reginapublicschools.ca and rbe.sk.ca; Regina Catholic Schools School Finder and school directory at rcsd.ca. All read 31 August 2026.

Two things I checked and deliberately left out. I have not published a crime or safety statistic for Lakeridge, because I could not find one for this neighbourhood from a source I'd stand behind, and a vague reassurance is worse than nothing. And I have not published a commuting figure, because the page carrying it is missing from the City's own PDF for this profile area. If either of those matters to your decision, ask me and I'll tell you what I actually know and where the limits are.