5876 8th Line, Essa, ON L0L 1N0
- Property tax
- $8,826 / year
Welcome to this exceptional 47-acre parcel in South Essa Township, formerly known as the historic Tally Ho Airport, offering a rare opportunity with private aircraft aerodrome zoning. This unique property features a desirable blend of agricultural, commercial, and residential zoning, including approximately 5 acres of commercially zoned land fronting on 8th Line, providing excellent exposure and accessibility for a wide range of permitted uses. Registered with NAV Canada, the aerodrome permits ongoing private aircraft operations and includes a functional airstrip with additional shorter runways, ideal for aviation enthusiasts, private operators, or businesses requiring direct air access. The property includes a traditional 6-bedroom Ontario farmhouse with strong potential for multi-generational living, rental income, or a customized estate residence. A secondary home of approximately 1,000 sq. ft. offers additional flexibility for renovation, redevelopment, or guest accommodations. Outbuildings include an impressive 80' x 80' aircraft hangar capable of accommodating planes or helicopters, complete with an attached 15' x 40' office, a secondary 80' x 40' insulated metal building with heat and power, and a third structure currently used for hay storage with flexible future use. With established infrastructure, flexible zoning, and rich aviation history, this property supports a wide range of uses including agricultural operations, home-based businesses, and specialized commercial applications (subject to approvals).A rare offering combining scale, privacy, commercial frontage, and active aviation use-ideal for investors, end-users, or those seeking a distinctive live/work opportunity with long-term upside. Renderings are for illustrative purposes only and do not represent the property's current condition.
- MLS number
- N13416682
- Type
- Detached
- Status
- Active
- Bedrooms
- 6
- Bathrooms
- 3
- Postal code
- L0L 1N0
- Photos
- 35
- Laundry
- Not in the unit
This listing’s own days on market are shown above. How long the property has been for sale across every earlier listing is drawn from records the board releases only to registered users — a free account opens it, along with the sale history below.
Rooms
12 rooms as the listing brokerage filed them, with measurements.
Main
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen | 3.75 × 2.87 m | — |
| Great Room | 6.40 × 4.97 m | — |
| Dining Room | 5.38 × 4.24 m | — |
| Kitchen | 5.38 × 2.74 m | — |
| Sunroom | 5.30 × 4.72 m | — |
Upper
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Bedroom | 3.14 × 2.87 m | — |
| Bedroom | 3.20 × 3.07 m | — |
| Bedroom | 5.87 × 3.73 m | — |
| Primary Bedroom | 5.89 × 3.70 m | — |
| Bedroom | 4.44 × 3.70 m | — |
| Office | 5.20 × 2.74 m | — |
| Family Room | 8.66 × 5.28 m | — |
Property details
As filed by the listing brokerage. Anything the board left blank is left out rather than shown as unknown — and none of it is guaranteed accurate by PropTx, so verify what you rely on.
Property
- Type
- Detached
- Style
- 2-Storey
- Class
- Residential Freehold
- Fronting on
- West
- Community
- Rural Essa
- Municipality
- Essa
- Cross street
- 8th Line & 5th Sideroad
Inside
- Bedrooms
- 6
- Bedrooms above grade
- 6
- Bathrooms
- 3
- Washrooms
- 1 on the main floor · 1 on the upper floor · 1 on the upper floor
- Kitchens
- 2
- Rooms above grade
- 12
- Family room
- Yes
- Basement
- Partial Basement
- Size
- 3500-5000
Building
- Construction
- Brick
- Roof
- Asphalt Shingle
- Foundation
- Block
Parking
- Garage
- Other
- Covered spaces
- 0
- Driveway spaces
- 20
- Total parking
- 20
- Features
- Private
Land
- Lot
- 0 × 0 feet
- Pool
- None
Heating, cooling and services
- Heating
- Water
- Heat source
- Oil
- Cooling
- None
- Water
- Well
- Sewer
- Septic
Features
- Interior
- None
Listing
- MLS number
- N13416682
- Status
- New
- Previous status
- Draft
- Listed on
- 2026-06-08
- Expires
- 2026-10-08
- Taxes
- $8,826 (2025)
- Board
- Toronto Regional Real Estate Board
Listing history
This address has been listed 2 times.
Where this property is
Where this address sits, matched against open government data.
Estimated from the house-number range along this road: the right block of the right street, not the exact building. No address file publishes this house.
H-Value
What an H-Value is and how it is calculated — the method and our measured error, no account needed.
The market around this home
Detached houses in Essa — 361 sales over the last five years. Too few sold in this community to chart it on its own, so this is the whole city.
How these are built, and what they cannot tell you
Each point is the median of the sales that closed in that quarter among detached houses in essa. A quarter with fewer than eight is left out rather than drawn, and the line breaks where that happens — a median over three sales is really one home’s price, and joining across a gap would draw a number nobody measured.
This is not an estimate of what this home is worth. The segment is a property type in an area; it takes no account of this home’s size, condition, renovations, lot, exposure or how it compares to its neighbours, and half the homes in any quarter sold for more than the median and half for less. It is context for a conversation with an agent, not a valuation.
Toronto Regional Real Estate Board closed transactions. Deemed reliable but not guaranteed accurate by PropTx.
This neighbourhood
Statistics Canada 2021 Census, for the surrounding few blocks — about 789 people.
The neighbourhood, by the census
Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35430745 — the few blocks around this address, home to 789 people. It describes the area, not this property.
Percentages are of the 435 responses in this category. Statistics Canada rounds counts and withholds small ones to keep individuals unidentifiable, so categories with too few people to publish are absent rather than shown as zero.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Work out the numbers
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If you rented it out
How this is calculated, and what it leaves out
Canadian fixed-rate mortgages compound semi-annually, not monthly, so the monthly rate here is (1 + rate/2)1/6 − 1. Most calculators use rate ÷ 12, which is the American convention and overstates the payment by tens of dollars a month.
Below 20% down, default insurance is mandatory and is added to the loan rather than paid at closing: 2.80% at 85% loan-to-value, 3.10% at 90%, 4.00% at 95%. It is unavailable at or above $1.5M, which is why 20% is a hard floor there.
Not included: vacancy, property management, capital repairs, income tax, and the fact that a lender qualifies you at a stress-test rate rather than the one you are quoted. This is arithmetic on the numbers above, not a mortgage approval or an opinion of what you can afford.