196 Birchwood Avenue, Kincardine, ON N0G 2T0
- Property tax
- $6,879 / year
Storybook charm meets lakeside living-just steps from the shores of Lake Huron! This exceptional second-tier home offers the perfect balance of tranquility and everyday convenience, with beach walks, stunning sunsets, and the sound of waves as part of daily life. Set in a quiet, established neighbourhood near Lake Huron Highlands Park, the property features a spacious driveway, two-car garage and a landscaped yard with room to grow. Inside, you'll find bright, elegant living spaces, quality finishes, built-ins, and a large back deck made for entertaining. With five bedrooms-and potential for two more-this home easily adapts to families, remote work, or creative pursuits. The primary suite offers private deck access for your own peaceful retreat. Close to trails, parks, and the amenities of Kincardine, this home delivers space, flexibility and an unbeatable lifestyle by the lake. Welcome to your next chapter!
- MLS number
- X13023962
- Type
- Detached
- Status
- Active
- Bedrooms
- 5
- Bathrooms
- 3
- Postal code
- N0G 2T0
- Photos
- 50
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
19 rooms as the listing brokerage filed them, with measurements.
Main
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Bathroom | 1.50 × 2.68 m | 3 Pc Bath |
| Bathroom | 2.16 × 4.35 m | 4 Pc Ensuite |
| Bedroom 2 | 3.38 × 3.87 m | — |
| Primary Bedroom | 3.69 × 4.30 m | 4 Pc Ensuite · Walk-In Closet(s) |
| Dining Room | 2.92 × 3.99 m | — |
| Family Room | 4.29 × 9.02 m | — |
| Foyer | 2.13 × 2.40 m | — |
| Kitchen | 3.74 × 3.53 m | — |
| Laundry | 2.43 × 1.85 m | — |
| Living Room | 3.69 × 3.07 m | — |
| Office | 2.77 × 3.26 m | — |
Basement
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Bathroom | 2.19 × 3.20 m | 3 Pc Bath |
| Bedroom 3 | 4.30 × 4.20 m | — |
| Bedroom 4 | 3.07 × 3.16 m | — |
| Bedroom 5 | 2.65 × 4.05 m | Combined w/Office |
| Cold Room/Cantina | 1.85 × 1.85 m | — |
| Exercise Room | 3.84 × 4.87 m | — |
| Recreation | 10.66 × 10.88 m | — |
| Utility Room | 2.19 × 3.41 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
- Bungalow-Raised
- Class
- Residential Freehold
- Fronting on
- East
- Community
- Kincardine
- Municipality
- Kincardine
- Cross street
- Parkwood Rd and Birchwood Avenue
- Zoning
- R1-am
Inside
- Bedrooms
- 5
- Bedrooms above grade
- 2
- Bathrooms
- 3
- Washrooms
- 1 on the main floor · 1 on the main floor · 1 on the basement floor
- Kitchens
- 1
- Rooms above grade
- 13
- Family room
- Yes
- Fireplace
- Yes
- Fireplaces
- 2
- Basement
- Full, Finished
- Laundry
- Main Level
- Size
- 1500-2000
Building
- Construction
- Stone
- Roof
- Shingles
- Foundation
- Poured Concrete
Parking
- Garage
- Attached
- Covered spaces
- 2
- Driveway spaces
- 6
- Total parking
- 8
- Features
- Private Double
Land
- Lot
- 88.5 × 246.4 feet
- Shape
- Irregular
- View
- Forest, Garden, Trees/Woods, Park/Greenbelt
- Pool
- None
Heating, cooling and services
- Heating
- Forced Air
- Heat source
- Gas
- Cooling
- Central Air
- Water
- Municipal
- Sewer
- Septic
Features
- Property
- Beach, Park, School Bus Route, Level, Wooded/Treed, Hospital
- Interior
- Auto Garage Door Remote, Guest Accommodations, In-Law Capability, Primary Bedroom - Main Floor, Storage, Water Heater Owned, Water Meter
- Exterior
- Deck, Landscaped, Year Round Living, Recreational Area
Listing
- MLS number
- X13023962
- Status
- Extension
- Previous status
- New
- Listed on
- 2026-04-20
- Expires
- 2026-10-31
- Taxes
- $6,879 (2026)
- Board
- One Point Association of REALTORS
Listing history
No previous listings found for this address.
Where this property is
Where this address sits, matched against open government data.
Matched to a published address point for this address.
H-Value
The market around this home
Detached houses in Kincardine — 261 sales over the last five years.
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 kincardine. 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 900 people.
The neighbourhood, by the census
Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35410187 — the few blocks around this address, home to 900 people. It describes the area, not this property.
Percentages are of the 585 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.
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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.
