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425 Besserer Street, Lower Town - Sandy Hill, ON K1N 6B9

3 beds · 2 baths · 1 kitchen · 8+1 rooms · 4 parking spaces · 1500-2000 sq ft · Laundry on the lower level level · Detached
$995,000
Property tax
$7,268 / year

Character, charm and an exceptional location in the heart of Sandy Hill. Quality-built and full brick, this inviting 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom home offers original character, thoughtful updates and everyday convenience, just steps from transit, downtown offices, cultural institutions, shopping, the University of Ottawa, Francojeunesse and the ByWard Market. The welcoming and spacious front porch leads to well-scaled principal rooms filled with warmth and natural light, featuring beautiful hardwood floors and original architectural details. Cozy up to the wood burning fireplace during Ottawa's winter months. The classic layout continues upstairs with 3 bedrooms and a bonus versatile loft with separate storage area, ideal as a home office, creative space or additional living area. A finished lower level provides even more room to live, work or unwind. The home has been thoughtfully maintained and updated over the years, including a natural gas furnace (2020), central air conditioning (2022), many replacement windows (2022), a new back deck (2023), a new roof (2018) with foundation underpinning (2003). One of the home's most appealing features is its natural connection between indoors and out. The spacious front porch offers endless entertaining and leisure opportunities and a bonus mudroom/pantry off the kitchen leads directly to the backyard, creating a practical transition for everyday living while opening onto a special outdoor space. The large, private and fully landscaped backyard is an urban oasis, with a generous deck and patio offering wonderful spaces for morning coffee, summer dining or entertaining friends. A private laneway offers generous parking and along with a detached garage adds exceptional space, convenience and functionality. This space offers so many possibilities to expand on this exceptional property. Come see why this classic Sandy Hill home puts the best of Ottawa right outside your door.

MLS number
X13740634
Type
Detached
Status
Active
Bedrooms
3
Bathrooms
2
Postal code
K1N 6B9
Photos
41
Laundry
Lower Level level
9days · this listing
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Where this property is

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Schools

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Other schools nearby

By distance from this address, not school boundary — a school 400 m away can be in another school’s attendance area.

SchoolLevelDistanceRating
École élémentaire publique Francojeunesse
CÉP de l'Est de l'Ontario
Elementary316 m8.2 / 10
82% met the standard
École élémentaire catholique Sainte-Anne
CSDC du Centre-Est de l'Ontario
Elementary285 m7.9 / 10
79% met the standard
York Street Public School
Ottawa-Carleton DSB
Elementary319 m4.2 / 10
42% met the standard
École élémentaire publique De la Salle
CÉP de l'Est de l'Ontario
Elementary579 mNot reported
École secondaire publique De La Salle
CÉP de l'Est de l'Ontario
Secondary632 m8.4 / 10
84% met the standard · 2 of 6 measures
Macdonald-Cartier AcademyElementary1.0 kmNot reported
How the rating is calculated

EQAO — Ontario’s testing agency — publishes, for each school, the percentage of students meeting the provincial standard in Grade 3 and Grade 6 reading, writing and mathematics. The rating is the average of those percentages divided by ten. A school where 72% of students met the standard rates 7.2 out of 10.

Nothing is weighted or adjusted, and schools are not ranked against each other. Where EQAO withholds a result to protect the privacy of a small group of students, that measure is left out rather than counted as zero — so a rating built on fewer than six measures says so.

What it does not measure. It is one year of standardised testing in three subjects. It says nothing about teaching, programs, or whether a school suits a particular child, and it tracks neighbourhood household income closely enough that it partly measures the neighbourhood rather than the school. Treat it as one figure among many.

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information and Student Demographics (2024–25), Open Government Licence – Ontario.

H-Value

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This neighbourhood

Statistics Canada 2021 Census, for the surrounding few blocks — about 1,455 people.

$66,500Median household income
37.3%Own their home
1.1%Detached houses
29.6Median age
24.3%Born outside Canada
68.8%University degree

The neighbourhood, by the census

Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35061793 — the few blocks around this address, home to 1,455 people. It describes the area, not this property.

1,455Population
35.1Average age
1.5Household size
$78,200Average household income
$66,500Median household income
37%Own their home
63%Rent
73%Condominiums
24%Born outside Canada
69%University degree
$526,000Average home value
26%Low income
27%Not in the labour force
59%Never married
Under $5,0007%
$5,000 to $9,9992%
$10,000 to $14,9993%
$15,000 to $19,9993%
$20,000 to $24,9992%
$25,000 to $29,9994%
$30,000 to $34,9993%
$35,000 to $39,9993%
$40,000 to $44,9993%
$45,000 to $49,9992%
$50,000 to $59,9995%
$60,000 to $69,9994%
$70,000 to $79,9997%
$80,000 to $89,9996%
$90,000 to $99,9994%
$100,000 and over21%
$100,000 to $124,9997%
$125,000 to $149,9995%
$150,000 to $199,9995%
$200,000 and over4%

Percentages are of the 1,205 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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$199,000 · minimum here is $74,500
$4,405.64per month
Borrowed before insurance$796,000
Total borrowed$796,000
Interest over 25 years at 4.5%$525,693

If you rented it out

-$5,011.31per month out of pocket
Rent$0.00
Everything it costs to hold$5,011.31
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.

Listed by RE/MAX ABSOLUTE WALKER REALTY. Listing data provided by the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board.