Second post in my Beaumont Neighbourhood Spotlight series. Each month, or sometimes a day after the month ends, I take you inside one of our communities — what it's like to live there, what homes actually cost, and what I'm seeing on the ground as a local REALTOR®. This month: Dansereau Meadows.
Two Beaumonts, One Neighbourhood
When a city grows as fast as Beaumont has, change comes quickly — and not everyone is going to like it.
Beaumont is evolving. It may no longer be the small French community that drew so many people here not that long ago. The roots are still there, in the street names, the schools, the architecture. But the low-density town many of us moved to is shifting toward something more urban.
Dansereau Meadows is where you can see that most plainly. Built out over roughly the last decade, it holds mature homes on wide lots backing green space, and a few streets away, brand-new houses on lots between 7.1 and 9 metres wide — roughly 23 to 30 feet — alongside purpose-built rental apartments. Established trees on one block, showhome signs on the next.
The buyers are much the same as anywhere else in Beaumont: young families, move-up buyers, people commuting to south Edmonton or the Nisku-Leduc corridor. What's different is the decision they face. In a new community you're buying into a plan. Here you're choosing within a neighbourhood — a 2012 home with a mature yard, or a 2025 build with a narrow lot and a suite-ready basement. Both are Dansereau.
What the Sales Data Shows
That split isn't just something you notice driving through. It shows up in the numbers.
Over the last 90 days, nine homes sold in Dansereau Meadows. Six went between $375,000 and $460,000. Three went between $654,000 and $735,000. Nothing sold in between. The lower group averages about 1,400 square feet, the upper group about 2,350 — same schools, same pond, two different housing products, and buyers choosing one or the other. (Nine sales is a small sample, so treat this as a pattern rather than a precise measure.)
A few other things worth knowing:
Homes here sell faster than the Beaumont average. The median sold listing took 40 days against a citywide year-to-date average of 76. Established homes — those built before 2023 — had a median of 36 days. New builds had a median of 140, because they get listed on MLS® long before anyone could move in. That's true in every new community and it's worth knowing before a long days-on-market number scares you off.
Sellers are getting 99.1% of asking on average, ahead of the citywide figure, with one home selling at exactly full list price.
Twelve homes are listed now, from $384,900 to $789,000. The actives skew higher than the solds — five are asking $600,000 or more, while only three of the nine sales landed there. That lines up with what I flagged in this month's market update: above roughly $600K, Beaumont homes are taking longer to find a buyer. Four more sales are pending between $377,500 and $599,900.
One caveat on all of this: these are single-family numbers. The apartments in Dansereau are purpose-built rentals rather than condominiums, so those units never come to market as something you can buy. For a purchaser, the houses above are the whole opportunity set.
The Dansereau Landing Question
If you're looking here, you'll hear about Dansereau Landing — the four-storey mixed-use building at 180 Dansereau Way, beside the green space and pond. It's been the most contentious development in Beaumont in years, and it's better to understand it before you buy nearby than after.
The building holds 54 rental units above a daycare and two commercial spaces. The City issued the permit in October 2024 and construction began that January.
Residents raised serious concerns about density, parking, traffic and the character of the street. The City's position is that the project was a permitted use with no variances requested, which under provincial law meant it had to be approved, no extra conditions could be attached, and no neighbour notification was required. On parking, the City states the bylaw required 20 stalls and the developer provided 33.
Both sides have a point, and the reason is in the bylaw itself. Beaumont's parking standard at the time only required a stall for units above a certain size, and nearly all of these units fall below it — so the building exceeded a requirement that was low to begin with. Council amended those rules in January 2025, too late to apply to a permit already issued. The City's full explanation is in its Dansereau Landing FAQ.
Whatever you make of the building, the useful lesson for a buyer is that the process worked exactly as the bylaw was written. Beaumont's Land Use Bylaw allows more density in "Integrated Neighbourhood" areas than most residents realized, and the density figures in outline plans are minimums, not caps. If what might get built near you matters, ask me to check the land use designation on the surrounding parcels before you write an offer — in any neighbourhood, not just this one. It takes five minutes and saves a lot of surprise.
What You Give Up
No neighbourhood suits everyone.
Those narrow new lots are a real trade. Plenty of buyers make it happily — it's how attainable new construction gets built in 2026 — but if you're picturing the wider lots of the earlier phases, walk both before you decide. Listing photos won't show you the difference.
A meaningful share of the housing here is rental. That's a fact about the neighbourhood rather than a criticism of it, and buyers weigh it differently depending on what they're after.
And parts of the community are still going up, with the construction traffic and noise that come with that. Walk the specific street you're considering rather than judging from the finished sections.
Schools, Parks and Getting Around
Dansereau's designated schools, across all three divisions:
Black Gold School Division: École Dansereau Meadows School (K–9), right in the community at 5907 Rue Eaglemont, offering French Immersion along with Career & Technology Foundations, athletics and fine arts. High school students attend École Secondaire Beaumont Composite (10–12). Confirm eligibility and busing for a specific address with Black Gold's bus planner tool, since boundaries shift as the city grows.
STAR Catholic Schools: Académie Saint-André Academy (K–4), École Mother d’Youville School (5–9), and Christ the King School in Leduc (10–12).
Greater North Central Francophone Education Region: École Quatre-Saisons (K–12), in Beaumont.
Académie Saint-André and École Dansereau Meadows share one partitioned building, with City FCSS space between them. They're two separate schools in separate divisions with no shared programming — but because one site serves both, it's far larger than a standalone school site would be. Multiple playgrounds, soccer and sports fields, and an outdoor rink, all within walking distance of the surrounding streets. Fields in summer, a rink in winter, and no drive across town.
The stormwater pond and its trail network run through the neighbourhood, and Beaumont's retail core is a short drive. For commuters, the numbers I quote clients: about 15 minutes to South Edmonton Common and the Nisku-Leduc corridor, 20 to the Edmonton International Airport, 40 to downtown Edmonton, and under an hour to anywhere in the greater Edmonton area.
The Bottom Line
Dansereau Meadows shows you where Beaumont is heading: mature streets and wide lots a few blocks from narrow-lot new builds and rental apartments. Some people like that mix. Some miss the quieter town Beaumont used to be. Either way, this is the neighbourhood where the change is easiest to see — and where the range of what you can buy is widest.
Thinking about Dansereau Meadows, or wondering what your current home would sell for so you can make the move? Get a free market evaluation or get in touch and I'll give you the picture street by street.
September's spotlight: Coloniale Estates.
Andrew Blais | MaxWell Heritage Realty
andrew@maxwellheritage.com | 780-387-1284
Market data from the REALTORS® Association of Edmonton. Development details from City of Beaumont public records.
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