Most people start house-hunting with a number in their head and no idea which parts of Fredericton that number actually reaches. This answers that, using the August 2026 MLS® Home Price Index benchmark for all 33 sub-areas in the Fredericton region.
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The areas by budget band
Every figure below is the August 2026 MLS® Home Price Index benchmark — the price of a typical home in that sub-area, not an average of whatever happened to sell.
Under $250,000
Boiestown / Doaktown / Blackville · Grand Lake / Chipman / Minto · Harvey / McAdam · Nackawic & Area · Woodstock & Area
All of these sit well outside the city and all of them have appreciated faster than anywhere else in the region over five years — but the percentages are large because the starting numbers are small. A 100% gain on $100,000 is still $100,000. Commute honestly before you fall in love with the price. Fredericton Junction and Hoyt left this band in August, rising $10,000 in a single month to $256,500.
$250,000 to $310,000
Fredericton Junction / Hoyt · Gagetown · Maugerville / Sheffield · Stanley · Silverwood · Geary · Jemseg / Cambridge Narrows · Burtts Corner / Kingsley
Silverwood at $284,800 is now the only address inside the city in this band. Marysville and Devon moved up out of it in August. Geary is the one line to watch here — it is the only sub-area in the whole region with a negative twelve-month change, at −0.2%, though one month is not a trend.
$310,000 to $420,000
Marysville / Devon · Penniac / Nashwaak · Hill Area · Skyline Acres / Southwood Park · Keswick / Mactaquac / Bear Island
The regional benchmark of $364,200 sits in the middle of this band. This is the middle of the Fredericton market, and it is where most of the established city neighbourhoods land.
$420,000 to $500,000
Nashwaaksis · Mazerolle Settlement · Downtown · Oromocto · Nasonworth / Charters Settlement · New Maryland · Burton · Kingsclear / Long’s Creek · Douglas · Lincoln Road Area · Richibucto Road / Noonan
The busiest band on this list, and the one where the character of a place matters more than the price. Nashwaaksis crossed into it in August at $423,200. Downtown fell $7,100 in the month to $431,300 and now sits below Oromocto, which is the first time that has happened in the period I have been tracking.
Over $500,000
Rusagonis · Woodstock Road / Hanwell Road West · Killarney · Hanwell Area
Four areas, and three of them are wells and septic on large lots. Killarney is the exception on the drive — nine minutes from Queen Street — and it fell $5,100 in August, which closed the gap to Woodstock Road to under $7,000.
Every sub-area, most to least expensive
All 33 sub-areas the MLS® Home Price Index reports for the Fredericton region, August 2026. The regional benchmark is shown in price order so you can see which areas sit above and below it.
| Sub-area | Area | Benchmark price | 12 mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| D1 — Hanwell Area | Fredericton South | $551,400 | +5.2% |
| H4 — Killarney | Fredericton North | $531,900 | +2.7% |
| A3 — Woodstock Rd / Hanwell Rd West | Fredericton South | $524,800 | +6.6% |
| F3 — Rusagonis | Fredericton South | $501,400 | +2.3% |
| H2 — Richibucto Road / Noonan | Fredericton North | $496,100 | +3.8% |
| B2 — Lincoln Road Area | Fredericton South | $473,800 | +4.0% |
| G2 — Douglas | Fredericton North | $470,000 | +3.4% |
| E3 — Kingsclear / Long’s Creek | Fredericton South | $469,000 | +4.8% |
| C2 — Burton | Oromocto & Area | $455,100 | +3.9% |
| F1 — New Maryland | Fredericton South | $448,200 | +6.1% |
| F2 — Nasonworth / Charters Settlement | Fredericton South | $447,900 | +5.3% |
| C1 — Oromocto | Oromocto & Area | $433,400 | +5.0% |
| A2 — Downtown | Fredericton South | $431,300 | +4.7% |
| D2 — Mazerolle Settlement | Fredericton South | $423,200 | +5.4% |
| G1 — Nashwaaksis | Fredericton North | $423,200 | +6.2% |
| G4 — Keswick / Mactaquac / Bear Island | Fredericton North | $416,400 | +5.4% |
| B1 — Skyline Acres / Southwood Park | Fredericton South | $413,900 | +4.6% |
| A1 — Hill Area | Fredericton South | $388,600 | +6.3% |
| H5 — Penniac / Nashwaak | Fredericton North | $377,000 | +6.5% |
| Fredericton and Region (all types) | — | $364,200 | +5.8% |
| H1 — Marysville / Devon | Fredericton North | $313,600 | +4.0% |
| G3 — Burtts Corner / Kingsley | Fredericton North | $299,600 | +6.7% |
| FR3 — Jemseg / Cambridge Narrows | Outside Fredericton | $297,100 | +3.5% |
| C3 — Geary | Oromocto & Area | $286,800 | −0.2% |
| E1 — Silverwood | Fredericton South | $284,800 | +7.0% |
| FR5 — Stanley | Outside Fredericton | $283,000 | +2.5% |
| H3 — Maugerville / Sheffield | Fredericton North | $268,700 | +5.8% |
| C4 — Gagetown | Oromocto & Area | $262,000 | +5.5% |
| FR2 — Fredericton Junction / Hoyt | Outside Fredericton | $256,500 | +5.9% |
| FR8 — Woodstock & Area | Outside Fredericton | $249,300 | +4.6% |
| FR7 — Nackawic & Area | Outside Fredericton | $249,300 | +7.2% |
| FR1 — Harvey / McAdam | Outside Fredericton | $239,300 | +5.0% |
| FR4 — Grand Lake / Chipman / Minto | Outside Fredericton | $204,600 | +7.9% |
| FR6 — Boiestown / Doaktown / Blackville | Outside Fredericton | $170,400 | +6.2% |
Source: Fredericton and Region Residential Market Activity and MLS® Home Price Index Report, August 2026, prepared for New Brunswick REALTORS® by the Canadian Real Estate Association. Areas with too few sales to be reliable are not included in the index, which is why some parts of the city — Barker’s Point, for one — have no line of their own.
What a benchmark price is, and what it is not
A benchmark is the price of a typical home for that area — a consistent, quality-adjusted figure the MLS® Home Price Index tracks month to month. For the Fredericton region as a whole, the benchmark home is a 3-bedroom, 2-bath, 1,553 square foot house built in 1987 on municipal sewer.
Three things follow from that, and all three matter when you are house-hunting.
- It is not the average asking price. Listing averages get pushed around by whatever happens to be for sale this week. The benchmark does not.
- It is not a ceiling or a floor. Every area has houses well above and well below its benchmark. A $551,400 benchmark in Hanwell does not mean there is nothing there for less.
- It describes a specific house. If what you want is bigger, newer, or on services the benchmark home does not have, adjust upward in your head.
The full market report has all 33 sub-areas with twelve-month, three-year and five-year changes, plus sales, inventory, days on market and the sale-to-list ratio. It is updated monthly.
What the number does not tell you
Price gets you a shortlist. It does not get you a decision. The things that actually decide whether an area suits you do not show up in a benchmark:
- What the houses are actually like. Marysville and Devon cost more per square foot than Nashwaaksis despite being $106,000 cheaper — the whole discount is size.
- What you will find in them. Aluminum wiring, oil tanks, basement water and failed window seals all cluster by era, and era clusters by area.
- Servicing. Municipal water and sewer, or a well and a septic system. That is a different kind of ownership and a different set of questions — the rural guide covers it.
- The commute, honestly measured. Not the map estimate. The real one, at 8am.
- Property tax, which varies enough between municipalities to change what you can afford monthly.
Which Fredericton neighbourhood is best for young families?
Four areas come up most often for a couple with a toddler and another on the way: New Maryland, Skyline Acres and Southwood Park, Nashwaaksis, and Hanwell. Each carries a real trade-off — a car trip for everything, a renovation list, a bridge at rush hour, or a well and septic. There is no version of this where you get all four things at once, and anyone telling you otherwise has not driven it in February.
New Maryland — $448,200
A village on the edge of the city limit with its own elementary school and its own parks. The subdivisions — Springwater Place, Baker Brook — are laid out around cul-de-sacs rather than through-roads, so they carry very little pass-through traffic. New Maryland Elementary covers kindergarten to grade 5, then Bliss Carman Middle and Fredericton High.
The trade-off. You drive for everything. There is no walk to groceries or a coffee shop, and every activity is a car trip. The tax rate is not the catch people expect — at $1.2036 per $100 for 2026 it sits slightly below Fredericton’s inside rate of $1.3086, though the village’s water and sewer bill gives most of that back. Here is the full worked example on a $448,200 home.
Skyline Acres and Southwood Park — $413,900
Established Southside. Mid-century bungalows and split-levels on generous lots with mature trees, close to both hospitals and UNB, and quick into downtown. The streets carry little pass-through traffic.
The trade-off. The housing stock is mostly 1960s to 1980s. Expect to be doing electrical, windows, or opening up a floor plan — while managing a toddler and a newborn. That is a scheduling problem as much as a budget one, and it is the thing people underestimate.
Nashwaaksis — $420,100
The Northside family staple: 1970s to 1990s split-entries, with newer pockets tucked off the arterial roads. Split-entry floor plans work unusually well for a growing family, the yards are solid, and you are close to indoor pools, field houses and several elementary schools. The best value per square foot of the four.
The trade-off. The bridge. If either parent works Southside, the Westmorland at eight in the morning and five at night is what will wear you down — particularly with a daycare deadline on the far side of the river.
Hanwell — $551,400
Semi-rural, southwest of the city, on large private lots. Hanwell Park Academy is a purpose-built kindergarten-to-grade-8 school that opened in September 2022. And the drive surprises people: Hanwell Road feeds straight onto the Route 8 and Trans-Canada interchanges and Prospect Street, putting Costco, Regent Mall and the Dr. Everett Chalmers hospital seven to ten minutes away.
The trade-off. It is the most expensive area on the board. Every home is on a well and a septic system, there are no sidewalks on the main roads, and every daycare run or evening activity is a drive.
Where I steer families away, and why
- Downtown. Walkable and genuinely lovely, but steep staircases, higher heating costs, small yards and continuous maintenance on old houses. A hard combination with a baby and a toddler.
- Lincoln. Lower prices, but the airport run-up paths, well and septic on busy stretches, and no cohesive park structure make daily routines harder with small children.
- The Marysville and Devon main corridors. High-traffic thoroughfares and older stock in varied condition. Good areas — see the first-time buyer section below — but a main road is not where you want a three-year-old and a ball.
Which Fredericton areas work for first-time buyers?
Devon, Marysville and Nashwaaksis. All three sit inside the city on full municipal water and sewer, at city tax rates, with transit — which means the ongoing cost is predictable. The rural areas that look cheaper on the list price are where first-time buyers get caught, and it is rarely the mortgage that catches them.
Devon and Marysville — $313,600
Some of the most accessible prices for a detached house or a half-duplex inside the city limits. Municipal water and sewer, city transit, city tax rate, and none of the infrastructure surprises a rural property brings.
Watch for: the stock is often pre-1970. Budget for electrical — knob-and-tube, or a 60-amp service — and have the foundation looked at properly. The ongoing utilities stay predictable, which is the part that matters most at this price point.
Nashwaaksis — $420,100
Split-entries and semi-detached homes that fit an entry budget, with good resale liquidity when you outgrow it. Municipal services, lower maintenance, close to groceries, schools and parks.
Watch for: the heating source. A house priced lower because it runs on baseboard electric will cost you materially more every winter than the same house with a mini-split heat pump. Check it before you compare two asking prices.
What looks affordable and is not
The rural outer limits — Lincoln, Rusagonis, Maugerville. Lower list prices and bigger lots read as value. Three costs are not in the list price:
- Well and septic. A failed septic field or well pump runs $10,000 to $25,000 or more. That is a capital expense arriving without notice, and it lands on the buyer least able to absorb it.
- Oil tanks. Many older rural properties still run oil. New Brunswick insurers enforce tank age limits strictly, commonly requiring replacement every 10 to 15 years or a double-bottom tank. An outdated tank can leave a house effectively uninsurable until it is dealt with.
- Fuel and time. Every commute, daycare run and grocery trip is a drive, and it does not show up anywhere in the listing.
Tax rates, in both directions. The rate is not automatically higher outside the city. For 2026 New Maryland is $1.2036 per $100 against Fredericton’s inside rate of $1.3086, so the village is slightly cheaper. But an entry-priced home in a municipality that does sit above the city rate can cost more per month than a dearer house inside Fredericton, and it reduces what you qualify for. Run the number on the specific civic address rather than on the asking price.
Where do downsizers and retirees go in Fredericton?
Three destinations, broadly. One-level garden homes with a fee that covers the lawn and the snow — Westwood Drive in Silverwood, Highpoint Ridge uptown, Brookside Drive, and pockets across the Northside. Purpose-built rental apartments for those cashing out their equity entirely — Lian Street, Douglas Avenue, Attenborough Drive, and the downtown riverfront builds, where underground heated parking and an elevator are non-negotiable. Or a smaller freehold semi-detached or townhouse for people who want a single level and no condo fee, mostly on the Northside and in Oromocto.
What downsizers ask that younger buyers never mention
First-time buyers ask about open-concept kitchens, office space and yard size. Downsizers ask operational questions, and they are planning fifteen years ahead:
- How wide are the doorways? Thirty-six inches is the number, and whether a hallway or bathroom would take a walker later.
- Is there a step down from the garage into the house? A zero-threshold entry from the driveway, porch or garage is a genuine selling feature to this buyer.
- Is the shower curbless, and how wide is the opening? Not the showerhead — the trip hazard, and whether there is backing behind the drywall for a grab bar.
- Who clears the snow, and at what depth does the plow come? Two inches or four, where the snow gets piled, and who does the walk to the front door.
- Where do visitors park? Adult children and grandchildren visit. Tight street parking or strict visitor rules can end a deal on their own.
- Will my furniture fit? They arrive with a tape measure and a particular hutch or dining table in mind, and the wall either takes it or it does not.
There is a fuller version of this: downsizing in Fredericton covers the same three destinations, the whole checklist for a one-level home, what the condo market is actually doing, and the two property tax traps that catch people selling the family home.
Which Fredericton commutes actually hurt, and which are shorter than they look?
The bridge at rush hour is the one that wears people down. The rural highway routes are the ones where the map lies to you. And three areas — Hanwell, Oromocto West and New Maryland — are consistently closer than buyers assume before they drive them.
The drives that wear on people
Crossing the Westmorland Street or Princess Margaret bridge between 7:45 and 8:45 in the morning, and 4:30 to 5:30 in the afternoon. A ten or fifteen minute delay does not sound like much next to a large city, but it is daily and it compounds. One fender-bender or one bad winter morning on the Westmorland turns a ten-minute commute into forty-five. With a daycare deadline on the opposite side of the river, that is the thing that eventually makes people move.
Outer Route 105, Maugerville and Keswick Ridge are the other kind. Single-lane rural highway, few passing zones, and seasonal tractor and transport traffic. Fifteen kilometres behind a log truck or a plow is a different journey from fifteen kilometres on a map, and the exposed river routes are slower again in winter.
Closer than people assume
- Hanwell — seven to ten minutes to uptown retail and the Dr. Everett Chalmers hospital, because Hanwell Road feeds directly onto the Route 8 and Trans-Canada interchanges and Prospect Street.
- Oromocto West — fifteen to eighteen minutes to downtown or uptown Fredericton on four-lane Highway 2, bypassing inner-city lights and the bridges entirely. Buyers write Oromocto off as a separate town and it is not, on the drive.
- New Maryland — under eight minutes to the hospital, UNB or uptown. New Maryland Highway simply becomes Regent Street.
Internet, if you work from home
In-town and established subdivisions — Skyline Acres, Nashwaaksis, Devon, New Maryland, Hanwell — have symmetrical fibre to the home widely available at gigabit speeds and above. Heavy video calls and large uploads are not an issue.
The rural outer edges and unserviced pocket roads — outer Hanwell, Rusagonis, Maugerville — are inconsistent. Main roads generally carry cable or fibre; side roads may still be on DSL, fixed wireless or satellite.
Never assume a rural listing has fibre because the main road does. Check the specific civic address on the carrier’s own coverage map before you write the offer. It is a five-minute check and it is the single most common unpleasant surprise for a work-from-home buyer in this region.
Who should not buy in each Fredericton neighbourhood?
Every area guide you will read is a list of reasons each place is lovely, which is why they all read the same and none of them helps. This is the other list. If one of these describes you, the area is probably wrong for you whatever the price says.
| Area | The person who should not buy here is… |
|---|---|
| Nashwaaksis | Someone who hates heavy commuter traffic on bridges and wants a highly walkable, character-filled urban core. |
| Marysville / Devon | Someone looking for uniform modern suburban housing, or complete quiet with no industrial or historical quirks. |
| Skyline Acres / Southwood Park | Someone seeking high-end luxury finishes, real acreage, or brand-new architecture. |
| Silverwood | Someone who needs to walk to shops. |
| New Maryland | Someone who needs quick access to the Northside, or a walkable neighbourhood with shops and late-night amenities. |
| Hanwell | Someone looking for low-maintenance city services, sidewalk-lined streets, or a short walk to shops and cafes. |
| Oromocto | Someone looking for an energetic downtown culture, or who would find a town whose rhythms follow the base’s posting cycle a poor fit. |
| Lincoln | Someone sensitive to airport noise, or someone looking for structured, fully serviced subdivision living. |
If none of those describes you, price is a reasonable way to shortlist and the bands above will do the job. If one of them lands, start there instead — it will save you more than the difference in benchmark price.
Where to go from here
The neighbourhoods guide is the qualitative version of this page — how to choose, and the traps in the area names. The buying guide covers what the purchase actually costs in New Brunswick, and if you are coming from outside the province, moving to Fredericton is the place to start.
Or just tell me the number. Call or text (506) 261-7373. I answer my own phone.
Benchmark data: MLS® Home Price Index, August 2026, from the Fredericton and Region monthly package published by New Brunswick REALTORS® and prepared by the Canadian Real Estate Association. Updated monthly.
