Stony Plain Condos for Sale

A town with its own council

Stony Plain was incorporated as a village in 1907 and as a town in 1908, and it is still a town, with its own mayor and council. The 2021 census counted 17,993 residents, up 4.7% from 2016. Parkland County surrounds the town, and the City of Spruce Grove is next door. The town co-owns the TransAlta Tri Leisure Centre in Spruce Grove with its two neighbours, and the three share a regional transit system.

Stony Plain is known for its painted murals of local people and events. Red Brick Common, formerly the Multicultural Heritage Centre, runs a museum and public art gallery and helps run the town's horse-and-wagon mural tours.

Condo stock in Stony Plain

In the 2021 census, Stony Plain had 7,135 occupied dwellings. About 58% were single-detached houses and about 18% were apartments in buildings under five storeys, followed by semi-detached houses at about 10%.

For buyers, that means most condos are units in low-rise apartment buildings or attached homes such as townhouses and side-by-side semi-detached units. Row houses were about 4% of occupied homes and apartments in buildings of five or more storeys about 2.5%. In a town this size, compare a unit against recent sales in the same complex, and look at the building's age and the repairs its reserve fund study says are coming.

Commuting from Stony Plain

Most working residents of Stony Plain commute to jobs outside the town. Highway 16A, the Parkland Highway, is the main road link east through Spruce Grove to Edmonton, and Highways 779 and 628 also serve the town.

Stony Plain has no commuter bus stop of its own. Riders book an on-demand trip to the Spruce Grove Transit Centre and transfer to Route 560, the weekday commuter route to NAIT, Downtown Edmonton and MacEwan University. The on-demand service covers Stony Plain and Spruce Grove on weekdays and Saturdays.

Services and what to check

WestView Health Centre, an Alberta Health Services hospital with a 24-hour emergency department, is in Stony Plain. Recreation is shared regionally through the Tri Leisure Centre in Spruce Grove.

Before you buy, check the Town's current residential tax rate, since council sets it every year by bylaw and the municipality also collects the provincial education property tax. Ask the condo corporation for its bylaws, recent financial statements and board minutes, its latest reserve fund study and plan, and an estoppel certificate. Alberta requires a reserve fund study at least every five years. Alberta has no land transfer tax; buyers pay Land Titles registration fees on the transfer and any mortgage instead.