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Hazelmere valley acreage, South Surrey
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Hazelmere

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What living in Hazelmere is like, the parks, the shops, getting around, the schools, what to check before you offer, and this month’s numbers.

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Country lanes, working acreages and morning fog in the valley, ten minutes from a flat white in Grandview.

Hazelmere is the peninsula’s countryside: acreages along quiet roads, barns and paddocks, the tall stands of Redwood Park, and a pace that has nothing to do with the city on the other side of the hill. People come for horses, for growing room, for workshops, or simply for air.

Acreage buying rewards diligence on the unglamorous things: water, septic, zoning, outbuildings, easements. We do that work as standard, on both sides of a deal.

This month in Hazelmere · September 2026 report · August 2026 data
Detached house · HazelmereNot publishedThe board publishes no detached house benchmark for this sub-area.
2 sold in twelve months (−67%) · 8 for sale · 8 months of supply · 161 median days at 86.8% of ask · $968 per sq ft.

The whole peninsula, White Rock and South Surrey together: detached benchmark $1,649,200 (−7.5% in a year), townhome $820,300 (−11.1%), condo $550,800 (−6.2%); 7.8%, 11.8% and 16.2% of listings sold in August.

What it means: 2 sales in a year is too few to call a market. Each property here trades on its own terms, and the peninsula figures above are the better guide to the direction of prices; for a particular property, ask for the comparables.

Figures labelled Hazelmere are for the neighbourhood, read from the board’s MLS® database (the twelve months to August 2026 against the twelve months before). The peninsula figures are the board’s published White Rock and South Surrey numbers for August 2026. A benchmark is the board’s index price for a typical home of that type, not an average; months of supply and the twelve-month totals are our own arithmetic on the board’s counts.

Source: Fraser Valley Real Estate Board MLS®, September 2026 report (August 2026 data), neighbourhood figures read 5 September 2026. The full report, seven pages, is on the market report page. Updated monthly.

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What living here is like

Hazelmere is the valley east of 176 Street, from 8 Avenue up to about 24 Avenue, where the Little Campbell River runs through hay fields and the roads are named for the families who farmed them. Most properties are an acre or more; many are five or ten. Horses are ordinary here, and so are workshops, greenhouses and a second house for the parents.

It is a working landscape as much as a residential one. The Agricultural Land Reserve covers a good part of the valley, which keeps it green and also sets the rules for what can be built. Redwood Park on 20 Avenue is the neighbourhood’s front garden, and the Hazelmere golf club on 8 Avenue its clubhouse.

Who thrives here: buyers who want land to use, not just to own, and who are comfortable with a well, a septic field and a longer drive to everything. Who should look elsewhere: anyone who needs to walk to a school or a shop.

What your money buys, and why it holds

Acreage is priced on what the land can do: its ALR status, its water, its zoning, its outbuildings and its proximity to 8 Avenue and the highway. Two five-acre parcels a kilometre apart can differ by a million dollars for reasons that are entirely on the public record. The board publishes no benchmark for Hazelmere and the handful of sales a year is too few to call a market, so the peninsula benchmark is the direction and each parcel is its own price. The right acreage is rare, and most of ours sell to people who told us what they were waiting for.

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Everything a family checks, checked already.

The parks and walks

Redwood Park and the river

Redwood Park on 20 Avenue holds the peninsula’s tallest trees, the sequoias planted by the Brown brothers a century ago, with trails, a playground and a picnic meadow. The Little Campbell River runs the length of the valley, and Campbell Valley Regional Park, just over the Langley line, adds kilometres of riding and walking trails.

The hubs

The golf club, and Grandview for everything else

Hazelmere Golf and Tennis Club on 8 Avenue is the local gathering place. For groceries and the rest, Grandview Corners and Morgan Crossing are ten minutes west along 24 Avenue or 8 Avenue; the Pacific Highway border crossing at 176 Street is minutes south.

Getting around

Two roads out, and the border at the corner

8 Avenue and 24 Avenue run west to Highway 99 and the shopping; 176 Street runs north to the Fraser Highway and south to the Pacific Highway truck crossing. There is no meaningful transit; every household drives.

Schools

A country elementary and a drive to secondary

Surrey Schools (District 36). Hall’s Prairie Elementary on 8 Avenue is the valley’s own school; secondary catchments run to Earl Marriott or Grandview Heights by address. The district sets catchments by address and its school locator is the ruling on any property; we confirm it on request and publish no ratings.

The homework

Acreage diligence, done as standard

The well: flow, potability and the log. The septic: type, age, the last inspection and where the field sits. ALR status and any farm classification on the tax roll, which changes the taxes and the rules. Zoning for the second dwelling, the barn and the home business. Easements, rights of way and the riparian setbacks along the river. Outbuilding permits. Each is checked before you offer, on either side of the deal.

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