Pleasant Hill
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Pleasant Hill is a core area on the west side of Saskatoon. While primarily a residential neighbourhood it does have substantial commercial components along its 22nd Street boundary and several blocks on 20th Street have retail outlets. It’s also home to St. Paul’s Hospital.
Dwellings in the area were built over an extended period of time. Approximately 300 homes existed prior to 1946 and another 1,400 were built over the four decades that followed. More than 900 of the 1,770 homes that exist today are apartments and Pleasant Hill has the lowest percentage of home ownership of any of Saskatoon’s neighbourhoods. It remains one of a few Saskatoon areas where homes are most affordable.
Pleasant Hill is home to two elementary schools. St. Mary Community School provides instruction to children enrolled in the catholic system while the public school board operates Pleasant Hill School.
The area has five public parks that offer nearly twenty acres of green space for area residents. Recreational amenities include baseball, basketball and volleyball facilities, playgrounds, outdoor skating rinks, walking paths and a paddling pool.
Pleasant Hill has been a target for revitalization and renewal since early 2007. A series of links at the bottom of this post provide some history for those wishing to learn more about the redevelopment plans for this area.
Photo Walk of Pleasant Hill
| Population | 4,714 |
| Number of households | 1,770 |
| Average persons per household | 2.3 |
| Home ownership | 24% |
| Average sale price of a residential dwelling (previous year) | $165,038 |
| Median sale price of a residential dwelling (previous year) | $158,250 |
| Average household income | $24,428 |
| Types of homes | Houses | Condos |
| Number of sales |
49 | 3 |
| Lowest sale price |
$33,000 | $113,200 |
| Highest sale price |
$440,000 | $216,918 |
| Average sale price |
$160,771 | $182,055 |
| Median sale price | $160,000 | $216,046 |
Other online resources for the Pleasant Hill area of Saskatoon
View all homes for sale in Pleasant Hill, Saskatoon on the MLS®
View all houses for sale in Pleasant Hill, Saskatoon on the MLS®
View all condos for sale in Pleasant Hill, Saskatoon on the MLS®
Area map
Photo Gallery
City of Saskatoon full neighbourhood profile
Pleasant Hill Village Blog by Alan Wallace
Wikipedia page for this area
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Pleasant Hill in the News
13 comments so far. We'd love to hear your thoughts.
April 5th, 2011 at 1:40 PM
Why is the Pleasant Hill median home price half that as the rest of the city? We own a gorgeous home there that we rent out to great people…we lived in it for over five years ourselves and every year I ask, what it’s worth this year? and every year it’s the same answer..it never goes up in value, no matter what we do with it..I’d like to know why???? I’m sure dirt and wood is the same cost everywhere.Our home is almost 1900 square feet, and for the past three years it sits at 285,000, while I see other properties pusing 400,000…what the heck is going on here???
If it’s the quality of the people that live in this district, then why doesn’t the city do something about it? I’m tired of taking the fall for everyone else…I want my property to have some real value like they do everywhere else…this is bigotry at it’s best!
April 5th, 2011 at 1:48 PM
Brenda,
The average selling price of a Pleasant Hill home tripled between 2002 and 2008. How many of your investments did that?
April 5th, 2011 at 9:00 PM
So what’s happening now? We bought our house in 2005 for 117,000..the most expensive house in Pleasant Hill at that time if I recall, and yes, it went to 250,000 after we put in about 25,000 worth of renos, so why did our house only double???…in two years, at a time when every house in town was going nuts…in 2008 we put it on the market for 285,000..people we’re still offering 250,000. And this last couple of years it has remained ever thus….while I still see other homes in other districts still increasing..so whats the secret?
April 5th, 2011 at 9:18 PM
Brenda,
“The secret” is to wake up, smell the coffee and laugh your way to the bank with a cheque for a quarter of a million dollars. You’re telling me that you bought the most expensive house, in the least expensive area of town for 117k in 2005. Now you’re distraught that you can only get 250k for it? Saskatoon real estate peaked in 2008. Pretty much everything is worth less now than it was then. That house owes you nothing. In fact, based on my calculations, it made you a hundred thousand dollars. I don’t mean to be harsh, but at this particular time we are talking to many people who would do backflips to get their money back out. It’s hard to feel empathetic about what appears to be good fortune.
April 6th, 2011 at 6:31 AM
I have to laugh sometimes at the greed.
Saskatoon was such a wonderful place that looked like somewhere almost anyone can live. Now it’s turned into an overpriced and untouchable community. Well, at least for young people.
The hyper-rationalists got in saying “you can’t stand in the way of progress!”
Too bad, despite all the increases in prices and gentrification, the only progress was the debt load this one small city has created for the nation.
April 7th, 2011 at 1:38 PM
I don’t think I’m coming across as well here as to what I’m trying to say. I’m not upset that the house has increased..it’s done a lot for us. It’s still doing a lot for us, equity wise. What I’m trying to get across here is the fact that other properties, in other districts have risen dramatically for the same size house, etc…while ours has stayed the same price for three years! I’m just looking for some equality between the districts. If my house was on the East side, it would be worth twice the price. Where is the equality in that? As I said, what is the difference? The people? Cause that is where the bigotry comes in!
April 7th, 2011 at 1:39 PM
Oh, and I don’t want to hear about gangs and prostitutes, because they are everywhere in the city now.
April 7th, 2011 at 2:18 PM
Look at your own price trend from 09-10 Saskatoon 305,565 to 323,597 upward at twice the price
Same time line, different district? 09-10 Pleasant HIll 141,992 to138,626 downward
This is what I’m referring to..what is the difference?
April 7th, 2011 at 2:37 PM
Brenda,
Here’s a post I wrote at the end of 2010 that explains a bit about what happened to priced in 2010. Should add some perspective.
Read it here.
Just a couple of things I’ll add. You mentioned that you bought the most expensive house in the area. This is never the most ideal situation for price growth. Secondly, big homes like yours were selling for more than $117K in other areas when you bought. I’m sure you must have understood that you’d face the same realities on the way out, no?
April 7th, 2011 at 5:01 PM
I sure don’t recall homes that size for that price back in 2005, which is why we bought the one we bought…if you can find some in your old records, send me the links…:)
April 8th, 2011 at 10:04 AM
My bad memory…we bought our house 2004….just looked up our files…
March 15th, 2012 at 7:24 PM
Hi Norm,
Your data on income levels is great, and the pie charts are visually very nice. I’d like to use them in a presentation, may I? And what sources did you use?
Thank you!
March 16th, 2012 at 7:16 AM
Hi Danielle,
The data comes from the City of Saskatoon’s Neighbourhood Profiles, which are compiled using Census data. The data is a fair bit dated at this point (2006) but I expect we’ll see them updated soon. Feel free to use it for your presentation.