New construction homes
in Starling, Edmonton.

Starling is overwhelmingly a single-family neighbourhood — every one of the 14 active listings is single-family, the most single-family-concentrated of any community in this batch.

Common features across the current inventory: 14 homes list a garage, 7 have a side entrance (the standard precursor to a future basement suite), 11 include a bonus room. 1 listing currently has a finished basement suite — so if suite income is your goal here, most buyers are working from a side entrance and finishing it themselves.

Starling is in northwest Edmonton, in Ward Nakota Isga, on Big Lake — established through the Big Lake Neighbourhood Two Structure Plan adopted in October 2010 and officially named the same month, originally designated Neighbourhood 2 within the Big Lake Area Structure Plan. It is bounded by 199 Street to the west, 137 Avenue to the north, Ray Gibbon Drive to the east, and Anthony Henday Drive and Yellowhead Trail to the south, placing Trumpeter directly to its west.

Marketed as Starling at Big Lake, the roughly 64-hectare, 650-plus-lot community sits just southeast of Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park, built around Horseshoe Creek — and, in keeping with the Big Lake naming theme also seen at Kinglet Gardens, its streets carry bird names: Chickadee Drive, Magpie Way, Starling Drive among them.

The developer, Rohit Homes, shares a builder pool with neighbouring Trumpeter, including San Rufo Homes, Blackstone Homes, Gill Built Homes and ART Custom Homes.

Starling is developed by Rohit Homes. Builders listed as active in the community include Rohit Homes, San Rufo Homes, Blackstone Homes, Gill Built Homes and ART Custom Homes.

A note on how we source this. The MLS® feed behind this site carries the listing brokerage, not the builder, so we cannot automatically attribute a specific home to a specific builder from the feed alone. The builder list above comes from Rohit Homes' own community materials.

Catchments in developing neighbourhoods change as schools are built and boundaries are redrawn, and we would rather send you to the authoritative source than publish a list that quietly goes stale. Both Edmonton school boards maintain official address-level finders:

• Edmonton Public Schools — Find a School
• Edmonton Catholic Schools — Find a School

Enter the exact address of any home you are considering — in a newer neighbourhood, two homes a few blocks apart can fall into different catchments.

The 1 community bordering Starling is active new-construction market in its own right. Together with Starling they account for 31 active new-construction listings in one contiguous stretch of Edmonton — a genuinely efficient area to shop, since you can compare 2 communities in an afternoon.

The pattern worth noticing: Trumpeter sits below Starling. Across the group, price per square foot is close enough that the differences are mostly about home size and lot type rather than a premium for the postal code.

The median new-construction list price in Starling is $654,500, about 20% above the Edmonton-wide new-construction median of $545,998.

On a price-per-square-foot basis the two are almost identical: $305 in Starling versus $308 across Edmonton, so the headline pricier price mainly reflects home size rather than value. Within Starling itself, price per square foot ranges from $262 to $447, a spread wide enough that lot position, finish level and builder all clearly move the number.