What Each Mission Neighbourhood Costs in 2026
Braden Koop Personal Real Estate Corporation · Koop Homes Group · REALTOR® · RE/MAX Kelowna
Across the first half of 2026, the median detached home sold for $1.09M in Lower Mission, $1.43M in Upper Mission, $1.44M in Kettle Valley and $1.67M in Crawford Estates. Lower Mission is the entry point into the Missions by a clear margin — roughly $340,000 below the two mid-tier neighbourhoods.
Those four numbers come from the same source, the same filter and the same six months, which is the only way a comparison like this means anything. Here is what sits behind them.
These neighbourhoods, side by side
| Neighbourhood | 2026 median | 2025 median | Change | Months of data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Mission | $1,093,750 | $1,183,688 | −7.6% | 6 |
| Upper Mission | $1,426,250 | $1,222,500 | +16.7% | 6 |
| Kettle Valley | $1,435,575 | $1,456,250 | −1.4% | 6 |
| Crawford Estates | $1,670,550 | $1,408,750 | +18.6% | 4 |
Do not read the Change column as appreciation. These are medians of what sold, not of what homes are worth. Upper Mission’s +16.7% and Lower Mission’s −7.6% are largely telling you that a different mix of houses traded — I took Lower Mission’s apart in detail and the share of sales under $800,000 rose from 2% to 11%, which moves a median on its own. Crawford Estates is greyed out because only four months in 2026 recorded any sales at all; at roughly 21 sales a year its percentage change describes a handful of specific houses.
The price gap is real. The change column mostly is not.
That distinction is the whole point of this post. If you are choosing between neighbourhoods, the level is the useful number: Lower Mission genuinely does clear at a few hundred thousand less than Upper Mission and Kettle Valley, consistently, year after year. That gap is structural — it reflects lot sizes, home age and how far up the hill you are.
The year-over-year movement, in neighbourhoods this size, is mostly noise. Upper Mission did not appreciate 16.7% in twelve months. What happened is that its 2025 first half was unusually weighted toward the bottom of its range and its 2026 first half was not.
Upper Mission and Kettle Valley are effectively the same price
$1,426,250 against $1,435,575 is a difference of about $9,000 on a $1.4M purchase — well inside the noise of a six-month median. Anyone telling you one of these two neighbourhoods is meaningfully more expensive than the other is not reading the transaction data.
They differ in other ways that matter far more than that $9,000: Kettle Valley is a planned community with a tighter architectural character and sells roughly four detached homes a month; Upper Mission is larger, newer at its upper end, and has considerably more inventory to choose from. Choose between them on which one you want to live in, because the price is not going to decide it for you.
What each one is actually for
Lower Mission — the entry point and the only one of the four where sub-$800k detached sales happen with any regularity. Closest to the lake and the beaches, oldest housing stock, most walkable. If your ceiling is under $1.2M and you want to be in the Missions, this is the realistic answer.
Upper Mission — the volume neighbourhood at the $1.2M–$1.8M level. Newer construction, the views, and enough turnover that you can genuinely shop rather than wait. Detached homes here sold at 96.5% of asking through the first half of 2026, so there is normal negotiating room.
Kettle Valley — same price, different product. Planned, cohesive, walkable within itself. Thin supply at roughly four sales a month, and a median 57 days to sell, so both sides need patience. Homes closed at 95.4% of asking.
Crawford Estates — the largest lots and the highest median, on the fewest transactions. About 21 sales a year and six homes listed at a time. You wait for the right one here; you do not shop a market.
If you are choosing between them
Budget under $1.2M: Lower Mission, realistically, and 2026 has more genuinely affordable stock in it than 2025 did.
Budget $1.2M–$1.8M: Upper Mission and Kettle Valley are the same money. Decide on lifestyle, lot and view — and on whether you want choice now (Upper Mission) or a specific kind of community (Kettle Valley).
Budget above $1.8M, and patient: Crawford Estates for land, Upper Mission for view and newer build. Both work; the difference is how long you are prepared to wait.
One comparison I could not give you
I wanted to run this on price per square foot, which is the fairest way to compare neighbourhoods because it adjusts for the size of what sold. The board’s price-per-square-foot report returned no data for any of the four sub-areas on the day I pulled this, so rather than substitute a number I could not verify, I have left it out. Median sale price is a blunter instrument — it compares whatever happened to trade — and I would rather say that plainly than dress it up.
The numbers behind this
Interior REALTORS® Matrix, Residential, Single Family – Detached, Central Okanagan, four sub-areas, January–June 2026 and January–June 2025. Pulled 29 July 2026. Sold-to-list figures from the same source over the same period. Aggregate market statistics only; they move monthly.
Neighbourhood detail sits on the Upper Mission homes for sale, Kettle Valley, Lower Mission and Crawford Estates pages, and the market report tracks them together.
Not sure which one fits?
Tell me your budget, your commute and what you actually want out of the house, and I will tell you honestly which of these four you should be looking in — including when the answer is none of them.
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