Dreamland Estates · Flamborough · City of Hamilton · Ontario
Your own lake.
Your own horizon.
985 Valens Road, Flamborough, ON: Dreamland Estates, a private estate of 95.86 acres with a private lake in Flamborough, within the City of Hamilton, for sale
Price on request
Presented by Mike Johnson & Gary Tiwana · Found Spaces Realty Group · Real Broker Ontario Ltd., Brokerage
Private acres
95.86
Sq. ft. above grade, one level
4,187
Gated entrances
Three
Water
Private lake
Arrive by air
Helicopter landing
Within
City of Hamilton
Welcome to Flamborough, within the City of Hamilton: Canada’s 10th largest
Wake up to water. Eat dinner over it. Fall asleep to nothing but the trees.
Most country properties give you land. This one gives you a lake, a boardwalk to your own dock, a wall of glass to watch it all from, and a deck the size of a city apartment to live on from May to October.
This is Dreamland Estates: a rare custom-built bungalow on 95.86 private acres in Flamborough, inside Canada’s 10th-largest city. Burlington is 23 minutes away and downtown Hamilton 29. Both feel a lifetime away once the gate closes behind you.
Privacy & Arrival
Estate privacy, without isolation.
Nobody wanders up to this front door. Dreamland Estates sits well back from the public road, behind three gated entrances, and a long, winding private drive carries you through the trees before the residence comes into view.
That distance is the point. It means controlled access, real separation from the road, and a home that feels like a private retreat the moment the gate closes behind you.
And yet you are inside the City of Hamilton. Downtown Dundas is 21 minutes away, Burlington 23, and Toronto's city limit about 55.
Prefer to skip the drive? The grounds include an established helicopter landing area.
The Residence
One long line of glass, facing the water.
A rare, custom-built bungalow: 4,187 sq. ft. above grade, all on one level. Homes like this are seldom built, because a single storey this size needs a far larger foundation and roof than stacking the same space over two floors, and land big enough to carry it.
Floor-to-ceiling glass runs the length of the back of the house, so the lake is in every room that matters.
The upper deck wraps the whole rear elevation and is fully glassed in, so the wind stays out and the view stays in. Loungers, dining, a fireside corner, all of it looking down the lawn to the dock.
You arrive through one of three gated entrances and along your own winding private drive: a secluded estate setting, remarkably close to the city.
The Water
A lake you don't share.
A boardwalk runs straight from the deck steps, across the lawn, to a dock on your own spring-fed pond. Kayaks and a pedal boat wait at the end of it.
Boating, fishing, canoeing and kayaking, all from your own dock. Morning coffee on the water. Evenings watching the treeline go red across the far shore. No cottage drive, no neighbour's motor.
Evenings here end on the deck. The sun drops behind the treeline on the west side of the lake, the sky turns gold and then blue, and the whole glass back of the house lights up in the water.
No streetlights, no neighbours' windows. Just the dock, the kayaks, and the last of the light.
Twilight images are virtual: day-to-dusk edits of the property's own drone photographs.
The Land
Nearly a hundred acres to explore.
Beyond the lawn, 95.86 acres open into fields, forest and trails, with routes through the acreage wide enough for a pickup truck. There are caves toward the far south end, owl boxes and bat boxes in the trees, and the wildlife that comes with them.
Hike, run the ATV, walk the dog for an hour without leaving home. A fire circle under a giant maple is where the family gathers on cool nights.
And none of it is remote. Westfield Heritage Village is 3 minutes away, African Lion Safari 12, three golf courses within 16 and Webster's Falls 18.
Estate Outbuildings
Room for every hobby, and then some.
Several estate outbuildings, with power, lighting and workbenches, and a well in the first. One holds a hockey change room and games area; the rest are workshop and storage, or whatever you make them.
A pickleball court, a wood shop, a studio, a car collection. The buildings are here.
A year here
Four seasons, and the property changes with every one.
01
Spring
The lake opens, the lawns green up and the first evenings on the deck arrive. Trails through the property wake up with the wildlife.
02
Summer
Kayaks and the pedal boat off the dock, fishing at dusk, ATV runs to the far fields, dinner for twenty behind the glass.
03
Fall
The far shore turns red and gold and the whole lake reflects it. Long walks to the caves at the south end. Fires in the circle under the old maple.
04
Winter
Pond hockey on your own ice, a change room in the outbuilding, and the fireplace waiting inside. Snow on nearly a hundred acres with no one else on it.
Conservation & Property Tax
Almost a quarter of the land is protected, and tax-exempt.
Of the estate's 95.86 acres, 23.55 are designated Provincially Significant Wetland. That land qualifies for Ontario's Conservation Land Tax Incentive Program, which gives eligible conservation land a 100% property tax exemption.
The exemption is applied for each year and depends on continued eligibility and provincial approval. For an owner it means a large private estate without the tax bill the acreage would suggest, and a natural landscape that stays exactly as it is.
The practical side
Country living, fully wired.
- Internet
- Starlink
- Heat
- Propane
- Water
- Private well
- Outbuildings
- Power, lighting and workbenches
- Garage
- Four-car garage
- Entrances
- Three, all gated
- Conservation land
- 23.55 acres, property tax exempt
- Recreation
- Hockey change room and games area
- Wildlife
- Owl boxes and bat boxes
Gallery
Every angle of it.
23 photographs · tap any to view
The Region
What you gain by living here.
Inside Canada's 10th-largest city
Flamborough is a community within the City of Hamilton, home to 569,353 people at the 2021 Census and the 10th-largest municipality in Canada. The city covers about 1,118 square kilometres (432 square miles), roughly 3.8 times the area of Mississauga. That is how a private estate of nearly 100 acres can sit inside city limits.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census
Hamilton's highest-priced community
Over the 12 months to September 2026, homes in Flamborough sold for an average of about $1.2 million, the highest of the Hamilton communities we track and ahead of both Ancaster (about $1.07 million) and Dundas (about $950,000). Acreage, privacy and substantial homes are what buyers come here for.
The Waterfall Capital of the World
Smithsonian Magazine reported 156 waterfalls within Hamilton's city limits, believed to be the most recorded for any city in the world. Webster's Falls and Tew Falls are 18 minutes from the gate, with Tiffany, Sherman and Canterbury Falls a little further along the escarpment.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine · Tourism Hamilton waterfall guide
Toronto, without living in it
Burlington's city limit is 23 minutes away, Oakville's 34, Mississauga's 47 and Toronto's about 55. The GO train at Aldershot is 27 minutes, Hamilton International Airport 41, and Toronto Pearson about an hour.
Four bridges to the United States
Four international crossings link Niagara to Western New York: the Rainbow Bridge, the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge (NEXUS only), the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge and the Peace Bridge to Buffalo. The Lewiston-Queenston Bridge is about 100 km from the estate.
Source: Niagara Falls Bridge Commission · Peace Bridge
Day trips worth the drive
Niagara Falls and the Niagara-on-the-Lake wine country are about an hour and a half away. Grand Bend, on Lake Huron, is known for its long sand beach and its sunsets over the water, about two and a half hours west.
Source: Ontario's Southwest: Grand Bend
Location
Nearly a hundred private acres. Minutes from everything.
21min
to downtown Dundas
23min
to Burlington
27min
to the GO train and Hwy 403
55min
to Toronto
City distances are measured to the nearest municipal boundary; places within Hamilton, to the place itself. Drive times are off-peak estimates and vary with traffic and road conditions.
Brought to you by
Mike Johnson
Sales Representative · Found Spaces Realty Group
Mike can walk you through the house, the lake and the outbuildings, and answer anything about the land and the area.
Gary Tiwana
Sales Representative · Found Spaces Realty Group
Gary can take you through every part of the property, from the glassed-in deck to the far fields.
Luxury, waterfront & estates
Found Spaces Realty Group is the team for luxury, waterfront and estate sales in Hamilton, Burlington and across the region.
Found Spaces Realty Group markets luxury, waterfront and estate properties in Hamilton, Burlington, Halton and the surrounding countryside, under Real Broker Ontario Ltd., Brokerage.
Every signature listing gets its own site, its own film and photography, twilight imagery and a private, appointment-only process, so the right buyer sees the property the way it deserves to be seen.
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472 Beach Rd, Hamilton, ON L8H 3K7
Office 289-816-3015
Questions
The short answers.
- Where is 985 Valens Road?
- Dreamland Estates, at 985 Valens Road, is in Flamborough, within the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada's 10th-largest municipality. Off-peak, downtown Dundas is about 21 minutes away, Burlington's city limit 23, downtown Hamilton 29, Oakville 34, Toronto's city limit about 55 and Pearson Airport about an hour.
- What is on the property?
- 95.86 private acres with three gated entrances, a long private drive, a private lake with a dock and a boardwalk from the house, a rare custom-built bungalow of 4,187 sq. ft. above grade with floor-to-ceiling glass and a fully glassed upper deck, several estate outbuildings with power and workbenches, fields, forest, trails and caves toward the south end.
- How big is the house?
- The residence is a custom-built bungalow of 4,187 sq. ft. above grade, all on one level. That figure does not include the basement, the garage or the deck.
- How private is it?
- Very. The residence sits well back from the public road, behind three gated entrances and along a long, winding private drive, on 95.86 acres. It is estate privacy without isolation: the property is inside the City of Hamilton, about 23 minutes from Burlington.
- Is part of the land exempt from property tax?
- Yes. 23.55 of the 95.86 acres are designated Provincially Significant Wetland and qualify for Ontario's Conservation Land Tax Incentive Program, which gives eligible land a 100% property tax exemption. The owner applies each year, and the exemption depends on continued eligibility and approval.
- Can you swim, boat or fish on the lake?
- Yes. The lake is private to the property and is used for boating, fishing, canoeing and kayaking from the dock.
- What is the asking price?
- The price is available on request. Call or text Found Spaces Realty Group at 289-816-3015, or register for early access on this page.
- Who is selling 985 Valens Road?
- Mike Johnson and Gary Tiwana, Sales Representatives with Found Spaces Realty Group, Real Broker Ontario Ltd., Brokerage, 472 Beach Rd, Hamilton, ON L8H 3K7. Office 289-816-3015.
- What is there to do around Flamborough and Hamilton?
- Westfield Heritage Village is about 3 minutes away, African Lion Safari about 12, Valens Lake Conservation Area about 16, and Webster's Falls and Tew Falls about 18. Hamilton is known as the Waterfall Capital of the World, with more than 150 waterfalls inside the city. Century Pines, Flamborough Hills and Beverly golf courses are all within 16 minutes. Niagara Falls and four bridges to the United States are about an hour and a half away.
- What are the services on the property?
- Starlink internet, propane heat and a private well. The estate outbuildings have power, lighting and workbenches.
- Who sells luxury estates and acreage near Hamilton and Burlington?
- Found Spaces Realty Group (Real Broker Ontario Ltd., Brokerage) markets luxury, waterfront and estate properties in Hamilton, Burlington, Halton and the surrounding countryside, including Dreamland Estates at 985 Valens Road, a private-lake estate of nearly 100 acres in Flamborough, and two Burlington Bay waterfront homes: 413 Indian Road in Indian Point and 868 Danforth Place in Aldershot (The Hidden Shore, 868danforth.com), plus a brand-new build at 952 Danforth Avenue in Aldershot, open for early access (952danforth.ca). Call or text 289-816-3015.
- How do I get early access?
- Register on this page, or call or text 289-816-3015. 985 Valens Road is not on the open market yet; registered buyers receive the details and the launch timing first.
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Mike Johnson
Sales Representative
Gary Tiwana
Sales Representative