4 bedroom homes in Scugog

In Port Perry, the standard is a two-storey from the nineties or two-thousands with the fourth bedroom sharing the upstairs with a main bath and a primary suite, on a fifty-foot lot with a double garage; streets off Reach Street and near the high school carry many. Older Port Perry houses on Mary, John and Lilla Streets reach four through a third floor or a rear wing, and rooms can be small with closets added later. Rural houses take two forms: the eighties raised bungalow with a pair of bedrooms up and a pair finished below, where the lower rooms need proper egress windows to count, and the farmhouse with four or five rooms off a central hall, some passing through one another. Read the room dimensions and the floor levels on the listing rather than the count alone.

Families leaving the lakeshore cities for a larger house and a smaller mortgage are the largest group, usually with a commute down Simcoe Street to Oshawa or the 407. Multi-generational households are the second, looking for a farmhouse or a big raised bungalow where parents can take the lower level, which links to the second-unit rules covered elsewhere on this site. Buyers who work from home and want a spare room for an office take the rest. Weekend-use buyers around the lake are fewer but real. Whichever group you belong to, ask about school bus routes for rural addresses, since both school boards, public and Catholic, draw their boundaries by address, and ask about the heating fuel, because a four-bedroom house on propane or oil costs more to run than one on natural gas in town.