Aurora Hills · Sorbara's 109-home detached enclave
A gated-feel enclave between St. John's Sideroad and Highway 404, launched by Sorbara in 2019. Forty-foot detached homes, long since sold out. It is not an MLS community — buying or selling here means reading Rural Aurora data.
What exactly is Aurora Hills?
Aurora Hills is a detached-home enclave developed by the Sorbara Group in Aurora. It launched in 2019 with 109 lots, all 40-foot detached homes, and has long been sold out.
It sits north of St. John's Sideroad (York Regional Road 26) and west of King's Highway 404, backing onto the protected green corridor along Wesley Creek. Four streets serve it: Sikura Circle, Bob Gapp Drive, Shortreed Terrace and Stuffles Crescent.
Per Sorbara's own materials the homes were designed by Wayne Cassidy of Cassidy + Company; the vendor of record is Sorbara Aurora Hills L.P.
Aurora Hills is a builder community, not a TRREB MLS community. Its sales are reported under its parent community, Rural Aurora. Every price figure on this page is a Rural Aurora figure, not an Aurora Hills figure.
Evidence: listings on Sikura Circle (numbers 29, 216, 231 and 260) are all filed under the Rural Aurora community on REALTOR.ca.
Four lenses on Aurora Hills
Sorbara, a family firm
The Sorbara Group of Companies is a family-owned developer; at the 2019 launch it described itself as seventy-five years old. Architectural design came from Wayne Cassidy of Cassidy + Company, who said in the builder's own interview that this community carried more options than any he had worked on.
Source: Sorbara sales brochure, August 2019. Third-party new-build databases also credit Canvas Developments as a co-developer; the builder's own materials do not mention it.
A standard 12.20 m frontage
On the official site plan the overwhelming majority of lots carry a 12.20 m frontage (about 40.0 feet) with depths from 30.72 m to 33.50 m (roughly 101 to 110 feet). Corner and pie lots run from 14.46 m up to 28.39 m and normally carried a lot premium. Lots are numbered 1 through 108, plus one Block 109.
Source: Sorbara official site plan, 2019.
Eight plans, 2,374–3,614 sq ft
Eight models, each in three elevations, for twenty-four combinations. The upper floor came in four- or five-bedroom layouts; the ground-floor library could be converted to a bedroom with its own ensuite; the finished-basement option added another. That is where the four-to-six bedroom range comes from — it is one product configured three ways.
Source: Sorbara price list dated 30 September 2019, and the floor-plan inserts.
On the 404, not on the GO
One intersection from the Highway 404 interchange at St. John's Sideroad; reaching Aurora GO station means crossing the town. Aurora Mills Town Centre, which opened in 2020, sits to the southwest. The builder's own copy claims forty minutes to downtown Toronto — that is an off-peak drive.
Source: Sorbara sales brochure, August 2019. The commute claim is the builder's, not independently verified.
What the 109 lots actually look like
The enclave is one elongated loop. Sikura Circle rings it; the outer row backs onto the landscaped buffer along Highway 404, the inner row backs onto itself. Everything to the south is protected green space along Wesley Creek — the geographic fact that defines the place and the reason it will not be built up further.
Construction photographs taken on site by Arthur Zhao during the build.
What was built here
Eight models, each in three elevations, for twenty-four combinations, running from 2,374 to 3,614 square feet. When your house goes on the market the first job is knowing which plan it is: on this street the spread between plans, elevations and options is wider than a year of market movement.
| Model | Size (sq ft) | Elevations |
|---|---|---|
| The Hartwell | 2,374 – 2,400 | A · B · C |
| The Vandorf | 2,512 – 2,532 | A · B · C |
| The Connaught | 2,731 – 2,741 | A · B · C |
| The Reynolds | 2,738 – 2,798 | A · B · C |
| The Cameron | 2,931 – 2,945 | A · B · C |
| The Harrison | 3,095 – 3,113 | A · B · C |
| The Catherine | 3,327 – 3,344 | A · B · C |
| The Moorcrest | 3,573 – 3,614 | A · B · C |
The finished basement was an option — on the Harrison it added about 1,102 square feet. The upper floor came as four or five bedrooms, the ground-floor library could become a bedroom with its own ensuite, and the finished basement could add one more. That is where the four-to-six bedroom range comes from.
Sample floor plan: The Harrison
Below is the Harrison's ground and second floor, as the builder drew them. I hold the drawings for the other seven plans as well.
Where Rural Aurora stands now
Aurora Hills is a builder community, not a TRREB MLS community. Its sales are reported under its parent community, Rural Aurora. Every price figure on this page is a Rural Aurora figure, not an Aurora Hills figure.
Rural Aurora, August 2026. Year over year -8.1%, three years -20.0%, ten years +33.5%.
The Rural Aurora detached benchmark sits above the $1,337,900 figure for Aurora as a whole — newer stock on regular lots, and the premium reads accordingly.
All housing types. Year over year -8.3%. Aurora Hills is entirely detached, so this figure is background for the district rather than a read on your own house.
Year over year -8.1%. Rural Aurora contains attached product; Aurora Hills does not.
Those are HPI benchmarks for every detached house in Rural Aurora, mixing ages and sizes. Aurora Hills is 2019-built and uniformly forty feet wide — not the same animal as the district average.
What actually prices a house here is what has sold on Sikura Circle: which plan, whether the basement was finished, what it closed at, how long it took. Board rules do not permit sold prices to be displayed publicly — they go to registered clients. Leave a contact and I will pull the street's sold history for you.
Request the sold history →Source: TRREB MLS® Home Price Index benchmark prices for August 2026 — Rural Aurora and the Town of Aurora.
Seller, buyer, investor
The community sold out years ago, so most people with a stake in it today are owners. The first card is written for them.
You are competing with a handful of houses
In a 109-lot community the number of houses on the market at any moment is usually in the single digits. Two things follow. Your price has almost no direct comparables, so buyers will anchor on neighbouring communities instead. And timing matters far more than it does in a large community — two more listings at once is a different market.
What separates one price from another here are the options taken at build time and hard to replicate now: the finished basement, the five-bedroom upper floor, the ground-floor bedroom with its own ensuite, a walk-out lot. Those belong in the listing material explicitly — a buyer will not infer them.
Get a pricing analysisThree questions to ask first
One: is the basement finished? That was an option, not standard, and it is worth more than a thousand square feet. Two: is there air conditioning? The builder supplied the rough-in and sized the ducting but not the unit itself, so whether one was installed afterwards is a question to ask. Three: is the upper floor four bedrooms or five? The same plan came both ways.
Standard features worth knowing: a full fire-sprinkler system on every living level to NFPA 13D, roughly ten-foot ceilings on the ground floor and nine on the second, triple-pane low-e argon windows, 200-amp service and an energy recovery ventilator. Whole-house sprinklers in detached homes at this price point are not common.
Fixed supply, and fixed liquidity with it
Protected green space to the south, the 404 to the east: this enclave will not densify, so supply is fixed. Scarcity is the upside. The downside is that the sale count is tiny, and any claim about how this community is trending rests on a handful of transactions — statistically it does not hold.
Trend has to be read from Rural Aurora, where the detached benchmark in August 2026 is -8.1% year over year and -20.0% over three years. Treat that as the backdrop, then adjust for what makes your own house different.
Floor plans, active listings, sold history
All three are available, and all three need a contact. The floor plans are the builder's copyrighted material, and board rules restrict sold prices to registered clients. Tick what you want and I will send it within twenty-four hours.
Why these are gated
The floor plans are Sorbara's copyrighted material and do not belong on a public page as a free download. Sold prices are an industry rule: the board does not permit them to be displayed on a public web page — they go to clients who have registered and consented.
So this is not a lead-capture trick — it is simply the only way these two can be handed over. If you just have one question, phoning is faster.
The neighbours worth comparing
Rural Aurora
This is where Aurora Hills sales are counted. For trend and for comparables, start here.
Bayview Northeast
The established newer district south of St. John's Sideroad — similar vintage, far larger, and routinely cross-shopped.
Aurora buying guide
All ten MLS communities compared — prices, schools and commute.
Aurora Hills FAQ
Is Aurora Hills an MLS community?
No. It is a builder's community name, launched by Sorbara in 2019, and TRREB publishes no separate statistics for it. Listings on Sikura Circle are filed under the Rural Aurora community on MLS, so price trends have to be read from Rural Aurora data.
How many homes are in Aurora Hills?
Sorbara's official site plan numbers lots 1 through 108 plus a Block 109, and the builder's own figure is 109 homes. All are 40-foot detached; there is no attached or apartment product.
Can I see all the floor plans?
Yes. The Harrison's ground and second floor are shown on this page as a sample, and I hold the builder's drawings for all eight plans (2,374 to 3,614 square feet). They are Sorbara's copyrighted material and do not belong on a public page as a free download, so leave a contact below and I will send them.
Do the homes come with air conditioning?
No. The builder provided a rough-in sized to the appropriate tonnage and ducted the house for it, but the unit itself was not included. It is worth asking on any resale — both configurations exist on the same street.
What is a house in Aurora Hills worth today?
There is no Aurora Hills price, because TRREB does not report one. The available backdrop is the Rural Aurora detached HPI benchmark of $1,423,900 in August 2026, -8.1% year over year. What your own house is worth turns on plan, elevation, lot, whether the basement is finished and whether it walks out — and the spread between those is wider than a year of community-level movement.
